1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
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1. Hyper Text Mark-Up Language. The programming language of the WWW. | HTML | 2. Examples of Generic Top Level Domains2 | .com/.org/.net.gov.edu/.mil/ and new ones to come2 | 3. Allows users to view the web and interact with web sites. Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Internet Explorer are examples3 | Browser3 | 4. Uniform Resource Locator/Indicator. Web address or location of a web page on the WWW.4 | URL or URI4 | 5. A device that connects multiple computers together and enables them to communicate with one another.5 | Hub5 | 6. A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer network, as between personal computers. The former sends messages asynchronously while the other sends it synchronously6 | email/IM6 | 7. "What you see is what you get." A reference to when the screen displays what will actually be printed or will show up on a web page.7 | WYSIWYG7 | 8. The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol.8 | WWW8 | 9. An organization's unique name on the Internet. For example, Apple.com is a very famous example of one.9 | Domain Name9 | 10. A text file coded in HTML, which may also contain JavaScript code or other plug-ins. A collection of web pages on the same topic is a web site.10 | Web Page10 | 11. An electronic link providing direct access from one distinctively marked place in a hypertext or hypermedia document to another in the same or a different document.11 | Link or Hyperlink11 | 12. Different types of malicious programs that can cause damage to your computer.12 | Virus/Worm12 | 13. An auxiliary program that works with a program to enhance its capability. They are added to Web browsers to enable them to support new types of content (audio, video, etc.).13 | Plug-in13 | 14. Digital Subscriber Line: A technology that dramatically increases the digital capacity of ordinary telephone lines (the local loops) into the home or office. Cable: instead of a telephone line, data is transmitted via cable.14 | DSL and Cable14 | 15. The transfer of data from a remote computer to your own computer/the transfer of data from your computer to a remote computer.15 | Download/Upload15 | 16. A unique address of a computer attached to a TCP/IP network. The identifying number that enables any computer on the Internet to find any other computer on the network.16 | IP Address16 | 17. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol is a protocol used to transfer files from a Web server onto a browser in order to view a Web page that is on the Internet.17 | HTTP17 | 18. The first is a computer network that spans a relatively small area. Usually confined to a single building or group of buildings. The second, a much larger network, connects two or more LANs. The largest of these is the Internet.18 | LAN/WAN18 | 19. When a user's PC (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a LAN or WAN.19 | Client/Server19 | 20. These types of networks focus on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities.20 | Social Networks (e.g. Facebook)20 | 21. The 3 image files used on web pages (that do not require a special plug-in to view)21 | .jpg, .gif, .png21 | 22. A device that connects any number of LANs, which ultimately connect them to the Internet.22 | Router22 | 23. An intelligent version of a hub. It can manage network traffic efficiently between other computers, printers, mobile devices and other parts of the network23 | Switch23 | 24. A message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The browser stores the message and is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. The main purpose is to identify users and prepare customized Web pages for them.24 | Cookies24 | 25. A type of high-speed network for interconnecting computing devices. Can be either 10 or 100 Mbps25 | Ethernet25 | 26. A collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it.It is also a Hawaiian word for "fast" or "quickly"26 | Wiki26 | 27. The precursor to the Internet. Developed in the late 60's and early 70's by the US Department of Defense as an experiment in wide-area-networking to connect together computers that were each running different system so that people at one location could use computing resources from another location.27 | ARPAnet27 | 28. A high-speed line or series of connections that forms a major pathway within a network. The term is relative as a backbone in a small network will likely be much smaller than many non-backbone lines in a large network.28 | Backbone28 | 29. How much data you can send through a network connection. Usually measured in bits-per-second (bps.)29 | Bandwidth29 | 30. A journal that is available on the web or a web log.30 | Blog30 | 31. Term originated by author William Gibson in his novel Neuromancer31 | Cyberspace31 | 32. A combination of hardware and software that separates a Network into two or more parts for security purposes.31 | Firewall31 | 33. People who are seen to be knowledgeable, hip, or otherwise in-the-know in regardsto the digital revolution32 | Digerati32 | 34. A private network inside a company or organization that uses the same kinds of software that you would find on the public Internet, but that is only for internal use.33 | Intranet33 | 35. A programming language that is mostly used in web pages, usually to add features that make the web page more interactive.34 | Javascript34 | 36. A specific kind of HTML tag that contains information not normally displayed to the user.Usually include information for search engines to help them better categorize a page.35 | Meta Tag35 | 37. The etiquette on the Internet.36 | Netiquette36 | 38. When 2 or more computers are connected together.37 | Network37 | 39. The method used to move data around on the Internet. This allows all the data coming out of a machine to be broken up into chunks, and each chunk has the address of where it came from and where it is going.38 | Packet switching38 | 40. To check if a server is running. From the sound that a sonar systems makes in movies, you know, when they are searching for a submarine.39 | Ping39 | 41. A specification and various technologies used to allow making telephone calls over IP networks, especially the Internet.40 | VOIP40 |
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