You know QR Codes, eh? Those little square images you can aim a mobile camera at and avoid the laborious task of entering a web link. Today we use them to hide a message in, share it to the world, and find out who is savvy enough to reply.
There is quote a bit more to them. Spotted in Stephen Downse’s OLDaily today was a wonderful gateway article to now only learn about QR codes, but do so interactively. Visiting How do QR Codes Work is worthy of its own time.
What I learned is that you can put any text into a QR code, not just a web link. And if you explore the widget for the Versions, you can see how much text you can fit.
Play with the opening tool where you can type text and see in real time how the QR code changes to represent the text. Write a short message, starement, heck a short poem, then share a a screenshot of the code.
Here’s my message to you:
What’s in the message? Well if you use your mobile app, it will likely send you to a web browser thinking its a search, but there you can read it. How about reading this message and writing a reply?
Reply in Mastodon for this Daily Create to @[email protected] and include the tag #tdc4916
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Sarah Honeychurch
@creating #tdc4916 #ds106 #4life
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Decode a #SmallPoem from QRCode
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