Week 13rsion of treasu

Hey all,
This week I want to tell you about one graet site I found and the varied use of QR codes.
The site that I'm talking about is called Tools for Educators and what is so great about it is that it links to a veriety of teaching tools for educators that help in teaching writing, reading, vocabulary, listening etc.
I would definitely use many of the offered tools in my classroom. For example, if you want to teach vocabulary for development purposes or as pre-reading stage, you can use The Free Word Search Maker after teaching the vocabulry and create a cool word search where the glossary is not the words themselves but pictures or texts that get the students to think on the words and learn much better and much faster!
If you want to work on reading and spelling you can use the Spelling Worksheet Maker and Reading Sheet Wizard to make spelling worksheets where students select the correct spelling of words or have the students write the correct spelling. It's recommended to use this tool in the pre-reading stage to help your students improve their spelling and by that their reading to come!
If you want to test your students to improve their listening comprehension skills you can use Free Listening Test Worksheet Makers and choose from 5 different styles to create listening worksheets with images! 
And these are only few example out of the abundance of offered tools in this amazing site. Be sure to visit it!!
Now, as I promised,I want to talk to you about QR codes. Briefly, in case some of you are not familiar with the codes - they are coded pictures that can be recognized and decoded by your smartphones (for more information go to QR codes). Regarding education we can use them in the classroom in many ways, such as decoding the answers in a vocabulary exercise where the students can check themselves in a fun way or if we teach reading (and listening) the code could be attached to the text and lead the students to an audio file in their phones where they can listen to the text. Another way is when you have your students work on their pronunciation you can make a worksheet with words where each word had a QR code that leads to an audio file with the correct pronunciation! these ways are all fun and engaging!!!
Lastly, I want to share with you a way to use QR codes that my students thought of!! This year I guided a group of nine graders through their social involvement project. They had to find a way to make the experience of visitors to the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv much more exiting than is today. They finally came out with a plan to have a version of treasure hunt in the museum's area where the visitors compete with each other on who will find all the information and clues needed to solve the mystery of a missing object stolen by one of the museum's guards. In order to answer the riddles one has to learn and investigate through the exhibits found in the museum. That is the educational value of the game. To engage the young audience my students used QR codes. This way, a player who finds the code hidden in every station gets the riddle and information directly to his/her smartphone!! You have to admit that it's briliant!! Visiting the museum is less boring for teenagers and they actually learn something!
Hope I gave you some good advice,
Enjoy!