QR Code Creation with Chrome Extensions

QR Codes are those little boxes with tiny shapes inside them that you seen in many places today. QR Codes are used to provide links from the code to a page, image, text, or other information on the web. The QR Code next to this text was created using a chrome extension and links to this blog. 

QR Codes are made using a QR Code generator. Once a QR Code is created, you need a QR Code Reader to get the information it is linked to. QR Code generators come in various flavours. In this post, I want to focus on a Chrome Extension that will quickly create a QR Code for a web page you are viewing or present text that you have entered.

QR Code Icon

PixelOwner's QR Code Creator is an extension that you add to your chrome browser in the normal way.   Once you have added the QR Code Creator extension you simply navigate to the page you would like to share and click on the QR Code Creator icon. This will open a small dialogue box that shows the QR Code generated for the page you are viewing or you can type text in the text filed to add text. This is a very simply QR Code generator. You can snip or screenshot the QR Code and copy and paste it to a page or print it out. Then anyone with a QR Code reader can access that page or text. The QR Code on this page is a link to this blog. 
Download one of the many free QR Code Readers to your phone and try it out. Then try one of the many QR Code Creator extensions in Chrome

There are many inventive and engaging ways to use QR Codes in the classroom and that will be the topic of my next post.