I was elected vice-president of a churchwomen's organization. Of course, since I work in our library's computer center, all of the organization's web duties ended up on my plate. A year ago, I get this call; a meeting organizer wanted to eliminate printing handouts for the meeting so would I upload all of the handouts and provide her with a QR code so attendees could link to the documents on our synod website. A pastor told her it would be easy and after all, most women have their tablets or phones at events. I was skeptical that this was ideal for our meetings-did I mention that the average age of attendee borders on 55+?
The organization uses WordPress so I created a post with links to the documents needed and other items already on the website. Next I googled creating a free QR code and found a free generator, saved the result and she printed it out to share at the meeting. I didn't know about making the URL shorter so this code looks much cleaner than the one last year. I downloaded QR droid on my phone to check it. I saved it this time as a PNG picture and inserted it here.
For current practice, I tried QR code generator on our library foundation's blogpost on our upcoming book sale. This time I copied the link to embed it. As you can see, the image size is big but it connected. YAY!!
Then I watched the video again and followed the instructions for using Google. The result is pasted below:
Then I watched the video again and followed the instructions for using Google. The result is pasted below:
I think I like that method best. I haven't participated formally for awhile so I am out of practice using Blogger after using WordPress more recently.
Terri Johnson
Terri Johnson