QR codes - easier than you think

QR codes (Quick Response Codes) are two-dimensional codes that can store huge amounts of data. They are somewhat like the product bar codes we are all used to seeing on our purchases. The scanning app needed to read the codes can be downloaded for free from the following website: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ suggested by Annette as one of the more user-friendly versions available. 

Having used myself this morning to create a QR for BookCloud in only a few seconds (see above), I can vouch for its ease of use.  If you're interested in experimenting with new FREE apps, especially those with smartphones or the new iPad 2 and netbooks, visit the e-Support wiki link to the left of this blog.

Greatest Reading Super Hero

As already mentioned in a previous post, 2012 is the National Year of Reading! A number of competitions and activities are already beginning to crop up to celebrate this worthwhile event - why not take advantage of them? At the same time, you'll be enriching your own life or helping to enrich the lives of others. I will be posting information concerning competitions and activities on this blog as well as the blogs and wikis that I run. I will also creat a link list exclusively dedicated to the 2012 National Year of Reading. So stay tuned and happy reading. Super Hero

The 2012 Creative Reading Prize

As part of the National Year of Reading, the Centre for Youth Literature is running the Read This! Creative Reading Prize. Readers around Australia will be asked to upload their response to a favourite book to a dedicated website.


Entries will run from March 1 – May 31 and may include a range of traditional and multi-media activities, such as fan fiction, poetry, craft, mashups, and book trailers.


The collective prize pool is $40 000 !!!!


The website: readthis2012.com.au is not yet up and running but... stay tuned to learn more about this amazing opportunity.