I mimicked the first one I made after a post I saw by Laughing with Lane. I included information about myself, a picture of my family, and a little list of my favorite things. This year, however, I found a Meet the Teacher Letter on Fun in First (one of my favorite blogs!), where the teacher added a QR code with her voice reading the letter to the students. I loved it! I am a huge fan of technology and I really think it is important to encourage parents to embrace it because it's what their children's future is. Anyway, the link above sends you to her post, where she gives great step by step directions for how to record your voice reading the letter and turn it into a QR code using a PC or smartphone.
Having just purchased a new MacBook however, I wanted to try it with that. I made the letter using Print Shop because it is so easy to format and use. In my opinion, it is well worth the money. It can obviously be done with Word or Google Docs too and I am so happy and excited about the results!
Below is a step by step of how to turn a voice recording into a QR code using a Mac.
1. Open GarageBand on your Mac (found in Applications). Select New Project and Voice.
2. In the bottom left hand corner, choose the (+), then Real Instrument and Create.
3. Record your voice. You can add music or special effects, but I did not.
4. When you are satisfied with your recording, click Share on the top toolbar, select Export Song to Disk, make sure MP3 Encoder is selected, then choose Export and choose where to save the file on your computer.
5. Log into your Google Drive (there are some reasons I am not a fan of Google Drive, especially as a first grade teacher because the fonts I use don't always convert, so I save most of my files elsewhere, but it IS great for projects like this and makes things really easy. If you don't have it, open a gmail account for free!
6. In Google Drive, click on the red NEW button and upload the MP3 file you just saved.
7. Right click and choose "Get shareable link." Make sure you make the option available for anyone to view. Copy the link.
8. Go to a QR code website. I prefer to use www.qrme.com. Click on URL and paste in the link from the Google Drive. A QR code will be created and you just need to copy and paste it into your letter!
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