I came across this image recently and wanted to share. This visual is courtesy of Southern Indiana University. What other digital tools would you add to each level of the pyramid. Please share!

Dr. Michael Wesch is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Michael is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. His YouTube videos have been viewed by millions.    

Have you seen these things? If you haven’t yet, you will. The image on the left is an example of an emerging technology called a “QR” code. QR stands for “quick response” and can be thought of as  a bar code on steroids.     Want to learn more? Then watch this video from cnet.com   Okay, so what does this have to do with Teachers, Technology, and Transforming classrooms? Well, the answer is in [...]

Looking for another URL shortener? Well, Google has one – goo.gl! This service initially debuted in December of 2009. As one would expect, for logged users there are URL tracking features such as history, traffic sources, referrers, visitor profiles for countries, browsers, and platforms. I just created one for this blog: http://goo.gl/vuhwe Feel free to click the link, even though you know where it will take you. I am interested in looking at the tracking [...]

I love the services, like bit.ly and tinyURL, that shorten lengthy URLs for use on blogs, web sites, and in social media. But have you ever wanted to create one short URL for multiple links? Well now you can through a service called BridgeURL. BridgeURL allows you to list all the URLs that you want to share in a box and then creates a single link for you to share. That’s it. That easy. Since [...]