21 Skype Resources posted by Shelly Terrell on www.techlearning.com and cross posted on Teacher Reboot Camp. Skype in Education Technology 4 Kids Wiki: Skype Resources Using Skype at School (The Dummies Series) Skype in School Wiki 50 Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom Student Inter-school Debating with Skype by Lois Smethurst Giving Students Skype Jobs by Langwitches Skype an Author Wiki 10 Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom Motivating Adult Learners: Skype an [...]

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 [...]

A colleague wanted to make a PowerPoint presentation available on her blog site for students to view. I told her that we could post the presentation as a .pps (PowerPoint Show) file on the site for students to download. But I reminded her that we never really know if the end user (the students) has the software capable of viewing at home. To post something that might not be usable would be frustrating. That led [...]

David Kapuler put together this list of sites for creating digital comics. Which ones do you use? Pixton – Has an educational portal (paid) that is ideal for schools (no student email account necessary). Also, there are a ton of options such as voice recording, drag-n-drop interface, and importing/exporting features. ToonDoo Spaces – One of the most popular online comic creators that is very similar to Pixton, with the ability to create a private space [...]

I was quietly reviewing my RSS feeds in Google Reader when I happened upon a link to this video. This is the first that I have seen by RSAnimate and I was hooked. Combined with the content from Daniel Pink, I find this is an extremely captivating video. The part that spoke to me the most was regarding mastery. I enjoy working on web sites and find it very satisfying improving my skills and developing [...]

Browsing the web recently I happened across a post in the Chronicle of Higher Education which offered a suggested evaluation rubric for blog posts. I thought if of value and wanted to share: Rating Characteristics: 4 – Exceptional. The blog post is focused and coherently integrates examples with explanations or analysis. The post demonstrates awareness of its own limitations or implications, and it considers multiple perspectives when appropriate. The entry reflects in-depth engagement with the [...]