Free Tags

Students could create tags to connect to a file, a website, online protfolios, or Linked In pages! Imagine networking with someone at an event and handing them a business card with one of these tags on it. All the person has to do is "snap" the tag with a phone app and immediatley can view the information you have attached to it. Once I saw a guy at an ad club event with a tag on his T-shirt! Really cool stuff! Check it out here!

Sticky Bits
http://www.stickybits.com/

Tag+
http://tag.microsoft.com/consumer/index.aspx

QR Codes and Snap Tags

A Quick Response code is a 2D barcode that can store and display lots of information. You install a barcode scanner on your phone which uses the camera to capture an image of the QR code; your phone completes the encoded action.

The QR code can be programmed to:

• connect you to a website (where you could watch a video, leave a comment, get more info, and so on.)
• make a phone call
• send SMS (text messages)
• send email
• download contact information to your phone
• add an event to your calendar
• map an address

Quick Response codes were developed in Japan in 1994 and are in wide-spread use there and in other countries. Check out this video of passersby scanning these Disney posters with QR codes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myzLAXtqoa8

PBS Series

Generation Next is a diverse, tolerant and informed group of people. In this one-hour documentary, Judy Woodruff travels across the U.S. and speaks with adults 16-25 years old to gauge their opinions.

What is Generation Next Learning?