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The World’s internet usage
http://www.one.org/us/2013/10/14/this-map-of-the-worlds-internet-usage-may-shock-and-surprise-you/ An ideal map to show the spatial patterns of internet usage. Students can describe and explain...
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Beyond Bookmarks with Flipboard
In my last post, we explored social bookmarking with Diigo as a way to collect and share Internet resources. In this post, we’re going to take a step further, and look at “curating” with Flipboard....
View ArticleI’m an artist! Why does IB care about where my ideas come from?
Because ideas come from somewhere and if you copy or use images or ideas without acknowledging the sources you may not get your Diploma. Admittedly, it’s complicated. To start with, almost nothing is...
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My most useful web tool
The most prevalent, and overwhelmingly useful tool I use on the Internet is not a website, not email, not shared documents or photos or videos or music, but a “behind the scenes” bit of code: RSS...
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Have you enrolled in a MOOC?
What is a MOOC? This video from Dave Cormier will explain: As with so many things, when looking for a good beginning introduction, I come to Wikipedia for a basic definition of MOOC: “A Massive Open...
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What’s in a MOOC?
What is a MOOC? This video from Dave Cormier will explain: As with so many things, when looking for a good beginning introduction, I come to Wikipedia for a basic definition of MOOC: “A Massive...
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Privacy
I’ve been trying to write this post about privacy, digital privacy, “privacy as a human right”, the “right to be forgotten”, and social networking, for awhile now. But it seems every time I sit down...
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Privacy
I’ve been trying to write this post about privacy, digital privacy, “privacy as a human right”, the “right to be forgotten”, and social networking, for awhile now. But it seems every time I sit down...
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Can that be real?
When reading a news post on the web, I often have occasion to ask myself “Can that be real?” or “Is this true?” and I’m often thinking about the image accompanying the post (as well as the post...
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Technology Rich and Innovative Poor
Cleaning off my desktop this morning, I found this pdf from Alan November, that I’ve been meaning to write about on this blog. The original post from November Learning is at this link. Written in...
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Separate the wheat from the chaff
In June I wrote a post for this blog titled Can this be real? about altered images, or misrepresenting images. Today in my ECIS Library Forum discussion thread, a colleague in Switzerland posted about...
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Using Public Domain Images
In August I wrote about how to cite Creative Commons photos. Today I’d like to investigate how or why to cite Public Domain photos. The following is not to be taken as legal advice, but as general...
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Visual Arts Internal Assessment Upload: Quick Overview
It’s April! That means for many of us its VISUAL ARTS UPLOAD MONTH! Of the three components the most complex in terms of files and the upload process is the Exhibition The aim of this post is to give...
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Taking it with you
Two blog posts I read this morning reminded me again how important it is to think about the longevity and permanence of our web work. Class Blogmeister Retires After a 12-Year Run from David Warlick...
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A Framework for Information Literacy
Presentation slide by author. Photo in the public domain from https://pixabay.com/en/read-reading-book-reader-education-1342499/ I follow the Librarians forum on the ECIS moodle, where I read with...
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Differentiation with Social Media Tools
This week I was notified of a change on a shared Google Spreadsheet I “follow” which is collecting “Differentiation with Social Media Tools“. As I write, there are 109 online social media tools...
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Alternative Facts
This week a post on The Adventures of Library Girl (a blog by written by Jennifer LaGarde, the Lead School Library Media Coordinator/Digital Teaching and Learning Specialist for New Hanover County...
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Choosing & Using Sources
This morning Nik Peachy shared a free, online or downloadable text book Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research by Teaching & Learning, Ohio State University Libraries....
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Searching for the Truth
Continuing my thoughts and writing about fake news, fake web pages, teaching search skills, and ultimately, trying to find the Truth of a matter, this post brings together for your consideration two...
View ArticleAre Memes Relevant to Studying Printed or Digital Texts?
The larger version of this question is really, ‘do we need to have a good working knowledge of what memes are in order to usefully expand a sense of our audience, our IB students? Does such knowledge...
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