Archive for August, 2010

Immersion

Friday, August 20th, 2010

It was with some interest that I noted the term immersion being applied in this module in a way that did not suggest a trip to Quebec. (Not sure what the situation is here in BC, but in Ontario, kids would go off on French immersion programs there if their grades were good enough.) According […]

INFORMATION LITERACY 2.0: THE INSTRUCTIONAL ROLE OF FACEBOOK

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Here’s the link to my Slideshare presentation.

Personal Learning Environments

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

It has been a bit of a challenging week in this course, as I found myself having a hard time getting my head around  aggregators. Perhaps this is because I am too wedded to my ‘hunting and foraging’  style of internet usage. I am not really interested in having everything I’m interested in at my […]

Information Fluency and Infowhelm

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

Just in case you were wondering about the need for information fluency. Or literacy. Or something.

On ‘Participation Culture, Creativity and Social Change’

Friday, August 6th, 2010

I loved this presentation- so many great ideas. As ever, I can only apply the experience to being an educator, not a librarian. And I am comfronted with the question as to whether I am doing enough to encourage my students to be creators rather than just passive consumers of knowledge.  As mentioned in a […]

Outline for final paper

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Facebook and Information Literacy Instruction in Higher Education For many children and young adults- sometimes called the Millennial generation- online social networking has become an increasingly important sphere for both interacting with others and for exercising their creativity (Holmburg et al,  2008).  Yet, it can be argued that libraries and schools have been slow to […]

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