Jeff's e-portfolio

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 […]

Here’s the link to my Slideshare presentation.

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]