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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 […]
As I watched this video, the first thing that came to mind was, ‘Oh, geez, I’d really like to do my part of our wiki project over again.’ I assembled all these points related to planning, consultation, articulating goals etc.- that is, all the stuff that a typical public library has had to do to […]
As I proceed through this course, I have become quite excited about the possibilities of using Web 2.0 platforms in my teaching. As I read the paper on New Media Literacies, I decided to experimentally replace each mention of ‘youth’ and ‘students’ with ESL for ‘college-prep’ students, the kind I currently teach here in Vancouver. […]
When I reflect on my own vague feelings of resistance to the idea of maintaining a persona on social media (which hasn’t stopped me from doing it), I wonder how much of it comes from my image of ‘ideal learning conditions’ based on experience. I went to Japan in 1994 to teach, and the common […]
When I think of the various affordances that social media have to offer, I repeatedly return to the question- no doubt because of the techno-phobe in me- ‘Who actually needs to do that?’ But as discussed on the wiki page, individual variables will play a crucial role in how and whether someone will take […]