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Digital Literacy 09: Website Evaluation

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

The third topic in our Digital Literacy course, website evaluation, examined some basic principles for determining the usefulness of online information:
Website Evaluation 2009
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There are a number of excellent resources available for website evaluation, including those created by Kathy Schrock and Joyce Valenza.  To guide our students, we utilize elements [...]

K12 Online 2009: September 26 LAN Party

Monday, September 21st, 2009

K12 Online is an annual, free conference by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape.
As Chair of the K12 Online Public Relations Committee, it is my [...]

Digital Literacy 09: Social Bookmarks

Friday, September 11th, 2009

The second topic in our 7th grade Digital Literacy course was social bookmarking.  Tools like Delicious provide several advantages over saving bookmarks in a browser, including the ability to access your links from any computer, easily share bookmarks, and perform tag searches to see which sites others have saved.  For those unfamiliar with these concepts, [...]