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Digital Literacy 2010: Website Evaluation

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Information shapes our understanding of the world, and there is no shortage of digital information.  According to an EMC Corporation report released earlier this year, the amount of digital information created in 2010 is estimated to reach 1.2 Zettabytes.  In practical terms, 1.2ZB can be thought of as a full-length episode of FOX TV’s hit [...]

Digital Literacy 2010: Effective Search Strategies

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Of all the topics in our 7th grade Digital Literacy course, Effective Search Strategies is easily the most relevant to daily life; everyone searches the Internet.  In terms of worldwide search queries, these comScore figures from December 2009 are staggering: Google: 88 billion per month Twitter: 19 billion per month Yahoo: 9.4 billion per month [...]

Digital Literacy 2010: Social Bookmarking

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Social bookmarking, the third topic in our Digital Literacy course, has been a staple of our 1:1 Tablet PC program for the past three years.  Throughout that time, Delicious has been our tool of choice and offers several advantages over saving bookmarks in a browser, including the ability to access links from any computer, easily [...]