After watching Darren Kuropatwa’s #WhileWalking 66 posted by Amy Burvall in Google+, I started thinking about tags as a part of digital literacy. I am not a very good user of tags. I have been struggling with choosing consistent, clear tags since Delicious switched away from stacks.…
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Loading...It has been fun to experiment with digital storytelling. I had fun with popcorn
A little story to share. But what did I learn – (thinking about digital literacy after today’s talk by Doug Belshaw).
Be patient – skills learned before transfer to new situations.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Let’s begin exploring our quickly changing ideas about digital literacy by noting the various skills required to engage in a contemporary online learning experience: a live session (now available in an online archived version) on digital literacy/literacies led by Doug Belshaw for #etmooc, the Educational Technology and Media MOOC (Massive/Massively Open Online Course) organized by University of Regina professor of educational technology and media Alec Couros and others.…
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About the time I retired at the end of 2011, I heard of Kiva from my brother.
What is Kiva about?
It is a cycle where you make a loan of $25 to someone who has applied through a Field Partner in their country. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Near the end of the #etmooc session/talk by Dr. Doug Belshaw on Digital Literacies we were asked to start to define how we saw “digital literacies” based on his 8 elements.
Here’s my attempt:Digital literacies are a web of elements that interact and support one another, they are to be viewed in a cultural context.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong – This is a classic text, describing how various societies transitioned form an oral tradition to a written tradition. Written largely before the Internet, it provides a wonderful foundation for thinking about literacy in the digital age.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This presentation was about Digital Literacies and trying to define the term in a new way. I find that Doug’s definition, as noted below, is very similar to Digital Citizenship and shares many of the same characteristics of digital citizenship. However, his definition is much looser and more personal-action-based.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I really enjoyed the last topic for the #ETMOOC Massive Open Online Course on Educational Technology and Media. The problem? I’m working more than usual, so my attention span is too frenetic to get any real thoughts down. Papers to grade, posts to update, content to write–all too much to focus on to really engage with the content.…
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