21CIF: Power Searching: 4 Week Intensive
Course fee: $99 (Includes 2.5 CEUs)
March 10 through April 5 (Four Weeks)
This proven four-week on-line course empowers participants to search efficiently, evaluate Internet and Web 2.0 information effectively and use it ethically incorporating the full range of 21st Century Information Fluency skills and resources.
Developed by the 21st Century Information read more.. Social Networking & Blog Evaluation
Blogged.com, promotes blogging by offering a subject directory of blogs ranked via a social networking feature. This means that anyone who is a member can vote on the quality of a blog in any category. The education section of Blogged.com contains (as of February 6, 2008) approximately 4000 blogs described by their owners as educational. read more.. The Myth of the Google GenerationDo you believe in the Myth that kids know more about the Internet than you do? Many educators seem to assume that the current generation of ‘net-savy’ kids know what they are doing when it comes to internet based research. Now, scientific research has established what many of us have known all along: today’s read more.. Joyce Valenza –21st Century Research Skills!Navigating the Shifting Information Landscape
Interview with Joyce Valenza This interview is with Joyce Valenza, Springfield Township (PA) High School Teacher-Librarian and technology writer, who is a featured blogger and presenter at numerous conferences.
What are the greatest challenges for teachers and teacher-librarians when teaching the effective use of research skills/strategies? At this moment it read more.. Web 2.0 Tools for Educators
These sites are web-tools that you can build with. If we can tame the 800 pound gorilla of time and apply our vision and creativity, there are hundreds of opportunities to connect curriculum with the dynamic world on the highly interactive Read/Write web.
Picking up the tools offered by Web 2.0 (and all of the editions read more.. Free for 2008: 21st Century Information Fluency Resources
You’ll find these links to all of our recent Resource Kit work at: http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkit/rkit_indices.html
We’ve also created a Eurekster based Swicki (personal search engine) to help you search our resources!
Let us know what you like, and don’t like? We’re looking for suggestions and ready to create new games and resources. ~Dennis
Library Media AASL survey of State Staffing RequirementsDoug Johnson, recently sent important information to the ISTE Media Specialists Special Interest Group about state requirements for staffing.
Doug has created a Wiki and invited all media specialists to update specific information about their states.
http://dougj.pbwiki.com/State-staffing-requirements
“ I hope readers will add to or correct any information about their states. The editing password for the wiki is read more.. Mahalo: Social Search Needs Search Wonks
Mahalo is a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms. Our search results only include great links. Visit the Mahalo FAQ page for more detailed descriptions of just how this all works!
Greenhouse Effect?
By combining elements of social networking Mahalo hopes read more.. 21st Century Information Fluency: Website RevisionWe’ve redesigned and streamlined our website at 21cif.imsa.edu. Our redesign included moving our entire site to a new dedicated server. One of the changes you’ll find is that we no longer require a login and password to access our Resource Kit content.
We still would like everyone to join our newsletter. Just share your email and read more.. Life Online: Teens and TechnologyKnowing your Audience? Or I should say, knowing the audience of your audience? In the first issue of our newsletter we begin a series about what the current crop of kids (i.e. digital natives) know and don’t know. Our research tells us they don’t know much about the formal strategies of searching. (See Five Things read more..
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