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• New Media Literacies Project Announces Free Webinar Series

  
  Georgia Library Media Association — Authority: 126
  New Media Literacies via kwout Here is some exciting news from the New Media Literacies Project! You can also join the Ning and get engaged with the learning community by clicking here. Educators are exploring the urgent challenges that 21st Century learners face by expanding their own learning experiences ...
  22 hours ago

• Further thoughts on Susan Engel... and on others who think that todays schools are overly academic

  
  Out In Left Field — Authority: 121
  How can so many people, without visiting actual classrooms, so confidently and so wrong-headedly conclude that todays schools are so overly-focused on drill & kill and cramming for high school? It occurs to me that, from the outside, all you might see is this: 1. More and more cuts to arts and music programs and ...
  1 day ago

• Infotention Part Three: Building Information Dashboards, Radars, and Filters

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 550
  In part one and part two I started a series of instructional screencasts that get very practical about my idea of mindful infotention — combining technical skills with mental attitudes to not just cope but manage today’s overwhelming flows of information. Now I’ve finished part three . You could go ...
  3 days ago

• What children think of the media

  
  Derek's Blog — Authority: 121
  The researchers at Intuitive Media have produced some thought provoking stuff over recent years, and their latest report on ‘children, TV and the internet’ is no exception. Surveying a sample of 4347 children, aged 6-14 who are users of their SuperClubsPLUS & GoldStarCafe projects, the researchers asked a ...
  5 days ago

• Sessions at Wisconsin State Reading Association Conference

  
  Digital Writing, Digital Teaching — Authority: 100
  Tomorrow, I will be presenting two sessions at the Sessions at Wisconsin State Reading Association Conference . Here are descriptions of the sessions and the related presentations: From School to Screen: Why Digital Writing Matters (9:30 – 10:45) Without question, writing continues to change in the twenty-first ...
  6 days ago

• A death throws of print kerfuffle

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 550
  In an analysis of the MacMillan vs. Amazon dust-up, Charlie Martin writes : “This weekend kerfuffle is really the death throws of a business model.” He says bet on Amazon. His article includes this big picture analysis of what is happening to print: The key is the mainstream publishers’ worry that e-books ...
  1 week ago

• Some history of Christians in using media

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 550
  “Pope Benedict XVI’s surprising message for this year’s World Day of Communications encouraged Catholic priests to use every means of communications to spread the Gospel. Amen.” This is the lede to an On Faith column today in the Washington Post, written by a priest, James Martin, S.J., who is culture editor ...
  1 week ago

• New Media Literacies Skills For The 21st Century Digital Citizen

  
  Equipment For Photographers — Authority: 176
  Flip Media rolls out new office Capitalising on the growing relevance of digital media and online social networks, Flip Media announced the launch of its ninth office worldwide, in Abu Dhabi yesterday. Read more on Zawya Captive Indoor Media Releases Editing Tool for Digital Signage Content The content tool ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hillary Clinton slams “Information Curtain” of censorship

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 550
  Video of the address of Secretary Clinton on the importance of freedom of expression and the free flow of info on the Internet. In address at the Newseum, Secretary Clinton said: “On their own, new technologies do not take sides in the struggle for freedom and progress, but the United States does. We stand for a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Digital Mapmakers Help Haitian Rescue Efforts

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 550
  @ushahidi ~1,000 reports have been added + mapped to #Ushahidi since #Haitiquake = ~150 reports per day for 7 straight days about 2 hours ago “The Int’l Network of Crisis Mappers (CM*Net) is transforming disaster response”- @jcrowley , @crisismapping http://www.crisismappers.net 8:31 AM Jan 17th from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Project EPIC: Helping Haiti/Tweak the Tweet

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 550
  Professor Leysia Palen of The University of Colorado at Boulder’s informed us about EPIC the Empowering the Public with Crisis Information program that seeks to build a collaboration network to promote Tweet-friendly hashtag-based syntax to help direct Twitter communications for more efficient data extraction ...
  3 weeks ago

• Composing Community

  
  Digital Writing, Digital Teaching — Authority: 100
  Image from www.lansingstatejournal.com My friend and RCWP colleague, Marcus Brown, has been working for about a year to open the Village Summit in the house next door to his Lansing home. You can read about many of the trials and tribulations that Marcus, his wife, and everyone involved in creating the Village ...
  3 weeks ago

• Send $10 to Red Cross by texting “Haiti” to 90999

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 550
  Certainly there are many ways to send your help to Haiti. Since our readers are mobilists, I am simply confirming that the 90999 is quick and easy. When I sent my text this morning, I received a message from the Red Cross allowing me to confirm or cancel. When I confirmed, I received another text saying: “Thanks! ...
  3 weeks ago

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