Big Heart of Art, qthosmasbower, cc Attribution by 2.0 Mashups are creative and fun to make, I hear. I don't know how to make one, but if I wanted to learn, I would check out the resources in Creating Video Mashups. This article reviews some handy tools such as Weavly, Youtube Doubler, Mozilla
According to Media Smarts: "Young Canadians need to be able to make good choices about privacy, ethics, safety and verifying information when they’re using digital media, and they need to be prepared to be active and engaged digital citizens. Based on our research on digital literacy education in Canada, USE, UNDERSTAND & CREATE provides a
For teachers who are looking for a way to mix creativity, computer skills and storytelling, there is a new and free app called Inklewriter. According to the web site: The inklewriter lets you write as you play, branching the story with choices, and then linking those branches back together again. It keeps track of which
Courtesy of @Gwyneth Jones - The Daring Librarian, used with permission. @GwynethJones - The Daring Librarian is a rock star among librarians! She takes every traditional stereotype of our profession and throws them to the wind. If you've been following her blog or tweets, you know that she has a passion for helping
App Recommendations for Mobile Devices is a convenient way to find apps for various devices and learning activities. As you can see from the photo on the right, the website gives you a choice of searching either by device type or by learning activity. The app evaluation is done by experts in educational technology, (check
I just finished this how-to-use theinquiryprocess.ca video today. I hope that you can find the time to share this with teachers and library staff. I've also made a video on what inquiry based learning is involves. There are so many video out there on this, but I thought that after viewing quite a few, something
Sandra Bebbington, Julian Taylor and I are very excited to be working on a digital badging program for libraries and library personnel based on the Standards of Practice for Library Learning Commons in Canada...but we're not the only ones thinking of digital badging! Meg Sinclair shared this article with us about digital badging in the
We are always so quick to use Google, but there are other search engines (some of which are powered by Google) that may be more suitable for elementary school students. In this film, I demonstrate KidRex, Sweet Search 4 Me, KidsClick, KidzSearch.com, MyMunka, DuckDuckGo, and Searchy Pants. As I made the film, I discovered these
I found Jeff Utecht's blog, The Thinking Stick through a website that lists resources for teaching Information Literacy, the Resources page for Next Vista for Learning. In adding content to theinquiryprocess.ca, I'm always on the look-out for material for Kindergarten and Cycle 1. That's where Jeff Utecht comes in. His lesson plan for Grades K
There has been a lot of research published discussing how students are not developing the information literacy skills needed to function at either university or in the workforce. These are not easy skills to teach but it is important that we try to introduce them to these skills at a young age. It is also
