Information Technology Loving Librarian

Just finished reading Publishers, Participants All by Will RIchardson from Eduational Leadership.  In bold are his Moving Students Online: First Steps for Teachers and following are my reflective thoughts. Become "Googleable" yourself.  I am Googleable but I do need to work on this. I want to work on my brand. I want the sites people see associated with me the most to be the ones about my work. I have my own Blog, I have my own Twitter and Facebook account. I need to build my own website. Model connections.  I do this with students. A few years ago I emailed Nick Bruel the author of Bad Kitty and he wrote back. I was so excited to share this with my students.  I would love to become part of one of those global organizations that I learned about in IICT Part 2, then nstudents and I could experience these online connections together.  Share student work.  This I did through Twitter and I will continue to do this again this year. I will consi...

Howard Rheingold TItle of image: Howard Rheingold Creator name: Joi Ito Source of the image:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2121488118 Of all the technologically inspired teachers out there, Howard Rheingold is probably my favourite. I first stumbled upon his blog through my Integration of Information and Computer Technology Part 2 course. I absolutely love his emphasis on teaching students how to detect crap online and I love how he asserts that this will have a positive effect on both the individual student or learner as well as on the internet commons. He provides insight on how the development of the internet has shifted the responsibility of detecting crap from the producers (publishers) to the consumers (readers). Prior to the internet, publishers were paid well to ensure that the information they were releasing to the world was accurate. With the advent of the internet, anyone can publish any crap at any time. These ideas were not completely new to me as a...

Had fun playing with piktochart today (https://piktochart.com/). Seemed user friendly enough. Wondering what will be the lowest grade level I could use this with. Here is my final product  https://magic.piktochart.com/output/23504981-digital-canadians-in-5 . CanadiansInternet.com was a great source of info to create the graphs  http://canadiansinternet.com/canadian-digital-social-mobile-statistics-global-scale-2014 . I used Google's search engine to find an image that was labeled for reuse and came across one from Thomas Galvez (2012) "Think before you" http://canadiansinternet.com/canadian-digital-social-mobile-statistics-global-scale-2014/ .

Here's great picture to consider when teaching digital citizenship. Always be careful who you add as a friend on any social media app. Buckley, L. (Photograph). (2013). Flikr.  https://www.flickr.com/photos/lindybuckley/8642363966 

I didn't know this even existed until now. Another great resource to consider when teaching my students about digital citizenship. Includes resources for parents too. https://www.google.com/safetycenter/resources/

This has to be THE best resource out there to teach digital citizenship. It is so well organized. I love how it is based around the theme of the good Samaritan. I used some of the ideas and resources provided for my own students and they all seemed to really enjoy and learn from the lessons. Here's the link: https://sites.google.com/a/ocsb.ca/ocsb-digital-citizenship/  

Here's a different way of thinking of a digital footprint from the viewpoint of our students who are all digital natives and are born into this digital world.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IYZVYIVLA