This post was written a while ago, but for some reason didn’t show up on the website so I’m taking the time to retool it a little bit now that I’ve taken a few more classes.
The question can be raised on what media should be accessible for children and how much time should it be accessible for and it is a good question. We don’t want children to become isolated with the use of media instead of using it as a tool. When…
As the semester comes to an end, I thought that a brief reflective on the class might be in order. I signed up for the class in part because two of the librarians I met during my internship (and incidentally two of the librarians who I most respected) showed me how they used basic html skills as a…
I encountered an article that discusses Internet filters on school computers, which is one part of the larger conversation about intellectual freedom issues. Doug Johnson, a school tech director quoted in the article, makes good points about how blocking certain websites prevents…
Today, in my daughter’s take home folder, her teacher had placed a notice that she and her classmates had been encouraged to participate in an Hour of Code at the school library. I had previously not heard of this program and after a little investigating found that this something that more libraries are…
First of all, I want to say thank you Dr. Troy Swanson for teaching me how to use the HTML and CSS formatting. You have been such a wonderful professor who made this class comfortable and funny. I really enjoyed this class, which has taught me a lot of things that I have not known before. Using Twitter…
There have been many times in my classes where a professor divided the students into groups. In these groups, regardless of the class, there was always one person who spoke the most and led the discussion by default (not me). Sometimes it’s because the other students and I couldn’t get…
While a lot of the ECAR study’s findings seemed obvious to me, some of it was still surprising. Yes, e-textbooks can be difficult to use sometimes, depending on what device they’re on and how easy they are to navigate and annotate — two very important parts of textbook learning…
So,when it comes to information, do we value more highly information we perceive as being free to access? I recently came across the online library Questia,which bills itself as the only research resource you need. The site boasts over 75,000 books, as well as access to journals…
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Forrest Claypool announced on October 20, that CPS has received a grant from the Federal Communications Commission of $37.7 million so that all classrooms in all of Chicago have high-speed internet and…