Information Literacy Skills

The article in the Charlotte Observer, ‘OMG! Teachers say texting can be good for teens‘ discusses this topic which has become a popular topic among educators.  The article was quoted in the U.S. News and World Report article, ‘Could Texting Be Good for Students?‘.  Another article is published by Sunbury, Pa’s The Daily Item, ‘Chatspeark [...]

I received my invitation on Friday but haven’t been able to get on the computer. Has a lot of potential! Easy to use but there are a lot of good shortcuts, etc. that could be used. For an introduction to its features check out the 15 Features video…

Time magazine had an article, ‘Cooking by Committee: New sites try to do to recipes what Wikipedia did to encyclopedia entries. Will it fly with food?’.  The article introduced us to Foodista.com and ‘the receipe section of Wikia.com‘ that:‘allow users to post new recipes and revise existing ones any way they want forming a great [...]

Well, actually he doesn’t even have to speak!  ‘When Tim Tebow’s eye-black says’ something and it is unknown to it viewers it becomes a ‘Volcanic Hot Trend’ on ‘Google  Trends’.   You see, Tim Tebow is the quarterback for the Florida Gators college football team and the black mark below his eyes to reduce glare (I [...]

Here are some great free resources for your (or your students’) research citation. 

Citation Machine.net offers ‘Son of Citation Machine’
EasyBib.com offers ‘The Automatic Bibliography & Citation Maker’ (an excellent online utility).  The MLA version is FREE.  There is a small fee for APA & Chicago/Turabian.  Look for handy ‘downloadable reference guides’ that can [...]

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