Dealing with the long tail TL;DR #163 – 8/24/2018 Welcome to Issue #163 of Too Long; Didn’t Read. Each week I highlight some of the things I think you should be reading in terms of education, technology, and literacy. Enjoy. 🙂 Here’s some of what I posted this week: B-Tags, Photos, Technology, & Surveillance -…
All of the news from the week in education, literacy, and technology that you should have read.
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Would you rather receive this in your inbox? Subscribe here. Literacy rickrolled TL;DR #157 – 7/07/2018 This week I posted the following: Three examples of annotations, bookmarking, & sharing in my digital commonplace book – This post is a documentation, and a quick mockup of three ways in which I might be able to more effectively…
I’ve been experimenting with some IndieWeb philosophies and tools on this site, but more importantly on my breadcrumbs website. My breadcrumbs website is my digital commonplace book. This is inspired by the website philosophy & structure developed by Chris Aldrich. My purpose is to switch up my relationship with others and social media networks while doing more to own…
Would you rather receive this in your inbox? Subscribe here. Seeing the human condition TL;DR #155 – 6/22/2018 I received a couple of great emails this week that pushed my thinking. Steve McCrea sent along a video and a couple posts I started writing about on my breadcrumbs site. I also received a lot of feedback…
In a recent blog post, Greg McVerry examines the challenges and opportunities of injecting some IndieWeb philosophies into Google Scholar, and other systems for tracking, citing, and identifying publications. His post closes with the following statement: Citations stink. Like I said a canonical link as citation is my dream but we are way off from…
Creativity has been discussed in various fields such as marketing, psychology, the arts, and education. We often conceptualize creativity in terms of products, creating new artifacts or ideas that are useful for a particular audience. Creativity can be a tough concept to think about. This post will provide as much context as possible. Usefulness &…
An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. A good annotated bibliography strives…
A literature review discusses the published information on a particular topic, and is usually focused in a specific field or subject area, and may also be limited to a certain time period. In plain english, a literature review is a summary and explanation of the complete state of knowledge on a topic as determined by…
First principles thinking is the act of boiling a process down to the fundamental parts that you know are true and building up from there. Learning, developing, and planning from a set of first principles is an effective strategy that you can employ to break down complicated problems and generate original solutions. Great thinkers throughout time have…