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Too Long; Didn’t Read #157
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…
Three examples of annotations, bookmarking, & sharing in my digital commonplace book
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…
Too Long; Didn’t Read #155
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…
Possible cultural & technological futures of digital scholarship
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…
What is creativity?
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 &…
The Four Step Process Needed to Write an Annotated Bibliography
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…
Eight steps to write a literature review
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…
The First Principles of Being Digitally Literate
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…
Develop an assessment of critical online information literacies
Increasingly, students are using the Internet to obtain information about both general and academic topics. Along with this trend there is a growing concern about the dubious nature of online information, and users’ ability to validate or evaluate this information. Research shows that students are frequently deceived when viewing online content and are not able…