I share a lot of content on my YouTube channel.
This includes quick tips, tricks, interviews, and insights. Review the videos below, or click through directly to my channel.
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Getting things done with Google Calendar, Keep, & Tasks
An overview of the ways I use Google Calendar, Keep, and Tasks to organize and plan. This is all so much easier when connected to gMail and the new interface. -
Using Hypothesis with PDFs in Google Classroom and Google Drive
We've had some challenges using Hypothesis on PDFs in Google Classroom and Google Drive. This video shows exactly how to get around this problem and quickly get back to your web annotations. -
Postmodern Picturebooks: Chloe and the Lion
Postmodern Picturebooks provide a great opportunity to read, critique, and deconstruct text. You can read and review for your own pleasure, or share with others. Many of these texts are great opportunities to build critical literacies with students from Pre-K up through higher ed. They're also great resources to help build skills needed to read online.
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Custom navigation & menus on your WordPress website
A video tutorial on how to organize posts and pages on your WordPress.com website and structure your menu to make it appear just the way you want it. -
Four Questions For Kathryn Kennedy about following your passions
In this discussion with Kathryn Kennedy, we talk about the current transitions in her career. We discuss the guidance, focus, and balance needed to make these changes while listening to your dreams and desires.
Find about more about Kathryn at http://www.kathrynmkennedy.com/
The four starting prompts:
1. How would you describe your employment/experiences up to this date? How are they recently changing?
2. What brought about these changes? What motivated them?
3. What challenges/concerns do you have in the transition? What are you excited about?
4. What guidance do you have as others may be considering this same transition? -
Web Literacy - Participate - Online Collaborative Inquiry
A group of local/global learners who reach a common outcome while co-constructing multiple pathways of knowledge.
Slide deck available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12hqRd2mb5b4Qss_jXrIYeYNj2q_IEnS2S3H5xWA7zXw/edit?usp=sharing -
326/687 Syllabus & OAKS Walkthrough
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Closing the loop on feedback using Hypothesis annotations
Really excited about the possibility of moving closer to my dream of a transparent, revision trail of audits, edits, and feedback in my online writing.
The posts I discuss:
https://wiobyrne.com/interviewing-my-domains/
https://boffosocko.com/2018/06/21/interviewing-my-digital-domains-w-ian-obyrne/
https://boffosocko.com/2018/06/21/some-thoughts-on-highlights-and-marginalia-with-examples/
https://web.hypothes.is/ -
Possible cultural & technological futures of digital scholarship
A video abstract of this post: https://wiobyrne.com/futures-of-digital-scholarship/ -
Four Questions For Tim Huey about vigilance and remaining safe in schools
Four questions for Tim Huey, a security & emergency management training officer for Charleston County School District. These questions are a follow-up from our earlier discussion about mindsets in a critical incident in a school.
1. What is vigilance? What does it look like, or feel like?
2. How do you learn, or develop a vigilant attitude/behavior? Is this something that just anyone can pick up or develop without the experience that you have? Is it important to have this?
3. How do you recognize something is not right, and do/say something about it?
4. What do you do if you recognize something, see/say something...and you feel like you're not being heard? -
Using Google Drive to store, organize, & share your stuff
A video overview on how to upload, organize, and share your stuff in Google Drive. -
Four Questions For April Leach about media literacy, digital literacy, & arts education
Together with April Marie Leach, I am guest editing an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Literacy & Technology. Please review the details below. Contact us if you have questions.
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The title of this themed issue is Through the Portal of Art and Culture: Media Literacy as the Art of Communication.
This special issue of the Journal of Literacy and Technology invites academic submissions in order to investigate the intersection between art and communication through media literacy. As information and communication technologies advance, so too does the need to look at conceptions of "text" more broadly. This would include, but not be limited to visual aesthetics, design cues, tool/text affordances, role of sender/audience, communication accommodation theory, transmediation, and the affordances of imagery to build critical communication literacy across cultures.
This themed issue seeks to identify current and future trends in this framing of text as it relates to building media literacy to understand the opportunities to encode and decode symbols as individuals synthesize, analyze, and produce mediated messages. As more of what we would consider to be "art" is brought into media literacy, these visual and aesthetic elements have an impact on these texts as individuals read, write, and communicate across society.
Please submit an abstracts of up to 1,500 words to the editors by the deadline. Final submissions will be up to 10,000 words, excluding references and tables.
Deadline for Abstracts to be received May 1, 2018
The editors would appreciate questions ahead of time so they can guide authors.
Selection of proposals June 1, 2018
Deadline for submission of Manuscripts August 15
Publication November, 2018
Please contact the guest editors at the details below early in the process if you have questions.
April Leach Ph.D. (561) 213-5234
leach4literacy@gmail.com
Ian O'Byrne Ph.D. (843) 953-3376
wiobyrne@gmail.com