Information Literacy
notes from the interblags
It’s been a while since I’ve done a link-dump, but it’s probably time. Most of the stuff I read now gets linked to from my Twitter account.
• Slate’s new women’s website doesn’t seem very feminist according to Feministing—or perhaps downright anti- or post-feminist. UPDATE: Read Anne Friedman’s post at The American Prospect, which asks why [...]
notes from the interblags
• Inside Higher Ed: On the age bias in hiring academics
• Anne-Marie offers some information literacy tools for synonyms
• Matt offers some tools for annotated websites
• Matt also shares some videos about Twitter. This one on ambient intimacy is especially interesting.
• Irene Monreo at Bilerico: Gay is NOT the new black
• Feministe on the Rolling [...]
abortion akin to tiananmen square?
Librarians, students, feminists, writing teachers — heck, anyone who cares about information literacy, access to information, politics, etc. — here’s something you should be aware of. Via Nels, the word “abortion” has been blocked as a term in an information database:
Ten days ago at the University of California in San Francisco, librarian Gloria Won was [...]
notes from the chronicle
Interesting stuff:
• I have to laugh at this. To laugh is not very charitable to the instructor. I too would be a bit peeved if the technology I used lost the grades for an exam, or any project. However, I kind of detest these clickers that are becoming ubiquitous in large lecture halls. There are [...]
banning wikipedia: irresponsible
David Perry has an editorial up on Science Progress in which he argues that it’s irresponsible to ban Wikipedia at a school:
And this is why digital literacy is so crucial for educational institutions: we do a fundamental disservice to our students if we continue to propagate old methods of knowledge creation and archivization without also [...]
Read It Later: New Firefox Extension
If you’re like me, you keep somewhere between 15 and 40 tabs open at a time because you open something, decide you want to read it later, but don’t want to tag it in del.icio.us or bookmark it — and that something becomes 15 somethings, or more. Anne-Marie links to the Firefox extension Read It [...]
