School libraries: Designed for Learning
This video aims to contribute to the design and development of visually stunning, fit-for-purpose libraries with learning spaces that support 21st century learning in extended school settings. It shows...
View ArticleGoogle proof your image attributions
by dullhunk Often, you are in a great need for some pictures to freshen up your webpage and would like to include one of these images. If you want to do this, there are quite a lot of steps...
View ArticleCreative Commons – a shared culture
Working with students means taking them on the journey of learning in and out of online environments. Let’s encourage them to apply creative commons approaches to their creativity. I don’t know why...
View ArticleStop turning a blind eye! Media literacy in action.
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Cayusa I’d like to think that all teachers and librarians are clever enough to know how to work well with images to promote creativity in learning. My...
View ArticleFree to mix – guiding the way
My recent visit to New Zealand has left me breathless with some of the yummy opportunities available for students across the country. One of these, the Mix and Mash competition is all about creative...
View ArticleTaming Information Chaos
Filed under: Creative Commons, Digital Media, Information fluency, Information Literacy, Learning Design
View ArticleSocial evolution
Social Evolution – everything is (or should be) a remix and a meme! Filed under: Creative Commons, Digital Media, Social Media, Technology and Software Tagged: copyright, intellectual property,...
View ArticleThe great unwashed ~ and information
In using the phrase ‘the great unwahsed’ I’m not referring to the young Steve Jobs, infrequent bathers discussed in the New York Times, or even the rather disparaging term coined by the Victorian...
View ArticleFlickr Attribution Helper update!
Around about this time last year I shared a post about Greasemonkey and Flickr for the adventurous. In this I’m elaborating on the wonderful tool, created by my friend Alan Levine aka @cogdog, which...
View ArticleRemix culture as a creative and professional habit
Yesterday the Charles Sturt University ICT Community of Practice had one of it’s regular afternoon forums, campus-wide, in meeting spaces, and via online conferencing. It’s a great way to bring people...
View ArticleWikipedia – the great book of knowledge
Detail from the puzzle globe Wikipedia logo. We used to need libraries to make the sum of human knowledge available to all. Today we have Wikipedia, where the sum of human knowledge can be shaped by...
View ArticleYour #remixvic – no more cobwebs!
Once again, we have the power of a digital collections providing a great new image source for remix courtesy of the State Library of Victoria.They have almost 200,000 pictures in our image pool, free...
View ArticleThe academic integrity challenge
While technology is changing the information environment, the transactional nature of information interactions and knowledge flow still has to underpin learning. A major challenge for education is to...
View ArticleLibcrowds: crowdsourcing keeps getting better
LibCrowds is a project from the British Library and British Library Labs that uses crowdsourcing to transcribe some of the printed cards still housed in physical card catalogues. The British Library’s...
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