Joyce Valenza / Fair Use is your friend

• Fair Use is Your Friend: A new video on making video - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on School Library Journal
  
  Joyce Valenza's work on fair use is always worth thinking about.
  
  Tags: copyright, fairuse, neverendingsearch
  
  
  • Fair Use is Your Friend: A new video on making video
    May 19, 2009
    
    Transformativeness is a challenging concept to teach. I've been working on it ever since the The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education was published back in November.
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
  
  

21Cif: Photo Search/ Getting Boys to Read

• PicFindr - Search the free-stock-photosphere (microstock too!)

  Solid search engine for pictures. Includes copyright/left options & licensing filter.

  Tags: photography, picfindr, photosphere, search, microstock, photos

• Getting Boys To Read

  Mike McQueen's dynamic community dedicated to boys into reading. A noble cause and a space filled with upbeat ideas and energy. Information Fluency and Information Literacy are all based on the ability to read. Building a passion for reading is what this site is all about.

  Tags: reading, literacy, library2.0, information literacy, information fluency, 21cif

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Google Forms: Use your Google Docs account to create online forms

• Introduction to Google Forms | Matt Silverman

  This is a very smart solution for online forms. The article details how to create online forms with google. Best of all the results are dropped into a spreadsheet. A great solution for my moodle class signup process.

  Tags: 21cif, web2.0, survey, forms, google, moodle

  • Google recently released a revolutionary gem into its increasingly robust Google Docs platform. Meet Google Forms: a flexible form and survey development interface with built-in reporting. Why is this significant? Well to start, it means the days of SurveyMonkey are numbered. While still in its infancy, Google Forms is the start of an incredibly versatile data collection framework. How long did SurveyMonkey really think people were going to pay monthly fees to store infinitesimal tidbits of survey response data? Survey data is far from being difficult, nor costly, to store. How to create your first Google Form:

Assessment of Information Literacy Skills

• TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills

  Tags: 21cif, assessment

  • TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on sixth and ninth grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for library media specialists and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students.

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The Credibles: Student Generated Evaluation Project

The Credibles - What to trust on the internet

• Tags: 21cif, evaluation, credibility

  • The internet, we all know, is notoriously unreliable. It is also the premier source of information in both the developed and the developing world. This makes the question of credibility of web based information very important. As students, we constantly refer to the internet for information.
    
    But can we trust what we read on the net ? Are online searches trustworthy?

    We the Credibles, try to bring up this extremely complicated issue in a simple yet interesting and comprehensive manner. We trust that after going through our materials, readers will be able to make better choices about what to trust and what not to trust on the internet.

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How do you pronounce that name? Search Challenges

• Hear Names: Learn How to Pronounce Names Correctly - Home

  This site provides a way to learn name pronunciation. Searching for names presents some unique challenges. How often do we have to guess at the pronunciation of a name, let alone the spelling? According to a news article in the Wall Street Journal, this site has " amassed 11,000 pronunciations ranging from Aabha to Zwai". The site's creator, Elizabeth Bojang ( pronounced Bojohng) works with a tape-recorder asking people to pronounce their names. This is obviously a labor of love, and an interesting peek into how the Internet can spawn personal projects that can help us all.
  
  Whether you are a nurse registering patients, a customer service representative with client lists, or a member of the media with a story to break, our site can help you learn how to pronounce people's names. This is a free resource that anyone can use.

  Tags: audio, names, search
  

  • Whether you are a nurse registering patients, a customer service representative with client lists, or a member of the media with a story to break, our site can help you learn how to pronounce people's names. This is a free resource that anyone can use.

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