Literacy with ICT

Wordle - creates word clouds from pieces of text, rss feeds or tag clouds. Wordle Cheat Sheet.doc Wordle+Cheat+Sheet.pdf

This white paper summarizes the results of a three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, examining young people's participation in the new media ecology. It represents a condensed version of a longer treatment of the project findings.i The study was motivated by two primary research questions: How are new media being integrated into youth practices and agendas? How do these practices change the dynamics of youth-adult negotiations over literacy, learning, and authoritative knowledge?

A short audio clip of a radio interview of Darren Kuropatwa by Margaux Watt of CBC Radio in Winnipeg, Manitoba, about how he uses technology in his teaching and how he shared that knowledge with other teachers at a local conference on November 28, 2008.

From the YoutTube Site : "The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler's high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros' Networked Teacher. I hope that teachers will use it to help their colleagues, parents, and students understand networked learning in the 21st century."

Author of several books, most recently Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is changing your world and Wikinomics is interviewed by Nora Young. 20 minutes worth your time.

Very neat search application for Twitter. You can creat multiple grid layouts with multiple search topics and the findings are updated as they are found. You can create a TunyURl to save or share the search you've created and you can reply to any tweets right from the application. Potential, potential!