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Methods 2 Student in the Field
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011Media Literacy
Friday, February 25th, 2011What does the skill set of today’s learner look like?
Last year, several faculty met to have just that discussion. As a product of their meetings they created the Media Fluency Rubric, outlining four areas critical for development in today’s student.
Critical Consumption – Use appropriate technology and methods to evaluate the credibility of networked information.
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Why Use Google Spreadsheets?
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010There are lots of reasons that you might use Google Spreadsheets instead of Microsoft’s Excel or SPSS. As a teaser for this week’s Faculty Friday, here are a narrow set of the benefits you’ll find with Spreadsheets.
Instant Results
Careful and measured data analysis is an important part of the research process. With that in mind, it’s [...]
What is a Wiki
Thursday, August 26th, 2010Much of the academic world is already familiar with Wikipedia – the free online encyclopedia of nearly 4 million entries – but also hesitant to embrace it as a useful learning tool. The web, however, is teaming with other user built resources that follow the wiki format.
A wiki is a website that allows for easy [...]
Diigo
Friday, March 12th, 2010Diigo
Diigo
What’s this crazy thing called Diigo after all, and what does it have to do with the social web? Let’s back up for just a moment before we talk about too much web stuff. Bookmarks are a method of dog-earing the things you find on the web. Many of us have used “Favorites” when we search [...]
