All Blog Posts Tagged 'information' (11)

iEducate - Final conference at Warwick University, Coventry and Virtual Conference in Second Life

On 20th September 2011 the iEducate Team presents the tools and resources that were developed during the project lifetime. Furthermore recent developments and technologies that will shape the future of vocational education will be introduced during several break-out session.

On 21st September 2011 a virtual conference will take place at the virtual training island in Second Life for those unable to attend in person on the 20th.

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Added by Jana Dobbelstein on August 1, 2011 at 3:26am — No Comments

Information Overload!

I have been looking at digital tools to help students locate information and present information. This got me thinking about the information overload that I see many of my students experience. There is so much available that often the student just takes the first thing they can find as being fact, rather than sift through all the info to verify the facts. I remember in high school and in college (just on the cusp of the Internet generation), we had to have several sources for a paper. I…

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Added by Melanie Weser on September 19, 2010 at 10:41am — No Comments

Information Visualization Transformed to Cultural Analytics/Visualization on a high-resolution interactive HIPerSpace wall at UCSD

Posted a really cool video & info: Cultural Analytics of Mark Rothco Paintings on an interactive 287 mega-pixel HIPerSpace Wall at UCSD.

"The explosive growth of cultural content on the web including social media since 2004 and the digitization efforts by museums, libraries, and companies since the 1990s make possible fundamentally new paradigm for… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on November 26, 2009 at 8:48am — No Comments

Investigative Searching 20/10

Dennis O'Connor and I have created a new online course in information forensics for students, teachers and librarians. It's called Investigative Searching 20/10, playing off the metaphor of 'better-than-average' vision. When it comes to locating and evaluating information from the Internet, students (on average without training) score in the 40% range. That means that more often than not, they cannot locate and determine the credibility of the author,… Continue

Added by Carl Heine on July 7, 2009 at 3:05pm — No Comments

Back again, with link to posts about interesting and emerging technologies....

I've been busy for the past two months- my dad had complications from surgery and was in the ICU for quite a while, and now I am catching up with work.

At any rate, I thought I'd link to some of my recent blog posts:

Gaze system developed by IT University of Copenhagen provides a low-cost means of interaction with computers via large screen displays…

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Added by Lynn Marentette on May 2, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Links to my recent blog posts about interactive information visualization, the World Economic Forum, and more...

I'd like to share links to some of my recent blog posts:

Posts related in some way to the current economic crisis:

Back to Basics: The Future of Baniking and Finance Discussed at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

The Values… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on February 1, 2009 at 6:59pm — No Comments

Information Fluency: It's Elementary (Beta Testers needed for learning games)

Carl Heine is developing a series of online learning games to teach elementary students the essentials of search. We're looking for feedback and suggestions as we begin the development cycle.

You will find all the details on the E-Learning and Online Teaching Group. We are asking for feedback on our new elementary age games to be posted to the group's discussion thread. Please join the… Continue

Added by Dennis O'Connor on October 3, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

(WSI) Website Investigation: An Introduction to Information Forensics.

Carl and I concluded our first run of (WSI) Website Investigation: An Introduction to Information Forensics. This is a fully facilitated Moodle based online class. We had a lot of fun and the participants were great. We also radically underestimated the amount of time the course would take. We figured 5 hours in one week. When we polled the class everyone reported taking far more time with each case study.

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Added by Dennis O'Connor on August 5, 2008 at 4:06pm — No Comments

Fully Facilitated Online Courses in Information Fluency

Search Help, Evaluation and Digital Ethics for School, Business and Home

Courses Starting Soon...

Need to create a back to school training?

Use our modular content to snap together your own unique training course.

Power Searching in a Web 2.0 World

Next session starts Aug 4 (4 Weeks $99)…

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Added by Dennis O'Connor on July 23, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Information Fluency At Necc 2008

Join Carl Heine and Dennis O'Connor in San Antonio for NECC 2008.

Monday June 30,…

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Added by Dennis O'Connor on June 13, 2008 at 2:47pm — No Comments

ePortfolios and PLTs

I would like to draw your attention on a google group John Pallister has started:

The purpose of this group is to encourage and promote thinking and discussion about ePortfolios and how they might support the development of Personal Learning and Thinking Skills.

* Please post anything that you think will move the discusion forward.

* Please invite others into this group if you think they would contribute to, or take something from the… Continue

Added by Sigi on April 20, 2008 at 10:45am — No Comments