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Thoughts about life and ministry in an urban setting.

Category Digital Literacy

1,000 Words

I chose to do this activity in the room I am staying in. I am currently visiting a friend, and doing this in the room I am staying in seemed the least intrusive to the other people in the house…. Continue Reading →

Sound Effect Story

For my sound effect story I used sounds from soundbible.com. The sound effects were easy to find, and the search option made it easy to find what I was looking for. I also recorded a clip of my own audio… Continue Reading →

Recording and Sharing Audio cont.

I stand corrected. After further exploration, I discovered that anchor.fm does in fact embed their player when the URL is copied and pasted into a NEW blog post, however, it does not embed when it is pasted into a blog… Continue Reading →

Recording and Sharing Audio

  Anchor.fm Audio I found that this process was not nearly as intuitive as it was made out to be. I did not download either the SoundCloud or the Anchor.fm app. I have a very small iPhone and simply do… Continue Reading →

The Art of Crap Detection

Mike’s guide is extremely helpful as a resource when it comes to fact checking online. I knew about Snopes, Politifact and Factcheck.org, but the other fact checking organizations were all new to me. I think the 4 moves that Mike… Continue Reading →

Great Googly Moogly

I think I have always known that Google has “biases”, but I never thought about it much in practice. I think these biases can be based on browser history, country searched within, culturally understood gender roles, understanding in a culture… Continue Reading →

Protected: Finding U

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Tracking the Trackers

Online tracking is not a new concept to me. It is something I have been aware of for years. Lightbeam is rather interesting in terms of it telling me not only how many sites are tracking me but which sites… Continue Reading →

Digital Literacy

Bryan Alexander on Bonni Stachowiak’s podcast (https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/digital-literacy-now/) says that in order to have digital literacy we have to have a good “BS detector” and that digital literacy is participatory and productive. I think there are two sides to digital literacy: the… Continue Reading →

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