1000 Words
My wife Phyllis and I visited family in Pella, Iowa on the Easter Weekend. On Saturday morning we conducted a […]
Flow
1000 Words
My dad is an amateur photographer specializing in landscapes, birds, and flowers. My mother is a portrait photographer and has photographed weddings and funerals. I have had an interest in photography as a young child and enjoy taking mostly nature shots. I have played with light and contrast and backgrounds for the most part. There … Continue reading 1000 Words
GI:GO (Garbage In: Garbage Out)
There have been many articles I have come across that have led me to believe that they are not exactly the full truth. As I was looking at Michael Caulfield’s website, I started thinking about which story I was going to use in completing this assignment. I then came across an article that stated that … Continue reading GI:GO (Garbage In: Garbage Out)
Four Moves
Mike Caulfield–first move Mike Caulfield’s online book Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers . . . and other people who care about […]
Four Moves and Old Habits
The Caulfield materials focuses on something I have long responded to – ‘factual posting.’ Back in the early days of social media the missing children reports aimed at pulling at heart strings and stroking egos due to the numbers of people repeating ‘fake’ news (yes before DT there was fake news) that the author created …
Googly Moogly Miggely Moo!
Hodge Podgy and definitively obtuse. My experience on the Google Moogly exercise. The image exercise was interesting. I recorded only first page findings, but interesting nonetheless. The Professor image search netted a 32 image first page with 29 men depicted as professors, 2 women and 1 Donald Trump??? The images were multi-racially mixed throughout. Teacher …
Response to Ray
Googly Moogly Hi Ray, If you want to create a new page for resources on your website then you can just select “add new page” from the pages link on your dashboard menu. As an example, I have created a separate page on my website for my favorite leadership resources. You can view that page […]
Googly Moogly
Narrowing Google Searches I learned a lot from this exercise! Alan November’s article was an important reminder to me […]
Finding Me-Mo
So I took a stroll around the internet and what did I find? A total of 18 pages of me across all search engines (Bing, Google, Yahoo!, DuckDuckGo). There are a couple of citations of a criminal namesake who is a thief and a murderer. Another citation has one namesake the mayor of Garland TX. …
Lightbeaming across the web – interesting.
I used Lightbeam all weekend on Firefox to see the result from a weekend of work on Moodle and MyCourses population and replacing older links with up-to-date. The result was interesting. The one cbc site I went to turned into a starburst of activity behind the scenes. I also ended up on a New York …
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