Search Skills
INFORMATION LANDSCAPE TODAY
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Wikipedia
Information Landscape Today: Wikipedia
- Use the Talk Page
- Wikipedia’s Good Article criteria
- Wikipedia’s Quality Scale
- Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula
- Wikipedia better than a history textbook
- Is Wikipedia Really Such a Bad Research Tool for Students?
- Wikipedia is arguably subject to more rigorous review practices than are many scholarly publications.
- Wikipedia Infographic
- WikiWand: Making Wiki more visually appealing
- Wikipedia real time edits
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Getting students started with Wikipedia
- WikiJunior
- Wikibooks
PDFs and Lesson Plans
So You Want to be a YouTuber
Creating Your YouTube Channel
Exploring the YouTube Creative Studio
Create a Playlist and add videos to it
Upload your first YouTube video
Upload an image to use as your Thumbnail
Add a button to your video
Create and do a Hangout Live Event
Video Creation Exploration
Visual Literacy
Activity 1: Deconstructing Images Worksheet
Images to Deconstruct (select your own, or try one of these):
Image-Rich Resources to Explore
- 500px
- Google Art Project
- The Big Picture
- Flickr: Interesting
- Unsplash
- In Focus
- The Flying Japanese Girl
- Dancers Among Us
- Eyewitness App
Tools and techniques to add text to images:
Additional Resources
- Image Analysis
- Deconstruct an Image or, How to Analyze an Advertisement (questions to help foster an awareness to analyzing images)
- Doodling & Math video here
- A Brouchure Without Words
- HSBC Airport Ads (the power of one word with an image)
- Scorcese on Visual Literacy
- Powers of Ten – video
Activity 2: Discuss question prompts
Consuming:
- What role does media play in kids lives – even before they get to school?
- How are we using images and media in our classrooms?
- What skills do you need to understand these two videos?
Producing:
- What skills would you need to create something like this?
- What would you learn in the process of creating a video like this?
- What could this replace, in terms of a “traditional” text-based assignment?
- Is the learning in the process of creating or the product you produce?
- How could you assess something like this?
Resources for Finding Creative Commons Media:
- Search Creative Commons
- Creative Commons Licenses & Videos (could be used with students)
- CC Licenses infographic
- Creative Commons entry on Wikipedia
- TinEye: reverse image search (to find out who owns the rights to an image)
- TinEye Chrome extension
- Color Lab
- Google Advanced Image Search
- 500px
- Google Art Project
- Find photos & links & cite automatically with the Research feature on Google Docs (video)
Resources about Creative Commons
- 19 year-old’s Flickr Photo Leads to Maroon 5 Album Cover and Big Time Career
- Trump Jr’s Skittles Photo Taken by Former Refugee – And Used Without Permission
Resources for Citing Creative Commons Work & adding text
Presentation Zen Resources:
- Introducing Presentation Zen (longer version) (video)
- Designing Compelling Presentations (resource)
- How to Give a Killer Presentation (.pdf resource)
Tool for presentations that allows use of web pages without leaving the presentation!
Presentation Exploration (COETAIL)
Learning 2 Talks – examples of Ignite presentations
Presentation Ping-Pong
Presentation Ping-Pong Template
- Find a Creative Commons image that inspires you
In Table Groups:
- Get into groups of 5 and upload your images to a shared presentation. In your groups, arrange the pictures in order to create a shared story using these pictures
As a whole group:
- Present your story to the class
Another fun activity: PechaFlickr
Bringing it Together
Example Gifs
Math (Chocolate cut)
Math (Fractions)
Science (Currents)
Literacy (Rhyming Words/Compound Words)
Literacy (Reflections on our work)
Social Studies (Maps)
Languages (Spanish)
PE (Running movements)
Economics (consumer product movement)
Reading (real life readers)
Australia state borders (Geography)
Fashion over decades (History)
Hieroglyphics (History)
Boolean Operators (Search skills)
Suggested GIF Tools:
Share your Creation
Being Creative
The Creative Process
Introducing Project Based Learning Infographics:
- Project-Based Learning
- Problem-Based Learning
- Challenge-Based Learning
- The MYP Design Cycle
- Design Thinking
- The Writing Process & The Scientific Method
- Doing Projects vs Project Based Learning
Videos & Resources:
- 8 Basic Steps of Project-Based Learning to Get You Started (article)
- 8 Basic Steps of Project-Based Learning to Get You Started (infographic)
- Project Based Learning vs Problem Based Learning (edutopia)
- Common Craft: Project Based Learning Video
- Challenge Based Learning video
- Apple: Challenge Based Learning
- Digital Promise (new CBL resource website)
- Framework: Engage, Investigate, Act
- Challenge Based Learning Guide
- LifeLongLearners FedEx Day for students and Teachers (Blog Post)
- Dan Pink’s Video: Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose
- Dan Pink’s (FedEx Day) How to Deliver Innovation Overnight
- Fedx in action: Delft (video)
- Introducing Project Based Learning (video)
- Project Based Learning: How do I know if I’m doing it right? (video)
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Twitter with students
School hashtag
Google+
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