12/16/2007
"Internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprint; 47% have searched for information about themselves online, up from just 22% five years ago. However, few monitor their online presence with great regularity."
A 2006 survey of internet leaders, activists, and analysts by Pew Internet
...the vast majority of youth that we studied used networked technologies to reinforce more traditional markers of status and hierarchy. While there are certainly youth who engage in a variety of geeky practices, the vast majority of youth use tools like MySpace, Facebook, instant messaging, and mobile phones to socialize with peers from school, church, and activities.
Although the balance of water on Earth remains fairly constant over time, individual water molecules can come and go in a hurry. The water in the apple you ate yesterday may have fallen as rain half-way around the world last year or could have been used 100 million years ago by Mama Dinosaur to give her baby a bath. jksda;fjksd;fjdsajf
Apparently, college students have heard enough horror stories about potential employers scouring Facebook that many are restricting who can see their profiles — so that any snapshots of drunken revelry, or the like, are available only to friends.
META|Folk Videos are the videos are people's representations of Metacognition
in action in the real world (my term). The # of META|Folk Videos on YouTube
has increased since Feb/2008 when there were 2; now there are 15. Personal
Favs: Face to Face! Nitrox Experiment (MS thesis, Israel) Metacognition (the
poem) Meta-MetaCognition...Have Fun! Keep a META|Eye on the
META|Discourse ball
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What should a "technologically-literate" teacher know and be able to do?
Despite the worries of their parents (and professors), teenagers’ use of language online is surprisingly sophisticated. That’s the conclusion of two researchers from the University of Toronto, who looked at spoken and IM communications of 72 people ages 15 to 20. Instant messaging represented, they said, “an expansive new linguistic renaissance.â€
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12/16/2007 "Internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprint; 47% have searched for information about themselves online, up from just 22% five years ago. However, few monitor their online presence with great regularity."
...the vast majority of youth that we studied used networked technologies to reinforce more traditional markers of status and hierarchy. While there are certainly youth who engage in a variety of geeky practices, the vast majority of youth use tools like MySpace, Facebook, instant messaging, and mobile phones to socialize with peers from school, church, and activities.
Although the balance of water on Earth remains fairly constant over time, individual water molecules can come and go in a hurry. The water in the apple you ate yesterday may have fallen as rain half-way around the world last year or could have been used 100 million years ago by Mama Dinosaur to give her baby a bath. jksda;fjksd;fjdsajf
META|Folk Videos are the videos are people's representations of Metacognition in action in the real world (my term). The # of META|Folk Videos on YouTube has increased since Feb/2008 when there were 2; now there are 15. Personal Favs: Face to Face! Nitrox Experiment (MS thesis, Israel) Metacognition (the poem) Meta-MetaCognition...Have Fun! Keep a META|Eye on the META|Discourse ball
This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you?re looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool?s features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.
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