Monday, February 22, 2010

Jim Gates Session A Digital Literacy

Creative Commons
  • Check out Tianammen Square, Google, Bing, then Google in China
  • Yahoo has Creative
  • Big Huge Labs does neat things with pictures
  • Copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com

  • Digital Literacy Document Management
  • Gapminder.com
  • www.officelive.com, like Google Docs difference is you cannot create, must have office 2007 this is storage only
Research skills
  • Zoomit.com will zoom in, free
  • site:ir elections
  • Wolfram Alpha (Firefox browswer) computational search engine
  • Split screen is an add on from Firefox
  • Del.ico.ious
  • Diigo
  • mailcatch
  • Aggregator - Netvibes.com to have information come to you
Security, Privacy, Digital Footprints
  • "Please rob me" on Twitter, finds people not home- WARN STUDENTS
Presenting
  • pecha kucha style Power point presenting. Each slide 20 seconds, 20 slides
  • mappingworlds
  • uuorld
  • slideshare
  • Bubble motion charts in Google
  • Google Earth
  • Evernote to take notes
  • Symbaloo - site to pull up lots of icons

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