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Presented at the University of Manitoba June 17th 2008. (for those of you waiting for the Library of Congress presentation, it will be posted July 19th-ish.) From Stephen's Lighthouse: http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2008/07/michael_wesch_l.html "Many of you have probably seen Kansas State University prof Michael Wesch's thought-provoking video, "A Vision of Students Today". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o. Recently Dr. Wesch spoke at the University of Manitoba where he explained the the basis of this video in a talk entitled, "Michael Wesch and the Future of Education." I found it fascinating! He describes how he so naturally incorporates emerging technologies into his courses from the smallest seminar type class to the largest lecture theatre filled class. More importantly he not only talks about the technologies but how he encourages extraordinary participation and collaboration from his students by engaging them in meaningful learning activities. Although the video is 66 minutes long...pour a coffee, iced tea or glass of wine and enjoy this dynamic presentation from a master teacher." http://umanitoba.ca/ist/production/streaming/podcast_wesch.html Dubbed "the explainer" by popular geek publication Wired because of his viral YouTube video that summarizes Web 2.0 in under five minutes, cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch brought his Web 2.0 wisdom to the University of Manitoba on June 17. During his presentation, the Kansas State University professor breaks down his attempts to integrate Facebook, Netvibes, Diigo, Google Apps, Jott, Twitter, and other emerging technologies to create an education portal of the future. "It's basically an ongoing experiment to create a portal for me and my students to work online," he explains. "We tried every social media application you can think of. Some worked, some didn't."

Four Instructional Technology graduate students at the University of Mary Washington collaborated to create this video defining and guiding students and teachers through information literacy including the premier of their innovative DISCOVER approach to teaching information literacy.

This is a learning object created for students in an English course at Otis College of Art and Design.

Explore how early childhood educators and parents can encourage science and math literacy through real world and classroom activities. Experts utilize current research to show how math and science learning can be integrated into early reading activities. [7/2008] [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 14224]

Identify what sources are good to use for your papers. Learn the difference between scholarly, academic, professional, popular, and substantive news publications and the benefits and uses for each. To effectively research for college-level papers, students must learn how to evaluate articles in journals and magazines. In this video, an art history professor at Otis College of Art and Design discusses some of the criteria useful in determining whether the information found is scholarly, popular, or professional. The same evaluation criteria may be applied to information found on websites and in books. Please see also the Otis Information Literacy website: http://library.otis.edu/informationliteracy.html

sen. barack obama talks about the empathy deficit and how literacy and reading can help. hero!

Rick DiPietro and Bruno Gervais entertain and read to a gym of Elementary Schoolers.

Illiteracy is a plague that affects 600 million Asians. It hinders development and progress. It is the root of poverty and exploitation. Raise awareness. Literacy empowers. Footage by Giovanni Compiled by Chichi and Yashika (gr. 11) Narrated by Vikram (gr. 3) Singapore American School - Modern Asian Perspectives Class Check out more videos about social issues here: http://theyoutubeproject.pbwiki.com/

This video provides an introduction to a series of 11 videos designed to help college students improve their information literacy skills. NOTE: Program notes are available at: http://tinyurl.com/ILNotes

I met Liz Wilkinson from the University of Auckland at the LIANZA 2008 conference: Poropitia: Outside the Box. I was very impressed with an information literacy package she had helped to design. "Te Punga" used online graphic novels and simulations to introduce students to the library catalogue. I was even more impressed with her philosophy behind the design - and I have tried to capture this in this movie. 1. Literacy beyond text 2. Student centred, not library centred 3. Outside experts 4. Involve students 5. Use students' environments 6. Learning by doing 7. Make students feel at home

KCET report on innovative, computer-based Spanish literacy program developed by Centro Latino for Literacy. (www.centrolatinoliteracy.org and www.leamos.org)

This trailer was created to advertise the 30-minute DVD we made on Information Literacy at the Augustana Faculty of the University of Alberta in Camrose, Alberta, Canada (more info on DVD at http://www.augustana.ca/library/infolit/video.html)

Definition and types of plagiarism, including buying term papers, copying and pasting without attribution, and paraphrasing without attribution. Tips for MLA and APA citation styles, including support available in library databases. Program notes are available at: http://tinyurl.com/ILNotes

http://www.mediaed.org The Media Education Foundation presents Generation M: Misogyny in Media & Culture Available on DVD Fall 2008

Criteria to apply to evaluating both traditional and open web resources, including authority, timeliness, bias, and accuracy/credibility of content. Program notes are available at: http://tinyurl.com/ILNotes

An introduction to 21st century literacy...

Meet some of our tutors, our teachers, and our students. Learn why Adult Education & Literacy at Ozarks Technical Community College is so valuable of a service! Find out how we can help you, and how you can make a difference!

An Adult Literacy Tutor talks about why he got into tutoring and what he has gotten out of tutoring.

Information cycle; traditional and online information packages: books (trade, educational, reference, scholarly); periodicals (newspapers, magazines, peer-reviewed journals); open web. NOTE: Program notes are available at: http://tinyurl.com/ILNotes

PART 1—A conversation with author, Ann Vileisis about Kitchen Literacy, what we know about our food, and how we came to know it. For Ann, her book Kitchen Literacy came about because she was struck by how much she didn't know about the common foods she encountered in the supermarket. In the research for her book, she was surprised to learn how much people expected to know about their food in pre-industrial times. For example, meats, they would find out the sex and age of the animal, the farm it came from, and even the animal's background. Certainly a far cry from our expectations today! To see more stories, get recipes, and links to additional resources, go to: http://cookingupastory.com/

Part 3, Ann Vileisis talks about the need to start making connections between our consumption of food, and the environmental and social consequences that result. By taking a more integrative approach to how we choose food, we can promote better environmental practices, healthier food consumption, and insure a locally produced supply of fresh, and nutritious foods. To see more stories, get recipes, and links to additional resources, go to: http://cookingupastory.com/

Continuing the conversation with Ann Vileisis, author of Kitchen Literacy, she explains how over time we became gradually disassociated from how foods were produced, and where they originated. Most importantly, the advertising industry played a significant role in changing American values toward food, and easing the transformation to the industrial food production system of today. No easy feat to accomplish, it took 50 years to fully inculcate society to the new norms of food consumption. To see more stories, get recipes, and links to additional resources, go to: http://cookingupastory.com/

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An interview with an Australian teacher about how the OLPC XO is helping children with literacy issues in her classroom. Many thanks to Warwick and Deirdre Kiely for their time and great work!

San Francisco Slam Champion Adriel Luis breaks down self-hatred in first-person perspective. More at www.ill-literacy.com.