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New Media and The Young
Ask any student today, most of whom are IT-savvy; about their first stop for information and the unanimous answer would be the Internet. The Internet has become pervasive. In addition, technology is being used to make information ubiquitously available through ‘new media’ applications such as blogs, wikis, pod-and vodcasting, just to mention a few of the more popular ...
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Information Literacy helps in our project work: say students of Bishan Park Secondary School
Information Literacy is undoubtedly an essential skill in today's digital age. Many schools, like Bishan Park Secondary School (BPSS), recognise this, and have started incorporating IL lessons into their students' curriculum. Our writer turns student for three half days to learn about the basics of IL and how to apply those skills in project work. Here are the firsthand ...
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Awareness Of Cyberspace Ethics: What Students Should Know
With so much information on the Internet, how do you get the information that you are looking for? Type in a keyword, and your search engine could throw up millions of hits. The good news is, there are methods to trim the fat and reduce the number of hits, but only if you know how ... that's called being 'information ...
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The Who, What, Why, When and How of Blogging
“If you can't beat them, join them.” In the case of blogging, that adage most certainly holds true. Already the number of bloggers worldwide is staggering. Yet, the numbers keep growing, with new converts hopping onto the blogwagon daily. And why not? Blogging is easy, fun and exciting. It allows instant publication of ideas and interactive exchange ...
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Basic Library Skills For Teachers
Teachers turn students for the day! Mr Roland Quek, Head of Department (HOD), IT Department, Park View Primary School (PVPS) declared, “We want to raise awareness of our school library and promote reading. We are already one of the top schools in the East Zone in readership! Currently, our student-to-books reading ratio is 1:5. Our target is 1:6. We want to ...
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Crystal-ball Gazing: Crossing the 4C’s in Information Literacy
A Google search for the phrase “information literacy” yields over a million websites. A quick review of some of the websites indicate that educational institutions, individuals and agencies are now involved in information literacy (IL) programmes all over the world, and Singapore is no exception. IL has ‘matured’ and is timely to reflect on some of ...
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See. Do. Hear. Know Them. Use Them: Seminar on New Media Literacy
An Evolving Information-scape The term Library 2.0 was coined by Library Scientist and Information Technology Theorist, Michael Casey, in his blog. According to Casey, the concept involves innovation, people and community building, enabled through participation in new media such as Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Pod- and Vodcasting. All these are made possible largely due to the advent of new social networking and ...
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Internet Dilemmas and Dangers: TJC Tutors Speak Out on Common Teaching Challenges
With electronic media being so prevalent in our lives, more schools are placing importance on Information Literacy skills to help their students be more discerning users of the Internet. Class begins: Teachers of TJC taking their seats at the training session on Internet as a Research Tool. 'Cascading' Approach Temasek Junior College (TJC) is no exception. The school's Project ...
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A Headstart In E-Learning @ Catholic High School
Start Them Young You're never too young to start being Information Literate, so feels Miss Lucy Fernandez, a teacher at Catholic High School. And quite rightly so, given today’s rapid technological advancement. In fact, with the massive amount of information available on the Internet, equipping young children with proper Information Literacy skills early in their education can ...
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In Conversation with “ramblinglibrarian”, Ivan Chew: a blogger’s musings
The ramblinglibrarian himself, Ivan Chew, shares his thoughts on blogs and blogging. You set up your blog, ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com in 2004. How has your blog made any impact, if any, to you and your life? Ivan: I would use the word 'Discovery' to characterise my association with blogs and blogging. In June 2004, I started my first blog, ramblinglibrarian, after another ...