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fvanhorne wrote a new blog post: Session clarification
Posted a rough idea for a couple possibilities earlier. Now that I’ve gotten some feedback here’s what I’ll focus on.
Over the summer, Amazon deleted copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle owners with no prior warning. Though Amazon apologized for the incident and said this would not happen again, the fact that it did [...]7 months, 3 weeks ago · View
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fvanhorne commented on the blog post Digital Story Telling
This could be interesting. I’d like to see more details on this. For example, I know a lot of storytelling goes on in the form of blog posts. Is this the sort of thing you’re talking about?
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fvanhorne commented on the blog post Treasures of Geocities/Big Brother in MY Kindle?
Another idea I didn’t add above: I’ve taken a recent interest in the Librivox project, which has the ambitious goal of recording audiobooks versions of all books currently in the public domain. This is an excellent example of the open source movement bringing literary treasures to the masses in a new way. At [...]
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fvanhorne commented on the blog post Research with Zotero
I’m also interested in learning about Zotero research. I’ve read about it but haven’t yet implemented it myself.
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fvanhorne commented on the blog post Information Cartography
I’m interested to know why and how you equate digital literacy with fearlessness.
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fvanhorne commented on the blog post Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum: Is it desirable? Is it possible?
As a (recent) librarian for a for-profit technical school, I applaud this idea. So many of our students struggled both with basic literacy and with digital literacy. As the librarian, a large part of my job was tutoring students not only on how to construct sentences, but technology instruction as well. That [...]
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fvanhorne wrote a new blog post: Treasures of Geocities/Big Brother in MY Kindle?
I had a couple of ideas for exploration, so I’ll post them both and see what people gravitate toward.
1. Yahoo! closed down Geocities this past October. In the 1990’s, Geocities was the introduction to webpage design for millions of users. Its ease of use gave the average web citizen the chance to share vast amounts [...]8 months, 2 weeks ago · View
