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Andrew Battista wrote a new post, Curation Culture Postmortem 5 months, 2 weeks ago
We did it! We are at the end of the semester. We are going to spend today’s class talking about what we’ve learned. More of the same: metacognition! So, here are three questions to think about.
1. What is […]
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Andrew Battista wrote a new post, Examples of Citizen Journalism 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Here’s a link to a Google Document on citizen journalism that we can all shape today in class.
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Andrew Battista wrote a new post, Curation for Democracy: Citizen Journalism, Social Media, and Information Literacy 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Almost there! We’ve got two more class meetings and one new discussion to have before we do our parting shots on Thursday, Dec. 6th. This week, we’re talking about more broad concepts that connect our discussions […]
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Andrew Battista wrote a new post, Many Definitions of Information Literacy 6 months ago
As some of you in this class may or may not know, I am the Information Literacy Librarian at the University of Montevallo. That is, in addition to all of the “normal” librarian things I do, I spend a lot of time […] -
Andrew Battista wrote a new post, 6 months, 1 week ago
I just found this article today on Facebook (of all places). It’s very appropriate given our discussion this week. Worth the read!
“Liking is for Cowards, Go with What Hurts”
To speak more generally, the […]
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Andrew Battista wrote a new post, Self-Care and Social Media 6 months, 2 weeks ago
We’ve been circling around the concept of self-care all semester. Self-care is, I believe a corresponding literacy that each of us must learn to develop as we waltz along a life of infinite progress in digital […] -
Andrew Battista wrote a new post, Reminder: No Class on Thursday 11/1 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Afternoon everyone. This is a reminder that there will be no class today, Nov. 1. Stay tuned over the weekend for some updates on the blog as we look ahead to next week in class. I will shift a few things […]
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Andrew Battista wrote a new post, Information and Filter Bubbles 6 months, 4 weeks ago
So far this semester we have talked about social media as a conduit to information without really mentioning one of the most obvious realities of the networks we know and trust. Social media networks hide […]
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Andrew Battista wrote a new post, Curation Culture Meetings 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Hello everyone. I hope you had a great weekend. This post is just a reminder that each of you has scheduled to meet with me for a brief check-in conversation this week. In case you’ve forgotten, here’s the […]
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Andrew Battista posted a new activity comment 7 months ago
In reply to: Jessi Clark posted an update @admin would Pandora be considered a social media site? It does allow you to link with others and share stations. ViewYes, I would definitely consider Pandora to be a social media site, and if you wrote a long post about how you use it to connect with others and discover more music that you didn’t know about, you could earn the Social Media Pioneer Badge! This is exactly what that badge is all about: thinking outside of the box and looking for ways that the…[Read more]
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Andrew Battista posted a new activity comment 7 months ago
See the description under the “literacies” tab under the badges menu on the blog. In general, in order to get this badge you have to tie it to another badge that you have earned and then talk about how you have established patterns for knowing how to evaluate the quality, truthfulness, and place of the information you come across. You can also…[Read more]
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Andrew Battista wrote a new post, How Stable is Truth in an Age of Reactionary Media? 7 months, 1 week ago
This week we are beginning to shift the focus of our discussion toward information literacy. One of the implicit ethics of curating content is evaluating the quality of the massive amount of information that we […] -
Andrew Battista wrote a new post, A Deeper Look at Cognitive Surplus 7 months, 1 week ago
Apologies again for the last post. This seems to be the pattern for this class; we have a discussion in class about something and then go back and read it later. This week we are going to revisit our discussion […] -
Andrew Battista wrote a new post, Blog Foibles 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Happy Friday, everyone. Thanks for a great class discussion yesterday. One of the things I discovered is that the blog was (again) broken for non-admin users. It’s hard for me to keep tabs on this because the […] -
Andrew Battista wrote a new post, Examples of Metadata and Social Media Platforms 7 months, 2 weeks ago
This is a show and tell post. I’ve already written about some of the basic tenets of using tagging and other forms of metadata to organize information, for ourselves and for other people (friends, colleagues, or […] -
Andrew Battista posted a new activity comment 7 months, 2 weeks ago
For her post on demotivational posters
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Andrew Battista posted a new activity comment 7 months, 2 weeks ago
For her ”How I stopped worrying and learned to love Twitter” post!
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Andrew Battista wrote a new post, Metadata and Social Media 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Welcome to October everyone. This week we’re going to talk metadata. That’s right, more talk about metacognition (thinking about thinking). Metadata, or tagging, is a fundamental part of most social media […]
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Andrew Battista created the Achievement Metacognition Badge 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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