Hello World

Welcome to Digital and Information literacy. This course will examine new and emerging technologies in social and digital media. Students will be introduced to current web 2.0 tools and application for learning and inquiry. The course will call upon students to think critically, question, and demonstrate what they have learned using social and digital media applications. Students will learn to leverage connected learning and sharing through responsible use of social media. By the end of this course, students will be able to answer and defend the questions: Why should we care about social media? How is it changing the way individuals and organizations communicate? Where should we begin? 

The students in my fourth period course responded to an article today about how colleges now have the ability to zero in on web 'chatter'. We briefly discussed this piece and then I asked them to respond for their first blog post. This class ranges from 9th grade to 12th grade. At some point, this type of web filtering will affect their future. Our class would greatly appreciate your time to read our posts and provide comments to further this discussion and show them the potential of a network. 


Please follow along with our class blog roll on the left and post comments when you can for students. I encourage you to comment on their content and their writing mechanics. The goal is to teach them how to write for a broad, authentic audience as well as craft a message that is appropriate and well written. Thank you for your time on our blog and please stay tuned as we progress through this course.