Sunday, October 25, 2009

Making Sense of Online Text

I bet I'm not the only one in the class who downloaded and printed this article before reading it. That said, it wasn't designed for internet reading...dense text demands to be scrutinized and highlighted with a yellow marker. Am I a dinosaur for thinking this?
Back to the article. My students would enjoy being fooled by a hoax, and it would make a valuable lesson, though I think the velcro hoax is too simplistic for high school. Figure 2 is fantastic and makes its points more clearly than the Google lessons. I got that one could research the sites from the Google lessons, but this chart shows how. Great. I'm starting a persuasive essay unit next week with a research component, and I plan to make Figure 3 into a word doc that they can use.
Does anyone know if there is an easy, free, way to list links in ALA-approved formats? I heard of a site that had a yearly subscription fee, but that was two librarians ago. Forgot the name of the service. Also, does anyone have experience with the Peninsula Library System portal, the one that links to public library cards?

2 comments:

  1. I agree that the chart is simple, clear and is easy to follow.

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  2. I needed to print out the article to read, too.

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