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Search Engines, Social Media and Privacy

Search Engines, Social Media and Privacy

Its been cool and damp on Cape Cod the last few days so I thought I would take the opportunity to work on material for a workshop, Web Literacy: Researching the Web for a Different Perspective, I am facilitating in July. There is a section of the workshop that covers how search engines work. This was pretty straightforward a few years back, before social media and behavioral advertising became main stream. At a basic level search engines ranked material on the…

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Arrogant Ignorance

Arrogant Ignorance

We have all come across people who make decisions based on the belief they have a good understanding of the situation but who really do not have a clue. They just plow right on ahead.  Some people, I think, are just honest souls who really believe they have a good understanding of the situation and are doing their best to do the right thing.  You cannot know or foresee everything and mistakes do happen.  Others I believe posses an ego…

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Communicating and Collaborating: Being a Digital Citizen

Communicating and Collaborating: Being a Digital Citizen

The following is just a brain dump as I try to develop some workshop material on Digital Citizenship and communicating. Just thought I would share. Back in the day when I started teaching I used a ditto machine, occasionally a copy machine, phone and the US Postal service. There were no mobile phones, texting, email, discussion boards, internet, among others. Somehow we managed. Now there is a large number of ways we can communicate and connect, to some this is…

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