Category Archives: Digital and Media Literacy
Investing in Digital Literacy through Social Media
This article was featured on the Social Media Club’s Education Blog on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. *** Entertainer Cee-Lo Green’s cat, Purrfect, has become a mouthpiece for NBC’s The Voice, a singing … Continue reading
Go Hunt Scan – Hospital’s history lesson goes digital
“Thanks for 100 years, Greenville.” A centennial celebration serves as the foundation for a digital scavenger hunt like no other. On the occassion of its 100th anniversary, Greenville Hospital System (GHS) is … Continue reading
Tally your Tweets
It’s a simple question: “How many times did you tweet today?” Yet, some are hesitant to answer. Why would you want to publicly display your private digital life? In our last … Continue reading
Now Available: Community 2.0
As our society becomes more saturated with digital technologies, members in and leaders of all types of communities will be challenged to incorporate, assess, and even design digital and media … Continue reading
Egging our campus
Under the watchful eye of the Evans clock tower at Queens University of Charlotte, students awoke Wednesday to find that the residential quad on campus had been egged. On Monday, … Continue reading
Ethan Zuckerman at Knight Media Learning Seminar
“It’s a challenge for us to connect people’s stories to their communities,” says Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab, a leading thinker … Continue reading
Communities and Collaboration: Lessons Learned about Partnership Creation
“I’ve struggled with this partnership creation thing,” says Dennis Scholl, Vice President for Arts at Knight Foundation. Seventy community foundations across the nation have leveraged Knight grants to develop partnerships … Continue reading
Community Information Toolkit, version 1.1
Knight Foundation’s Community Information Toolkit creates a framework for assessing a community’s information ecosystem. Mayur Patel, Knight’s Vice President for Strategic Assessment, is leading the conversation on information ecosystem mapping. … Continue reading
Baby Carrots, the Internet, and The Filter Bubble
Why would a web service filter the information that I see? The information created in the entire history of humanity until 2010 is the same amount of information created online … Continue reading
