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Whose Land: Acknowledging Land, Communities and Treaties

By: bsherry December 3, 2019August 9, 2021

global projects, media, Project Based Learning, technologyfeatured, media literacy, TakingITGlobal, TIG, WhoseLandLeave a Comment

Let’s Get Creative! Exploring the Whose Land App from TakingITGlobal This workshop was originally created for ECOO Camp Peterborough and this is also posted on Teach Ontario. We were ambitious in thinking about what we could accomplish in 50 minutes and ended up with some really valuable discussion about how the interactive map and the…

Automatic Attribution on CC Search of Flickr

By: bsherry January 4, 2016January 4, 2016

Improving the Instructional Program, learning, teachingcreative commons, digital citizenship, media literacy1 Comment

Creative Commons is not a new concept, and many people have been aware of its existence for some time, as well as the need to credit the work of generous people who offer to share their creations with us. It’s also great when something comes along that makes it a little easier for media…

Critical Thinking and Elementary Media Literacy

By: bsherry November 19, 2010July 8, 2011

media, PDcritical thinking, media literacy, otf, PD3 Comments

In October I was taking part in OTF’s Critical Thinking Conference with teachers of all subject areas and grades who are new to the Critical Thinking Framework as defined by the Critical Thinking Consortium (TC2). Garfield Gini-Newman was the lead presenter, along with some other TC2 folk, and my colleague Peter Skillen and I are…