The Digital Diet

Today’s Digital Tools in Small Bytes
Andrew Churches - 21st Century Fluency Project
Lee Watanabe-Crockett - Global Digital Citizen Foundation, President
Ian Jukes - The InfoSavvy21 Group
The Digital Diet
April 2010 | 196 pages | Corwin
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Explore a menu of today's new digital tools!

Understanding today's online world and relating to the digital generation can be a daunting process for the newcomer. The Digital Diet demonstrates how online technologies can be utilized in today's classroom to foster enjoyable and productive learning.

Offering a tantalizing buffet of various kinds of digital fare, such as blogs, wikis, social networking tools, and podcasts, this concise "diet" allows beginning and experienced users to get a taste of various digital tools at their individual pace. Using numerous screen shots and compelling examples, the authors explain what each tool is, define critical terminology, discuss why educators might use the tool, and provide guidance for using the tool in teaching. This resource presents steps for:

  • Completing searches and using Del.iciou.us to bookmark favorite sites
  • Preparing documents anytime and anywhere
  • Communicating with friends and colleagues around the world through Skype
  • Developing networks and providing updates through Facebook, Twitter, and blogs
  • Sharing and discussing pictures, presentations, or videos through VoiceThread and Flickr

The Digital Diet supplies an entertaining commentary on the basics many of the most popular online tools in use today.

Contents

Introduction

  • 1. The Digital Citizen
  • 2. Searching
  • 3. Social Bookmarking
  • 4. Buzzword: Collaborative Word Processing
  • 5. VVOIP (Video and Voice Over IP)
  • 6. Twitter
  • 7. Blogging With Blogger
  • 8. Social Networking
  • 9. Voice Thread: Bringing Together Voice and Images
  • 10. Media Sharing

Appendix

Appendix

Glossary

Glossary

Description

Explore a menu of today's new digital tools!

Understanding today's online world and relating to the digital generation can be a daunting process for the newcomer. The Digital Diet demonstrates how online technologies can be utilized in today's classroom to foster enjoyable and productive learning.

Offering a tantalizing buffet of various kinds of digital fare, such as blogs, wikis, social networking tools, and podcasts, this concise "diet" allows beginning and experienced users to get a taste of various digital tools at their individual pace. Using numerous screen shots and compelling examples, the authors explain what each tool is, define critical terminology, discuss why educators might use the tool, and provide guidance for using the tool in teaching. This resource presents steps for:

  • Completing searches and using Del.iciou.us to bookmark favorite sites
  • Preparing documents anytime and anywhere
  • Communicating with friends and colleagues around the world through Skype
  • Developing networks and providing updates through Facebook, Twitter, and blogs
  • Sharing and discussing pictures, presentations, or videos through VoiceThread and Flickr

The Digital Diet supplies an entertaining commentary on the basics many of the most popular online tools in use today.

Contents

Introduction

  • 1. The Digital Citizen
  • 2. Searching
  • 3. Social Bookmarking
  • 4. Buzzword: Collaborative Word Processing
  • 5. VVOIP (Video and Voice Over IP)
  • 6. Twitter
  • 7. Blogging With Blogger
  • 8. Social Networking
  • 9. Voice Thread: Bringing Together Voice and Images
  • 10. Media Sharing

Appendix

Appendix

Glossary

Glossary

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The Digital Diet

Today’s Digital Tools in Small Bytes


April 2010 | 196 pages | Corwin

Format Published Date ISBN Price
Paperback 28/04/2023 9781412982368 $39.95

Explore a menu of today's new digital tools!

Understanding today's online world and relating to the digital generation can be a daunting process for the newcomer. The Digital Diet demonstrates how online technologies can be utilized in today's classroom to foster enjoyable and productive learning.

Offering a tantalizing buffet of various kinds of digital fare, such as blogs, wikis, social networking tools, and podcasts, this concise "diet" allows beginning and experienced users to get a taste of various digital tools at their individual pace. Using numerous screen shots and compelling examples, the authors explain what each tool is, define critical terminology, discuss why educators might use the tool, and provide guidance for using the tool in teaching. This resource presents steps for:

  • Completing searches and using Del.iciou.us to bookmark favorite sites
  • Preparing documents anytime and anywhere
  • Communicating with friends and colleagues around the world through Skype
  • Developing networks and providing updates through Facebook, Twitter, and blogs
  • Sharing and discussing pictures, presentations, or videos through VoiceThread and Flickr

The Digital Diet supplies an entertaining commentary on the basics many of the most popular online tools in use today.


Table Of Contents:

  • Introduction
  • 1. The Digital Citizen
  • 2. Searching
  • 3. Social Bookmarking
  • 4. Buzzword: Collaborative Word Processing
  • 5. VVOIP (Video and Voice Over IP)
  • 6. Twitter
  • 7. Blogging With Blogger
  • 8. Social Networking
  • 9. Voice Thread: Bringing Together Voice and Images
  • 10. Media Sharing
  • Appendix
  • Glossary

Recent Product Reviews:

We address Digital Citizenship, searching, and VOIP in a different class (one I do not teach) - Chapters 1 and 5. Many of our students in this course are in mainland China, where Twitter and Facebook are blocked, while Blogger is not available there - chapters 6-8. Overall, I was looking for a book that offered a broader array of Web 2.0 services and did not feel this text met that description.
Dr Tony Krug, Teacher Education, Johnson University
"Valuable in its exploration of pedagogical usage of technologies. Recommended."
Sara Rofofsky Marcus, Library Media Connection magazine, October 2010 (Vol. 29, No. 2)

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