Digital Bytes – 20th March, 2017

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DIY.org

This amazing site is a fantastic starting point for anyone interested in student-driven inquiry.

There are over 130 different skills/interests to look through and thousands of projects to try.

What is Media Literacy?

This YouTube Video answers the question ‘What is Media Literacy?’ and provides 5 key questions to answer when viewing any source of information. The key questions help determine biases in the information, and examine why it was produced in the first place.

Google Docs Blackout Poetry

Blackout Poetry is the process of taking an existing text, selecting the words you want to form your poem, then shading in all of the extra words. Eric Curtis has come up with a clever hack for doing this process in a Google Doc. Check out his blog post which explains how he does it!

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