Search Tools and Technologies - Articles Archive
from May 9, 2009 to February 14, 2009

Media literacy is the process of accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres and forms. It uses an inquiry-based instructional model that encourages people to ask questions about what they watch, see, and read. (Source: Wikipedia) Inside this Media Literacy ... read more

Tracking and monitoring your incoming links can provide you with great and valuable insight into which sites, social media and other web traffic sources are sending you the best and most qualified visitors for your web site. But how do you go about analyzing those incoming ... read more

What is Media Literacy? Media literacy is the ability to bring critical thinking skills and about asking pertinent questions about what's there, and noticing what's not there. And it's the instinct to question what lies behind media productions - the motives, the money, the values and ... read more

In this week Media Literacy Digest: the social value of new media, the information cycle, a nice presentation tool, and the real help we get from technology as human beings. While the information cycle (the process whereby information is produced, validated, shared and re-created in other forms) ... read more

If you are looking into innovative ways to browse and explore search engine results, visual search engines may provide exactly what you have been looking for. Instead of long lists of page titles and URLs, visual search engines deliver visually rich maps of content results, often ... read more

How is the educational landscape going to change in the near future? Which are the key trends and new directions which are going to influence the most we study, research and learn? New, decentralized forms of learning such as personal learning environments, non-traditional and more flexible approaches ... read more

In this week Media Literacy Digest: data visualization, advances in robotics technology, alternative approaches in education, the future of academic courses and the newspaper crisis. If from one hand newspapers want to ride the online business opportunities available to them, while spreading their content to a wider ... read more

Copyright issues, the online collaboration tools map, visual search engines, and the crisis of newspapers are just some of the fascinating topics of this new issue of Media Literacy Digest by George Siemens. The pointers about copyright are particularly worth mentioning. Intellectual property is a serious issue ... read more

New ways of consuming news, information visualization, age differences in Internet adoption, and the failure of traditional advertising on the Web, are just some of the hot topics George Siemens navigates through in this Media Literacy Digest issue. The information cycle - creation, dissemination, validation, sharing, re-creation ... read more

As the whole online advertising landscape struggles with the economic crisis, AdSense is no exception: online publishers are experiencing a persistent drop of ad revenues. But why is this crisis emptying your pockets? To find out, I've brought together for you the best resources and articles ... read more

Do you want to automatically translate all of the pages of your web site into the most popular languages and facilitate foreign visitors get an insight into your content without hiring a pro translator? Here is MasterNewMedia guide to the best tools and services to automatically ... read more

Social networking sites, e-portfolios, the value of online meetings, and the crisis of newspapers are just some of the hot topics inside this week George Siemens' Media Literacy Digest. Impression management is the process through which people try to control the impressions other people form of them. ... read more

The use of mashups in learning, serialized feeds, the value of lectures, and crowdsourcing are just some of the topics George Siemens explores in this new issue of the Media Literacy Digest. The idea of serialized feeds, explored with Stephen Downes, is a fascinating one, and a ... read more

If you are trying to keep yourself informed about the subtle transformations happening and slowly affecting your work and the way you exchange and communicate with others, this short, weekly new media report may contain some interesting news for you. Check it out. In this issue of ... read more

Do you need a quick translation while working online? It can be an e-mail from a colleague, the lyrics of a song, an e-mail, or even a web page. All you need to do is try one of the free language translation services I personally selected ... read more

The impact that learning environments will have on the way we work, Internet freedom, and the future of libraries are just some of the hot topics inside this week Media Literacy Digest. Has the Web been helping the true growth of a greater freedom of thought, allowing ... read more

A networked-view of the world, the importance of good visuals and the need for rethinking how organizations can adapt to the disruptive changes brought by Web 2.0 technologies, are just some of the interesting topics that George Siemens explores in this issue of Media Literacy Digest. Among ... read more

Online Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are web metrics used to help an any Internet publisher define and measure progress toward achieving its communication and business goals. Identifying and selecting your key online performance indicators is a great strategy to measure the performance of your online business ... read more

Location-based learning, flexibility in education, and changing paradigms in society are just some of the pointers which George Siemens explores in this weekly issue of Media Literacy Digest. Among the hot topics and issues covered in this week digest, the relationship between geographic location and success. Does ... read more