Why Cite?

December 22, 2017

I want to share an interesting research report with you, which I learned about from IB ÜberLibrarian John Royce’s blog, Honesty, honestly… in a post titled WHYs before the event, posted on 6 November 2017. Royce introduces us to a paper by Allison Hosier...

Animating Still Life

November 8, 2017

I hope you remember reading a post of mine which was published on this site at the end of July this year titled Transforming the meaning of evidence and truth. If not, go have a look, and then watch this video, and read on below....

Searching for the Truth

September 20, 2017

Continuing my thoughts and writing about fake news, fake web pages, teaching search skills, and ultimately, trying to find the Truth of a matter, this post brings together for your consideration two web articles which are not new, but which work well together. The...

Transforming the meaning of evidence and truth

July 31, 2017

This morning I read a post at Engadget titled Researchers make a surprisingly smooth artificial video of Obama “Their program grafts audio-synced mouths onto existing videos.” The post describes the process used by the University of Washington researchers:...

140 Characters in the IB Classroom

June 28, 2017

The word “Twitter” (as in a certain social media platform) has been turning up more and more in the news recently.  Twitter itself isn’t new (if you’re interested, you can read the history of Twitter in this post on lifewire), and it...

Is it fake nature, or is it a story?

May 17, 2017

First, I’d like to explore the “Is it fake nature” part of my post’s title: “The 1958 Disney documentary into lemmings that won the academy award. Footage of lemmings jumping off cliffs was later found out to be faked. Edited version just...