Resources
Video
"The Web is Us/ing" - How is the Internet evolving? A must watch. 4,300,000+ views on YouTube (final release).
"The Information Machine" - A short cartoon with a memorable style which "...traces the history of storing and analyzing information from the days of the cavemen to today's age of electronic brains." Commissioned by IBM in 1957.
"New Internet" - A very funny, but also amazing, Canadian news broadcast from Oct. 8, 1993 when "Internet" was still relatively unknown.
Time Lapse of First Contest - Thanks go to Kyle Granat for filming & editing. This was his brainchild, and he selected the music with the fun speech. In the spirit of Koyaanisqatsi. This is video of only one of two computer labs in which the contest took place. In all, about 50 people competed on August 29th, 2007.
Text
Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources
Searching the World Wide Web - from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue. "This section covers finding sources for your writing in the World Wide Web. It includes information about search engines, Boolean operators, web directories, and the invisible web. It also includes an extensive, annotated links section."
Evaluating Print vs. Internet Sources - from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue. "With the advent of the World Wide Web, we are seeing a massive influx of digital texts and sources. Understanding the difference between what you can find on the web and what you can find in more traditional print sources is key."
Evaluation During Reading - from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue. 15 things to consider when looking at information.
Top Web Tools for College Students - 10 tools for every college student.
Digital literacy 'urgently needed' - BBC article. "We urgently need to expand our understanding of the risks we take when we use computers, argues regular columnist Bill Thompson."
The Fading Memory of the State - The National Archives struggle to save endangered electronic records, MIT Technology Review. "The nation's founding documents are preserved for the ages in their bath of argon gas. But in another 230 years or so, what of today's electronic records will survive?"
Audio
Is Today's Internet Killing Our Culture? - from an NPR affiliate in Santa Monica College. One of the best discussions on the future of scholars, experts, librarians, encyclopedias and informaton in general.