Excerpted resources for educators adapting to Web2.0 / Library2.0, from Carol Kelly, Salem State College.
Guiding Questions:
1. How have the significant technology innovations of the past ten years effected the students we teach?
2. In order to be effective teachers, is it necessary for us to change the way we teach our students, either pedagogically or technically?
3. What broad issues of special concern or interest to LMS and ITS people, for example, student safety, management of information, outreach to teachers, are inherent in all of the new technologies?
Blogs Podcasts Websites
Background Materials
Marc Prensky, “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” On the Horizon, NCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001
I use this set of resources all the time, for everything. Here’s a link to the Web 2.0 pages. http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/resf/web2.html
How Do We Manage Change as Part of a Personal Professional Development Plan?
Here’s an outline of the 15 minutes a day strategy. http://www.sirsidynix.com/Resources/Pdfs/Company/Abram/IOColumn_56.pdf
Teachers/Librarians on line http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/
LibX (Firefox extension) has its own home site http://www.libx.org/
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=writely&passive=true&nui=1&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F&followup=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F<mpl=homepage&rm=false
There’s Online Office http://www.zoho.com/ and Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/ and Thinkfree http://www.thinkfree.com/ among others.
And when you’re overwhelmed with various file extensions, there’s Zamzar to let you translate them all http://www.zamzar.com/ and Cute PDF http://www.cutepdf.com/
Training for us...Get your RSS feeds in order http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2175271 -- sign up for a class, http://www.w3schools.com/ -- read the weekly school news http://www.eschoolnews.com/ or http://www.ncrel.org/tech/index.html and in general jump in. http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/resources-for-high-school-technology-and-computer-science-students.html
And we need, as users of the internet sources, to be aware of what’s happening in the Information/Creative Commons movement. This includes some new ideas about copyright, use and ownership of work, http://creativecommons.org/ including a search engine devoted to finding useable materials http://search.creativecommons.org/. And of course, the ideas surrounding library spaces as Information Commons.
For those of you who are intrigued by this new paradigm (in other words, the rest of you don’t have to read these) here are a couple of interesting and informative links.
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB7102g.pdf
http://www.newamerica.net/files/archive/Pub_File_866_1.pdf
http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/InformationCommons.pdf
There is some interesting work being done in recognizing the gain from structured sharing (not LOSS of ownership...a tag often attached to Commons licensing) that helps us understand that university tenure review committees must begin to recognize internet publishing AS publishing and that citation must change to recognize original production/ownership as opposed to controlled printing/distribution. It’s a changing world but one we need to be aware of and it can effect what we choose to use. http://opensourceresources.wikispaces.com/
Let’s start with the three most used and accessible tools -- wikis, blogs and podcasts.
First, an investigation of each. By the end of this you should be familiar enough with these to both use and produce them yourselves. If you want to know what librarians and technology folks are doing—they’re online. They’re writing blogs and producing wikis and connecting to their school colleagues and students in an Web2.0/L2.0 world! Do a simple search for any educational topic you’re interested in – e. g. mathematics education blogs (Google, 431,000 results) – and you’ll find your colleagues. There’s a link farther down to Edublogs in particular.
Recommended text: Will Richardson, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Corwin, 2006. Extremely accessible and really smart educationally. Consider purchasing and/or reading this book. He provides such sound educational reasons to use Web 2.0 tools that he’d convince anyone!
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WIKIS
Wikis in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY
Lindsay Grant, Using wikis in schools: a case study, May 2006. http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/discussion_papers/Wikis_in_Schools.pdf 2006 but still good. As we now know, tech is NOT zooming through the schools and almost everyone is playing catch-up in some form or another.
Collaborating with Colleagues in Cyberspace. By: Ropog, Martina M.. Adult Basic Education & Literacy Journal, Fall 2007, Vol. 1 Issue 3, p169-171, 3p; (AN 27634359) This link will take you to Salem’s log-in screen of course.
Added
Really complete set of links to wikis in education http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/wikiedu/
Wetpaint’s wikis in education site (actually you could have found this using the previous site) http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/?t=anon Wetpaint is one of the free wiki hosting sites.
10 Best practices for Wikis in education
http://itcboisestate.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/10-best-practices-for-using-wikis-in-education/
Wiki tools:
Do a Google search or use my favorite PBWiki http://www.pbwiki.com Like most folks, once I find a tool that suits my needs, I tend to stop constantly looking for replacements. PBWiki isn’t the only hosting site but it’s a good one. And settling for one of these without continuing to search for others is a normal (and pretty efficient) strategy. I probably wouldn’t switch unless I somehow became aware of some particular tool or advantage in another.
Wiki Spaces -- both free and paid plans. There are more of course, and new ones always cropping up. What are your standards? Management? controlled membership? Ease of use? http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/wikihosts/
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BLOGS
Blogs in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
And you might just say...I wonder...and yes, there’s a Twitter in Plain English and.....
Who blogs?Personality predictors of blogging. By: Guadagno, Rosanna E.; Okdie, Bradley M.; Eno, Cassie A.. Computers in Human Behavior, Sep2008, Vol. 24 Issue 5, p1993-2004, 12p; DOI:10.1016/j.chb.2007.09.001; ( AN 32843456)
THE RA TOOL KIT. By: Wyatt, Neal. Library Journal, 6/15/2008, Vol. 133 Issue 11, p42-45, 4p, 6 color; (AN 32661498) In case you don’t know, RA is a function of librarians...Readers’ Advisory.
Diary of a blog: listening to kids in an elementary school library. By: Cowan, Janie. Teacher Librarian, Jun2008, Vol. 35 Issue 5, p20-26, 7p; (AN 32753567)
Blog tools:
Edublogs http://edublogs.org/
Wordpress http://wordpress.org/ Audio/video instructional video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWYi4_COZMU
Blogger http://www.blogger.com Audio/video instructional video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnploFsS_tY
Classpress $24.95 per year http://www.classpress.com/?gclid=CKnSpsneqJQCFR0ZagodMUsvtg When you pay, what do you get? Sometimes by paying you end up with more control so you can try to balance that out with the actual cost.
http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/blogger.html And this is a good source, as they say, for “News, Techniques and Theories of Effective Use of Technology in Education”
How about Integrating Middle School Technology? http://integratingmiddleschooltechnology.blogspot.com/
And Boston is right around the corner! http://bostonpublic.blogspot.com/
http://www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1055
A librarian I spoke to recently used a blog as a research tool with kids. It sounded fabulous. As usual, wise and effective use of this tool is only limited by our imagination and how much we can steal from other smart people.
What are other school librarians doing? Check out some of the blogs...
http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=School_libraries I’m not sure why it strikes me as funny that this is a wiki about blogs.
http://librariansindex.blogspot.com/
Index to blogs run by librarians (not only from schools)
Another list of blogs...this one’s kind of fun because it’s international.
http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html
I use this site as a “fair warning”....so this poor, innocent, sincere, librarian (I assume) starts a weblog http://lovelibraries.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-many-ways-can-school-librarian.html
and then watch what happens at the comments section as you continue scanning responses. It’s, as far as I’m concerned, terrifying! So if you blog, you’d better control and read constantly and filter and....and....
And if I budget time to read one blog, it’s always Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search...and here’s a link to her thoughts about school librarians and blogs. Joyce recently stopped posting to her original blog and has committed to this one at SLJ.
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334.html
And from PC Magazine (are you able to find the text amid the ads and (what I call) distractors? Buried in there is a review of blog tools.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1400319,00.asp
Should I even mention ning?
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MP3/PODCASTS
Caveat: To create voice-audio files, it is necessary to purchase/own a microphone. The Logitech premium USB headset 350 is one of many possible kinds. It runs approximately $35 and includes a digitizing microphone, comfortable ear pads and ease of use. Users of the files will not need this equipment but you need it to record.
Podcasting in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c
The Education Podcast network. Don’t forget your ITunes has a whole education section too.
http://epnweb.org/
Guide to everything you need to know
http://www.poducateme.com/guide/
Podcasts in the classroom
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/podcasts/
Apple computers,http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/index.php Some of you folks who’ve really enjoyed latching on to your musical learning self might want to note especially the Learning Math with Music section. http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=10668
How to use Audacity to create MP3 files http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/
Free download of Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Free download of Wavpad http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/
Additional free digital/sound editors list http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/audioeditors.shtml
WHAT ELSE IS OUT THERE?
I find this site TOO much, almost overwhelming, but I’ll throw it in here at the end in case you’re searching for ideas. http://www.go2web20.net/ For any application or product you see here, there will be training materials, articles about uses etc. and if you have something you want to use instead of the big 3....feel free. I find it interesting that this site has had to add classifications as the .Web 2.0 apps grew
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School and Library Web Sites
Why? Why do we put the time and effort into producing these? Well, the truth is, generally, some message appeared somewhere from the Superintendent.....shouldn’t we have a website? Most of them consist of bus routes, snow closing dates and contact information. Which is too bad. What potential! So—the disconnect between what they are and what they could be is enormous. We won’t even mention how often your cruise all OVER the d__ed things trying to find a phone number or an e-mail for staff.
Susan Simon, who taught at Barnstable Middle School said, years ago, the website for HER class was a resource for her students, homework help, posted assignments, support, readings, GOOD web sites, ...and she developed that page. It was the home page of the computers in her classroom and she suggested parents bookmark it. What if every teacher did that?
This is the Cullen Library site: http://www.peabody.k12.ma.us/higgins/cullen/index.htm. In a school with 1200 kids, is the effort to set up a good web page one of the best ways to connect?
Jamie McKenzie
http://www.fno.org/webdesign.html
Creating school web sites
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic61.htm
Want to look at a bunch?
http://www.doe.state.in.us/htmls/k12.html
Bellingham (which is where Jamie McKenzie worked for years) is exemplary in some ways.
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/
What about the library? Virtual Reference http://www.nwrel.org/nwedu/09-01/notebook.asp and should the school web page (probably designed and maintained in general by the ITS department) include other resources?
Best practices http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/969
And with our sophisticated thinking...I wonder?...yes..there’s a Webquest! http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/evallib.html This webquest is dated 2007 by the way but I tried a random bunch of links and they were working.
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