Excerpted resources for educators adapting to Web 2.0 / Library 2.0, 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?

 

Background Materials

Marc Prensky, “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” On the Horizon, NCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001

 

 

 

 

 

Managing Change as Part of a Personal Professional Development Plan

 

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) home site  http://www.libx.org/

 

Tim O'Reilly on What is Web 2.0?:  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&ltmpl=homepage&rm=false

 

Open source ware:

Online Office http://www.zoho.com/

Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/

Thinkfree http://www.thinkfree.com/

 

Translate file extensions:  Zamzar http://www.zamzar.com/

Generate PDFs: Cute PDF http://www.cutepdf.com/

 

 

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

 

http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/resources-for-high-school-technology-and-computer-science-students.html

 

http://creativecommons.org/

search engine devoted to finding useable materials http://search.creativecommons.org/

 

Library spaces as Information Commons:

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

 

 

http://opensourceresources.wikispaces.com/

 

 

 

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/

 

http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/wikihosts/

 

BLOGS

 

Blogs in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI

 

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

 

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?

 

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.

Kimberly M. Donnelly and Zane L. Berge, Podcasting: Co-opting MP3 Players for Education and Training Purposes http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/fall2006/donnelly93.htm

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

 

 

School and Library Web Sites

 

 

 

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