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Transforming Learning in theSchool Library Media Center With

Web 2.0Karen Kliegman

March 30, 2009

~Library Media Specialist Searingtown School, Herricks UFSD, Albertson, New York~

~Adjunct Prof. Long Island University ~ Educational Technology & Library InformationScience~Google Certified Teacher~

About Me…

Teacher/Editor, MidLink Magazine, http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/Electronic Magazine, a nonprofit educational project sponsored by NCState University and the University of Central Florida.Google Certified TeacherProfessional Development InstructorWebmaster, Searingtown School,Educational Consultant, Project MiddleData and The Friday Institute ofEducational Innovation, Raleigh, NC

Finalist, Cable’s Leaders in Learning Award, March 2009Cablevision Power to Learn Teachnet AwardFinalist, Global Junior ChallengeSurfaquarium's Top Online Educator, 2006Computer Logic Group's Innovative Teacher AwardISTE SIGTel Online Learning Award - First PlaceFinalist, Global SchoolnetInspired Teacher Award from Inspiration

"It is not the strongest species that survive, northe most intelligent, but the ones mostresponsive to change." ~ Charles Darwin

The World is Changing…

Learning to Change/ Changingto Learn: StudentVoices

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHSehFV98TY

Do You Speak Your Students’Language?

EMail?Internet?Browse?Call?DigitalCamera?

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Text/IMNetGoogleCell/SkypeCameraLOL, BRB,POS

-Brad Fountain, Discovery Ed.

Feeling Left Out?

Re-think whatyou and yourstudents can

do!

YOU.Yes, you.

You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.

Digital and visual literacies are the next wave ofcommunication specialization. Children learn these skillsas part of their lives, like language, which they learnwithout realizing they are learning it.

Why do we have to talk aboutdoing things differently??

Books like A Whole NewMind, by Daniel Pink, havedirected our attentiontoward the critical

importance of creativeexpression, not just asa cultural or intellectualexercise, but as aneconomic leverage point inan increasingly globalmarket place.

~David Warlick

What’s Going on Here?

Disrupting Class:Student-CentricEducation Is theFutureHow radicalinnovation willchange the way weteach and kidslearn.

The Future of Reading???

.…Books are not Nadia Konyk’sthing.…Instead, like so many otherteenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted tothe Internet. She regularly spendsat least six hours a day in front ofthe computer

….Nadia checks her e-mail and perusesmyyearbook.com, a social networkingsite, reading messages or postingupdates on her mood. She searchesfor music videos on YouTube

.…But she spends most of her time onquizilla.com or fanfiction.net, readingand commenting on stories written byother users and based on books,television shows or movies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?_r=2&emc=eta1&oref=slogin

Who Are 21st C Learners?

Today’s Learners:

Work in theirrooms.Egocentric: expectinformation andservices on demand.

Fewer face-to-faceopportunities.More opportunitiesfor creativeresearch,communication andcollaboration.

~Joyce Valenza

So, our students are alreadytech-savvy, right?

Theydon’tknowwhat theydon’tknow!

TECH

SAVVY

DIGITALLY

LITERATE

So, our students are alreadytech-savvy, right?

Accept what they see at face-valueVerify the credibility ofinformation

Stick with their original words andbrowse

Find better keywords

Rush past important information andclues, continue to browse

Recognize information whenthey find it

Enter words or phrases into GoogleChoose the right database

Rush ahead toward an answer, grabbingsome of the criteria or the whole

statement

Turn a question into a query

We should stop worrying

about integrating

technology and start

working on integrating

digital literacy~David Warlick

21st Century Definition of21st Century Definition ofLiteracy:Literacy:

“…the ability toread, write andinteract across

a range ofplatforms,tools andmedia…”

Dictionary Definition of “Literacy”:

The quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write.

Being Literate Today Means

Finding the information

Processing different media

Decoding the information

Analyzing the information

Critically evaluating the information

Organizing it into personal digital libraries

Creating information in a variety of media

Teaching the information to find the user

~Brad Fountain, Discovery Education

We Live in a Remix Culture

In a remix culture, digital objects are meant

to be changed, rearranged,

rethought, juxtaposed,

discussed and shapedshaped…

not

just consumed.

School Librarians WearMany Hats

Information Specialists??Media Specialists??Technology Specialists??Book Specialists??Ethics Specialists??Advocating Specialists??Teachers??Test Monitors??Babysitters??

21st Century School Librarian

Librarians have to askthemselves…

Who are your teachers?

How are yyou building your own

learning networks?

How are yyou modeling

your learning for your students?

Why the Read-Write Web is Changing Everything~ Will Richardson

Librarian Plug-ins…

Embracing those ideas andtechnologies that can assistus in our libraries and in ourteaching to supportinformation literacystandards.Participation -- involvingstudents, teachers, andothers in the creation anduse of programs.

ASSEMBLING INSTRUCTIONS

It’s Okay to be Beta!~Joyce Valenza

LifelongLearner

Driving a Race Car Analogy:

When you drive a racecaryou're not looking whereyou are, or at the nextturn, but as many turnsdown the road as you can.

The idea is looking at whereyou want to be, not lookingat where you are now, butlooking down the road asfar as possible.

-Mark Wagner, CUE

Where to Begin

Learn, embrace, and

become theexperts of 2.0technology

Start Developing YOUR PLN

RSS: Make Information FindYou…

Twitter…

Nings…

Wikis…

PLN…Find It, Tag It, ShareIt!

Where’s the Beef???

"Do we think that learning in new wayswith digital technologies is worth theeffort to actually change how wework with children and youth in ourschools?”

~ Pat Clifford, "Where's the Beef:

Finding Literacy in Computer Literacy",

August 2004

This is a challenging time in education. Content is everywhere; scrutinizing content and engaging with the world are skillsneeded even by young students. ~Will Richardson

“The definition ofInformation Literacy hasbecome more complex asresources & technologies

have changed”

AASL Standards for the21st-Century Learner21st-Century Learner

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/standards.cfm

So Many Tools, So Little Time

Exploring How MassCollaboration Changes

Everything

http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Commerce/agri-wheat-winnowing.html

Let’s Separate the Wheatfrom the Chaff

ARE YOU COMFORTABLEWITH THE C’S?

Create

Collaborate

Connect

Contribute

Controlled

Creative Chaos http://www.mcphee.com/laf/index.html

Not your mother’slibrary anymore!

Your Library 2.0 Toolbox:tools to grab now!

Google Philosophy

Focus on the user and all else willfollow.It's best to do one thing really,really well.Fast is better than slow.Democracy on the web works.You don't need to be at your deskto need an answer.You can make money without doingevil.There's always more informationout there.The need for information crossesall borders.You can be serious without a suit.Great just isn't good enough.

Google Philosophy Applied inthe Library Media Center:

Focus on the student and all elsewill follow.Democracy in the library works.

You don't need to be in the libraryYou don't need to be in the libraryto need an answer.to need an answer.

There's always more informationThere's always more informationout there.out there.The need for information crossesall borders.You can be serious without a suit.

Great just isn't goodenough.

Google Search Tips to ShareWith Your Students/Staff…You can type define: and a word and it will showyou dictionary definition.You can also type math calculations into the googlesearch box; it is also a calculator.You can type in a barcode number and then look itup!In google language translator you can type in thewhole website address and it will translate thewhole page.For some big sites, you even get a search boxwithin (like the NY Times).

Google Search…Did You Know That-

Phonebook:name place - get someone’s phone number.Google maps for directions shows you traffic too and you candrag the route to another road; instantly recalculatesdirections. Shows construction and accidents. Click oncameras next to directions to see street view. You can panaround too.In preferences you can turn on/off porn filtering."I'm feeling lucky" means just take me to the top searchresult - it will go right to the website.Maximum number of words in a search is 10. Plurals matter.For some organizations, they give you a table of contents inthe results. This is relatively new.Asterisk is the wildcard - great for song lyrics that you can'tunderstand (excuse me while I kiss the *)

Ideas for Using Google Docsin Your Library

Staff meeting agendas and follow up notesTeacher/Librarian planningShare a book wish list with teachers and studentsStudents can write a collaborative story. One student writes the beginningand then another add the second paragraph. The third adds to it and so onand on.Group planning for research projects become simple and transparent. Eachmember can contribute their information and you can view the revisionhistory anytime.Google Docs is great for collaborative brainstorming - every idea is included.Instead of saving Word files onto a jump drive or emailing back and forth,the student can work on a document on Google docs and access it fromschool and home. They will always have access to it and you won't hear "Iforgot it at home" or "I have a different program at home".Have your students create a library newsletter. Invite various students towork on the document at the same time.Collaborative note taking.

Let’s See It In Action

Google Spreadsheets & Forms

Create surveys for patron/studentopinions, votesCollaborate with other librarians inyour district for different types ofdata collection

Google Presentation

Google Presentation is not quite robust a presentation program asPowerPoint or Keynote but students can create their entire presentationonline and work on it with group members or access it from home/school.

Instead of my students sitting passively watching a student's PowerPointpresentation, a presenter publishes their presentation online.

100% engagement in the presentation and they handle the responsibility ofbeing in the chat room well (it only takes one student to get kicked out andthe rest shape up fast!).

YOU can embed YOUR presentations in online project websites

so that students can access them from anywhere.

Google Sites

This web site creation tool is one of the simplestavailable and one of the most flexible. You cancreate a complex hierarchy of content, uploadfiles, and even make blog-like announcements.Additionally it brings together all of the othergreat Google tools - letting you easily embedGoogle Docs, Calendar, Picasa albums, and muchmore!

GOOGLE MAPS:GOOGLE MAPS:Interactive Maps!Interactive Maps!

Election Project Map

Google Google Earth in ActionEarth in Action

Think of thepossibilities inyour librarymedia center.

Digital Storytelling: MultipleLiteracies

IMAGE COURTESY OF ~Silvia Tolisanohttp://langwitches.org/blog/2008/04/19/digital-storytelling-

t i

MULTIPLE LITERACIES ~ MULTIPLE OUTPUTSMULTIPLE LITERACIES ~ MULTIPLE OUTPUTS

IMAGE COURTESY OF

~SilviaTolisanohttp://langwitches.org/blog/2008/04/19/digital-storytelling-part-i


PhotostoryMixbook

Digital Storytelling: AskYourself….

Is it focused on student learning?Are there observable results?Does it meet the standards?Can it show results?Does it increase research skills?Does it improve communication skills?Are students accountable?Does it improve studentcollaboration?Does it help students communicateglobally?Does it help students deal withmassive amounts of information?Does it teach our students to beself-directed and understand how toorganize more of their own learning?

--Dr. Howard DiBiasi

Avatars: Opportunities

BuildYourWildself

Voki

Gizmoz

Meez

Podcasting: Creating for a GlobalAudience….

New Bloom’s TaxonomyH.O.T.S.

Research…Planning….Storyboarding….Evaluating….Voice…..Sharing…..

Video-Use & Contribute

Research-Using Surveys &Polls

PollDaddy…Google Forms

Election Project: Skyping With a Class inDelaware to discuss our election results.

The Power of Blogging…

Interactive: can respond to peers

Writing for an audienceWith hyperlinks and images adds adimension impossible with pen andpaper writing.

Blogging

What’s yourpurpose?

Student Blogging:There is more than one way to hatch an idea…

Class BlogmeisterDoes it improvecommunication skills?Are studentsaccountable?Does it improvestudent collaboration?Does it help studentscommunicate globally?Does it help studentsdeal with massiveamounts ofinformation?Does it teach ourstudents to be self-directed andunderstand how toorganize more of theirown learning?

Is it sustainable?

Wikis for students…

Students collaboratein class and out ofclass

Students can do peerediting ~ text andimages

Students work withmultimedia, includingvideo & audio

Wiki to Communicate

Wiki for Teachers/Librarians

Wiki Your WebsiteGlogster

Wikis for Cross-DistrictLibrary Lesson Collaborations

Trends for Library 2.0

Share what you are reading…

Make Yourself Indispensable!

"The illiterate of the 21st Centurywill not be those who cannot read andwrite, but those who cannot learn,unlearn, and relearn."

~ Alvin Toffler

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