I told my daughter (who’s at college) about it, and she will probably use to for her screen writing class for quicker access to feedback from the other students. I especially liked the fact that you can export the document in different formats, including PDF & HTML for easy access on a webpage. If your a teacher, see if your class prefers writing in the friendly and social Writely, or the intimidating and feature packed Microsoft Word. Some teachers are already doing it (you will see real cases of this in Part 3 of the series). Our district currently bans cell phones in class. Also, it would seem to “require” someone to sit at a computer, or have a phone attached to them at all times.

The class talks about information security and how it relates to the classroom in the new virtual learning environments, as well as emerging web 2.0 technologies. I would hope that I could work with teachers in my school to collect and share websites for class research and curriculum support. I would continue to use my school library website to support younger students’ Internet use. Their work in turn began to comment on the contributions of others .all much more in depth and thoughtful than either a classroom discussion or an individually written answer could have been. I am paying for a commercial wiki which gives me administrator rites and controls which make managing the wiki safe and very easy.

Administrators can oversee educators’ classes. A coordinated approach to provide that information through appropriate classes is necessary. Currently, librarians and educational technology staff address those concerns, although health educators or counselors may be the more appropriate staff members to provide instruction on many issues. I am also of the opinion that the library should have classic literature as well. So, keep the fiction and browsable non-fiction in the branches, & the heavier reference material online & at the main branch.

Gary Green?s paper within this strand continues the focus on how technology can be utilised by teacher librarians in the library and classroom to improve learning outcomes. I love listening to books on podcast so this will be a nifty way to catch up on some old classics that I have never read. Maybe I will find it easier to read some of them by listening rather than by old fashioned reading. Class offerings need to be kept current to keep training programs fresh.

The bill is intended to block access to sites like MySpace, which 99% of the time don’t have an appropriate place in the classroom. But the bill is written so broadly that it would require schools to filter almost all online communities and interactive discussions, effectively rendering Web 2.0 impotent as far as the classroom is concerned. Learning starts as you leave the classroom, when you start discussing with people around you what was just said. It is in conversation that you start to internalize what some piece of information meant to you. Rather than being restricted by classroom space, c-learning spaces encompass the natural and virtual worlds by immersing learners in authentic, active learning environments where students create, change, and experience.

Earlier I created a Flickr Badge and have been thinking of ways to use this with a class. How about having students find photos to support a theme, choose photos that a character in literature might have in an album or which represent significant aspects of their character (What would Lady Macbeth’s Flickr Badge look like?), plan an imaginary trip, choose photos that would provoke discussion around an issue or community event. The group will share their lessons at the final class and then we’ll make these lessons available online for other teachers and library media specialists to use. We will also use these lessons as examples for the committees working on the SC Department of Education’s curriculum development initiative. For instance, as a user browses through certain resources, repeating steps and moving cyclically through a classification scheme or series of resources, a synchronous messaging service could be prompted to offer assistance. The physical counterpart to this is of course a patron wandering in book stacks, and a librarian, sensing their aimlessness, offering help.

I have used it for class projects, where my team mates are in ND or TX or WA. With a little patience, it can be used to accomplish a lot. I showed it to one Language Arts teacher, who is very creative and loves to do different things in class and she liked it. She thought about using them as prompts. Hopefully there are classes at Drexel that are going to avail me of these opportunities as well. Designing a web site may be more Library 1.0 than 2.0 perhaps but it’s still necessary.

As an art teacher, I’ve always been a scavenger at heart and found ways to reuse found materials and tossed-out items in my classroom. Lately, I’ve become increasingly conscious about sustainability issues, reducing my carbon footprint, and promoting green practices in the art room. But most of my classes were for the birds because of their size and lack of human response. The video is shocking in that it suggests that things haven’t changed at all. I liked Google Docs and thought it would be useful for collaboration in the classroom and to help students transfer work from home to school. It was easy to sign up, upload, edit and share documents.

This includes collaboration in the traditional sense - learning teams within departments - but I would like to broaden its meaning to include projects that are cross-disciplinary as well as student-driven (clubs, class councils, etc.). Below is the story of how I got the idea for MASHUP as well as a collaboration project that already exists on campus. Blogs and wikis in the classroom. Internet2: Faster access and downloads, increase learning opportunities. However, the pressure is even greater for school librarians because we are expected to support and service our faculty and students, we need to be one step ahead of the classroom teacher. We just can’t be the same librarian that we were 10 years ago - or even 5 years ago.

The school librarian will also become more flexible – moving in and out of the library and classrooms as a curriculum and instructional pedagogy-consultant teacher. They work with students who already use these tools or are eager to do so and collaborate with classroom teachers on curriculum and state standards. They also manage a media center with print and electronic resources as well as work with and supervise media techs and parent volunteers.

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