Rockland County BOCES School Library System Workshops

BUT FIRST! Please visit the WALLWISHER PAGE and share what you want to learn today

Intro slides from the workshop:

Some background

Welcome to My PLE!

Wendy Drexler's video. A 7th grade student explains her Personal Learning Environment. (blog post)

Explore Student Portfolios

Student portfolios from the Media 21 Project run by Buffy Hamilton & Susan Lester - Creekview High School

• Paige's Veterans Issues Portfolio
• Kristin's Veterans Issues Portfolio
• (Media 21 Capstone Project notes - Buffy Hamilton's resource page)
• A Media 21 Students Explains the Beginnings of Her Netvibes Information Portal

Things To Explore

Pick one or more tools to explore during our workshop today. There's something for everyone here!

• Thing 1: Why is this stuff important?
• Thing 2: Blogging
• Thing 3: Wikis
• Thing 4: Twitter
• Things 5 & 6: RSS & Research Organizers
• Thing 7: Personal Learning Networks
• Thing 8: Social Bookmarking
• Thing 9: Podcasting
• Thing 10: Screencasting
• Thing 11: Digital Storytelling & Presentation Tools
• Thing 12: Backchannel Sharing
• Thing 13: Collaboration with Google Docs
• Odds and Ends
• Pot Luck!
• Keeping Up

Resources, Readings, Ideas, Tools

• Educators that Rock -  Nice summary of Buffy Hamilton's Media 21 project with 10th grade students.
• 14 Ways K–12 Librarians Can Teach Social Media by Joyce Valenza  Tech & Learning sept 27, 2009 
• My Kids are Illiterate. Most Likely, Yours Are Too Will Richardson
• NCTE The Definition of 21st Century Literacies 
• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
• Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and
  cross-culturally
• Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of
  purposes
• Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous
  information
• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
• ALA/AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner 
• Transliteracy & Libraries - Key source for keeping up with news, thoughts & ideas on transliteracy as related to libraries & schools. 
• Free Technology for Teachers - Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with Technology
• Back to School with Web 2.0 -  Series of 3 articles detailing many interesting tools.
• Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book - Free PDF with lots of great lesson plans and ideas. 
• TechCamp Learning 2.0 - more to learn! 
• Media 21 Capstone Project notes - Buffy Hamilton's resource page

Where to look for more 2.0 tools - in no particular order: 

• C4LPT Resources - Jane Hart's lists of resources. Also follow her "Pick of the Day" blog.
• I want to: How to do the things you want to do. Including many Web 2.0 applications. Phil Bradley's blog full of good stuff.
• AASL Best Websites for Teaching & Learning
• Tech Chick Tips - fun podcast,  and great tools, resources and ideas. They also cover iPhone apps in every episode. Hey, what about us Droid users?? :-)
• Learning in the 76542.0 - Lots of tools from the Tech Chicks
  
• WebTools4U2Use - Joyce Valenza's wiki pages with tons of tools and tips.