David Warlick workshop

Today I was lucky enough to attend a workshop by David Warlick on redefining literacy. Instead of the 3 R's, he contends that the basics are the 4 E's: exposing truth, employing information, expressing ideas compellingly, and ethical use of information.
In the workshop he started by showing us some tools that enable us to continue to be life-long learners. No longer do we need to seek out information. We can construct a personal learning network that has information come to our personal networks.
The first tool was del.icio.us. What was really cool is that he demonstrated a search on del.icio.us on learning 2.0. Guess what popped up in his search results? School Library Learning 2.0 and Classroom Learning 2.0! Yeah!
He showed a way to search in del.icio.us to find sites that others have tagged. For instance if you wanted science articles you could type in the url
Netvibes is an aggregator that is geographically laid out, making it ideal for school use.
He also talked about social networking using nings and diigo. In diigo, you can sign up members (your class) and then they can see your sticky notes.
VoiceThread is a free service to record your voice comments to pictures. One idea was to post a group of pictures and then have students put the pictures in an order that could tell a story and then narrate it.
PicLens is a estension that works with Flickr to show all the pictures that share a tag in a museum display. Flickr Storm gives you the ability to copy images from
Flickr at home and then students can access them in Flickr Storm (which may not be blocked). He talked about Creative Commons and how that differs from copyright.
For wikis he suggests wikispaces, pbwiki, wetpaint.
Blogpulse is a way to search the blogosphere. When doing a search in blogosphere you can click on trends and it graphs when your search term was most mentioned. It will graph several terms - ie when was Clinton, Obama and Edwards blogged about last month. Ustream.tv is a site where you can broadcast your own TV show.

Notes on the presentation are on http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfvv7h4m_1047stm9t8q were taken by Sarah Diruscio of Grant school district.

So much of what he talked about today, especially using information ethically and efficiently, falls under the umbrella of information literacy that is taught by teacher librarians. How sad that 21st information literacy skills are being recognized at the same time that teacher librarians are being laid off due to the current budget crisis.

Meme: Passion Quilt

The Time to Read is Any Time
Originally uploaded by B Tal

What I am most passionate about is imparting the joy of self-directed learning. To find out more about the passion quilt meme go to Doug Johnson's blog
5 folks in my professional learning network are Doug Johnson, Joyce Valenza, Alice Yucht, Nancy Willard and Kathy Schrock.

Need credits?

Hello everyone!


School Library Learning 2.0 is now available to be taken for Graduate
credit. Fresno Pacific University has approved School Library
Learning 2.0 as a graduate course. School Library Learning 2.0 is the
fun way to learn how to use the tools of the open web. It is
completely on-line and can be done from home, school [depending on
web filters], or at the local coffeehouse. Day or night, rain or
shine, you can learn what's out there for you to use at home or
school. It's the best example of how we learn by doing.


If you join in now, you can sign on for $150. After March 1st the
cost will go up, so now is the time to join in on learning how to use
the tools of the Internet 2.0!


The companion tutorial: Classroom Learning 2.0 is also available for
graduate credit.


Here is how you register:



Course Number is: IND 1149 OR IND 970. Title: School Library
Learning 2.0.
Cost: $150 for two units of Graduate Credit.
Register by Feb. 29 (Unit cost increasing after then).


To sign up for these units, participants need to:
A) To register, have a credit card handy and go to this
website: http://www.fresno.edu/admissions/professional_development/
workshops/
* Under the heading "Professional Development Workshops,"
click on the link that says "Register online" (this will open
another window)
* Fill in your information and at the bottom, use the pull
down menu and select "School Library Learning 2.0"
B) Once registered, please send an email to Robdarrow@cusd.com
with "FPU School Library Learning 2.0 units" in the subject line.
(Rob will be your "online instructor" to verify work completed).
C) You will receive further instructions soon regarding what
needs to be done to verify your work towards these units (all of
this work will be completed online via Moodle, an online course
management system).
D) I'm hopeful that you can complete these units by May 15,
2008 because the end of the school year is pretty crazy. If need be,
we can extend to the end of June or July.
E) To verify these units, Fresno Pacific will mail you a
letter verifying that you have completed these units. If you need an
official transcript to verify these units, you may request one by
mailing in the form (with a fee) found at: http://www.fresno.edu/
registrar/transcripts/.


Further questions about these units should be directed to Rob Darrow,
robdarrow@cusd.com or 559-327-9635.


Questions about the online registration, etc. should be directed to
Fresno Pacific Center for Professional Development - 559-453-2043 or
800-372-5505. or via email to: Peggi Kriegbaum - pllee@fresno.edu.

January thaw = meltdown

The Governor's proposed budget is about to change the face of education in California once again. We are already at the bottom of the list in terms of the ratio of school librarians to students. Perhaps we will set a new low by becoming the first state to have no school librarians. Maybe we should offer fries with that order.

Winter 2.0 Fun is launched!

Greetings all!
Winter 2.0 Fun will run from December 1, 2007 - April 1, 2008. This
is a repeat of School Library Learning 2.0 that was offered this summer.
Join your colleagues to learn more about YouTube, podcasts, image
generators, wikis, mashups and other web 2.0 tools.
Now is your chance to learn, at your leisure -- in the comfort of your
own home, all about these exciting new tools. This on-line tutorial
will take you step by step through the use of many of the tools
listed above. There are already many ideas posted on CSLA's
California 2.0 Curriculum Connections wiki on how to develop library
lessons and useful classroom collaborations. Join in this discussion
and add to it, the many ideas you'll be getting as you work through
the 23 Things of this tutorial.
With over 60 CSLA "Summer 2.0 Fun" graduates, you have lots of learning
partners to call on and many of these grads will be your cheering
partners.
CSLA's Ed Tech Committee gives this special feature a new name: "Peer
Cheers."
School Library Learning 2.0 is a free, fun, and fabulous way to learn
together and strengthen our collective educational technology savvy.
For those who want academic credit, there is a
Continuing Education option.
Start today at http://schoollibrarylearning2.blogspot.com/

CSLA Conference is coming soon

I just returned from Reno where AASL held their conference. There were many Web 2.0 sessions, including one by team member Rob Darrow. While there were many fantastic speakers and sessions, I am looking forward to our own CSLA conference which promises to be just as fantastic. If you took part in our summer tutorial, you may want to attend "School Library Learning 2.0: California's Summer Fun" on Saturday at 10:45 AM. There will be prizes for the "graduates" and information about upcoming events. Don't miss it.

An invitation to improve the performance of your education team.
Classroom Learning 2.0
School districts and other educational groups are invited to offer a fun, new online professional development course for classroom teachers, administrators, and other educators. This 9-week course introduces educators to web 2.0 tools and curriculum connections. Classroom Learning 2.0 participants learn about and use social networking tools such as blogs, image generators, avatars, RSS feeds, wikis, nings, and much more. This course and its accompanying Management/Users Guide is brought to you by the California School Library Association 2.0 Team at no charge. It supports a number of legislative programs such as school technology plan requirements for ERate and Module III of AB430 administrator training. Continuing Education credits for the course are also available for a modest fee through Fresno Pacific University.
Designed for classroom teachers, administrators and other educators, this on-line course
introduces participants to the many exciting web 2.0 tools available to us to communicate more effectively and creatively in a wide variety of activities. This tutorial introduces educators to many new opportunities for developing dynamic lessons, and shows how to work with colleagues in the school library to create exciting standards-based lessons that will reach students with the tools that they use daily.
Classroom Learning 2.0 is a unique course in that each participant not only learns about the web 2.0 tools, but actively participates in a collegial conversation using the very applications that they are learning about. Web 2.0 is a phrase that was coined in 2004. It refers to the fact that the Internet is now an interactive medium rather than a ‘place’ to go to get information. Because students are flocking to these Web 2.0 sites, it is important that those of us who work in schools should be up-to-date with the latest trends in educational technology and learn how they can be utilized to support student learning.
The course is designed for a variety of presentation options:

• participants can do it on their own,


• you can lead a site group, a district group, or a group of interested teachers.

Your organization can offer incentives, create collegial work groups, and/or provide on-site workshops to support the course. We have found that forming groups allow for participants to ‘cheer’ one another along, problem solve together, and begin conversations that lead to exciting collaborations.
Your library personnel may already be graduates of our first professional development program, School Library Learning 2.0. If so, you already have a partner who can help you develop a 2.0 Partners group. Both online courses are available for free during the 2007-2008 school year. Our management guide explains how you can make this fun, free, do-it-at-home learning opportunity available to all your classroom teachers and administrators. To learn more about these courses and to get a copy of the Management/User’s Guide, please contact Connie Williams or Jackie Siminitus at CSLA2Team@yahoo.com.