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More "things": Next steps along the 2.0 journey
October 19, 2007
I am a big admirer of those things.
Helene Blowers' Learning 2.0 and California's School Library Learning 2.0
continue to do a brilliant job helping librarians and teacher librarians train themselves for leadership in new information landscapes.
While those amazing first-step activities continue to introduce professionals to powerful tools now available, I thought we might consider a few next steps, further things to do with those things. How can we apply 2.0 tools, in partnership with classroom teachers, to inspire learning and engage learners, especially as they relate to information fluency and motivating reading?
I'll suggest a few new things I consider important for 21st century practice--some of which I've been thinking about in this blogspace. Please add your own things, or you own examples in your comments here or move them to the MoreThingsGroup in our TeacherLibrarianNing. I thought we could do some brainstorming there. We need to share effective practice at this point. We need models to point to when folks ask us what a school librarian looks like today.
(Again, I am going to have to present this post as two-parter because of the character limit in this software.)
1. Create a wiki pathfinder. A while back I wrote a rationale for why our pathfinders should be wikis. I believe wikis are the killer app for pathfinders (and reading lists too.) Here's my wiki pathfinder for finding copyright-friendly images and sounds.
Free wiki space for educators is available at these sites:
You might also consider using the social bookmarking tool,
Del.icio.us 2. Create a template for blogging the research process. Blogs are useful for reflecting on the research process, for helping learners manage the process, and for making research transparent and interactive. (See my earlier post on this idea.) Take a look at my starting point research blog template. Create a research blog template that would work for your own learners. You can look at a few student blogs here.
Look for more things in the next post!
Posted by Joyce Valenza on October 19, 2007 | Comments (0)
