PD+HK+21st+Century+Learning+2011

21C @Hk Feb 2011 Day 1. Visit - HKUST - 4 yr program of IL skills. HKUST IL intended learning outcomes. GN008 - 18 week course led by librarians: IL skills for lifelong learning. Difficulty - how to assss this. Integration of program w language program = could assess in context. Dis. Bay Int. Lisa - Sybasigns catalogue. Shelf labels etc. w graphics. Keynote - Stephen Heppell www.heppell.net. theme of 21C - helping each other = cooperative learning Day 2. 18/2 Visit - GSIS. Sketchup software 1.visited libraries in HK 2.4-5stakeholder meetings 3. architect invlovement (for wholeschool project) key = flexibility forum to side toom - too noisy in open. CDNIS - noodletools eg. inductive/deductive reasoning planner - EE Amanda - my oliver Disable reserve for available books Get library mailbox restored to my outlook David Warlick keynote get online notes Scratch software - animation/gsamemaker. Darren has in JS knitterchat 21C learning - should include Playfulness- how do we use our cognitive surplus Doodlebuzz - news search engine Lib 1. Mark Page www.netPB.com Cybersafety. Cybersmart cybersafety K-12 cyber safety program. Lib 2. Maria Nicolau nicolau@binus.edu Simplifying research through web 2.0 Binus int. school IB world school, 3 programs. 1200 students 2 lib. Tag books for AOI No DP librarian. Wonderwheel Google scholar Twingine.com – 2 windows for comparing search results Yahoo and Google Google squared – makes a table Google timeline Eg. EE topic – use timeline to assess major activity for topic= concentrate on results for this time result Wordle – could use for topic intros. Paste in definition of topic. Summaries. Students propose words. Displays. Thirty ways to use wordle – website Wordsift – visualise text – like a word map Wordsift.com Wallwisher eg. What can you say about EE. Simon – TOK classes 160 characters – limits students and forces careful word choice Tikatok – create a memory book templates. Tikatok.com Lib 3. Mystery mania HKIS.edu.hk >middle school library>Mystery mania unit. Maze runner. Dystopia fiction like Hunger Games. Multigenre research project Research topic and various genre responses eg shopping list; resume; Lib 4. Megan Lindsay AIS HK 21C teacher in a 1-1 school Glogster – free account - www.edu.glogster.com Dianne Mackenzie netvibe site – for ideas Timetoast >create timelines, share them on the web. Can switch between timeline view text view. How could we use this (or any other tool) for higher order thinking? Eg Amanda – add another column for a comment Typewithme http://typewith.me/TztgZpdF7Y Students can collaborate at home, save, export. Limit to 16 collaborators. Each contributor is colour-coded. Delicious http://www.delicious.com/ OZTnet http://www.csu.edu.au/cstl/oztl_net/ Day 3 http://www.heppell.net/ Stephen Heppell keynote : Be very afraid: Listen to learners. (what can/do kids do with technology) Be very afraid website http://www.heppell.net/bva/ Teachers’ TV UK Learner voice http://www.teachers.tv/ http://www.teachers.tv/search?q=learner+voice Teachers TV Australia http://www.teacherstv.com.au/ student-designed learning space eg. Tables with whiteboard surface for tabletop! “Students take part in live international school design workshop”. Student voice in the answer to “How good could learning be?” Lib strand 3 Weavin’ the web in. Presenter: Ann Krembs Beijing Int School. Elementary TL Blog – Dear librarian – staying connected YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW ALL ABOUT THESE TOOLS. Have a look and let the kids have a go. Watch them run with it! http://www.dearlibrarian.com/ Ann’s wiki has all the links below and more: http://dearlibrarian.wikispaces.com/ library of congress 1940s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157603671370361/ all my faves http://www.allmyfaves.com/ Chris Smith IT teacher Chang Mai http://www.shambles.net/ Teacher librarian ning http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/ Yammer if internet/social networking blocked, for in-school social network https://www.yammer.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=SFC&utm_content=cov&utm_campaign=comp&gclid=CObzu8WXk6cCFU46HAodji-pdw Edublogs winners – best library blogs Joyce Valenza TL guru Joyce’s page in TL Ning: http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/profile/joycevalenza Joyce’s blog: http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch Wallwisher Right click – embed or share through email, save as web page, print Linoit – better than wallwisher http://en.linoit.com/ Buffy Hamilton has embedded videos etc in wallwisher. R M Burn – free technology for teachers – best teacher blog http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ Buffy Hamilton has embedded videos etc in wallwisher. Buffy’s libguides: http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/ 10 reasons why I love libguides – Buffy Hamilton http://support.springshare.com/2010/04/19/the-unquiet-librarian-top-ten-reasons-i-love-libguides/ Webspiration online visual thinking collaborative learning tool. http://www.mywebspiration.com/ Read, write think interactives. http://www.readwritethink.org/ Thinkfinity http://www.thinkfinity.org/ Storybird How to use QR codes on iphone http://news.cnet.com/qr-code-readers-for-iphone artpad http://www.artpad.com/ let me tell you a tale: audiobooks http://www.letmetellyouatale.com/home/Welcome.html Glogster: http://www.glogster.com/ Recommend set up edu account and even set up class students accounts prior to lesson. Has privacy settings. Can insert video/audio For heaven’s sake Linda get the junior library wireless – NOW!!! Prezi – alternative to powerpoint http://prezi.com/ Explore.org – free films and photos http://explore.org/ Nfb.org video interactives – out my window - http://www.nfb.ca/interactive/ ashton kutcher – tweets -aplusk noodlebibs or easybib http://www.noodletools.com/ http://www.easybib.com/ Creative commons: flickrCC images http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/420012382/ qwiki for EAL – spoken text http://www.qwiki.com/ Strand session 4. Search engines. Presenter – Island School HK Todaysmeet Google searching Settings – set to strict filtering and lock safe search
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 * success from trial and error

Library Research tools page – 1. Delicious – faculty accounts – embed links for these in resource pages/links. Can use delicious as a search engine. Look in the network, look at tags. - 2. Better Googling tips : WONDER WHEEL If this isn’t showing in More drop down menu, change>settings>turn instants off. Custom range – to limit date range of results. - 3. Advanced search – can change reading level (new!) - 4. Create a custom search link and embed it for students : advanced search>enter terms etc>go> copy URL of results - 5. Google timeline - 6. Language tools – search by specific languages – choose google domain for a specific country - 7. google translate - 8. Google squared – aggregator, tabulates results http://www.google.com/squared Can also be used for comparison and website evaluation.

9. Google sets 10. Google image search – can choose size, colour 11. Filtering google search>more>sites with images

12. Google scholar 13. Google news Wolframalpha started as mathematical search engine but good for language etc. good for comparisons.. http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Examples by topic: http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/ Sweet search. Authenticated sites, summaries of sites in search results. Can share your results with google docs (need google account) http://www.sweetsearch.com/