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Put A Blog on the Fire! Light That Wiki! Web Tools to Inspire Learning Anita Brooks Kirkland Library Consultant, Information Technology Services Waterloo Region District School Board
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Page 1: Put A Blog on the Fire! Light That Wiki! Web Tools to Inspire Learning

Put A Blog on the Fire!

Light That Wiki!Web Tools to Inspire

Learning

Anita Brooks KirklandLibrary Consultant, Information Technology Services

Waterloo Region District School Board

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The Old Web

Email

Knowledgeof

HTML

Static Websites

One Many

Web-authoring Software

ProprietaryKnowledge

Expertise

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Web 2.0

One Many

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Web 2.0

Many Many

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Reader’s “Discovery Tool”

Reviews

Description

What do other readers think?

What might also interest me?

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The Life / School Disconnect

Social Networking

Text Messaging Podcasting

Blogging

MSN Chat

Music Sharing

Online Communities

User-Created Content ?Video Sharing

Video Games

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Library Service Delivery

Library Service Delivery

ProfessionalDevelopmentProfessional

Development

Student-createdContent

forLearning

Student-createdContent

forLearning

Information Literacy

Information Literacy

Teacher-Librarian’sToolkit

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Blogs & Blogging

What is a blog? The Blogosphere Citizen Journalism

Library Service Delivery

Library Service Delivery

ProfessionalDevelopmentProfessional

Development

Student-createdContent

forLearning

Student-createdContent

forLearning

Information Literacy

Information Literacy

Teacher-Librarian’s

Toolkit

Finding popular blogs Finding library / education blogs

Subscribing to blogs

Creating blogs

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Anatomy of a Blog: One to Many, and Back Again

News

Commentary / Opinion

Simple design: last item appears first.

Ability to comment.

Ability to subscribe.

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Blogs and “Citizen Journalism”

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TheBlogosph

ere

Shaping public opinion.Gauge of public opinion.Manipulating public opinion?

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Truth in journalism?

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Finding Blogs

Search for controversial topic

Results ranked byrelevance and popularity

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Finding Blogs of Professional Interest

Check colleagues’ “blog rolls”Subject-specific Directory

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Libraries are Blogging

Readers’ comments.

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WLU Library Blogs

Library News

What’s New

RSS Subscription Options

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Blogging for Learning

UWO MLIS Course Blog

Macgregor P.S. Gr. 8 Literature Circle Blog

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Glenview Park Secondary SchoolLibrary Book Blog

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GPSS Library Book Blog

Sample Post

Post Categories & Tagging

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Evidence of Success?

Motivation: Students like writing online

Quality: Students take more care with authentic audience

Peer Interaction: Response form fosters discussion Flexibility: Students can participate from anywhere, anytime

Participation: Students who would not come to a library book club are eager to participate in the GPSS blog, especially boys

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Learning More from Other Library Sectors

Waterloo Public LibraryBook Club Blog

Posts include links to:

Author’s website

Reviews in NoveList

Library Catalogue

WPL flickr Account

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WPL flickr Account

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Wikis

What is a wiki? Wikipedia Learning from Wikipedia

Library Service Delivery

Library Service Delivery

ProfessionalDevelopmentProfessional

Development

Student-createdContent

forLearning

Student-createdContent

forLearning

Information Literacy

Information Literacy

Teacher-Librarian’s

Toolkit

Wikis for professional collaboration

Wikis for student learning

Creating a wiki

Wiki?

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What do you know abouthow Wikipedia works?

What are we doing with Wikipedia?

What are you teaching studentsabout how Wikipedia works?

Do you allow students to cite Wikipedia?

What are you telling students about their use of Wikipedia?

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Authority?

Citations?

Anonymous contributors?

Vandalism?Inconsistency?

Bias?

Malicious Content?

Teacher-librarian Wikipedia angst.

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Wikipedia Vision Collaboration Consensus Community Quality Control through collaboration Neutral View The more it’s used, the better it gets

Make you nervous?

Authoritative source?

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BotCollaborations

Community Portal

Deletionist

Edit WarGoogle Test

Inclusionist Mergist

Pokémon Test

Sandbox

Stub

Systemic Bias

To do lists

TrollWikiFairy

Wikipediholic

Wikiphobic

Wikiac

Village Pump

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Wikipedia Quality Control

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Perhaps the best source for some topics?

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Dynamic contentComprehensive content, broad range of topics.

Controls

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User Profiles: How much do theymatter in Wikipedia model of consensus?

Not happy with Wikipedia controls.

Contributor to article on Stockwell Day.

(Yet article is quite benign.)

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Try contributing to Wikipedia from a WRDSB site.

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WRDSB Users cannot access red links.

(Gee, I wonder what our students have been up to?)

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Is Wikipedia a legitimate source?

Considerations: Topic Purpose of research Audience

Who needs to understand how Wikipedia works,what it is and what it isn’t?

Teacher-librarians Teachers Students

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Collaborative Writing and Research with Wikis

Penn State Course Wiki

Teaching Hacks: Wiki Collaboration onIntegrating ICT into Curriculum & Instruction.

Elementary School Literature Circle Wiki.

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OSLA Council Wiki:Developing Advocacy Resources(Under

Construction)

Different sections for different writing groups

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Shared writing page

Sharing resources

Text

Table

Uploaded Files

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Wikis for Student Learning

Wikipedia Vision Collaboration Consensus Community Quality Control through collaboration Neutral View The more it’s used, the better it gets

Wikis for Learning Vision Collaboration Synthesizing Understanding Group Structure & Roles Quality writing through collaboration Broadened View The more it’s used, the better it gets

Library Service Delivery

Library Service Delivery

ProfessionalDevelopmentProfessional

Development

Student-createdContent

forLearning

Student-createdContent

forLearning

Information Literacy

Information Literacy

Teacher-Librarian’s

Toolkit

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Web 2.0 How To: Homework!

Step One: Start reading some blogs, especially from library / school library thinkers

Step Two: Start subscribing to blogs, and responding to blog posts

Step Three: Try creating a blog

Step Four: Participate in a wiki, and/or try creating your own

Step Five: Make the connection to existing instructional goals, and use in your library teaching program

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Step One: Start reading some blogs, especially from library / school library thinkers

Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search Bloghttp://joycevalenza.edublogs.org

David Warlick’s 2 Cents Worth Bloghttp://davidwarlick.com/2cents

Jenny Levine’s Shifted Librarian Bloghttp://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com

Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk Bloghttp://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog

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Step Two: Start subscribing to blogs, and responding to blog posts

Browser

Fine, if always accessing

from the same computer.

Online Service

Online ServiceKeeps track of what you’ve read, no

matter where you are and what computeryou use. Great additional features.

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Create an account.

Create your blog.Use WYSIWYG Editor to write posts.

Edit posts, monitor comments. Publish your blog.

Step Three: Try creating a blog

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Step Four: Participate in a wiki, and/or try creating your own

Create wiki and add pagesAdd & edit content with WYSIWIG editor

Share resources by uploading files

Develop a common vision throughpowerful online collaboration

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Step Five: Make the connection to existing instructional goals, and use in your library teaching program

Library Service Delivery

Library Service Delivery

ProfessionalDevelopmentProfessional

Development

Student-createdContent

forLearning

Student-createdContent

forLearning

Information Literacy

Information Literacy

Teacher-Librarian’s

Toolkit

match to existing strategy use for added value, enhanced learning use strategically don’t use technology solely for the engagement factor: make sure it makes sense and has the potential to improve practice

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Quality Models + Wiki Templates= Powerful Learning Experiences

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The Life / School Reconnect

Library Service Delivery

Library Service Delivery

ProfessionalDevelopmentProfessional

Development

Student-createdContent

forLearning

Student-createdContent

forLearning

Information Literacy

Information Literacy

Teacher-Librarian’s

Toolkit