Transforming Learning in the

School Library Media Center

With Web 2.0
Karen Kliegman
March 30, 2009

~Library Media Specialist Searingtown School, Herricks UFSD, Albertson, New York~
~Adjunct Prof. Long Island University ~ Educational Technology & Library Information
Science~Google Certified Teacher~
The World is Changing…

"It is not the strongest species that survive,

nor the most intelligent, but the ones most
responsive to change." ~ Charles Darwin
Learning to Change/ Changing
to Learn: StudentVoices

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Do You Speak Your Students’
Language?
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Internet? Net
Browse? Google
Call? Cell/Skype
Digital Camera
Camera? LOL, BRB,
POS
 Feeling Left Out?
Re-think what
you and your
students can
do!
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YOU.
Yes, you.
You control the Information Age.
Welcome to your world.
 Why do we have to talk
about doing things
differently??
Books like A Whole
New Mind, by Daniel
Pink, have directed
our attention toward
the critical importance
ofcreative
expression, not
just as a cultural or
intellectual exercise,
but as an economic
leverage point in an
increasingly global
market place.
~David Warlick
What’s Going on Here?
Disrupting Class:
Student-Centric
Education Is the
Future
How radical
innovation will
change the way
we teach and kids
learn.
 The Future of Reading???
.…Books are not Nadia Konyk’s
thing.…Instead, like so many
other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is
addicted to the Internet. She
regularly spends at least six hours
a day in front of the computer
….Nadia checks her e-mail and
peruses myyearbook.com, a
social networking site, reading
messages or posting updates on
her mood. She searches for music
videos on YouTube
.…But she spends most of her time
on quizilla.com or fanfiction.net,
reading and commenting on
stories written by other users and
based on books, television shows
or movies.

http://www.nytimes
.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?_r=2&emc=eta1&oref=slogin
Who Are 21st C Learners?

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 Today’s Learners:
Work in their Fewer face-to-
rooms. face
opportunities.
Egocentric:
expect More
opportunities for
information and creative research,
services on communication
demand. and collaboration.

~Joyce Valenza
 So, our students are already
tech-savvy, right?

They
don’t
know
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 So, our students are already
tech-savvy, right?
What students What they do
don’t do well instead
Turn a question into a query Rush ahead toward an answer,
grabbing some of the criteria or the
whole statement
Choose the right database Enter words or phrases into Google

Recognize information when Rush past important information

they find it and clues, continue to browse
Find better keywords Stick with their original words and
browse
Verify the credibility of Accept what they see at face-value
information
We should stop worrying
about integrating
technology and start
working on integrating
digital literacy
21st Century Definition of
Literacy:
“…the ability to
read, write and
interact across
a range of
platforms,
tools and
media…”
 Being Literate Today
Means
Finding the information
Processing different media
Decoding the information
Analyzing the information
Critically evaluating the information
Organizing it into personal digital libraries
Creating information in a variety of media
Teaching the information to find the user
We Live in a Remix Culture
In a remix culture, digital objects are meant
to be changed, rearranged,
rethought, juxtaposed,
discussed and shaped…
not
just consumed.
 School Librarians Wear
Many Hats
Information Specialists??
Media Specialists??
Technology Specialists?? QuickTimeª and a
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Book Specialists??
Ethics Specialists??
Advocating Specialists??
Teachers??
Test Monitors??
Babysitters??
21st Century School
Librarian
 Librarians have to ask
themselves…
How are you
Who are your How are you modeling
teachers? building your learning
your own for your students?
learning networks?

Why the Read-Write Web is Changing Everything

~ Will Richardson
 Librarian Plug-ins…
ASSEMBLING INSTRUCTIONS
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Embracing those ideas
and technologies that
can assist us in our
libraries and in our
teaching to support
information literacy
standards.
Participation -- involving
students, teachers, and
others in the creation
and use of programs.
It’s Okay to be Beta!
~Joyce Valenza

Lifelong
Learner
Driving a Race Car
Analogy:
When you drive a racecar
you're not looking where
you are, or at the next
turn, but as many turns
down the road as you
can.
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The idea is looking at

where you want to be,
not looking at where you
are now, but looking
down the road as far as
possible.
-Mark Wagner, CUE
Where to Begin
Learn, embrace,
andbecome
the
experts of
2.0 technology
Start Developing YOUR
PLN
RSS: Make Information
Find You…

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Twitter…
Nings…
Wikis…
PLN…Find It, Tag It, Share
It!
Where’s the Beef???
"Do we think that learning in new ways
with digital technologies is worth the
effort to actually change how we
work with children and youth in our
schools?”
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Finding Literacy in Computer Literacy",

August 2004
 AASL Standards for the
21st-Century Learner
“The definition of
Information Literacy has
become more complex
as resources &
technologies have
changed”

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/standards.cfm
So Many Tools, So Little Time

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 Exploring How Mass
Collaboration Changes
Everything

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Let’s Separate the Wheat
from the Chaff

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 ARE YOU COMFORTABLE
WITH THE C’S?
Not your mother’s
Create library anymore!

Collaborate
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Your Library 2.0 Toolbox:
tools to grab now!
Google Philosophy
Focus on the user and all else
will follow.
It's best to do one thing really,
really well.
Fast is better than slow.
Democracy on the web works.
You don't need to be at your
desk to need an answer.
You can make money without
doing evil.
There's always more
information out there.
The need for information
crosses all borders.
You can be serious without a
suit.
Great just isn't good enough.
Google Philosophy Applied
in the Library Media
Center:
Focus on the student and all
else will follow.
Democracy in the library works.
You don't need to be in the
library to need an answer.
There's always more
information out there.
The need for information
crosses all borders.
You can be serious without a
suit.
Great just isn't good
enough.
 Google Search Tips to
Share With Your
Students/Staff…
You can type define: and a word and it will
show you dictionary definition.
You can also type math calculations into the
google search box; it is also a calculator.
You can type in a barcode number and then
look it up!
In google language translator you can type in
the whole website address and it will translate
the whole page.
For some big sites, you even get a search box
within (like the NY Times).
 Google Search…
Did You Know That-
Phonebook:name place - get someone’s phone number.
Google maps for directions shows you traffic too and
you can drag the route to another road; instantly
recalculates directions. Shows construction and
accidents. Click on cameras next to directions to see
street view. You can pan around too.
In preferences you can turn on/off porn filtering.
"I'm feeling lucky" means just take me to the top search
result - it will go right to the website.
Maximum number of words in a search is 10. Plurals
matter.
For some organizations, they give you a table of
contents in the results. This is relatively new.
Asterisk is the wildcard - great for song lyrics that you
can't understand (excuse me while I kiss the *)
 Ideas for Using Google
Docs in Your Library
Staff meeting agendas and follow up notes
Teacher/Librarian planning
Share a book wish list with teachers and students
Students can write a collaborative story. One student writes the
beginning and then another add the second paragraph. The third adds
to it and so on and on.
Group planning for research projects become simple and transparent.
Each member can contribute their information and you can view the
revision history anytime.
Google Docs is great for collaborative brainstorming - every idea is
included.
Instead of saving Word files onto a jump drive or emailing back and
forth, the student can work on a document on Google docs and access
it from school and home. They will always have access to it and you
won't hear "I forgot it at home" or "I have a different program at
home".
Have your students create a library newsletter. Invite various students
to work on the document at the same time.
Collaborative note taking.
Let’s See It In Action
Let’s See It In Action

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Google Spreadsheets &
Forms

Create surveys for patron/student

opinions, votes
Collaborate with other librarians in
your district for different types of
data collection
 Let’s See It In Action

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Let’s See It In Action
 Google Presentation
Google Presentation is not quite robust a presentation program as
PowerPoint or Keynote but students can create their entire
presentation online and work on it with group members or access it
from home/school.

Instead of my students sitting passively watching a student's

PowerPoint presentation, a presenter publishes their presentation
online.

100% engagement in the presentation and they handle the

responsibility of being in the chat room well (it only takes one student
to get kicked out and the rest shape up fast!).

YOU can embed YOUR presentations in online project websites

so that students can access them from anywhere.
Let’s See It In Action
 Google Sites

This web site creation tool is one of the

simplest available and one of the most flexible.
You can create a complex hierarchy of
content, upload files, and even make blog-like
announcements. Additionally it brings together
all of the other great Google tools - letting you
easily embed Google Docs, Calendar, Picasa
albums, and much more!
Let’s See It In Action
Let’s See It In Action
 GOOGLE MAPS:
Interactive Maps!
Election Project Map

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Election Project Map

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Google Earth in Action

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Think of the
possibilities in
your library
media center.
 Digital Storytelling: Multiple
Literacies

IMAGE COURTESY OF ~Silvia Tolisano

http://langwitches.org/blog/2008/04/19/digital-
 MULTIPLE LITERACIES ~ MULTIPLE OUTPUTS

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 Let’s See It In Action

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Mixbook
 Digital Storytelling: Ask
Yourself….
Is it focused on student learning?
Are there observable results?
Does it meet the standards?
Can it show results?
Does it increase research skills?
Does it improve communication
skills?
Are students accountable?
Does it improve student
collaboration?
Does it help students communicate
globally?
Does it help students deal with
massive amounts of information?
Does it teach our students to be
self-directed and understand how
to organize more of their own
learning?

--Dr. Howard DiBiasi

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Avatars: Opportunities

Build
YourWildself

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 Podcasting: Creating for a Global
Audience….

New Bloom’s
Taxonomy
H.O.T.S.
Research…Planning….Storyboarding….Evaluating….Voice…..Sharing…..
Video-Use & Contribute
Research-Using Surveys &
Polls
Original research

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 PollDaddy…Google Forms

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Election Project: Skyping With a Class in
Delaware to discuss our election results.

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The Power of Blogging…

Interactive: can respond to peers

Writing for an audience

With hyperlinks and images adds a
dimension impossible with pen and paper
writing.
Blogging

What’s your
purpose?
 Student Blogging:
There is more than one way to hatch an idea…
Class Blogmeister
 Does it improve
communication skills?
 Are students
accountable?
 Does it improve
student
collaboration?
 Does it help students
communicate
globally?
 Does it help students
deal with massive
amounts of
information?
 Does it teach our
students to be self-
directed and
understand how to
organize more of
their own learning?
 Is it sustainable?
Wikis for students…
Students collaborate
in class and out of
class
Students can do peer
editing ~ text and
images
Students work with
multimedia, including
video & audio
Wiki to Communicate
 Wiki for
Teachers/Librarians
 Glogste
r
Wiki Your Website
Wikis for Cross-District
Library Lesson
Collaborations
 Trends for Library 2.0
Share what you are reading…

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 Make Yourself
Indispensable!
"The illiterate of the 21st Century
will not be those who cannot read
and write, but those who cannot
learn, unlearn, and relearn."
~ Alvin Toffler
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