Web 2.0 for Library Media Specialists
Lori M. Carter Lori_Carter@hcpss.org Technology Teacher Library Media Specialist, NBCT
What Will We Learn?
Understand the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Understand why we should explore the possibilities of Web 2.0. View some Web 2.0 websites with examples of use for the library media center. View Google Reader as a leadership tool. View the Web 2.0 Directory
What is Web 2.0?
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Web 2.0
Web 2.0
– is the transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a computing platform serving web applications to end users. People can connect and make groups easily.
Creativity Collaboration Community
Is Web 2.0 revolutionary?
“Here Comes Everybody” Clay Shirky
– The power of organizing without organizations.
1400’s - scribes were irreplaceable Johannes Gutenberg - moveable type “Professional self-conception and selfdefense, so valuable in ordinary times, become a disadvantage in revolutionary ones, because professionals are always concerned with threats to the profession.”
Change for Professions
Journalist - worked for a publisher
– Blogs Photographer – Online hosting sites – Digital cameras
Change Libraries
The hallmark of revolution is that the goals of the revolutionaries cannot be contained by the institutional structure of the existing society.
– Information – Books
Revolutionaries
- Jack M. Maness, University of Colorado, “Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 Implications for Libraries”
– User-Centered: users participate in the creation of content and services they view in your web presence
• Wiki: posting new books, podcasts, lessons • Blogs: write about your work, reader
Revolutionaries
– MultiMedia Experience: collections have video and audio components
• iPods to carry information from Discovery Streaming • Streaming media: tutorials - Jing
– Socially Rich: User’s can use synchronous (IM) and asynchronous (wiki) to communicate
Revolutionaries
Communally Innovative: community service as communities change, libraries change the user’s help change them
– Facilitator - give up control - building community – Users interact and create content with librarians
• eBooks, PodTalks
School Library 2.0
Searching - Finding Access - Sharing Individuals seeking information Communities seeking information Catalog of reliable print/electronic holdings Catalog of reliable and suspect holdings: web pages, blogs, wikis Collaborative Discovery System
Why should we care?
Our students will be entering a global economy. The definition of literacy is expanding. Understand the tools; integrate the tools into our instruction. Our students are wired!
International Reading Council
“To become fully literate in today’s world, students must become proficient in the new literacies of ICT (information and communication technology). Therefore, literacy educators have a responsibility to effectively integrate these technologies into the literacy curriculum in order to prepare students for the literacy future they deserve.”
A position statement of the International Reading Council, “Integrating Literacy and Technology into the Curriculum”
Expanded Definition of Literacy
Information literacy, digital literacy, new literacy, computer literacy, computer-technology literacy, critical literacy and media literacy
"Our concept of literacy has been based on the assumption that print is the primary carrier of information in our culture and that the most important skills are those that enable students to understand and express themselves in text. The new definition of literacy is based on a different assumption: that digital technology is rapidly becoming a primary carrier of information and that the broader means of expression this technology makes possible are now critical for education. Text literacy is necessary and valuable, but no longer sufficient.” Meyer/Rose, 2000
How do Web 2.0 Websites Work?
Ease of use Open up your data share - if you desire You are part of the software Hint: Create a “Web 2.0” e-mail address
Examples
– Wiki – Blog – Social Computing
• Intersection of people and computers
JING
Capture images
– Tutorials – Record video – Share online
• Embed • URL
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Kerpoof allows you to easily create pictures, stories, and animated movies. Pictures can be created by first selecting a scene from a variety of different back-drops, and then dragging and dropping objects (thousands of which are available) onto the 3D scene. Stories can be created by linking multiple scenes together and adding text. Kerpoof also allows animated movies to be created with an intuitive interface. The animation interface has been designed to introduce basic concepts to children in a fun context. Kerpoof makes it very easy to get started but still provides flexibility and control. Pixie
LetterPop
Use LetterPop to create eye-popping newsletters. Your newsletter can be embedded in a blog, added to a website as a link, e-mailed, or printed out. Parent/family connections, professional development, staff/student communications Not for student use.
Voki
Voki allows you to create your own personalized avatar. Your avatar can speak for you! Grab your students attention! See a Voki Not for student use.
SearchMe
SearchMe is a search engine that shows you categories as you type your search query. The results are visual!
Google Reader
Join these blogs:
– Cool Cat Teacher Blog – Free Technology For Teachers – Never Ending Search - SLJ – Tammy Worcester – iLearn Technology
• Send links to your staff each week!
Web 2.0 Directory
Visit and explore!
– http://www.go2web20.net – Discover a Web 2.0 site to share!
Re-Think Your Library Media Center
"What our students understand (and that we, as teachers, seem blind to) is that the very nature of information has changed. It's changed in what it looks like, what we look at to view it, where we find it, what we can do with it, and how we communicate it. We live in a brand new, and dynamically rich information environment, and if we are going to reach our students in a way that is relevant to their world and their future (and ours), then we must teach them from this new information environment." -David Warlick 2 Cents Worth Blog - author, consultant
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Make calls from your computer free to other Skype users. Download free. Skype your team! Collaborate regardless of space or time.
Web 2.0 Tools to Try
Quizlet.com: create and share flashcards Gliffy.com: create and share graphic organizers Del.icio.us.com: create and share bookmarks Lookybook.com: preview books and share what you think about them