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1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um7vC2BgHeg&feature=emails

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2oVTs5pI8Q&feature=player_embedded

3. Slides 15 min.

4. Set up Skype 10 min.

5. Create a Wordle 15 min. Create another Wordle

6. Create a Vokie 20 min.

6. Share

7. IMC

8. ILL

9. Announcements

10 Goodbyes

AGENDA

Summer Institute –at Olds High School - August 29, 30.

Dr. Alec Couros: is a professor of educational technology and media and the Coordinator of information and Communications Technology at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. Alec also serves as the Assistant Director of the Saskatchewan Instructional Development and Research Unit.

Library Action Group Training Day – August 24th

This is a full day of training 8:30-4:00 Central Office

Bring your laptops.

Next year meetings

October 5, 2011

November 28, 2011

February 8, 2012

May 9, 2012

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Learning in the 21st century has taken on a new dimension with the exponential expansion of information, ever-changing tools, increasing digitization of text, heightened demands for critical and creative thinking, communication, and collaborative problem solving. To succeed in our rapid paced, global society, our learners must be able to access high –quality information from diverse perspectives, make sense of it to draw their own conclusions or create new knowledge, and share their knowledge with others.

IN THE STANDARDS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY LEARNERS, AASLARTICULATES THESE COMMON BELIEFS:

• Reading is the window to the world

• Inquiry provides a framework for learning

• Ethical behavior in the use of information must be taught

• Technology skills are crucial for future employment needs

• Equitable access is a key component for education

• The definition of information literacy has become more complex as resources and technologies have changed

• The continuing expansion of information demands that all individuals acquire the thinking skills that will enable them to learn on their won

• Learning has a social context

• School Libraries are essential to the development of learning skills

KEY COMPONENTS OF THE LEARNING COMMONS

Physical and Virtual SpaceEquitable AccessLearning PartnershipsTechnology in Learning

WHAT IS WEB 2.O?

The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design,[1] and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumers) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

http://www.go2web20.net/

HOW DOES DESTINY FIT WITH THIS SCENARIO?

Online database - search and refine searches

Webpath Express – Education vetted sites for students and teachers

Access to all libraries in the district through interlibrary loan

It is a school library social network for reading

You can share : reading suggestions

Send email to library staff for book suggestions

Send email to teachers and students

Use Web 2.0 apps to post student work

You can review, rate and recommend titles you have read to students and teachers

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1. Set up Skype with Iris Loewen – www.skype.com 15 min.

2. Create a Wordle - - http://www.wordle.net/ Answer this question: What is in your library? What happens inyour library?

3. Use Voki to Create 1 key message to send to your Administration that promotes Destiny : http://www.voki.com/

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