SLL2.0 and CL2.0 Offered as Graduate Courses

Good news from Connie Williams, President-elect of the California School Library Association:

Hello everyone!
School Library Learning 2.0 is now available to be taken for Graduate credit. Fresno Pacific University has approved School Library Learning 2.0 as a graduate course. School Library Learning 2.0 is the fun way to learn how to use the tools of the open web. It is completely on-line and can be done from home, school [depending on web filters], or at the local coffeehouse. Day or night, rain or shine, you can learn what's out there for you to use at home or school. It's the best example of how we learn by doing.

If you join in now, you can sign on for $150. After March 1st the cost will go up, so now is the time to join in on learning how to use the tools of the Internet 2.0! The companion tutorial: Classroom Learning 2.0 is also available for graduate credit. To register:

Course Number is: IND 1149 OR IND 970. Course Titles: School Library Learning 2.0 OR Classroom Learning 2.0.
Cost: $150 for two units of Graduate Credit. Register by Feb. 29 (Unit cost increasing after then). To sign up for these units, participants need to:

• To register, have a credit card handy. Under the heading "Professional Development Workshops," click on the link that says "Register online" (this will open another window)
• Fill in your information and at the bottom, use the pull down menu and select "School Library Learning 2.0"
• Once registered, please send an email to Robdarrow@cusd.com with "FPU School Library Learning 2.0 units" in the subject line. (Rob will be your "online instructor" to verify work completed.)
• You will receive further instructions soon regarding what needs to be done to verify your work towards these units (all of this work will be completed online via Moodle, an online course management system.)
• I’m hopeful that you can complete these units by May 15, 2008 because the end of the school year is pretty crazy. If need be, we can extend to the end of June or July.
• To verify these units, Fresno Pacific will mail you a letter verifying that you have completed these units. If you need an official transcript to verify these units, you may request one by mailing in the form (with a fee) found at: http://www.fresno.edu/registrar/transcripts/.
• Further questions about these units should be directed to Rob Darrow or 559-327-9635.
  Questions about the online registration should be directed to Fresno Pacific Center for Professional Development - 559-453-2043 or 800-372-5505. or via email to: Peggi Kriegbaum.
  
  Connie Williams
  President-elect 07/08
  CSLA 2.0 Team
  chwms@mac.com

Winter 2.0 Fun

POSTED ON BEHALF OF CONNIE WILLIAMS

Greetings all!
Winter 2.0 Fun is launched!

Winter 2.0 Fun will run from December 1, 2007 - April 1, 2008. This
is a repeat of School Library Learning 2.0 that was offered this summer.

Join your colleagues to learn more about YouTube, podcasts, image
generators, wikis, mashups and other web 2.0 tools.

Now is your chance to learn, at your leisure -- in the comfort of your
own home, all about these exciting new tools. This on-line tutorial
will take you step by step through the use of many of the tools
listed above. There are already many ideas posted on CSLA's
California 2.0 Curriculum Connections wiki on how to develop library
lessons and useful classroom collaborations. Join in this discussion
and add to it, the many ideas you'll be getting as you work through
the 23 Things of this tutorial.

With over 60 CSLA "Summer 2.0 Fun" graduates, you have lots of learning
partners to call on and many of these grads will be your cheering
partners.
CSLA's Ed Tech Committee gives this special feature a new name: "Peer
Cheers."

School Library Learning 2.0 is a free, fun, and fabulous way to learn
together and strengthen our collective educational technology savvy.
For those who want academic credit, there is a
Continuing Education option.

Start today at http://schoollibrarylearning2.blogspot.com

Connie Williams

Connie Hamner Williams
CSLA 2.0 Team
President-elect, CSLA
CSLA2team@yahoo.com

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Very cool library picture!

Replay

I am trying these exercises out again so that I can explain them to other people later this month.

Week 9, #23 Summarize your thoughts

1. What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey? I loved the blogging (didn't think I would), online image generator, del.icio.us, wikis, zoho, Library Thing and Youtube.
2. How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals? It is one of my on-going goals to keep up with technology like this, so this program fit in perfectly. It was so nice to have it all in one place, instead of learning about these things in a hit and miss manner.
3. Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you? I am using several of them in my library.
   
4. What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept? It was hard to remember to go comment on other people's stuff and it was hard to come up with curriculum connections. The easiest part was doing the discovery exercise, then blogging about it.
   
5. If we offered another discovery program like this in the future, would you choose to participate? Absolutely!
   
6. How would you describe your learning experience in ONE WORD or in ONE SENTENCE, so we could use your words to promote CSLA learning activities? Learn about different technologies in a simple, straightforward, user-friendly web class that you can do on your own time, at your own pace.
   

Week 9, #22 Ebooks and Audio eBooks

This is such an interesting new frontier. Of course the minute we had the Gutenberg Project, a natural next step was getting these books on audio. I would prefer to read a pdf file than an html file online, although I would really prefer to read a real live book in my lap! I put some of the LibriVox feeds on my podcast subscriptions. I love listening to books on podcast so this will be a nifty way to catch up on some old classics that I have never read. Maybe I will find it easier to read some of them by listening rather than by old fashioned reading. It will be fun to find out. Brothers Karamazov here I come!

Week 9, #21 Podcasting

I guess because I am used to itunes, I did not find the other podcast places as user-friendly. I bookmarked (or should I say delicioused?) several podcast making sites to try out this summer. I would like to have booktalks on a podcast but don't have time to tinker with it right now. I subscribe to several podcasts and it has provided great entertainment on my weekly walks. I found a teacher in our district who is an expert podcaster and had him offer a class at my library a couple of weeks ago. Only teachers showed up even though students were invited. The topic was how to make a podcast. So, either I didn't get the word out correctly, or students already know how to do this!

Week 9, #20 videos

Youtube is the easiest to access and watch. I liked the book video so I put this on this blog.

Week 8, #19 Library Thing

Library Thing is so easy to use. I had run across it earlier than this assignment. I had actually already added it to my blog. But I was not able to add it to my real library blog because edublogs doesn't accept html yet. Or at least I couldn't get it to work. But I also created a group for our district high school librarians and I hope they'll start using Library Thing too.

Week 8, #18, reflections on zoho

I love Zoho. I wonder what the name means? Anyway, their product seems much more robust than Google Docs and Spreadsheets. For example, Zoho has lots of other online applications, including presentation (kind of like powerpoint) and project planners, to name only two. I can really see students using this to work together or by themselves, but to have access to their "stuff" online.

I plan to share this with the folks at my next high school technology people meeting- the one at my school and the one district-wide. This product (zoho) would be especially useful for our students- with their digital native abilities!

Week 7 #17 Wiki play and ideas

I enjoyed the sandbox and the wiki work. I would like to use the wiki pb videos with students- they are so clear and so short. I think the students would like them. Now I have to dovetail my wiki scheme with a teacher's idea....

Week 7, #16 Learn about wikis

I already knew something about wikis, and they are easy to understand. I created one about a year and a half ago to have the Battle of the Books Team collaborate on creating questions for the books they were reading. It worked pretty well. Some students really got into it, others did not. I put Library Technology Training Wiki, Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki, Blogging Libraries Wiki on my del.icio.us account.

#15 Week 6 Library 2.0

Library 2.0 is very interesting to read about at the same time a discussion is going on on LM_NET regarding the demise of our profession!

We will become obsolete if we don't change with the times. Read Joyce Valenza's fantastic blogpost on how we need to get with the program.

http://joycevalenza.edublogs.org/2007/03/09/meme-new-rules-for-20-guerilla-practice/

Also, I have cut and pasted some of Mike Eisenberg's comments from LM_NET, April 2007, about how we can make ourselves more useful. Thanks to Joyce and Mike for their creative ideas.

Mike Eisenberg:
Here are some possibilities - RIGHT NOW.

(1) get ready for next year right now.
(2) What is the #1 library & information priority in your school? Is it
information literacy? Reading? Information technology? THEN FOCUS ON
THAT. Minimize time and effort in the other areas.
(3) If you spend too much time on shelving and sign-out, then don't!
Find another way to get it done, or just don't do it. Make books due
once a month - or not at all! Have students reshelve their own
books...whatever, just stop focusing on this.
(4) If you spend too much time selecting materials, then don't! Form a
district committee to do 90% of selection for all elementary schools.
Or a statewide committee. Or just use the standard lists. I know, I
know - this is terrible! But, figure out another way to do it.
(5) If kids are using the "library" more and more remotely and less
physically, then get in there and spend more "time" in virtual space!
Or in the classrooms.
(6) Analyze scores on standardized tests. How could YOU make a
difference - right away!
(7) Collaboration is a means, not an end. Focus on students and
learning - not necessarily on classroom teachers.
(8) Flexible scheduling is a means, not an end. If the best way for you
to work with kids is through scheduling, then do it!
(9) If the kids use Google for everything, stop trying to tell them to
use something else. HELP them to use Google (or the Wikipedia) more
effectively. Teach them to select best resources from Google and how to
cite.

#14 (WEEK 6) Explore Technorati and learn how tags work

Technorati is similar to Bloglines to my mind. I do wonder how anyone has time to keep up with all this reading and technology, but these two places do make it somewhat more convenient. All these blogs remind me of wikipedia. I am not sure how much "real" information a student would garner from being hooked into lots of blogs?
I really like tagging because it groups and organizes things nicely.

#13 (WEEK 6) Learn about tagging and discover Del.icio.us

I had known about del.icio.us before doing this exercise. But I had not subscribed to others' accounts. I did this and will see how I like the results. Del.icio.us is fairly user-friendly and could really be used by students for longer term research. I am also going to put the del.icio.us bookmarklets on the toolbars of my library computers and instruct students in their use.

Rollyo: Roll your own Search Tool Week 5 #12

This could be useful for teachers who only wanted their students to go to certain sites. Very tailor-made!

Week 5 #11 Web 2.0 awards

This is a good place to know about. (Web 2.0 awards)
Even though they have a lot, it is still a lot less than we would have to wade through by ourselves, and is quality stuff. After looking at some book sites, I went to Craigslist, which I had heard of forever but never used. I am going to recommend it to my son who has an interesting rooming dilemma in San Luis Obispo next year. He will be in Australia on a semester abroad in the fall, and only needs housing for January to June. So I will see if craigslist will help him.

Image Generators Week 5 #10

FD Toys, Comic Strip Generator, Image Chef.
These were so much fun! Could require students to include one of these on their reports or something- other than that, no big use in school occurs to me.

Sch Lib Blogs/ Newsfeeds Week 4 #9

Which method of finding feeds did you find easiest to use? Which Search tool was the easiest for you? I like Bloglines Search Tool, Feedster, Technorati, and Topix.
Which was more confusing? Syndic8 was a little less user-friendly.

On Topix, it's very interesting to see the "Wire" on different cities.

Again, how to use this in a school setting...?? Great for students doing research on a blogged-about topic- they could sign up for the feeds for several weeks or days and really learn something!