Saw more wiki postings than commentary on the school sites. Joyce Valenza's teacherlibrarianwiki, Carol VanHook's handouts in Library Success, A Best Practices Wiki and Library Instruction Wiki were the most relevant for my middle school needs. But didn't find specific middle school lessons I could use. Have to start using the Creative Commons to model ethical use.
Am looking forward to creating wikis in place of pathfinders. I can't envision many middle schoolers adding to my pathfinder/wiki but I do see it as a useful tool for group projects. Destiny now lets students add book reviews, but not talk to each other. I don't see MS students able to effectively use that feature were it available. Considering their developmental level, conversation skills, and poor use of Learning Point messaging, my reservations may be more about school-imposed self-censorship than a free exchange of ideas. Hmmm, more thought needed here.
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Saturday, August 9, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Week #6 - Thing #13 Del.icio.us
I had to laugh my first time through tonight. Is this a popularity contest? Peer pressure to list & be listed? Only read what somebody else says I should read? Allison Steinberg did an excellent job of demo-ing Del.icio.us at a CSLA conference quite a while ago. It certainly makes it easy for us folks who cover two library sites and work from home.
Was fascinated with the bookmark Link by Link - An Internal Wiki that is Not Classified about the State Dept.'s Diplopedia. Find out how feds share info that affects international diplomacy and let your imagination run away with the pros and cons of that!
Tagging is liberating for this reluctant cataloger of almost 40 years in numerous classification systems. I'll have to spend more time with Network Badges for the next classroom research project. Added the SJLibraryLearning2 Bookmarks to Google Reader. That list is growing!
A final thought about the Del.icio.us comments. I'd like to see them tell me why I should read it, not just a summary that is accomplished by both the bookmark's descriptive sentence & the tags.
And somebody please comment if the links in these posts are overkill.
Was fascinated with the bookmark Link by Link - An Internal Wiki that is Not Classified about the State Dept.'s Diplopedia. Find out how feds share info that affects international diplomacy and let your imagination run away with the pros and cons of that!
Tagging is liberating for this reluctant cataloger of almost 40 years in numerous classification systems. I'll have to spend more time with Network Badges for the next classroom research project. Added the SJLibraryLearning2 Bookmarks to Google Reader. That list is growing!
A final thought about the Del.icio.us comments. I'd like to see them tell me why I should read it, not just a summary that is accomplished by both the bookmark's descriptive sentence & the tags.
And somebody please comment if the links in these posts are overkill.
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