Librarian Philosopher

David Loertscher

David used a Wiki to give his presentation and for the audience to participate in the discussion.

My notes are insignificant compared to the great deal of data on his wiki.

AASL Presentation by David V. Loertscher and Company

AASL ConferenceReno, NV Oct. 2007

These are the four at my table. I blogged our responses.

1. Latane Kreiser

2. Angelica Jutty

3. Rosemarie Bernier

4. Barry Bishop

Topic: Technology and Reading

The number corresponds with the contributor of the idea.

3 Webquests—Librarians collaborate with teachers on their lessons using rubrics and standards

4 Book review database with over 3,000 student entries. This is not connected to any assignment.

1 Kids do reviews of books and put on web site for others to read.

4 Blogs by Librarians for students to comment about books the Librarian posts. Again these are not connected to assignments. Students comment over the summer on weekends and any time. This is a very low socioeconomic school.

3 Teacher’s web site advertises assignments, homework, PowerPoint.

3. Librarian posts pathfinders and other resources but don’t give urls but post links but will students use these resources? iGoogle seems like a way to solve this.

3 Mentor students online use gmail accounts

From David and his assistant presenters:

1^st Radical idea – cancel oral report–replace with Big Think idea

Sandi – when report is submitted by student, thinking closes.

Carol – when work is done, continue thinking with web 2.0 tools. Answer the question why. Transform the information—i.e. drama, creative writing, game. Don’t kill it. Don’t turn it into another report.

Not enough to know facts. Put your ideas together with someone else to understand.

Try to Pinkerize learning. Move from left-brain to right-brain learning.

2^nd radical idea –reading.

Nancy in Florida–circulation high in “A” schools low in “F” schools.

Target reading efforts on kids that need it most. 2 or 3 kids per classroom

Push more information books and not so much fiction—balance narrative and expository—test is mostly expository

Knowville 1 billion books read written and projects – website

3^rd radical idea—technology

Wiki technology forces higher level thinking if you set it up right.

Doug—each student did the facts thing. Then they organized their facts. Then they created a concept map then they looked at other class wiki pages.

When we design technology right kids have to reorganize stuff. Plagiarism goes out the window.

4^th radical idea

Robin—kids want something interactive.

The whole iGoogle idea

5^th radical idea

Miller—data

Buy Share the Evidence

6^th radical idea

Environment one to one and wifi

Replace Library orientation with Robinize the iGoogle

24/7 assistance

Eliminate the shelves have more space for groups

More digital books

Elastic collection–iPod and iTunes model

Team up

University model – learning commons groups work with consultive help (Librarian)

$20

Transform social networking skills into effective academic skills

Web 2.0 is learning in less time

Learning in the Library is the best learning in the school 

Joyce Valenza

OEDb Online Education Database Lots of articles about College and University Libraries and the best applications that serve them.

Go2Web20 The complete Web 2.0 directory (*and I thought I knew something about Web 2.0)

Wikibooks free collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit

Blogdigger: a search engine for blogs (although I could not find mine).

Joyce mentioned an open source content analysis tool but not by name. I searched and found a list. There are probably better ones. She said someone used the tool to compare text from two different Wikis, one that was for conservatives and one for liberals. She discussed this in the contexts of us finding new ways to evaluate social technology.

Safari Montage is another source for subscription video streaming.

Research Channel is free video streaming of more than 3,000 videos. These are from universities.

TED (ideas worth sharing: technology, entertainment, design).

Zamzar is a free online file conversion site to be used to convert YouTube files to Microsoft media player so that you can show YouTube clips in a blocked environment. (I think we actually knew about this one).

Do original research or have instant anonymous feedback during a presentation with free online polling sites like Polldaddy, ZOHO Polls, SurveyScholar and lots more.

She mentioned Newseum, which I have been linked too for 3 or 4 years. She mentioned using it in the context of finding newspaper articles from newspapers around the global to support new perspectives. This shows that the context within which we use information and resources makes all the difference in the world.

She talked about how her students using Google Scholar to find article led her students to request she buy JSTOR because all the articles Google Scholar referenced were found in JSTOR.

Conservapedia is a wiki containing articles from a conservative prospective.

Citizendium is a site she said was almost there, but not quite. I forget the context, but I think she was talking about truly quality social networking at a high cite-able level.

She talked about sites where students can create their own cartoons I think she mentioned Toongo. It looks like it acts as a cartoon search engine, but it may offer online creation too.

In the context of using Flickr as a site to have a virtual social art gallery by students where other students and adults (educators and family members) can comment on the works. An audience member mentioned SmugMug as another photo sharing site. I need to share this art gallery concept with our resident artist Librarian to try it out.

As tools to support traditional bibliographies she mentioned NoodleTools but said some of her students like BibMe better because it was connected to a databases of books so as soon as you started to enter any data it started to populate the rest of the citation fields with information.

She mentioned Wikis as a great way to do Literature Circles or to explore the characters of a piece of literature.

Now I am really tired.