1. Engaging Kids in Research
with Web 2.0 Tools
Connie Champlin
cjchamp@mac.com
OELMA 2009
PPT at Slideshare
2. The Landscape of Successful
Student Learning
21st Century Learning Skills
Engaging Web 2.0 Tools
A Savvy Research Process
3. 21st Century Learner
Inquiry
Build background
Ask questions
Identify resources, locate and gather quality
information
Effectively use information
Create products, share, and apply findings
Reflect on (evaluate) content and process
Synthesis of main 21st century skills documents documents
4. 21st Century Learner
Personal Habits
Reflection Responsibility
Empathy Openness
Independence Risk taking
Work Leadership
Fairness and respect Sound thinking
Ethics Inquisitiveness
Confidence Attitude
Flexibility Initiative
Synthesis of main 21st century skills documents documents
5. Standards for 21st Century Learners
AASL, 2007
Inquire
Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge
Create
Draw conclusions, make informed decisions
apply knowledge to new situations, and
create new knowledge
Share
Share knowledge and participate ethically
and productively as members of our
democratic society
Grow
Pursue personal and aesthetic growth
6. …and the threads that run through them
Skills
Key abilities needed for understanding, learning,
thinking, and mastering subjects
Dispositions in Action
Ongoing beliefs and attitudes that guide thinking
and intellectual behavior that can be measured
through actions taken
Responsibilities
Common behaviors used by independent learners in
researching, investigating, and problem solving
Self-Assessment Strategies
Reflections on one’s own learning to determine that
the skills, dispositions, and responsibilities are
effective
http://www.ala.org/aasl
7. …are learned through active engagement
Web 2.0 technologies
today’s students’ stuff!
Collaborative interaction
with teachers and each other
Inquiry-based learning
guided by a quality research process
8. Web 2.0 Tools
Jot down, one to a post-it, web 2.0 tools
you use.
Which ones do you use in instruction of
students?
Which of these are collaborative in
nature?
9. Research Process Models
Which research model did your school
adopt?
Handy 5, Big 6, Savvy 7?
Is it used outside of the library setting?
How do you assess students’ research
process skills?
10. Painless Guide to Research
Using Web 2.0 Tools
Brings together. . .
21st Century Learner learning skills
& personal habits woven through
The Research Process
Using features of Web 2.0 tools that
have collaborative features.
11. The Research Process (Savvy 7)
Each step is introduced and explained
Each step features a Web 2.0 tool
With a “Get Started” tutorial
Each research step includes assessment
tools and rubrics
For student, teacher and/or librarian use
Linked to 21st Century Learner skills &
habits
12. In Addition. . .
The “Painless Guide” provides descriptions and weblinks
to many other research models and Web 2.0
resources including:
FLIP IT – Yucht www.aliceinfo.org/flipit
INFOhio DIALOGUE
http://www.infohio.org/id/dialogue.html
Research Cycle – McKenzie
http://questioning.org/rcycle.html
13. Let’s take a look. . .
Step 1: What is the Question?
Webnote — www.aypwip.org/webnote
Step 2: What Resources Should I Use?
Gliffy — www.gliffy.com
Step 3: How Do I Find the Information?
iGoogle — www.google.com/ig
Step 4: How Do I Gather the Information?
Del.icio.us — www.delicious.com
Step 5: Which Information Do I Use?
Zoho Wiki — www.wiki.zoho.com
Step 6: How Do I Share What I Learned?
Voxopop — www.voxopop.com
Step 7: How Do I Evaluate My Work?
Survey Monkey — www.surveymonkey.com
14. Step 1: What is the Question?
Webnote —
www.aypwip.org/webnote
21st Century Skills: Build background, ask
questions
Personal Habits: Inquisitiveness
15. Step 1: What is the Question?
Webnote — www.aypwip.org/webnote
BRAINSTORMING
16. Great for KWL or
Step 1: What is the Question? “Know, Need to
Webnote — www.aypwip.org/webnote Know” charts
NOTETAKING
17. Step 1: What is the Question?
Webnote — www.aypwip.org/webnote
Add a note
Change its
color
18. At every step, use a process assessment
Student self-assessment
19. At every step, use a process assessment
Teacher/Librarian led group assessment of the
Web 2.0 Tool. For example, prompts might
include:
How did we use the Webnote tool?
Did it help us develop a good question?
Why do we think so or not?
Is there a better way to use this tool?
Is there another tool that might work better?
20. At every step, use a process assessment
Teacher Assessment of Student Performance
21. At every step, use a process assessment
Teacher Assessment of Student Skills
22. Step 2: What Resources Should
I Use?
Gliffy — www.gliffy.com
21st Century Skills: Find resources
Personal Habits: Openness, inquisitiveness
23. Step 2: What Resources Should I Use?
Gliffy — www.gliffy.com
24. A free, online
Step 2: What Resources Should I Use? graphic organizer
Gliffy — www.gliffy.com
25. Step 2: What Resources Should I Use?
Gliffy — www.gliffy.com
Organize
thoughts,
take notes,
add links.
26. Step 2: What Resources Should I Use?
Gliffy — www.gliffy.com
Choose
shapes, clip
art or search
for images.
27. Step 3: How Do I Find the
Information?
iGoogle— www.google.com/ig
21st Century Skills: Identify resources,
locate, and gather quality information
Personal Habits: Initiative
28. Step 3: How Do I Find the Information?
igoogle — www.google.com/ig
Create a personal
or team
information portal.
29. Step 3: How Do I Find the Information?
iGoogle— www.google.com/ig Choose a theme, then
Choose a theme,
“add stuff”
then “add stuff”
30. Step 3: How Do I Find the Information?
iGoogle— www.google.com/ig
Customize page
Add pages
Add
gadgets
31. Step 3: How Do I Find the Information?
iGoogle— www.google.com/ig
Easily move or
delete gadgets
from your page.
32. Step 4: How Do I Gather the
Information?
Delicious —
www.delicious.com
21st Century Skills: Identify resources,
locate, and gather quality information
Personal Habits: Work
33. Step 4: How Do I Gather the Information?
Delicious — www.delicious.com
Capture and
organize
bookmarks to
resources.
34. Step 4: How Do I Gather the Information?
Delicious — www.delicious.com
Add a new bookmark. . .
Type or paste URL
35. Step 4: How Do I Gather the Information?
Delicious — www.delicious.com
Add a
description
Add tags
(keywords)
Share link
with others
36. Step 5: Which Information Do
I Use?
Zoho Wiki —
www.wiki.zoho.com
21st Century Skills: Effective use of
information
Personal Habits: Ethics
37. Step 5: Which Information Do I Use?
Zoho Wiki — www.wiki.zoho.com
2 wikis are
free
38. Step 5: Which Information Do I Use?
Zoho Wiki — www.wiki.zoho.com
Add
narratives,
tables, &
images
39. Step 5: Which Information Do I Use?
Zoho Wiki — www.wiki.zoho.com
Keep private or
open to the world New page
Navigate
Choose a color scheme
or theme for your wiki
History
40. Step 5: Which Information Do I Use?
Zoho Wiki — www.wiki.zoho.com
New page
Navigate
Add/Edit
Add information
information
History
41. Step 5: Which Information Do I Use?
Zoho Wiki — www.wiki.zoho.com
A dashboard
provides a
summary of
New page
activity and links
Navigate
Add information
History
42. Step 6: How Do I Share What I
Learned?
Voxopop — www.voxopop.com
21st Century Skills: Create products, share
and apply findings
Personal Habits: Confidence
43. Step 6: How Do I Share What I Learned?
Voxopop — www.voxopop.com
44. Step 6: How Do I Share What I Learned?
Voxopop — www.voxopop.com
Introduce the project
or assignment.
45. Step 6: How Do I Share What I Learned ?
Voxopop — www.voxopop.com Threads of audio
discussions are
automatically labeled by
author and length.
Play all or one at
a time
time. Add your own
voice to this
discussion.
46. Step 6: How Do I Share What I Learned?
Voxopop — www.voxopop.com A really simple
interface to create
audio podcasts.
47. Step 7: How Do I Evaluate My
Work?
Survey Monkey —
www.surveymonkey.com
21st Century Skills: Reflect on (Evaluate)
content and process
Personal Habits: Responsibility
48. Step 7: How Do I Evaluate My Work?
Survey Monkey — www.surveymonkey.com From creation to
results analysis,
online surveys
save time!
49. Step 7: How Do I Evaluate My Work?
Survey Monkey — www.surveymonkey.com
Choose from a
variety of
question types
50. Step 7: How Do I Evaluate My Work?
Survey Monkey — www.surveymonkey.com
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