Web 2.0 for Teacher-Librarians
A quick guide to tools you can use
in your school library
Lori Franklin Olathe USD#233 March 10,2009

Web 2.0
Collaborative
Open source editing/sharing
Global
Evolving

Learning
Encompasses all of *Bloom’s Taxonomy
Participatory
Cooperative
Student-led
Teacher-facilitated
*Knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation

What is Web 2.0? by Tim O'Reilly http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html#mememap

Top 10 Web 2.0 sites March ‘09
YouTube - 69.8
Monthly
Wikipedia – 59.6
Photobucket – 26.4
visits in
Craigslist – 42.9
Flickr – 27.5
millions
Wordpress – 21.7
IMDB – 21.6
Digg – 33.4
eHow – 13.4
Typepad - 9.1
eBiz MBZ: http://www.ebizmba.co – gathered on March 9, 2009m/articles/user-generated-content

Links from technology dept.
http://online.olatheschools.com/curr
iculum/K6symposium.htm

Speaking of top sites:
eBiz MBA provides monthly web rankings
Might be used as a template for creating a
class project for ranking information sites for
a research project
Don’t miss: Top 20 Science Web Sites

More on “Open Source”
Shared spaces
Ownership not emphasized
Co-creation with many
Crosses boundaries
Non-proprietary

Blogs
One way to share text/photos/opinions
Many blog platforms
Free
Wordpress for USD#233
Caveat: should be updated frequently
Examples

School Library Blogs
http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/li
nks/index.php?title=School_libraries
http://blog.schoollibrarymedia.com/
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com
/blog/1340000334.html

Wiki world
Sharing
Gathering
Editing
Publishing
Archiving

Wrap your head around it…
Online space
Anybody can edit
Can password protect
What ways can you use a wiki?

Quick wiki example
From pbwiki:
http://pbwiki.com/content/viewdemo

Joyce Valenza’s wiki
http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbwiki.com/

More examples…
Plymouth Regional High
School Library
Penrith P.S. Library
Benson School Library
Decatur High School
Library
Robin Hood Librarians
Adelson Library

Creative tools
Flickr
Upload photos and share/create
slideshows
F.D.’s Flickr Toys
Mash up with Flickr lets you create
amazing graphics

Animoto takes it further -
Animoto
Photos, music, motion
Uploads to YouTube, Facebook, iPhone
Example:
http://animoto.com/play/VG0JDu0Ks
q0iECJlGlflfg

Then you share…

Digital storytelling
Voice Thread
Demo
Example

ToonDoo
Create your own cartoons
Publish and share!

Amazing stuff/no time
Schmoop
Try this with students in language arts
programs – also covers other subject
areas
HippoCampus
This math site is comprehensive!
Also includes audio read-aloud

More…
Amelia Bloomer Project
Looking for books that feature strong
female characters? Need storytelling
from a feminist point of view?

Self-help can be creative
wikiHow
This worldwide writing
project lets the users tell the
steps and procedures for just
about anything. What if you
made a wiki like this and asked
students to classify book
genres? To rank databases? To
provide an orientation for new
library users?

Love streaming video?
Streaming Video Services
Links, via a wiki, to just about every
streaming service/conversion/fix available!

AP Images
AP Images free trial
Good through March 31, 2009
Get the latest photos from news events
happening around the world
http://apimages.ap.org/unsecured/log
ip.aspx
Username: mlc password: mlc

Get the 411
Goog-411 Directory Calling
Demo

Digital Librarian
Librariana
Simply a monster site!
Filled with all things libraries, including
that awesome Stephen Colbert clip about
Wikipedia

Remember Nancy Pearl?
Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust Wiki
Interactive

Like to listen?
Best of iTunes University
Scroll down for suggestions
Great literature for listening

For example…
Lit2go
Download pdf of the text to go along
with the audio!

Television content…online
Hulu

Read Alikes
Novelist
Literature Map

File converters
Allow you to transfer from one platform
or file format to another
Useful for many reasons:
- students don’t have MS Word
- conflicting versions of word processors
- video/audio applications

Use these…
Zamzar – provides many conversions,
including YouTube for playing at school
Vixy – also allows video conversion to
MP4 format
PDF to Word – Great for
changing PDF files into
MS Word formatting
Media-Convert – conversions
appear quickly

Think about passwords…
For school use of Web 2.0 products, you
could use the same username/password
combo that you originally set up for one
product – it makes it easier to remember

My favorite…
RoboForm
Will generate usernames and passwords
One-touch entry into sites requiring
username/password combo
Stores up to 10 for free

This presentation…
SlideShare –
Example:
http://www.slideshare.net/lfranklinoe
Also on OE Library page
http://teachers.olatheschools.com/o
elibrary/presentations.html

Want to learn more?
College@Home
Hundreds of Web 2.0 tutorials