This document summarizes a presentation about engaging kids in research using Web 2.0 tools. It discusses 21st century learning skills and habits, and outlines a savvy 7-step research process. Each step is paired with a Web 2.0 tool to facilitate collaboration at that stage. Assessment tools are suggested to evaluate students' skills, dispositions, and work. The goal is to provide a painless guide for teachers to bring research to life for students using familiar online tools.

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
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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
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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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