Smart Libraries, Smart Classrooms

FACULTY OF EDUCATIONSCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES
Smart libraries, smart classrooms
Judy O’Connell
Information Literacy / School Libraries Section Satellite
Cape Town, South Africa
14th August 2015

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O’Connell, J. (2011) “Change Has Arrived at an iSchool Library near you”
in Information Literacy Beyond Library 2.0 Edited by
Peter Godwin and Jo Parker, Facet. In publication.
O'Connell, J., & Groom, D. (2010). Connect, communicate,
collaborate. Acer Press.
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Rethinking your library
environments
Let’s talk about my favourites!

21 C teacher librarian
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Davies, A., Fidler, D., & Gorbis, M. (2011). Future work skills 2020.
http://www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/work/future-work-skills-2020/

Evolving Learning Landscape
Current thinking about 21st century skills, and the learning
experiences that support their development, are essential
starting points for capacity building. A list of the workforce
skills presented by Davies, et al (2011, pp. 8-12) include:
• Sense-making
• Social intelligence
• Novel and adaptive thinking
• Cross-cultural competency
• Computational thinking
• New-media literacy
• Transdisciplinarity
• Design mindset
• Cognitive load management
• Virtual collaboration
http://www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/work/future-work-skills-2020/

In talking about school libraries and the
essential paradigm shift that is taking place,
Stanley (2011) highlights three areas of
inﬂuence:
Information ﬂuency — using search engines
effectively; evaluating online information;
collaborating in virtual environments, and
delivering material resources online.
Digital citizenship — understanding
responsible and ethical use of information, and
maintaining safe online practices.
Digital storytelling — reading, writing and
listening to books in many formats; creating,
collaborating and sharing in a range of
mediums.
Digital citizenship
Stanley. D.B. (2011). Change has arrived for school libraries, School Library Monthly, 27 (4)4, 45–47.

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/96705
A crowdsourced
collection of over 100
essays from around
the world about trends
in school libraries
written by librarians,
teachers, publishers,
and library vendors.

9
The leadership challenges are out there .....
http://libraryschool.libguidescms.com/hiddentreasures
Hidden treasures in
the global commons

The Scout Report is the ﬂagship publication
of the Internet Scout Research Group.
Published every Friday both on the Web and
by email subscription, it provides a fast,
convenient way to stay informed.
https://scout.wisc.edu/

h#p://23mobilethings.net/wpress/
Modelling
exemplary use of
social media,
search engines,
and collaborative
research strategies.

http://oztlnet.com/
The OZTL_NET Discussion List is an email-based forum
for information professionals working in Australian schools.
It is supported by the teacher librarianship academic staff at
the School of Information Studies , Charles Sturt University.
Discussion is open to all members of the Australian TL
community and any people with a genuine interest in
teacher librarianship and/or school libraries.

http://oztlnet.com/
http://oztlnet.com/

Create a complete web site for your library. WordPress.com,
Blogger.com and Weebly.com.
Generally thought of as a blogging tools, these free services can also be
used for many other purposes
News Posts: Use as a blog to post news and updates.
Collaborations: Posts news items, ideas, questions, book reviews, etc.
Invite students to use the comments feature to share ideas, their own
reviews, etc.
Student writing: Students can use these for writing and reﬂecting.
Portfolios: Create a professional resume & portfolio by creating pages that
focus on different aspects of your experience and skills.
School library web presences

Then consider your
social media presence!
School library web presences

https://www.facebook.com/DigitalCitizenshipInSchools

Flipboard Magazine
http://theedublogger.com/2013/06/12/ﬂipboard/

Curriculum projects
The focus of the project was to facilitate deeper learning in our students by creating an
‘authentic learning’ experience to strengthen writing and literacy skills across the
curriculum. In English, students learned about the literary conventions of forensic fiction in
their crime novel, Framed, and how to use them to solve a crime. In Science, students
learned about how use a variety of scientific methods including analysing dental records,
fragments and fibres, fingerprinting, shoe-printing and DNA samples in order to solve a
crime.
Body in the library

Curriculum projects
Each boy received a forensic workbook –
containing a range of materials for
examination such as crime reports,
witness statements and a coroners
report. In addition the ‘crime scene’ was
taped off, with key evidence on display
e.g. ﬁngerprints, the location of the body,
and places where DNA was found.
Photographic evidence included the
injury reports (fake bruising and blood on
the victim), video footage of the scene of
the crime (staged by students and
teachers) and also hard hitting
interviews.

Curriculum projects
O’Connell, J. (2011). Body in the Library': A cross-curriculum transliteracy project, in
L.Marquardt & D. Oberg (Ed.) Global Perspectives on School Libraries: Projects and Practices,
Berlin, New York : De Gruyter Saur.
English curriculum
• Study of forensic fiction and different sub -genres of mystery fiction
(this also provided an opportunity for supporting literature displays in the
library)
• Study of famous fiction forensic films/novels/characters
• Character and plot analysis, including the relationships of clues,
events, and people in solving a crime.
Science curriculum
• Study of forensic science and the scientific method required (this provided
an opportunity for non-fiction book displays in the library)
• Crime scene basics, protocol, techniques, scientific evidence.
• Police techniques for investigating a murder. i.e., interviews, ID parade,
CTV security images.

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Images with Flickr
ﬂickr photo by teachingsagittarian http://ﬂickr.com/photos/teachingsagittarian/5745529379 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

http://cogdogblog.com/2015/04/12/ﬂickr-cc-attribution-tool-more-fun/
FlickrCC attribution helper

• Post photos of school & community events.
• Create a school group on Flickr for students & staff to share photos
of events.
• Hold a “Day in the Life” event where the community shares photos
representing one day in the life of the school.
• Photos to chronicle library/school renovations and keep community
up to date.
• Share photos of art work and crafts created by students.
• Book spine poetry photos. :)
• Scan & post historic photos and ask community to share memories
through the comments feature.
• Join other groups or share your own class groups!
• Share ideas for library displays, program ideas and more.
• Create slide shows that can be embedded on your web page
• Create your own favourites collection
• Public photo sharing sites like ﬂickr are great resources for Creative
Commons licensed images to use in presentations.
Images

Global Images
The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures
from the world's public photography archives.
https://www.ﬂickr.com/commons

Spell with Flickr
http://metaatem.net/words/
http://bighugelabs.com/

Find free images online http://judyoconnell.com/ﬁnd-free-images-online/
PhotoPin – My ﬁrst stop for photo searching. Very easy to use
and searches a number of sources for CC licensed photos.
CC search – search for images, video and music from one
search page. Handy!
Flickr advanced search – Scroll to the botton of the screen
and select the Creative Commons setting & “Find content to
modify, adapt, or build upon”
Image search tools

Creative Commons
Creative Commons licensing allows for reuse of a image
(and other intellectual content) under certain conditions.
The licensing is easy to understand and having students
select how they want to license their own work is a great
way to get students thinking about copyright, reuse and
attribution.

Creative commons
licenses work as “some
rights reserved rule
instead of “all rights
reserved” rule.
Diverse set of license
conditions with a range
of freedoms and
limitations.
http://creativecommons.org/

http://archive.org/
Explore it all!

Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of
Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/index.html
Linked Open Data on the Web.
The site currently contains metadata on 3.5 million texts, images,
videos and sounds.

Digital curation and organisation
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Digital content curation
The beneﬁts of
content curation
is that you don’t
re-invent the
wheel - you
share!
Model the future!

http://delicious.com/hrheingold/crap_detection
‘crap’ detection
cc licensed flickr photo by selva: http://flickr.com/photos/selva/23816545/
Information labyrinth
Howard Rheingold
Nurture strategies for information fluency

Re-thing what ‘collection’ of information means,
thereby supporting personalised and collaborative
information seeking and knowledge conversations.

Sharing Your Know-How: No one can be an expert on everything, but we all
have things that we’re passionate about and perhaps even are experts in. If we
create collections of the best resources on those topics and share them, everyone
can benefit from our expertise.This is also a great way to share information about
what’s going on in the library.
Digging for Gold: You may not feel like creating collections of resources yet, but
you can still benefit from these services.They are gold mines of great material. If
you find an expert in an area you’re interested in, then you can follow what they’re
curating.
Student Use: Students can gather materials for research, create bibliographies,
create collections of news articles around a topic, collect graphics for art projects,
and so much more.
Essential Skills: Students learn essential skills when curating content: how to
search for and evaluate resources, how to organize and create a balanced
collection. Check out this excellent handout on Building Link Collections to help
students learn these skills. From the article Teaching Kids to Curate Content
Collections. https://cooltoolsforschool.wordpress.com/thing-6-curation-tools/

Digital content curation
There are many popular tools. View this
excellent video!
Eduwebinar
https://youtu.be/vyqAnB8CbkI
http://eduwebinar.com.au/
https://www.pinterest.com/kayo287/curation-strategies-in-education/
Also visit curation strategies in education

Diigo is a social bookmarking site that allows users to collect bookmarks, annotate
them and share to groups or lists.
Pinterest is a pinboard-styled social photo sharing website. The service allows
users to create and manage theme-based image collections linked out to sites of
origin.
Learnist is a social curation and sharing site that integrates with other curation
opportunities such as Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter
Livebinders is a great way to creat your own information resources, evidence,
documentation, and more. It’s easy and it’s visual and a great opportunity for
collaborating, organising and sharing resources.
Scoop.it allows users to create and share their own themed magazines designed
around a given topic.

https://www.pinterest.com/marragem/

Create resource guides
Feedly is a great RSS feed reader to help you monitor lots of resources quickly.
Smore or Tackk works well to create newsletter types of pages where you can add new
resources and news.
Flipboard Magazines allow you to create collections of articles, links to resources,
images, news and more. Users can subscribe and get updates in a variety of ways,
depending on the source.
Tumblr blog – it’s easy to add notes, photos, links to articles to a tumblr. Your audience
can subscribe to update through their own tumblr account, visit it via it’s URL or via an
RSS feed
Diigo Groups – Bookmark items in Diigo and add items to a diigo group that your
audience can subscribe to updates via email or RSS.
RSS magic – Anything with an RSS feed gives you lots more options. Readers can
subscribe via their own feed reader or email. And you can display updates in a widget on
your web/wiki pages.
https://cooltoolsforschool.wordpress.com/thing-22-create-a-resource-guide/

Quick Response Code
2D Barcode
- Stores more data than
Low technology investment
Scan by smart phones/devices
Lead to images, text messages,
web links or videos
QR Code

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidking/5011175703/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidking/5054697343/
Treasure/Scavenger Hunts
Magical mystery tour

https://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/info_grrl/
http://thedaringlibrarian.wikispaces.com/Web_2_Oh_Tools

Periodic Table of QR codes
https://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/periodicvideos/5915143448/

A URL shortener is an online application that converts a regular URL (the
web address that starts with http://) into its condensed format. The user only
has to copy the full URL of a website and paste it into the URL shortening
tool to come up with an abbreviated version that is around 10 to 20
characters long.
Regular URL - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/us/more-casinos-and-
internet-gambling-threaten-shakopee-tribe.html?_r=1&hp
Shortened URL - http://nyti.ms/P7eg6B
Some URL shorteners come with trafﬁc monitors
URL Shortner

Google URL Shortener
This is a popular shortening tool and probably the best online. It
not only shortens your URLs but also keeps track of the history
of your shortened links and provides you with analytics on how
many people clicked on them and so forth.
Bit.ly
This service allows its users to shorten as many URLs as they
want. It also lets them share and track analytics of their links.

Evernote in education Flipboard Magazine http://bit.ly/1cmL2Ki

StoryBird – Provides beautiful graphics to inspire your stories. Arrange the
images as you wish, add text to tell your story. Story can be embedded on
other web pages. Book versions can be printed for a fee.
Toondo – Fun drag and drop cartoon making tool.
Voki – Create a character, add your voice.
Powtoon – Create slide shows and animated prsentations. Fun tool. Free with
an inexpensive premium plan for educators.
HaikuDeck – Web and app presentation tool. Makes beautifully simple and
effective presentation slides.
Animoto – This is an easy to use tool to create photo & music video stories.
This would be a fun project for an art class. Or to create a video representing
how you feel about a book or movie. Upload your photos, arrange the order,
select a piece of music and let Animoto do it’s magic. Special accounts for
educators.
https://edshelf.com/shelf/joycevalenza-digital-storytelling-tools/
Digital story telling
Many to choose from: https://sites.google.com/a/syd.catholic.edu.au/web-2-online-course/course-modules/module-4

Aurasma
The steps on this PDF take you through just how you do this (click here)
More on Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/kayo287/augmented-reality/
Aurasma is an augmented
reality application that allows
you to overlay any video or
image on top of anything that
your tablet, cell phone, or
any other mobile device can
scan with its camera. Using
Aurasma is very much like
using a QR code reader. In
order to activate the
overlayed image or video,
the object will be scanned
using the Aurasma app.
http://www.aurasma.com/

Rethinking your library
environments
The journey has just begun!

Reading, writing, gaming, trans-media, immersive
worlds, and augmented reality, are all part of the new
digital frontiers leading the re-invention of learning.
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It makes sense to interact both synchronously and
asynchronously, formally or informally, at school, at home,
or on mobile devices.

finding
sharing
collecting
contributing
playing remixing
anytime anywhere
fast
CREATIVELY

We owe it to our
students to
“keep up”!
Are you
prepared?
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Be strategic
Be proactive Be responsive
Know your vision
Be your vision
Communicate your vision
CREATIVELY

Highlight the value of your e-
literacy skills and knowledge to the
entire school community......
and beyond...

heyjudeonline
Judy O’Connell
http://heyjude.wordpress.com
Judy O’Connell

existing data reconnected for
different and smarter uses
cc licensed ( BY ) ﬂickr photo by paul (dex): http://ﬂickr.com/photos/dexxus/3146028811/

What happens with linked data
and why should we care?

Whereas traditional library
metadata has always been focused
on helping humans find and make use of
information, linked data ontologies
are focused on helping machines find and
make use of information.
cc licensed ( BY NC ) ﬂickr photo by tarotastic: http://ﬂickr.com/photos/tjt195/30916171/

This uri ‘http://id.loc.gov/
authorities/sh85042531’
has now become the
globally available, machine
and human readable,
reliable source for the
description for the subject
heading of ‘Elephants’
containing links to its
related terms (in a way
that both machines and
humans can navigate).

It’s not about devices, it’s about
information and
knowledge
because of technology!

Researchers Sequence Entire
Genome of A Baby In Only 50 Hours
“By obtaining an interpreted genome in about
two days, physicians can make practical use of
diagnostic results to tailor treatments to individual
infants and children.”

Developed by
researchers at the
University of
Washington,
Folditturns
scientific problems
into competitive
games.
Gamers Unlock Protein Mystery
.... that Baffled Researchers For Years
Khatib, F., DiMaio, F., Cooper, S., Kazmierczyk, M., Gilski, M., Krzywda, S., Zabranska, H., et al. (2011).
Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein folding game players. Nat Struct
Mol Biol, 18(10), 1175–1177. doi:10.1038/nsmb.2119

12-year-old uses Dungeons and
Dragons in science research
http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/10/30/12-year-old-uses-dungeons-and-dragons-to-help-scientist-dad-with-his-research/
The volunteers
looked at eyes
early and
frequently,
whether they
were on the
creatures’
faces or not.

19-year-old girl in Egypt invents
a spacecraft propulsion device
Mustafa’s device is based on a scientific mix
between quantum physics, space technology,
chemical reactions and electrical sciences.
http://thenextweb.com/africa/2012/05/18/19-year-old-girl-in-egypt-invents-a-spacecraft-propulsion-device/

Connections and
experiences
augmented and
transformed through
immersive
technology and
smart data.
Web 3.0

new frontier of analytics BIG DATA
Examples of such data sets
range from billions of Google
searches conducted by millions
of users to the data collected by
millions of weather sensors
around the globe to all the
purchases of British
supermarket shoppers.

Web 3.0
Web 1.0
Web x.0
Web 2.0
Semantic Web
The Web
Meta Web
Social Web
Degree of Social Connectivity
DegreeofInformationConnectivity
cc""Steve"Wheeler,"University"of"Plymouth,"2010"
Semantic Web
of knowledge
Semantic Web
of intelligence
Web of
information
Web of people &
social information
DegreeofInformationConnectivity

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