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Digital Storytelling Project

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My First Digital Storytelling Project - November 2010

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Web 2.0 - What We did Today

• What is web 2.0

• Blogs

• Wiki

• Social Bookmarking

Christine Wenrich

August 1, 2010

Diigo

www.diigo.com

You can save articles from the web or parts of articles by highlighting and sending to your library. You can also sticky-note parts of articles. The bookmarked and saved information can be accessed by a number of devices after downloading a small file. My Library is “in the cloud” however and can be accessed on the web.

Classes could simply share ideas about issues with others by giving out the location on the web. Educators can apply for a free upgrade which allows an entire grade to have accounts with pre-set privacy setiings.

Students would be motivated to read articles as they could communicate with their classmates. This is a study aid for research reports – study at school and write at home. A teacher could highlight and share articles with students and get comments back about what was read.

Some students would find this extremely helpful for studying if it works with ebooks. It makes finding information for research reports fast.

Teacher Tube

www.teachertube.com

There are videos, audio, documents and photos on topics of teacher interest for training or the classroom.

It has the sites in a visual format though one can use the search box to access that and others. Students and teachers could grab short informational of training videos on topics, pictures for reports, and audio clips.

This site seems to provide a variety of noncontroversial and useful sites.

TeacherVision

www.teachervision.fen.com

Many resources for teachers – lesson plans which can be searched by grade, subject, or title; current information links,

all kinds of advice like first day of school or classroom management; and newsletters.

There are many printables in the bulletin board section which students might use for projects. Teachers might be lucky and run across a great lesson plan.

This seems useful to check through carefully and make a note on what is useful for oneself.

Here's Another One

Image by FlamingText.com

Week 5: How do you feel, subjectively speaking?

Yes, please think carefully about what you do.

Sunflower

This sunflower was in front of a yummy store that sold honey, jam, and other things you might think of along with homemade. Plus, consider all the happy birds resulting from this flower. Nature, when directed carefully, produces such amazing things.

August 9, 2009

Summer is almost gone - next week into school. Last year was busy and I suspect this year will be too. I've spent some time this summer trying to put together what wants to be a library skills task analysis and timeline, but what will be a task analysis based partly on Teacher's Manuals, 21st century skills for elementary school, and what worked last year. It's dependent on the teachers' schedule - well, during the rainy season most will be on page 145. My framework is a compilation (guess of what) for each grade, k-5, without editing at this point. Ideas?

September 15, 2008

Just began the Discovering Assistive Technology CSLA library learning blog. One could never select the videos oneself without using up a lot of time! Thanks. I'm hoping it will prove useful in my school library.

August 8, 2008

This summer, I am working on becoming more expressive. I am taking a beginners acting class and reading up on storytelling. A goal is to motivate all the students to participate more.
Copy and paste this link for a few great videos on Alvin Ailey's dance group's work. Wow!

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/training/projects/56/show/

May 12, 2008

A survey link for my libraries: Survey

Star Tests

Star Tests are now two weeks away. There is tension. There is worry. There are short tempers. There are thank-yous for help. The teachers try to cover everything that might be on the test. The librarian imagines what might be on the test besides selecting the correct encyclopedia. The students continue to read R.L. Stine. Will life be better after the test...?

Hit Counter

Ok, you know I'll be surprised if I hit 2 on the counter before I return.

The book ordering went well - new Spanish books, good reading, and science this year. The kids like the Mostly Ghostly's and more. The only reject was one set of grade 2 mystery stories - the old copies went out, but I can assume that the students were running short of choices. Many more verbal exchanges would be helpful.

It's that budget cut time of the year and everyone is wondering what will happen to this library building-up project. Hopefully, two more steps of automation and two years of basic book buying will not ouch the system.

CSLA Conference

Photos from November in Ontario, CA.

December 11, 2007

I'm almost through the 900's (not including biography) in automating. It simply takes time. Can't seem to get my other school to snap to the idea of automating, though.

It's time for book orders. There are enough requests to use twice as much money as allocated. New states books are $1000, for example, and this much money is all that is given to a small school of say, 330. Motivating, educational, colorful, clean, reading level, author, how-many-similar, and which-is-better-for-our-school to consider.

PD Photos 9-18-07

Photos Librarian Meeting at Rooftop Elementary on September 18, 2007.

Week 5 - Day 1

The opening of school has been busy. One school greeted me with a huge stack of books without spine label and/or circulation cards. This was the result of converting an extra room into a classroom so that there would be only 20 students in the 4/5 grades. The other with the incredibly motivating task of getting Destiny ready for use, which requires adding Dewey 700 through 900 and fiction still. The library will be so much more easily accessed and cared for with the automation.

PD Photos - Aug. 24,2007

Flicker Photos

Week 9 - Thing 23

As to my favorite moments using SLL 2.0, I'd include the Rollyo on dyslexia as it was so quick to put together having a Special Ed. background. Del.icio.us also was exciting since it looks like it could be easily organized and then searched by teachers and students. It was a special joy to be following directions that worked. This gave me courage. Perhaps I will go forward into HTML and setting up web pages.

It was quite a pleasant surprise to locate an old friend while playing with the blogging spots. I am a great believer in serendipitous searching. However, as there is so much on the web, this overview of 2.0 tools sped up what could have taken much longer.

There are probably a couple one-sentence comments to be made about this experience. One is that knowing about the internet can be real power with many young people.

The blog will prove to be helpful as a teaching reflection site. I will remember to include noteworthy yet relevant keywords so blog searches will pick up the ones I wish to share.

Week 9 - Thing 22 - eBooks

World eBook Fair has offered free downloads of books from July 4 to August 4 since 2006. This fair is sponsored by the World Public Library. The World Public Library has classic books in childrens' and science fiction plus many government publications. There is a selection of audio books. These are both related and linked to Project Gutenberg. Gutenberg promotes free ebooks and has a variety. You can RSS feed it to your homepage to get daily updates on newly added books.

The Best Places to Get Free Books led to Daily Lit which allows one to subscribe to books in daily/weekly installments on their RSS feed. I subscribed to Common Sense by Thomas Paine, as it is one of the ALA Library selections. It is in 24 installments. I would go for 48 to get fewer words per day - more like a daily words of wisdom.