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Meeting Two:  October 25

Meeting One Notes

Includes links and information about Delicious and Twitter.

Burning Questions:

You can continue to add your questions (about technology, about 21st century education, about personalized education, about collaboration, about the role of libraries, or about other things you think we should think about together) to document. 

What is still relevant?

Survival in a rapidly changing environment depends almost entirely upon being able to identify which of the old concepts are relevant to the demands imposed by the new threats to survival, and which are not. Then a new educational task becomes critical: getting the group to unlearn (to "forget") the irrelevant concepts as a prior condition of learning.   Neil Postman

Let's continue to ponder.  Add to our list.

Our three tools reviewed this week

1.  Social Bookmarking:  Delicious

Go to http://delicous.com and get an account.

Things to think about:

Tagging

Tagging is something students need to understand (see Vicki Davis' lesson for students) and so do we!  See the Wikipedia article - and the interesting phenomena of tag "convergence".  Facebook picture tagging and geotagging have become an issue for students (and us) to think about.  Note that you can search quickly by using tags. If you add in tl68 (our tag), then you can find out what we (your trusted sources) are thinking about the topic you are searching.  (Note: I only add tl68 to bookmarks I think are directly relevant to our work together.)   

Following

You can add people to a "follow" list to quickly review their recent bookmarks.  You can also add them to your RSS feed (more next month!).  If we don't have your delicous site, add it below or email it to Shelley. Just go to http://www.delicious.com/.  Add the name after the forward slash. ie.  http://www.delicious.com/sbeleznay

patricemauriks

valmart

lsjones

sparkleyat40

tjreynol

lkwillia

mhak

2.  Collaborative Blogging:  Posterous

Our blog is set up at posterous:  http://tl68.posterous.com 

To post to the blog, just email tl68@posterous.com.  The subject line is the blog title.  Attached documents are automatically added to the post.  To post from the Posterous site (rather than email), you have to create a posterous account.

3.  Twitter

Go to http://twitter.com and get an account.  (For more information and articles about twitter, go here.)  

Follow sbeleznay.  Just go to http://twitter.com/sbeleznay.  Click on the follow button. 

Check out other teacher-librarian tweeters to follow here:  http://twitter.com/sbeleznay/tl68

Other places we mentioned

The new grade 4 resources page.

Pinterest - see our grade 4 pinterest board

Tagxedo - a wonderful word cloud site

Learning Commons: Heather and Val went to the session on John Oliver’s Learning Commons.  Read principal Gina Bondi’s blog post.  He writes this:  “Learning Commons would be the impetus for a cultural sea-change that would enable every student and every teacher, as well as parents, teachers from other schools, and other members of the community to share in the 21st century learning experience.”  (And follow him on twitter @gmbondi.  Also check out TL Moira Ekdahl's blog.)  Read more information on learning commons.  And, of course, it's always nice to reread Chris Kennedy (he will be speaking at District Day) on libraries. (And follow him on twitter @chrkennedy.)

Wiki:  We agreed to add to this wiki, beginning with PSA day links - and it's already begun!  (Thanks Moira.)  Please add to the BCTLA Conference 2011 page.  I have added you all as writers on this wiki.  All you need to do is get a PBWorks account and start playing.  (Don't worry.  It's very hard to hurt a wiki!!)  For help to get started, just go to "Working with Wikis."  You'll see my wonderful screencast to show you how to sign up for your account.

Homework

• Post at least one tweet on Twitter.  Tag it #tl68 (Note: we agreed to leave off the "chat".)
• Bookmark at least one link on Delicious.  Tag it tl68.
• Contribute at least one post to our blog - a favourite book, a question, picture, video, an experience in your library.  Post your library metaphor if you haven't already done so.  
• Comment on at least one blog post.