KSMA October 1, 2011 Opening Session

1. Wendy Stephens
Kentucky School Library Association
October 1, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/libtechleader

9. “The great Information Age is really an
explosion of non-information: it is an
explosion of data… The opportunity is that
there is so much information… The
catastrophe is that 99% of it isn’t meaningful
or understandable.”
Alice Yucht, Alice in Infoland, February 18, 2011

11. Teach file
management

13. Share the good and the bad
of social networking

16. “The reason this should seem so silly to us is that
these students were already in the same room.
While a virtual classroom may be a great solution
for distance learning, it’s an unnecessary
contrivance for those who are in the same place at
the same time. That’s one of the most expensive
things about education: getting the people to the
same place, keeping them warm, and so on.”
Douglass Rushkoff, “We Interrupt This Program,”
School Library Journal, February 1, 2011.

18. replicative technologies
allow teachers to mirror traditional educational practices
only with more bells and whistles
Hughes, Thomas, & Scharber (2006)
Replicative technologies include, but are not limited
to, the following
interactive whiteboards (replicating chalkboards or dry
erase boards)
student response systems, aka “clickers” (replicating
multiple choice worksheets or student lap boards)

19. replicative technologies
allow teachers to mirror traditional educational practices
only with more bells and whistles
Hughes, Thomas, & Scharber (2006)
Replicative technologies include, but are not limited
to, the following
use of digital projectors to show teacher-created
PowerPoint slides (replicating overhead projectors)
showing of teacher-selected online videos
(replicating DVD/VHS players)

20. replicative technologies
allow teachers to mirror traditional educational practices
only with more bells and whistles
Hughes, Thomas, & Scharber (2006)
Replicative technologies include, but are not limited
to, the following
student use of pre-selected or filtered web sites to do
research (replicating encyclopedias and pre-selected sets
of learning materials )
content management systems such as Blackboard or
Moodle (when teachers create and students mostly
consume)

25. del.icio.us allows you
to save, classify, and
share links across
machines

26. screencastomic

28. For visual learners…better images
For projects to be posted to the web, try flickr searching for
images with Creative Commons designations.

29. With flickr, and flickr-based sites like behold and flickr storm, you can
share your images with students, and share images with each other.
Unleash the power of tags…

30. Better uses for wikis – creating your own collaborative
study guide.

31. Use wikis to review your students’ drafts online instead of
on paper.

32. Different wiki providers offer different functionality –
seedwiki offer word-style formatting, pbwiki allows for
password protection, wikispaces allows for dedicated urls
like ww2posters.wikispaces.com

33. Some planning ahead is required to use wikis in the classroom –
each student will need their own space to work, and pages within
your wikis must have unique names.

34. Enter the world of virtual reality, and use
avatars. Voki allows you to use one of a
selection of avatars and give voice to it
over the phone, using a digital mic, or using
text-to-voice.

35. Ever wanted to be a cartoonist? Bitstrips drag-and-drop
program makes it easy to create an online comics featuring
your own recurring characters and stage sets. Use it to teach
your students about plot, storyboarding, and visual storytelling.

36. Story board with images at VoiceThread for embeddable slide
shows with voiceovers.

37. Push-button podcasting…
or podOmatic, which allow you to record a podcast or upload
a file and provides you with an xml feed of your podcast so it
can be automatically downloaded in iTunes.

38. Production for publication sparks student engagement.

39. The VOIP application Skype
was great for teleconferencing
for our author visit.

40. With blogger, you can screen all the responses to your
prompts before they become part of the class blog. You can
also use blogger to mo-blog from your mobile phone.

41. Using a scribe means only a single student is responsible for recording and
posting lecture or lesson content.

43. You can use Google documents to produce and save word processing and spreadsheets
online and publish them to the web.

44. Google Calendar is great for time management.

45. Share your bookmarks with your students the easy
way – use utilities like tinyurl and snipurl to produce
compact web addresses.

46. Try PollEverywhere PollDaddy Soctraix or
instant online polling….

47. Citation generators
Noodle Tools
Citation Machine
easybib.com
Knight Cite

51. With your phone’s camera becoming the input device, applications
are being developed to support
View a building and find out if there is space for rent or sale

52. With your phone’s camera becoming the input device, applications
are being developed to support
Make newspapers, magazines and text come to life

53. With your phone’s camera becoming the input device, applications
are being developed to support
Get translation on the fly

54. With your phone’s camera becoming the input device, applications
are being developed to support
See a person’s social profile as they pass you on the street

59. Wendy Stephens
Kentucky School Library Association
October 1, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/libtechleader