sharing the #ecislib2011 love

this is the email i sent to staff (and an edited version to students) on returning from #ecislib2011...

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the triennial ECIS Librarians conference in Istanbul, a fantastic conference in a fantastic city.

You can read all my notes on my 2 page conference blog – it’s not just for librarians – the majority of points are relevant to all teachers, looking at the future of learning.

Naturally I have bookmarked everything online but I wanted to highlight some of the tools that were shared, you may know some already, there is literally ‘something for everyone’ J

squrl – bookmark videos, thumbnail for each with your own text

livebinders - create binder online, students or teachers can gather research, inc media
only two clicks – screenshots of everything you want to link to with thumbnail links

photo peach – no account needed, slideshow, add music, audience add comments

easywhois – shows you who owns a website - useful for evaluating
polleverywhere – multiple choice poll including by mobile

finding dulcinea – pathfinders

wallwisher - for backchat, can post questions for later or look up or for content analysis, building on knowledge
hashtag paper - to pull together info daily from twitter, rather like flipboard on the ipad, good way of using twitter for the first time

Flubaroo – takes google forms - runs script, you select answer key and it gives total points and percentages
Mobilefish - tools for web design, inc. qr codes

jamstudio for creating your own music

artstor – for art and history

for ebooks, book trailers and more:
booktrailersforall – collection of book trailers, includes qr codes

Digitales – inc. interactive rubrics for video stories
skype an author – for virtual author visits

children’s digital library – works esp. well on whiteboard, celebrates language and culture

big universe – for ls books

canadian shakespeare – great for Shakespeare – enhanced books

glogster - use to gather book trailers or other info together

shelfari, book box – social networking for book lovers

@bookchica’s wiki - for book trailers 
@mrshureads “Watch Connect Read”

and for internet searching alternatives:
google squared - search results tabulated, nice for comparative ideas/perspectives 
mashpedia - real time searching - great for up to second news

google advanced - example use local view on issue – specify site:tr for certain country (turkey) etc
sortfix – for sorting searching, good for search process, thinking tool
quintura – a visual search, inc quintura for kids
twurdy – returns results by lexile
searchcredible – reminds of alternative sources, including many i recommend for advanced searching (bubl, intute)
wolfram alpha – you might know this already esp. if you’re a maths/science teacher
pipl – people search
flickr storm – creative commons image search, you can set up a ‘tray’ of images to share with URL
comp fight – image searching (flickr search, cc and safesearch)

please feel free to leave a comment

thanks

Donna

The Tech Factor - my saturday presentation

the tech factor on Prezi
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Joyce Valencia and Doug Johnson

here's the smackdown where we're posting stuff to share

vision for the profession, not time to sit back, create own future
not about stuff but what is in librarian's heads
ok to be beta - not perfect if outside the box
learners learn with you

concentrate on what's important
work with the living - realise you can't work with everyone
web 2.0 freedom banner for librarians

3 ideas to embrace
smartest person in the room is the room
we are a 'tribe'
who's in charge of starting stuff - you should be saying 'go'

look at the bookmarks i've been making btw, here's a few to start...
Flubaroo - takes google forms - runs script - select answer key - gives total points and percentage
Mobilefish.com - tools for webdesign, inc qr codes
google squared - search results tabulated - have seen before but worth playing with again
mashpedia* need to play with - real time searching - great for up to second news

Debbie Abilock – Cultural Competence and New Authority

Debbie Abilock – Cultural Competence and New Authority

What is culture – what do we have in common?

Culture shapes motivation
Culture shapes our view of history
Culture shapes whom we credit with our success
Cultural shapes our emotional responses

Our cultures shape evaluation of sources
point of view has a cultural component
trust in media and scepticism varies

teaching suggestions:
ask students to shift lens
initiate conversation among diverse students
ask students how they could modulate their communication to diverse audience
work with teachers to have students develop complex questions about a culture they are researching
expect diversity in answers

change the rhetoric from debate to deliberative dialogue – understanding dif points of view
teach ethnographic observation – looking and understanding rather than judging
don’t predict behaviour by group
seek to understand, talk about race

Continuum of cultural proficiency

self awareness – of own culture
awareness of other cultures – like but different

just different not good or bad

Digital book trailers – Tara Russell Ethridge

See ‘Presentation Zen’ Garr Reynolds – alternative to powerpoint – image based linear

Essential ingredients for good trailers
- keep it simple
- capture the essence
- don’t give away the ending (end with a question to grab)
- choose photos that make you think, nothing obvious, think bigger and deeper
- keep the flow of emotion
- attribution share the cc love

Books that lend themselves best to book trailers are social realism.
(use for elementary – comp fight (flickr search, cc) and safesearch)
school needs common agreement for citation for images – for US I like the kids to do full MLA format - if someone has taken time to take and post photo then they can spend 2 mins inputting into noodlebib

Only use 8 images max – students plan before what should look like (storyboard)

use free tool, with music, photo peach – no account needed, slideshow
music select (part of tool) at end to avoid distraction
people can even make comments – this is great!

@bookchica’s wiki for book trailers

See also @mrshureads “Watch Connect Read”

Campaigning for the Book – Alan Gibbons

http://alangibbons.net/

Universal problem for libraries at moment, first to be cut

Libraries - literacy and information providers for all
Campaigns best when local goes global
Reading socialized activity.

Right to browse, think, learn

As literacy levels fall the most effective way of improving them (libraries) are being closed

Have won moral argument

To g’ment seems that bankers bonuses are more important than putting book into child’s hand

Joyce Valenza – School Library 2.2 – (or whatever is coming next) library

http://valenzaecis.wikispaces.com/

No longer like a grocery store but more like a kitchen – go there to get stuff and also make stuff and share stuff
pantry of things to use – not only pencils and stuff but also cables, cameras, tripods

Libratory – celebration of transliteracy, creating best essays and media

Librarian is the master chef

springshare worth looking at for libraries as website

Reading 2.0
Screensaver of book covers or photos of people reading

putting author/books links on sticker at back of book (or QR code!)
Book talk mashups
booktrailersforall – collection of book trailers, includes qr codes
could also have a computer (or ipad 2?) dedicated – if it has a camera, kids can scan books to see trailers (or whatever)

Get kids to do library video – either with camera or goanimate/xtranormal
international children’s digital library – works esp well on whiteboard, celebrates language and culture
big universe – for ls books
canadian shakespeare – great for Shakespeare – enhanced books
google custom search to look at certain favourite sites – eg: ebooks
glogster to gather book trailers
can embed google book

social network sites – shelfari, book box,
look at unquiet library for lots of stuff about ebooks
google forms for book suggestions - have been looking for solution for this!
skype an author network
development for our website - have library trailer of the week embedded

Pathfinders – content curation
sqwarl – bookmark videos thumbnail with your own text
also look at livebinders to create binder online, students or teachers can gather research, inc media
and a plug for delicious which makes me happy