I am struggling to get a new presentation ready for Internet@Schools for next week. As always, there is way too much to share.
I made some very cool discoveries as I gathered resources for the session. The coolest of which is Helene Blowers 23 Learning 2.0 Things, things all library staff members should get familiar with. Inspired by Stephen Abram’s Feb. 06 article 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year and the website 43Things, Helene presents “23 Things (or small exercises) that you can do on the web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0.” The goal is to motivate the library staff to learn more about emerging technologies.
Helene is the Public Services Technology Director for the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (PLCMC). Her 23 things include friendly, understandable descriptions, inspiring podcasts, and a great selection of links.
I hope Helene doesn’t mind if her K12 colleagues borrow some of her inspiration! How would you plan the 23 (or so) things school library folks or teachers should get to know for next school year? Another summer project planned!
Thanks, Helene!
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Hi Joyce,
Please use the content from the site all that you want. In fact you might want to take a look at California School Library 2.0 blog http://schoollibrarylearning2.blogspot.com/index.html & wiki http://csla2pt0.pbwiki.com/ They are promoting it as summer activity.
Helene
Hi Joyce, Well Helene beat me to this. I am part of the group that is creating the “23 Things” for California school librarians and we’ll be happy to share once it is all set for “prime time.”
[...] Interested in knowing how to create cool posters, much like the prior post: READING - It gives you drive? I learned of it from the terrific website, Learning 2.0: 23 Things (thanks, Joyce Valenza for leading my way to it). 23 Things was developed by the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County to encourage the staff to learn at least 23 new social networking tools. One that is listed is Flickr Toys which has many, many cool things to do with photos. I used Motivator to create the poster, but check-out all the other things you can do. [...]
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