Attendance at the PETE&C Conference in Hershey supplied me with a vast amount of valuable information. I plan to use Augmented Reality beginning with QR codes in my library/ classroom. I am so excited the they are bringing back the Keystones. It has been awhile since I have been active with technology due to job changes. Some info about me: Website: http://www.jsasd.k12.pa.us/Page/6979 Blog: http://cybrariancyndisblog.blogspot.com/ Wiki: http://cybrariancyndi.wikispaces.com/ http://internetsearching.wikispaces.com/ http://literarygreats2008.wikispaces.com/ Skype: cwelsh2 Edublogger: #95 Delicous: cybrariancyndi Google: cybrariancyndi@gmail.com 2007 Keystone Technology Integrator

It has been awhile as it seems like there is so little time.

Integration of Technology

It is hard to believe that more than a month has passed and I have not written about my newfound experiences with technology and the various integrations and new web 2.0 tools.

An Awesome learning experience

The creation of this blog and so forth have been an awesome learning experience. I try to stay on top but there is so much that I learned and so many ways I will be able to use what I learned.

My favorite discoveries on this learning journey were finding LibraryThing and using it, learning about tagging and Del.icio.us (social bookmarking site), On-Line Image Generator, including FD Toys, Comic Strip Generator, Custom Signs Generator, Image Chef, and Generator Blog and especially creating my own blog and wiki that I plan to continue. I plan to continue learning and using what I had the opportunity to find and explore.
Web 2.0 has affected my lifelong learning goals in a very positive way, I have become more aware of what is available to teach with and use in the classroom.
An unexpected outcome of this program would be the fact that I blog, journaling was not something I enjoyed doing before and I was not open to allowing others to know what I was thinking or read what I was learning. I have found the reflection is wonderful. The Web 2.0 was awesome and a wonderful learning experience.

eBooks and Audio eBooks

The Gutenberg Project available at World EBook Fair' site is really quit unbelievable. I was able to download Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm and then explored the site - It was very interesting and offered a lot of reading for free and or for a minimal price. Poe, Edgar Allan (436) is something I think our English department would be very interested in. Possibly the use of Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome for our 6th and 7th grades, or A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1735) for our 8th grade. It seems that there would be so much information available for our reading classes. This is really interesting. eBooks and Audio eBooks

Podcasts

A podcast I made is Flotsam Audio Booktalk
Podcasts

YouTube

An excellent U Tube can be found at Download The Connected Classroom WMV versionDownload Connected Classroom MOV version
Another great You Tube can be found of Steve Dembo from the PETE and C conference. Also Will Richardson. You tube allows you to join, upload, share, view and rate video's. Some are fantastic. This was great Web 2.0 .
YouTube and a few sites

Library Thing

I went to LibraryThing and created an account. Books in my library can be found at: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/cybrariancyndi . These are books published in 2007 that I will be using for a Children's Literature class I am teaching. This is fantastic. When I put the books published in 2008 I will use the 2008 tag and I am thinking that I will be able to search for those books published in 2008 in my library. In a before school session with teachers to promote books and reading I have started another Library Thing of just the books in their library that I will be talking about at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/cwelsh

Online Applications & Tools

Zoho Writer and Google Docs (Formerly known as Writely) must be pretty much the same. I have heard positive praise about Google Docs but have not heard of Zoho Writer until now. There is so much here that can be profitable to use in the classroom.

First I made a free account in Zoho Writer .

Wikis

Wiki’s began as a wikiwiki in 1994 / 1995 by Ward Cunninghan --called it a wikiwikiweb for programmers. Wiki means quick or fast (Hawaiian) and is a collaborative on-line website / Internet tool, a simple on-line database, a content management system, a website that allows the users to visit, read, reorganize, brainstorm, add, edit, delete and update information and allows users to work collaboratively to create a website with no knowledge to html. Lists are made of changes including the time of changes and who changed. Wiki’s can have:
Course information
Course discussion
Subject Guides
Book Discussions
Reader Reviews
Collaboration
Knowledge Sharing
Creating Stories
Conferences
Professional Development
Technology Professional Development
Creative Writing about things learned in class / library
Links to relevant Web sites
Key events of the class
Comments and exchanges of writing --For the students and ESL learner jokes, riddles, questions Teachers can query then students post written responses allowing the students to read and respond to other student’s ideas evolving more into a discussion instead of teacher directed.
The best know wiki is Wikipedia. A wiki that I am working on is a literature wiki (mostly specific to recently published children's literature K-8 located at https://literarygreats2008.wikispaces.com/ at this point it is open to anyone, later I will probably be restricting it.

Top Tools for learning

What are the Top 100 Tools for learning? The Top 20? Here is a great download that will come in handy to learn more about these tools and play for awhile. I must check with Discovery Learning. They had taken a poll and I do not remember what the top 10 were.

I liked how the top ten most frequently mentioned on 2008 lists by other teachers, instructional designers and online learning specialists (many I am familiar with and have used) are listed here from the InfoBytes NewsletterJanuary 16, 2008Editor: Karen Franker. -- Sometimes it pays to go back through old emails and clean out my box.
Skype – host IM chat, conference and international calls
Del.icio.us - store, tag and share bookmarks online, valuable resource for finding others’ favorite sites
GoogleDocs - write documents to share, store, present and access from anywhere via the web (no more emailing drafts); import docs from MS Office and Open Office
Google Reader - aggregate and read all your news and blog feeds in this free web-based reader
Audacity - record podcasts and edit audio files
Google Search – research topics with this highly-regarded and powerful Web searching tool
Camtasia - record your computer screen to create training videos or screencasts
Articulate – create tutorials and quizzes with three tools – Presenter converts PowerPoints to Flash tutorials with narration, Engage adds interactivity, and Quizmaker creates Flash-based tests and surveys
Captivate - create flash cards and interactive simulations for self-paced online learning
SnagIt - capture, edit and print screen images and make a video of on-screen actions

It is also nice to have them listed here for me so that I can go back through the website address and check out more later.

International Edubloggers Directory

International Edubloggers Directory
is a directory of edubloggers from around the world, where I can check into and learn from what they (other edubloggers) are blogging about.
Cindy Welsh, USA, K-8, Adult,
LibraryTeacher/ Library Media Specialist
Cybrarian Cyndi's BlogMy musings about Web 2.o tools, Libraries, and Technology.
Theme: web 2.o tools, libraries, technology, gifted support teacher, adult education teacher
Labels: adult education, adult education teacher, gifted support teacher, k-8, libraries, technology, usa, web2.0

Also check out EduBloggerWorld. I am member #582. Check out the Frappr Map at: http://edubloggerworld.wikispaces.com/Our+Frappr+Map

I am also a member of Keystones Who's Who (Keystone Technology Integrator 2007)

What Do We Know About Our Kids’ Futures? Really.

I have admired and have great respect for Will Richardson (he spoke at PETE&C last year) and love to read Weblogg- ed.
Check out all the excellent discussion What Do We Know About Our Kids’ Futures? Really. at : http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/what-do-we-know-about-our-kids-futures-really/

Web 2.0.

Web 2.0

The image to the right, came from Wikipedia

-- September 30, 2005, Tim O'Reilly wrote a piece summarizing his view of Web 2.0. The mind-map (constructed by Markus Angermeier [1] on November 11, 2005) sums up some of the memes of Web 2.0, with example-sites and services attached.

This mind map is very similar to tag clouds.

Technorati

Technorati Profile

Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts

How big is the blogosphere? Technorati is currently tracking 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media....according to Technorati data, there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second.

First --- a keyword search for "Cybrariancyndi" and I came up with one result Week 2 - Thing 3 Blog and Avatar . It was 21 days ago Tagged: Cybrarian Cyndi's first blog posting Has a screen shot and rating ..................Cybrarian Cyndi's Blog........http://cybrariancyndisblog.blogspot.com/
Rank: 8,911,336

Now on to “School Library Learning 2.0” in 1,817 results 32 posts, 20 blogs, 42 photo's in tags. I then explored popular blog, searches and tags.

OK I've tagged posts with Technorati tags -- become part of Technorati tag searches. Then to claiming my blog and created a watchlist. Also checked into how to favorite blogs where I chose my favorite blogs so the latest posts will always be listed.
REMEMBER: HTML code - make sure in Blogger's Edit HTML window.
Checked out Technorati Tour – Technorati Discover & Popular features

******************Curriculum Connections -- use Technorati to locate blogs and other sites relating to election when we (Collaborated lessons with 8th and 7th grade Social Studies classes) work with research and the unit on the election.

Tagging and Del.icio.us (social bookmarking site)

Tagging / Tags - A bookmark, Unstructured - following no guidelines, user creates/ chooses the keywords to associate with their online content, -- very different than the library's structured rules and formal catorgories.

Even though I don't think I ever really noticed it before, lately, it seems that I see tagging everywhere (Flickr, Technorati, LibraryThing, del.icio.us (to bookmark pages and add tags - social bookmarking allows me to also see what others have tagged and get other places to find information this is a little strange getting into other people's information - it almost feels like I should not look). At the PETE&C sessions Tagging was a big word in the Web 2.0 sessions where I even learned about tag clouds - how interesting!) I have the freedom to associate my own words and I fell a little apprehensive.

In a del.icio.us search for web 2.0 I found : Related tags: web2.0 web webdesign ajax design tools internet blog business technology For PETE&C I found Related tags: web2.0 education technology tools web wiki resources video conference conferences . I can learn from sessions at the conference that I was unable to attend. This will be almost as wonderful as the Virtual Conference provided by DEN. Wouldn't it be neat if all conferences were virtual? I could watch and listen to all sessions that I wanted to see. The cost would be so much cheaper, no overnights, no driving in the snow and ice, no problems finding a spot to park, no problems finding a room because I booked late, No running to get to a session only to find it is completely full. Wow wouldn't it be nice? I think if I remember right there were more than 2500 people at the PETE&C and at the banquet it was so packed.

Now we have Web 3.0: Is It About . How can that be I am just figuring out web 2.0 and I am behind again.

Back on track again, I have looked at and enjoyed del.icio.us and the Del.icio.us tutorial by Santa Cruz Public Library. Probably I should have started with this as it was very good, I then watched another excellent video and then went on to SJLibraryLearning2 to learn more - I subscribed to this using the RSS, created a Del.icio.us account and a network badge. I checked into Us.ef.ul: A beginners guide to Del.icio.us . Del.icio.us has potential for research assistance in addition to being an easy way to create bookmarks with the advantage that the bookmarks can be accessed from anywhere and any computer. Cloud tags look neat but not sure how to get it into this blog.

More Rollyo

I am back with a Rollyo account and I am to be able to create my search tool for on-line resources - My School_Library 2.0
I found and looked at these created search rolls:Public Domain e-Books SearchRare Book Library SearchFree PhotosQuick Quotes, Reference, WIReD.I can now see a potential use for tools like this I was trying to gather different blogs and posting of what was available about PETE&C and have them on my blog, but what better than to put those sites into a Rollyo. I addded a blogroll to my site earlier: using the "Create a Searchbox" tool. Select...Reference. Search The Web

PETE&C Notes

There are so many wonderful bloggers to learn from and wiki sites that for me to tell about the PETE&C would be pale in comparison. One great place to go to find out more about the sessions is Reporting Back , Eduwikius, NitscheNotes, The Connected Classroom where Kristen has Steve Dembo's keynote session recorded, and also Slideshow.

Bloggers To Learn From

I really like David Warlick's site 2¢ Worth and as usual it is excellent, A path to becoming a Literate Educator and the steps, including a list of Bloggers To Learn From. Along these same lines - Books To Learn From. The three things that have helped me the most are Discovery Educators Network, PETE&C and this Web 2.0 course.