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Put A Blog on the Fire! Light That Wiki! Web Tools to Inspire Learning

Explore the power of blogs and wikis in education, from creating and finding blogs to understanding the blogosphere and leveraging the collaborative potential of wikis. Discover how these tools can impact student learning, foster critical thinking, and encourage authentic audience engagement. Learn how to integrate blogs and wikis into your teaching practice, and gain insights into using them effectively for information literacy and student-created content. Find resources, case studies, and tips for success.

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Put A Blog on the Fire! Light That Wiki! Web Tools to Inspire Learning

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  1. Put A Blog on the Fire! Light That Wiki! Web Tools to Inspire Learning Anita Brooks Kirkland Library Consultant, Information Technology Services Waterloo Region District School Board

  2. Email Static Websites Proprietary Knowledge The Old Web One Many Knowledge of HTML Web-authoring Software Expertise

  3. Web 2.0 One Many

  4. Web 2.0 Many Many

  5. What do other readers think? What might also interest me? Reader’s “Discovery Tool” Reviews Description

  6. The Life / School Disconnect Text Messaging ? Podcasting User-Created Content MSN Chat Social Networking Video Sharing Video Games Online Communities Blogging Music Sharing

  7. Information Literacy Student-created Content for Learning Teacher-Librarian’s Toolkit Professional Development Library Service Delivery

  8. Information Literacy Student-created Content for Learning Teacher- Librarian’s Toolkit Professional Development Library Service Delivery Blogs & Blogging • What is a blog? • The Blogosphere • Citizen Journalism • Finding popular blogs • Finding library / education blogs • Subscribing to blogs • Creating blogs

  9. Simple design: last item appears first. Ability to comment. Ability to subscribe. Anatomy of a Blog: One to Many, and Back Again Commentary / Opinion News

  10. Blogs and “Citizen Journalism”

  11. The Blogosphere Shaping public opinion. Gauge of public opinion. Manipulating public opinion?

  12. Truth in journalism?

  13. Finding Blogs Search for controversial topic Results ranked by relevance and popularity

  14. Finding Blogs of Professional Interest Subject-specific Directory Check colleagues’ “blog rolls”

  15. Libraries are Blogging Readers’ comments.

  16. WLU Library Blogs Library News What’s New RSS Subscription Options

  17. Blogging for Learning Macgregor P.S. Gr. 8 Literature Circle Blog UWO MLIS Course Blog

  18. Glenview Park Secondary School Library Book Blog

  19. GPSS Library Book Blog Sample Post Post Categories & Tagging

  20. Evidence of Success? • Motivation: Students like writing online • Quality: Students take more care with authentic audience • Peer Interaction: Response form fosters discussion • Flexibility: Students can participate from anywhere, anytime • Participation: Students who would not come to a library book club are eager to participate in the GPSS blog, especially boys

  21. Learning More from Other Library Sectors Waterloo Public Library Book Club Blog Posts include links to: Author’s website Reviews in NoveList Library Catalogue WPL flickr Account

  22. WPLflickrAccount

  23. Information Literacy Student-created Content for Learning Teacher- Librarian’s Toolkit Professional Development Wiki? Library Service Delivery Wikis • What is a wiki? • Wikipedia • Learning from Wikipedia • Wikis for professional collaboration • Wikis for student learning • Creating a wiki

  24. Do you allow students to cite Wikipedia? What are you teaching students about how Wikipedia works? What do you know about how Wikipedia works? What are we doing with Wikipedia? What are you telling students about their use of Wikipedia?

  25. Anonymous contributors? Bias? Authority? Malicious Content? Citations? Vandalism? Inconsistency? Teacher-librarian Wikipedia angst.

  26. Make you nervous? Authoritative source? • Wikipedia Vision • Collaboration • Consensus • Community • Quality Control through collaboration • Neutral View • The more it’s used, the better it gets

  27. Google Test Edit War Wikiphobic Community Portal Bot Pokémon Test Collaborations Stub Wikiac Wikipediholic Mergist Inclusionist Deletionist To do lists Sandbox Systemic Bias WikiFairy Troll Village Pump

  28. Wikipedia Quality Control

  29. Perhaps the best source for some topics?

  30. Comprehensive content, broad range of topics. Dynamic content Controls

  31. User Profiles:How much do they matter in Wikipedia model of consensus? Not happy with Wikipedia controls. Contributor to article on Stockwell Day. (Yet article is quite benign.)

  32. Try contributing to Wikipedia from a WRDSB site.

  33. WRDSB Users cannot access red links. (Gee, I wonder what our students have been up to?)

  34. Is Wikipedia a legitimate source? • Considerations: • Topic • Purpose of research • Audience Who needs to understand how Wikipedia works, what it is and what it isn’t? • Teacher-librarians • Teachers • Students

  35. Collaborative Writing and Research with Wikis Penn State Course Wiki Elementary School Literature Circle Wiki. Teaching Hacks: Wiki Collaboration on Integrating ICT into Curriculum & Instruction.

  36. OSLA Council Wiki: Developing Advocacy Resources (Under Construction) Different sections for different writing groups

  37. Shared writing page Sharing resources Text Table Uploaded Files

  38. Information Literacy Student-created Content for Learning • Wikipedia Vision • Collaboration • Consensus • Community • Quality Control through collaboration • Neutral View • The more it’s used, the better it gets • Wikis for Learning Vision • Collaboration • Synthesizing Understanding • Group Structure & Roles • Quality writing through collaboration • Broadened View • The more it’s used, the better it gets Teacher- Librarian’s Toolkit Professional Development Library Service Delivery Wikis for Student Learning

  39. Step One: Start reading some blogs, especially from library / school library thinkers Step Two:Start subscribing to blogs, and responding to blog posts Step Three: Try creating a blog Step Four: Participate in a wiki, and/or try creating your own Step Five: Make the connection to existing instructional goals, and use in your library teaching program Web 2.0 How To: Homework!

  40. Step One: Start reading some blogs, especially from library / school library thinkers Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search Blog http://joycevalenza.edublogs.org David Warlick’s 2 Cents Worth Blog http://davidwarlick.com/2cents Jenny Levine’s Shifted Librarian Blog http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk Blog http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog

  41. Browser Step Two:Start subscribing to blogs, and responding to blog posts Online Service Fine, if always accessing from the same computer. Online Service Keeps track of what you’ve read, no matter where you are and what computer you use. Great additional features.

  42. Step Three: Try creating a blog Create an account. Create your blog. Use WYSIWYG Editor to write posts. Edit posts, monitor comments. Publish your blog.

  43. Step Four: Participate in a wiki, and/or try creating your own Create wiki and add pages Add & edit content with WYSIWIG editor Share resources by uploading files Develop a common vision through powerful online collaboration

  44. Information Literacy Student-created Content for Learning Step Five: Make the connection to existing instructional goals, and use in your library teaching program Teacher- Librarian’s Toolkit Professional Development Library Service Delivery • match to existing strategy • use for added value, enhanced learning • use strategically • don’t use technology solely for the engagement • factor: make sure it makes sense and has the • potential to improve practice

  45. Quality Models + Wiki Templates = Powerful Learning Experiences

  46. Information Literacy Student-created Content for Learning Teacher- Librarian’s Toolkit Professional Development Library Service Delivery The Life / School Reconnect

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