Your+Ideas+on+Web+2.0


 * How can Library Media Specialists work with teachers to improve the state of Web 2.0 in instruction/school? **
 * Using texting to respond to surveys
 * Presenting to teachers about the ways that they can use tech. in classrooms
 * Coming up with wiki’s for the teachers that they can add to and that the students can interact with
 * Model or Demo – Show the usefulness to content area
 * Video usage in the classroom
 * Podcasting
 * Digitization of textbooks (e-readers available)
 * SNS research usage
 * Skype for cultural diversity
 * Voki for classroom discussions
 * Work on removing filters
 * Gather research on benefits of Web 2.0 and SNS for adolescents
 * Ning
 * Fakebook and Farcebook
 * Utilize author blogs
 * Collaborate with English teachers for a blog component (takes less time than paper, green solution)
 * Make a wiki for teachers
 * Demo at staff meeting
 * Create a project using a platform
 * Visit a classroom to demo the tech, embed in collaboration
 * Keep the web 2.0 in mind when looking at lessons that are more traditional.
 * Professional development
 * Use students to help you learn about new technologies
 * Students give a web tutorial and demonstrate for teachers and media specialists how to use it in the classroom
 * Make it a part of your media center.
 * Online book reviews.
 * Use Twitter for homework and communication with parents
 * Introduce the tech to teachers in the context of classroom lessons/standards/time savers.
 * Use the tech in your lessons and show it to teachers.
 * Make sure the technology is accessible (not blocked).
 * Advocating for access.
 * Use it in the library, and if it is successful and the kids really like it, the teachers will catch on.
 * Model teaching during a staff meeting
 * Set up students in a web 2.0 platform for a class project and introduce them to this platform and then allow for growth beyond the project
 * Collaboration lesson with teacher where the LMS heads up that 2.0 part of the lesson
 * Work on removing filters from the school
 * Find out what you can and cannot use
 * Gather research on the benefits for students
 * Ning – social network for education
 * Author blogs
 * Fakebook, farcebook – shareshearean characters – take on roles
 * Collaborate with teachers to have them have a blog component
 * Blogs, Glogster, twitter, wiki, prezi, slideshare --- introduce to staff / principal
 * Go to any training opportunities available through PDO and online
 * Adapt and model as many examples as possible for the teachers
 * Change CPS clickers to online PullEverwhere so students can use their cell phones
 * Make a wiki for teachers


 * How can Library Media Specialists expand the notion of Web 2.0 in learning and teaching beyond the school day (e.g., spread this idea among students, teachers, and administrators)? **
 * Using Twitter as a springboard for class discussion
 * Starting a blog or Facebook page focused on a project
 * Using Google docs so that the students can collaborate beyond the school day.
 * Quietude
 * Afterschool clubs (game consoles)
 * Wikis/blogs
 * ARGs available through on-line
 * Podcasting for ipods/mp3 player
 * Jing for online classes
 * SNS research usageImprove web 2.0 tools in instruction?
 * Utilize platforms with 24/7 access, assign HW (where appropriate to a level playing field)
 * Do tech needs analysis at start of school year
 * Model the behaviors
 * Lobby for cell use in class
 * Alternate Web 2.0 video platforms
 * Vocalize the differences and similarities to build digital awareness
 * Student writing blogs and book review wikis
 * Using Google Docs and other accessible technologies that can be used both inside and outside of school.
 * Make sure they are ed. oriented. Using technology that students will get excited about.
 * Tell the students that people are looking at what they are doing online and then they get excited.
 * Student writing blogs
 * Book review wiki
 * Quiettube
 * Utilize platforms with 24-hour access
 * Do a tech needs analysis
 * Model behaviors
 * Lobby for cell use in class
 * HW to post/tweet?
 * Blog
 * Podcasts
 * Pollseverywhere.com
 * Video/YouTube
 * Digitization textbooks
 * Social networking sites usage
 * Audacity (record lesson and can access via blog/website) and listen on their iPod
 * Blogs, website, podcasts
 * Parents can communicate with the librarian through Twitter
 * Concise book reviews on Twitter
 * • Gather data through student surveys/recommendations/etc.
 * Cell phones as a “clicker”
 * Twitter for parents
 * 140 character book review
 * Podcasts – you create and keep them on the library website (how to use the database)