Making Your Library Googlicious

A joint presentation by Joanna Sanders Bobiash and Terry Pon, Regina Public Schools
RPSD, RCSD and PVSD Teacher-Librarian Professional and Learning Day
Regina, SK - October 25, 2011

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Regina TLs Day of Learning: Anytime, Anywhere, Anyone: Transitioning Toward 21st Century Learning

Keynote Resources from: bit.ly/SaskTL

Anytime,Anywhere, Anyone (Resources) - #SaskTL

Dr. Alec Couros
couros@gmail.com
@courosa
skype: aleccouros
youtube.com/courosa

Websites in Order of Appearance:

• SaskTL - Twitter search.

• About.Me - Alec’s About.Me page (as an example).

• Photo-A-Day Group - 2011/365 Group (mostly educators).

• EC&I 831 - Open graduate course, “social media and open education”.
• The Open Doctrine - My own personal attack ad (video).

• The Digital Native: Myth & Reality - Selwyn (2009)
• Debunking the Digital Native - Brown (2010)
• Visitors & Residents - David White
• Why Youth Heart Social Networks - danah boyd
• Justin Bieber Chrome Ad - Summary of his career growth.
• Maria Aragon - Sings born this way.
• Amanda Hocking - Young fiction writer.
• Connectivism - George Siemens
• Smartphones Surpass Desktops - From Mary Meeker
• Amazon Selling More Kindle Books Thank Print Books - From Amazon

• Creative Commons - Copyleft licensing mechanism & search.

• Sprint’s Now Network - Clever commercial from Sprint.

• Teenagers Living with Social Media - Keynote (video) from danah boyd

• David After the Dentist Description - Wikipedia article.
• Antoine Dodson Description - Wikipedia article.

• Best Job In the World - Top 16 applicants for the Best Job in the World.

• Saskatchewanderer - Saskatchewan’s version of the same contest.

• Saskatchewander Disqualified - From the Leader Post.

• Stephen Downes - Downes’ wise commentary on the Best Job in the World.

• Naheed Nenshi & Social Media - Social Media Analysis of Naheed Nenshi’s campaign.

• Trip Advisor - Popular hotel rating site.
• CouchSurfing - Find or lend a couch.

• Young Me, Now Me - Collaborative photo project.

• Dear Photograph - Collaborative photo project.

• The Networked Teacher - Diagram of a PLN.
• Visualizing Open & Networked Learning - Blog post.

• PS22 Chorus - Grade 5 Chorus

• Bow Drill Set - Young person’s networked learning.

• Writing Prompts for Teacher Candidates - Post about a collaborative Google Doc.

• Virtual Choir - Collaborative choir by Eric Whitacre.
• Johnny Cash Project - Collaborative artistic music video.
• Star Wars Uncut - Star Wars redone 15 seconds at a time.
• Khan Academy - Featuring over 2000+ educational videos.

• Twitter in 60 Seconds - From Jim Gates.
• High School Teacher Loses Job - Facebook picture.

• Thank You For Being a Friend - A tribute for my 40th birthday.

• 21st Century Literacy Framework - From the NCTE

Standards/Background:

• The Typical Teacher Network - This diagram attempts to visualize the typical network of teachers.
• The Networked Teacher - Increasingly more teachers are developing rich personal learning networks (PLNs) through the use of social media (sometimes called Web 2.0 tools).
• PLE Diagrams - Scott Leslie has compiled comprehensive list of individuals who have visualized their personal learning environme
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• What Does the Network Mean to You? - I asked the question of my network, "what does the network mean to you?". As a result, dozens of people responded via Voicethread (through text, audio, video) to explain their thoughts on networked learning and professional development.

• ISTE/NETS Student Standards
• ISTE/NETS Teacher Standards
• NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies
• 2011 Horizon Report

Examples and Information About Open Courses

• Social Media & Open Education (#eci831)
• Call for Networked Mentors (#eci831)
• Call for Networked Mentors - Follow-Up (#eci831)
• CCK08/09
• Personal Learning Environments Networks & Knowledge (PLENK)
• What is a MOOC (video)
• Success in a MOOC (video)
• Knowledge in a MOOC (video)
• Digital Storytelling (#ds106)
• CCK11 - Week 6 Readings

21st Century Learning in Practice (videos):

• Welcome to my PLE (video)Enable screen reader
• Why are some users anonymous? Learn more
• The Networked Student (video))

Communication/Networking Tools & Tutorials

• Twitter
• Twitter for Teachers (list of tweeps in various categories)
• Twitter for Teachers (another wiki with tools & resources)
• Twitter Handbook for Teachers (online document with tools & tips)
• Tweetdeck (most popular Twitter client, software download)
• HootSuite (another Twitter client, web-based)
• MapMyFollowers (easily map the range of your network)
• List of Educational Hashtags (from Cybraryman)
• Wordpress.com (a simple and free, hosted, blogging platform)
• Wordpress.org (where you can get Wordpress software if you want to host it yourself)
• Kidblog.org (Wordpress-based tool for hosting & managing student blogs easily)
• Weebly (easy to use website creator and blogging tool)
• Wix (free and easy, Flash website creator)
• Edmodo (easy but powerful, classroom social networking)

• Wikispaces (one of the most popular wiki tools, adfree for educators)
• PBWorks (another popular wiki tool)
• LinkedIn (important, career-based social networking tool)
• Schoology (free learning management system, course communication/creation tool)
• Posterous (very easy blogging/communication tool)
• Tumblr (media-friendly blog platform)
• Skype (most popular video/audio conferencing tool)
• join.me (video/audio conferencing tool)

• Tokbox (similar to skype but nothing to install, free for videoconferencing)

• Chatzy (free private chat rooms)
• TinyChat (live video chat rooms - beware of some inappropriate content)
• Today’s Meet (easy to setup chat w/ tags)
• WizIQ (virtual classroom for online teaching and learning)

Productivity & Collaboration Tools

• Google (Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Sites, Reader, iGoogle, Trends, Analytics, Adsense, Others)
• Open Office (Free alternatives to Microsoft Office)
• Dropbox (free storage & cloud syncing)
• AirDropper (works w/ Dropbox to extend functionality) - similar, DropItToMe
• The Ultimate Dropbox & Toolkit Guide (great guide with many useful tips)
• Evernote (a great notetaking tool) - EverNote Webclipper add-on recommended
• Delicious (the standard for social bookmarking)
• Diigo (advanced social bookmarking)
• Instapaper (simple tool to save web pages for reading later)
• Scribd (easy document hosting & management tool)
• Learnboost (online grade management tool)
• MapAList (create and manage address-linked maps)

Screencasting, Video, Photos, Audio

• Jing (free software for screencasting and image capture)
• Screenr (free, web-based software for creating screencasts)
• Animoto (easy way to create engaging videos from your imagery)
• Flickr (popular photo-sharing site, great for finding copyleft images)
• Aviary (popular media-editing suite)
• Jaycut (free video editing)
• Handbrake (rip and pull DVDs (Mac)
• KeepVid (download videos from Youtube & other sources)
• Zamzar (online file conversion)
• Lightworks (free video editing software for Windows)
• PhotoStory 3 (story maker for Windows)
• One True Media (create slideshows and share)
• Soundcloud (audio hosting & embedding)
• uStream (free live video streaming)
• LiveStream (another free livestreaming service)
• Blip.fm (social music service)
• GrooveShark (social music service, allows shared playlists)
• fd’s Flickr Toys (number of ‘toys’ for your images)

Presentation Tools

• Prezi (popular alternative to Powerpoint)
• Slideshare (great way to host slide decks & create screencasts)
• Glogster (alternative presentation format tool)
• 280Slides (similar to Powerpoint, but online)
• SlideRocket (another popular Powerpoint alternative)
• PhotoPeach (easy, sharable slideshows)
• Wordle (easy way to create word clouds)
• Tagul (another way to create word clouds)
• Stupeflix (another slideshow creation tool)
• Dipity (timeline creation tool)
• Voki (creating talking avatars)
• Xtranormal (create movies via text)
• GoAnimate (create cartoons and animations easily)
• Voicethread (create interactive presentations)
• VuVox (create great presentations)

Collaborating Thinking/Writing Tools

• Quora (post questions & answers)
• Dabbleboard (online whiteboard)
• Skrbl (Super-easy whiteboard)
• TypeWithMe (multi-author document creator)
• Mind42 (collaborative mindmapping tool)
• Webspiration (collaborative mind-mapping tool)

Referencing/Attribution Tools

• BibMe (online referencing tool)
• EasyBib (another online referencing tool)
• Plagium (plagiarism detection)
• Zotero (great research tool for organization, citation, bibliographies)
• Mendeley (a free reference manager and academic social network)

Polls & Surveys

• Doodle (easy scheduling tool)
• PollEverywhere (polling tool)
• Polldaddy (survey software)
• Google forms (surveys)

Aggregators

• Netvibes (personal, dashboard-like aggregator)
• Symbaloo (another popular dashboard-like aggregator)
• Weblist.me (easy way to quickly share links with visual interface- great for elementary)
• Feedly (Browser plugin to aggregate RSS magazine-style)

Media Resources

• Creative Commons (find & license copyleft material)
• mgur.com (Quick and iEasy Image Hosting site)
• CompFight (interface for Flickr photo search)
• Behold (returns high quality flickr images,  pictures “like” search)
• FlickrStorm (another interface for search Flickr)
• MorgueFile (public image archive)
• CCMixter (a community music site)
• Internet Archive (ultimate source for public domain and copyleft media)
• The Open Video Project (community around shared video clips)
• Wylio.com - Free embeddable images with citation

More Resource Lists to Explore

• Toolkit A-Z (alphabetized resource list)
• 50 Ways to Tell a Story (great resource from Alan Levine)
• TeachWeb (great resource from Wendy Drexler)
• Web 2.0 Tools (great resource from CybraryMan - also see this)