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Smart libraries, smart classroomsJudy O’Connell
Information Literacy / School Libraries Section Satellite Cape Town, South Africa14th August 2015
Why new literacies for smart classrooms?
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Researchers Sequence Entire Genome of A Baby In Only 50 Hours
“By obtaining an interpreted genome in about two days, physicians can make practical use of diagnostic results to tailor treatments to individual infants and children.”
Developed by researchers at the University of Washington, Foldit turns scientific problems into competitive games.
Gamers Unlock Protein Mystery .... that Baffled Researchers For Years
Khatib, F., DiMaio, F., Cooper, S., Kazmierczyk, M., Gilski, M., Krzywda, S., Zabranska, H., et al. (2011). Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein folding game players. Nat Struct Mol Biol, 18(10), 1175–1177. doi:10.1038/nsmb.2119
12-year-old uses Dungeons and Dragons in science research
http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/10/30/12-year-old-uses-dungeons-and-dragons-to-help-scientist-dad-with-his-research/
The volunteers looked at eyes early and frequently, whether they were on the creatures’ faces or not.
19-year-old girl in Egypt invents a spacecraft propulsion device
Mustafa’s device is based on a scientific mix between quantum physics, space technology,
chemical reactions and electrical sciences.
http://thenextweb.com/africa/2012/05/18/19-year-old-girl-in-egypt-invents-a-spacecraft-propulsion-device/
Connections and experiences
augmented and transformed through
immersive technology and
smart data.
Web 3.0
new frontier of analytics BIG DATA
Examples of such data sets range from billions of Google searches conducted by millions of users to the data collected by millions of weather sensors around the globe to all the purchases of British supermarket shoppers.
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existing data reconnected for different and smarter uses
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What happens with linked data and why should we care?
!
Whereas traditional library metadata has always been focused on helping humans find and make use of information, linked data ontologies are focused on helping machines find and make use of information.
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This uri ‘http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85042531’ has now become the globally available, machine and human readable, reliable source for the description for the subject heading of ‘Elephants’ containing links to its related terms (in a way that both machines and humans can navigate).
It’s not about devices, it’s about information and
knowledge because of technology!
Rethinking your library environments
Let’s talk about my favourites!
Create a leadership presence through curriculum integration in today’s interactive reading, information literacy and enquiry learning environments.
Lots of ideas to choose from for free:
•learners •literacies •reading •physical •collections •collaboration •professional
Create a complete web site for your library. WordPress.com, Blogger.com and Weebly.com.
Generally thought of as a blogging tools, these free services can also be used for many other purposes
News Posts: Use as a blog to post news and updates.
Collaborations: Posts news items, ideas, questions, book reviews, etc. Invite students to use the comments feature to share ideas, their own reviews, etc.
Student writing: Students can use these for writing and reflecting.
Portfolios: Create a professional resume & portfolio by creating pages that focus on different aspects of your experience and skills.
School library web presences
Then consider your social media presence!
School library web presences
https://www.facebook.com/DigitalCitizenshipInSchools
Curriculum projects
The focus of the project was to facilitate deeper learning in our students by creating an ‘authentic learning’ experience to strengthen writing and literacy skills across the curriculum. In English, students learned about the literary conventions of forensic fiction in their crime novel, Framed, and how to use them to solve a crime. In Science, students learned about how use a variety of scientific methods including analysing dental records, fragments and fibres, fingerprinting, shoe-printing and DNA samples in order to solve a crime.
Body in the library
Curriculum projectsEach boy received a forensic workbook – containing a range of materials for examination such as crime reports, witness statements and a coroners report. In addition the ‘crime scene’ was taped off, with key evidence on display e.g. fingerprints, the location of the body, and places where DNA was found. Photographic evidence included the injury reports (fake bruising and blood on the victim), video footage of the scene of the crime (staged by students and teachers) and also hard hitting interviews.
Curriculum projects
O’Connell, J. (2011). Body in the Library': A cross-curriculum transliteracy project, in L.Marquardt & D. Oberg (Ed.) Global Perspectives on School Libraries: Projects and Practices, Berlin, New York : De Gruyter Saur.
English curriculum• Study of forensic fiction and different sub -genres of mystery fiction
(this also provided an opportunity for supporting literature displays in the library)
• Study of famous fiction forensic films/novels/characters• Character and plot analysis, including the relationships of clues,
events, and people in solving a crime.Science curriculum• Study of forensic science and the scientific method required (this provided
an opportunity for non-fiction book displays in the library)• Crime scene basics, protocol, techniques, scientific evidence. • Police techniques for investigating a murder. i.e., interviews, ID parade,
CTV security images.
Images with Flickr
flickr photo by robynejay http://flickr.com/photos/learnscope/5224539701 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license
Images with Flickr
flickr photo by teachingsagittarian http://flickr.com/photos/teachingsagittarian/5745529379 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
http://cogdogblog.com/2015/04/12/flickr-cc-attribution-tool-more-fun/
FlickrCC attribution helper
• Post photos of school & community events.• Create a school group on Flickr for students & staff to share photos
of events.• Hold a “Day in the Life” event where the community shares photos
representing one day in the life of the school.• Photos to chronicle library/school renovations and keep community
up to date.• Share photos of art work and crafts created by students.• Book spine poetry photos. :)• Scan & post historic photos and ask community to share memories
through the comments feature.• Join other groups or share your own class groups!• Share ideas for library displays, program ideas and more.• Create slide shows that can be embedded on your web page• Create your own favourites collection • Public photo sharing sites like flickr are great resources for Creative
Commons licensed images to use in presentations.
Images
Images
Global Images
The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives.
https://www.flickr.com/commons
Spell with Flickrhttp://metaatem.net/words/
http://bighugelabs.com/
Find free images online http://judyoconnell.com/find-free-images-online/
PhotoPin – My first stop for photo searching. Very easy to use and searches a number of sources for CC licensed photos.
CC search – search for images, video and music from one search page. Handy!
Flickr advanced search – Scroll to the botton of the screen and select the Creative Commons setting & “Find content to modify, adapt, or build upon”
Image search tools
Creative Commons
Creative Commons licensing allows for reuse of a image (and other intellectual content) under certain conditions. The licensing is easy to understand and having students select how they want to license their own work is a great way to get students thinking about copyright, reuse and
attribution.
Creative commons licenses work as “some
rights reserved rule instead of “all rights
reserved” rule.
Diverse set of license conditions with a range
of freedoms and limitations.
http://creativecommons.org/
Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/index.html
Linked Open Data on the Web. The site currently contains metadata on 3.5 million texts, images, videos and sounds.
Digital curation and organisation
flickr photo by JB London http://flickr.com/photos/jb-london/3914363613 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license
Digital content curation
The benefits of content curation is that you don’t
re-invent the wheel - you
share!
Model the future!
http://delicious.com/hrheingold/crap_detection
‘crap’ detectioncc licensed flickr photo by selva: http://flickr.com/photos/selva/23816545/
Information labyrinthHoward Rheingold
Nurture strategies for information fluency
Re-thing what ‘collection’ of information means, thereby supporting personalised and collaborative information seeking and knowledge conversations.
Sharing Your Know-How: No one can be an expert on everything, but we all have things that we’re passionate about and perhaps even are experts in. If we create collections of the best resources on those topics and share them, everyone can benefit from our expertise. This is also a great way to share information about what’s going on in the library.
Digging for Gold: You may not feel like creating collections of resources yet, but you can still benefit from these services. They are gold mines of great material. If you find an expert in an area you’re interested in, then you can follow what they’re curating.
Student Use: Students can gather materials for research, create bibliographies, create collections of news articles around a topic, collect graphics for art projects, and so much more.
Essential Skills: Students learn essential skills when curating content: how to search for and evaluate resources, how to organize and create a balanced collection. Check out this excellent handout on Building Link Collections to help students learn these skills. From the article Teaching Kids to Curate Content Collections. https://cooltoolsforschool.wordpress.com/thing-6-curation-tools/
Digital content curation
There are many popular tools. View this excellent video!
Eduwebinar
https://youtu.be/vyqAnB8CbkI
http://eduwebinar.com.au/
https://www.pinterest.com/kayo287/curation-strategies-in-education/
Also visit curation strategies in education
Diigo is a social bookmarking site that allows users to collect bookmarks, annotate them and share to groups or lists.
Pinterest is a pinboard-styled social photo sharing website. The service allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections linked out to sites of origin.
Learnist is a social curation and sharing site that integrates with other curation opportunities such as Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter
Livebinders is a great way to creat your own information resources, evidence, documentation, and more. It’s easy and it’s visual and a great opportunity for collaborating, organising and sharing resources.
Scoop.it allows users to create and share their own themed magazines designed around a given topic.
Create resource guidesFeedly is a great RSS feed reader to help you monitor lots of resources quickly. Smore or Tackk works well to create newsletter types of pages where you can add new resources and news. Flipboard Magazines allow you to create collections of articles, links to resources, images, news and more. Users can subscribe and get updates in a variety of ways, depending on the source. Tumblr blog – it’s easy to add notes, photos, links to articles to a tumblr. Your audience can subscribe to update through their own tumblr account, visit it via it’s URL or via an RSS feed Diigo Groups – Bookmark items in Diigo and add items to a diigo group that your audience can subscribe to updates via email or RSS. RSS magic – Anything with an RSS feed gives you lots more options. Readers can subscribe via their own feed reader or email. And you can display updates in a widget on your web/wiki pages.
https://cooltoolsforschool.wordpress.com/thing-22-create-a-resource-guide/
Diigo Group
Quick Response Code2D Barcode
- Stores more data than
Low technology investment Scan by smart phones/devices Lead to images, text messages, web links or videos
QR Code
Mobile phone with camera
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidking/5011175703/http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidking/5054697343/
Treasure/Scavenger Hunts
Magical mystery tour
https://www.flickr.com/photos/info_grrl/
http://thedaringlibrarian.wikispaces.com/Web_2_Oh_Tools
Periodic Table of QR codes https://www.flickr.com/photos/periodicvideos/5915143448/
A URL shortener is an online application that converts a regular URL (the web address that starts with http://) into its condensed format. The user only has to copy the full URL of a website and paste it into the URL shortening tool to come up with an abbreviated version that is around 10 to 20 characters long.
Regular URL - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/us/more-casinos-and-internet-gambling-threaten-shakopee-tribe.html?_r=1&hp
Shortened URL - http://nyti.ms/P7eg6B
Some URL shorteners come with traffic monitors
URL Shortner
Google URL ShortenerThis is a popular shortening tool and probably the best online. It not only shortens your URLs but also keeps track of the history of your shortened links and provides you with analytics on how many people clicked on them and so forth.
Bit.lyThis service allows its users to shorten as many URLs as they want. It also lets them share and track analytics of their links.
URL Shortner
Share your notebooks!
StoryBird – Provides beautiful graphics to inspire your stories. Arrange the images as you wish, add text to tell your story. Story can be embedded on other web pages. Book versions can be printed for a fee. Toondo – Fun drag and drop cartoon making tool. Voki – Create a character, add your voice.Powtoon – Create slide shows and animated prsentations. Fun tool. Free with an inexpensive premium plan for educators. HaikuDeck – Web and app presentation tool. Makes beautifully simple and effective presentation slides.Animoto – This is an easy to use tool to create photo & music video stories. This would be a fun project for an art class. Or to create a video representing how you feel about a book or movie. Upload your photos, arrange the order, select a piece of music and let Animoto do it’s magic. Special accounts for educators.
https://edshelf.com/shelf/joycevalenza-digital-storytelling-tools/
Digital story telling
Many to choose from: https://sites.google.com/a/syd.catholic.edu.au/web-2-online-course/course-modules/module-4
Aurasma
The steps on this PDF take you through just how you do this (click here)
More on Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/kayo287/augmented-reality/
Aurasma is an augmented reality application that allows you to overlay any video or image on top of anything that your tablet, cell phone, or any other mobile device can scan with its camera. Using Aurasma is very much like using a QR code reader. In order to activate the overlayed image or video, the object will be scanned using the Aurasma app.
http://www.aurasma.com/
Rethinking your library environments
The journey has just begun!
Reading, writing, gaming, trans-media, immersive worlds, and augmented reality, are all part of the new digital frontiers leading the re-invention of learning.
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It makes sense to interact both synchronously and asynchronously, formally or informally, at school, at home, or on mobile devices.
finding sharing
collecting contributing
playing remixing anytime anywhere
fast CREATIVELY
We owe it to our students to “keep up”!
Are you prepared?
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Be strategic Be proactive Be responsive
Know your vision Be your vision
Communicate your vision
CREATIVELY
Highlight the value of your e-literacy skills and knowledge to the
entire school community......
and beyond...
Then see what happens next!
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O’Connell, J. (2011) “Change Has Arrived at an iSchool Library near you” in Information Literacy Beyond Library 2.0 Edited by Peter Godwin and Jo Parker, Facet. In publication.
Thank You
O'Connell, J., & Groom, D. (2010). Connect, communicate, collaborate. Acer Press.
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