Tribute to Library Learning 2.0 Media Clerks

You Did It! Congratulations!

We made it! We have explored, created, and learned about ways to use new technologies to learn, teach, research, communicate, entertain, and socialize. We have come full circle to our original goals for organizing the PST. Our original definition of Web 2.0, the Read/Write web, was:

• Creativity – using free tools of the Internet to design and create Web content.
• Connected – constantly connected to your PLN, your family, your friends, your employer, your future employer, your students, your peers, professionals in your field, and the world.
• Collaboration – Social networking and Web 2.0 are all about strengthening relationships; working in designing, creating, and sharing the learnings from conversations and learning projects.
• Conversations – about anything that interests you…from crafts, to education, to libraries, to the most current scientific research available. Conversations with your PLN – as small or as large as you want to make it.
• Content -- user-generated content. We all have the ability to join the conversation and add to the content of the web, instead of just consume data. We have the ability to add, mash up, share, and use the collective intelligence of the Internet -- and the World. That's exciting!

We have only scratched the surface of the tools, conversations, and creativity that is now possible -- not only for our own productivity and learning, but what we can share with others. Your permanent assignment is to share what you have learned -- with a student, a teacher, your administration, your children, your friends.

Discovery Exercises:

• Review the "Things" you have learned and note what you have accomplished in this class.
• Read your own blog and see how far you have come!
• Your final assignment is to write your reflection on this class as your final blog post (use your new tools!). Please be thorough, contemplative, and honest -- this will serve as your course reflection to receive credit. Make it as long as you need to fully reflect your experience and learning.
• Keep commenting on the blogs of your classmates and continue to add to our Media Clerks Wiki. This document will continue to serve us as a great reference tool.

To help get ideas flowing for your final blog post, here's some things to think about:

• Did the class meet your expectations?
• What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
• How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
• Were there any unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
• What could be done differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?
• Did the instructor cover the content adequately?
• Would you do it again? ...or, better yet, would you do this class without the credit?
• What suggestions do you have to improve on the content/delivery of the materials?
• How will you apply what you learned? ...personally? ...in the library? ...with students?
• How has this new information added to your job skills, and capabilities, as a media clerk?
• How do you feel about blogging? ...will you continue to blog after this class is finished?
• What is the most important thing you learned about yourself, technology, or working with your Personal Learning Network?
• What would you suggest for another topic or area of study for our next Professional Study Team project?
• What ideas do you have to add/develop programs to enhance our professional development experience and opportunities?

Thanks to all of you for your humor, patience, diligence, determination, creativity, contributions, and for being such great inspiration. This learning experience was so rich...because of all of you. I look forward to our next learning journey together.

Thing #23 -- Expand Your Mind

Where will your learning journey take you now? We have learned so much, yet there is so much "out there" for us to explore and add to our expanding repertoire of Read/Write web tools. Here's some great places to continue your learning in our own back yard! The professional development opportunities to learn about the Read/Write Web and Online Learning Tools continue to grow in our district -- try out a few!

Discovery Resources:

Atomic Learning -- Learn more about:

• Blogging Workshop
• del.icio.us
• GoogleDocs
• Moodle
• Introduction to Podcasting
• Web 2.0 Workshop
• PBWiki -- Wiki Workshop
• and so many more

St. Vrain Virtual Campus

Office of Professional Development

Discovery Exercise:

• Blog (your Thing #23 post) about some of the things you discovered in this exercise. What did you find that will be useful in your learning journey?
• Where will you go from here?

If you want more:

Continue your journey! Here's some great places to explore more available for you to learn, create, share, and use. Happy learning!

• Second Life -- try your hand in an alternate universe. Explore the learning opportunities, or just see what it is all about... to learn more about why Second Life's 12 million real life users are involved in this virtual life, check out this article: Second Life Sends Users on Virtual Vacations. What about Second Life in Education? Visit InfoIsland -- a virtual library from the Alliance Library System. Visit Cybrary -- a space for participating libraries from around the world to showcase their local resources. Skydive, visit a museum, an art gallery, listen to an author speak, take a class, attend a conference, or even visit an ancient culture. There are no limits in the Second Life! Sound interesting? ...read Getting Started with Second Life. What about for students? Try Teen Second Life.
• Go2Web2.0 -- the Complete Web 2.0 Directory. Here's enough tools to keep you busy for a long time!
• K12 Online Conference 2007 -- participate in conferences -- anytime.
• AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner