Online Sharing & Reflection:Topic 10

There are many tools out there that will allow you and your classmates to share conversations and/or information together. Here are just a few. Try out at least one of these and embed or link your creation in your blog posting. Also, post how you might use these technologies in school or your personal life
Padlet: This site lets you create a wall on which you and your friends can add “sticky notes.” The sticky notes can include text as well as images, audio, and video files you embed by linking to the online address where they are stored. You don’t need an account to set up a wall, but you do need to have an email address. If you share a wall address, anyone can contribute sticky notes to it without having an account.

My Padlet example:

VoiceThread: A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos, and allows people to comment on the slides by typing, with a microphone, with a webcam, or by phone. You can use VoiceThread to have conversations, but you can also use it to record an online presentation. You do need an account to create or comment on VoiceThreads.

My VoiceThread example:
http://voicethread.com/share/27405/

Diigo: This site allows you to keep track of all your website bookmarks online, so that you can access them from any computer. You can also share your bookmarks with other people. When you bookmark a webpage, you add as many keyword “tags” as you like to it, so that you can find it later with any of the tags. You can also add a description, highlighting, and sticky notes to the websites you save.

My Diigo anchor babies list example.

Scribblar: This site lets you set up and share a multi-user whiteboard with live audio,images, text-chat, and more.

This is our final topic in out Teen Learning 2.0 course.  The 4 items to address in your final blog posting:  

1. Create a project on one of the online sharing sites listed above and embed the  project or link to it. Please let us know what site you used and how you could use it at school or home.

After you post your online sharing creation please finish your blog postings with some summing up thoughts. Insert a jump break between this and your previous answers.  Once you have answered the questions below your have finished Teen Learning 2.0. You are amazing!

2 . Which tools do you think you will use in the future, and how?
3.  What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?  4.  Do you have any suggestions or changes for this tutorial? Students have been completing this tutorial for about 5 years.  We have made many changes thanks to all the posts and comments over the years.  Please, seriously consider your recommendations and add some that will make this a more useful experience for library assistants in the semesters ahead.

Evaluating Information Web Sites & Citing Sources: Topic 9

"While there’s a wonderful world of websites out there for you to use both to create – as you have been doing during this tutorial – and to get information. Unfortunately, though, since anyone can publish a website, not all sites are good quality. They may have incorrect or biased information. So, you need to be careful about what sites you select when you are looking for information" (Teen Learning 2.0).

Before you go any further, let's see what you know already about evaluating information sources.  Please go take the TRAILS ten question test on evaluating information sources.  Your sign in code is in the Library Assistant's binder. Do this before lab day so that you can review your test results then.

After the test I hope you have some questions about how you should be reviewing web sites.  To learn to better evaluate please watch and listen to (you will need ear plugs or to watch at the tutorial created by Widener University Reference Library, How to Evaluate Information on the Web.

"When you added images to your blog, you gave credit by creating a link back to the page where you found the image. When you write research reports, you will need to create 'Works Cited' list and write a complete citation for each book, website, database, image, and other source you use" (Teen Learning 2.0).  PUSD subscribes to an excellent citation maker, Noodletools that goes beyond citation making and helps with taking notes and formatting bibliographies/works cited as well.  



1.  Sign up for or login to your account in Noodletools. For help signing up see How to Sign Up for Noodletools.  Then for more help see the Noodletools User Guide.  

2.  Create a project, call it Sample Works Cited, and share it with Ms. Powell (share under Powell Library TAs).  

3.   Create three citations: 

• one for the book you are reading for your book trailer, 
• one for an article from a subscription database about the book, such as a book review (try EBSCO Teacher Resources and search for your book's title or author),
• one for a web page (evaluated and that you could use for a school research paper having to do with the author or the book). 

 4.  Print/Export the completed citations; choose the 'Preview as a webpage (HTML)' option and then copy and past this page into your Topic 9 blog post. We should all be able to see your three citations.

5. On lab day, review your TRAILS test results.  In your Topic 9 blog post, please copy and past the questions you missed, your initial answer and then explain what the correct answer should be and why.  If you scored 100% on the TRAILS test please design an additional evaluation question and answer that could be added to the test. Post that question and answer in your blog as your Topic 9 post.

Books and Reading: Topic 8

There are several websites that allow you to find information about books, keep track of the books you have read or want to read, add comments and/or reviews, and exchange ideas about what your are reading.

The three two you are to visit are:

1.  Shelfari  (sorry, according to the news from Amazon, Shelfari has merged with Goodreads).
2.  Goodreads
3.  Librarything

Explore each noting ways they are similar and different. Select one of the three to set up an account in.  Then add some of your favorite books to your shelf.
In your blog posting:

• Embed the reading shelf you created on your blog.   
• Write about the site you set up an account in.  
• What was the most difficult part of using the site?  What did you enjoy about the site?
• Why did you choose this one over the other two?   
• How do you think you could use this technology for school projects or for fun?

Shelfari Example:

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog

Goodreads Example:

KPowell's bookshelf: currently-reading

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

Carry On

by Rainbow Rowell

Challenger Deep

by Neal Shusterman

Icons

by Margaret Stohl

Librarything Example:

Documents & Presentations: Topic 7

You may already be familiar with office applications like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, but there are also online Web 2.0 tools that let you create documents, spreadsheets, and presentation files. When you use these Web 2.0 tools, you can access your files from any computer, and you can easily share them with other people. One option are the tools offered with your google account (since you have access to blogger, you also have access to a larger group of google tools).  

This week explore Google Drive; what can you do with it that might help you in your schoolwork. If you have already used Google Drive, let us know how and for what class. You also have a school Google account.  This week login to MyPlan and go to Google Apps on your dashboard.  As part of this week's work, using your school Google account, please create and share a bulleted timeline of what has happened in the book you are reading for your book trailer. Feel free to use either Google Docs or Slides for the timeline.
  
There are many similar Web 2.0 tools. Take a look at an index of tools such as   WebTools4u2use .  Find a different tool that lets you create a presentation.Visit the presentation tool's site and be able to summarize what types of presentations you can create and how it is different from Photoshop and Powerpoint.

Finally, visit  Glogster, a  different approach to presentations. This site lets you design a lively poster display with pictures and text, embedded video and sound, and attached files.  This week create a glog and add it to your blog.  You might need an educator code, try   If that does not work let me know.

Your blog posting for this week should include 3 items:

1. Your thoughts on how you could or have used Google Drive in your schoolwork.  A link to the book trailer timeline document you created in your school Google drive account (remember to get into it via MyPlan.  Make sure to share it so that we can all see it.  Here's the link to my book trailer timeline in my Google Docs.
2. A Web 2.0 presentation tool that you selected from your search of WebTools4u2Use.  Make sure to provide the link as well as a review of the tool.  Include in your review what the tool was designed  to do, how it is different from PhotoStory and Powerpoint. 
3. Create a glog on Glogster.  Have fun but make this something that we can all look at.  Embed your glog in your blog post.  Mine follows.

Just a reminder, you should be commenting on each of your fellow library assistants' blogs weekly.  Also, if you have not finished a module on Everfi get working. You need to have two modules completed by the end of the semester.

Creating Animations and Videos : Topic 6

In addition to still images, there are lots of great Web 2.0 tools for creating your own videos. Visit the listed sites and choose one to use to create a short animation or video.
Animoto: Lets you upload or select images and music, then generates a video for you with stunning transitions. To give credit to the images that are not your own add an image file (jpg created in powerpoint) with urls for these items. You will need an account to create an Animoto video (the code is in the library assistant's binder).
My Animoto:


dVolver:  This site lets you create simple movies with bubble text using a set of characters and backgrounds you select on the site. You don’t need an account, but you will need to create and save your video in one session; you cannot return later to edit it





Powtoons: This one is simple to use and more like an animated powerpoint.  Here's one I made to share with freshman at the start of school .

I have a free education account so to sign up and join my group go to


More and more animation programs are charging subscription fees for usage.  A couple of new ones that have come up recently are listed below.  Feel free to use these for your animation as well.

Wideo:  This animator looks basic yet engaging.  Plus it is free!  Check out this sample http://wideo.co/embed/138401365045507326

Digital Films: This one is also free but looks to incorporate more adult characters and scenes.Try

Zimmer Twins: This one is easy to use with much audio/video support.  Anyone can create an animation with the Zimmer Twins.

 Blog Posting for Creating Animations and Videos: Topic 6

• Choose one of the video/animation tools and create a brief animation/video on a topic of your choice.
• Embed or link the animation/video onto your blog so that I and your fellow library assistants can review it.
• Discuss why you chose the tool, how difficult or easy it was to use. Give 2 tips for new users. Finally let us know how you might use it for one of your PHS classes.

Creating Your Own Images: Topic 5

Now that you know how to find images that you can reuse, there are many Web 2.0 tools that will help you remix them or create what is referred to as mash-ups.  Explore the 7 sites below. 

1. Title your blog post Creating Your Own Images: Topic 5
2. In your blog posting add remixed images you have created from 2 of the sites.
3. Make sure and identify the sites that you used and add the hyperlink
4. Also, tell us how you might use each site for fun or for school.

ImageChef: This site lets you customize signs and pictures with your own text. These images make fun additions to reports, cards, your blog, and anywhere.  Every so off then this site gets blocked by our filters.  If it is blocked, please let me know so I can get it off the filtering list.  Below are a few
images I made for the library.




Big Huge Labs: This site lets you “mash” images into magazine covers, puzzles, trading cards, and more.

Wordle: This site lets you turn text into beautiful word mosaics. Use it to create mosaics of your personal traits or hobbies, to analyze a writer’s key concepts, or to evaluate words you may be over-using when you write. I used a wordle for the banner across the top of the library MyConnect page.


Canva: Lets you combine images you upload with text and some other fun features.  Use only the free items. I upload all my own images. This site requires you to have an account. It is easy to set up and free as long as you have an email account. You can also not use this with an ipad. 



PicMonkey and Ribbet are both photo editors that allow you to remix and frame photos as well as create collages.  Careful, use only the free version.

Michaela Hess' READ poster adjusted using PicMonkey

Make Beliefs Comix:  This is a fun site that lets you create comics.  You do not need to have an account.  MakeBeliefsComix.com is a fun and easy site to use.

Photos, Images & Giving Credit: Topic 4

This week we will begin to work with photos and images.  Before we can do that it is important to understand a bit about copyright, public domain and fair use.  Please take time to watch this clever video, A Fair(y) Use Tale.  You may need to get past a brief commercial before the real video begins.

In recent years, a new option has become available to make finding and publishing other people’s material – and sharing what you create yourself – easier: It is called Creative Commons.  Find out about Creative Commons by watching Wanna Work Together?

Flickr is a website used primarily for storing and sharing photos. You can use this site to find pictures on any topic. It includes photos taken by individuals as well as from important museums and archives like the Library of Congress. If you open an account, you can also use this site to upload pictures you’ve taken and then you can share them with your family your friends or the whole world.

Now your ready to start finding photos and images. Flickr includes many Creative Commons images, as well as many that are copyrighted. If you want to publish an image you find at Flickr on your blog, be sure to search for images with Creative Commons licenses. Hint: To find images with Creative Commons licenses, go to the Advanced Search screen, and look for those images you can modify.
and click Search. Or, you will probably find it much easier to use the Flickrcc site, which searches just Creative Commons-licensed images on the Flickr site for you.
When you publish one of these images, be sure to give credit by citing and linking to the url of the page where the photo appears. Look for the word “attribution” on the Flickrcc site. Copy that address and paste it under the photo in your post and make it a hyperlink. Remember, it’s very important to give credit to the creator of the original image. 
Recently, Creative Commons has developed a way of using multiple sites to find images that you can modify adapt or build upon.  Try the CC search.  

Google has recently developed a way to select images based on their usage rights. To test this out, search for an image and when the results come up, click on search tools and then click on usage rights.  You will want to select those images for noncommercial reuse with modification for your book trailer assignment. See my sample search below.

Library subscription databases also contain multimedia. Try Discovery Education (login with your Novell login).  Notice that the databases provide MLA citation information. 

For your blog posting:

• Make up two questions about copyright, public domain and fair use (hint, these should be from the content of the video A Fair(y) Use Tale). 
• Answer the two questions you made up.
• What is a Creative Commons license and why is it important for us?
• Using Flickr,  Flickrcc or CC Search, Google Image Search to find at least two Creative Commons images you might use in your upcoming book trailer and add them, along with a credit link (in MLA format), to this blog posting. Also tell us why you chose these images and how they relate to the book you are reading (see my example below). 
• Try Discovery Education or another of the subscription databases to find an image you might use in your book trailer. Add the image, the MLA citation and an explanation of how it relates to your book.

Origami birds tree mobile opposite @mildbunch HQ". 15 Aug. 2011.Flickr. Yahoo. n.d.  Web. 20 Mar. 2016.  ><http://www.flickr.com/photos/jontangerine/6045804830/in/photostream/>.

In the book I read for my last book trailer, the character Sam makes origami birds to hang from his ceiling for every special moment he spends with Grace.“..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver 


Format for photograph originally posted on the web:

Photographer's Name.  Title of Photograph.  Date Photo Taken if Available.  Web Site Title.  Web Site Publisher, Date Posted. Web. Date of Access.  <URL>.