This is a great video – Stephen Heppell was the keynote at OLA Superconference and everyone is talking about him. Here is Stephen talking about technology in education.

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2YCOhljF6U ]

Asking questions

I was just reading David Warlick’s blog and came across this information. This comes from Stephen Heppell’s keynote at the OLA superconference.

Heppell asked a group of students what a literate teacher should be able to do, and they agreed that a teacher should be able to:

• upload to YouTube
• edit a Wikipedia article
• choose a safe online payments site
• subscribe to a podcast and un subscribe
• turn on and off predictive text
• manage a groups Flickr photos (and spell Flickr!)
• look after a community in Facebook

As someone working with pre-service teachers, I would like to ask them the same question and then compare the responses. How many of them see these as new teacher literacies? And are we developing these literacies in any way in pre-service teacher education or in professional development in most schools.

And are these the literacies that we want our teachers to have? What else should be on that list. Maybe we need to start asking this question to a few more groups of people and then talking about this when we are developing a teacher education program.

And for those of you who don’t text message – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_text

Growing Up Online

This is worth taking the time to view.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/

Podcasts of interest

Interested in “hearing” more about what is going on in the library world?  Check out

http://www.slis.ualberta.ca/nav02.cfm?nav02=72080&nav01=50725

http://libvibe.blogspot.com/

Some new blogs to read

I have just found a couple of blogs that I think are worth reading.This post comes was the winner of the 2007 Edublog – Most Influential Blog – I read it before but came across it again and think it is worth talking about.http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-it-okay-to-be-technologically.htmlI am also interested in hearing more from this guy – Konrad Glogowski.  Maybe I can get to see him at a conference.  Doug Johnson is blogging about him. http://teachandlearn.ca/blog/ Jenn    

Explore Web 2.0

http://schoollibrarylearning2.blogspot.com/

This comes from the California School Library Association and is very much like what we are doing with EDES 545 this term. For those of you wanting to learn more about Web 2.0 and who have already taken an older version of EDES 545, you might want to give this a try – maybe over the summer.

Jenn

Cell Phone Novels

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/asia/20japan.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

If you haven’t read this article yet, you should.  What are your gut reactions?  Yeah, they are reading! or Why are they reading that? or something else altogether.

Information behaviour of the researcher of the future

www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf 

This is an interesting document to have  a look at.  I would be interested in your comments.

Interesting Article from the New York Times about comics and graphic novels

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/education/26comics.html?_r=2&ref=education&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Preparation for Teacher-Librarians (SLMSpecialists)

What are your experiences?   http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1320017932.html?nid=3714