Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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I am currently collaborating with a 6th grade teacher. Her students will podcast book reviews and I am then inserting the url from the wiki we created together into the marc record on our library catalog. Students will be able to hear book reviews directly from our catalog.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

I am currently taking another Web 2.0 workshop. We are also looking at Native digital users vs. immigrant digital users. Many changes are necessary to prepare our students for the 21st century. The first thing we need to do as educators is learn, understand and visualize the future using Web 2.0 tools.