WHAT DO YOU WRITE & PUBLISH?

EXAMPLE: Workshops to encourage teacher-librarians to publish online

Dear Teacher-librarian Colleagues

I feel strongly that the Internet has provided us with a window of opportunity to connect powerfully with our students and teachers. But we need to:

1. adopt online resources as part of our holdings, not something out there, and
2. to create an online presence for communicating and leading students to resources and as a key to teaching information literacy.

I feel a sense of urgency as teachers and students become increasingly independent of us “information specialists”, and access is eroded by info glut, advertising and big media bias.

The purpose of this site is to show you how to create a multilevel resource-based online assignment:
- which is a collaborative lesson or assignment between teacher and teacher- librarian including some or all of the following components:

• A basic text assignment which is posted online and which is edited
and enhanced with some or all of the following:

• Various pages or levels that are interlinked (or uploadable)

• Hyperlinked text to: definitions, explanations, images, etc

• An information literacy narrative threading through the lesson ( as simple or complex as you like).

• Professionally chosen online resources (databases, interactive
sites, RSS feeds, embedded video, e-books, etc)

• Critical analysis of issues can be naturally integrated into a lesson if all the
stakeholders’ points of view are part of the research (www resources allows us
to do this).

PRACTICALLY SPEAKING...

1) Sign up for a Google account
2) Sign up for Google Docs and Blogger ( free, sponsored by Google)
3) De-construct (cut apart) the digital copy of an assignment into logical bits.
4) Search for online resources to enhance or deepen the assignment. This may include such things as: definitions, diagrams, maps, online lessons, embedded videos, images, charts, databases, RSS feeds.
5) Add an information literacy narrative, or component.
6) Post it in layers (various posts) on Blogger
7) "Sew" it back together with hyperlinks
8) Put the enhanced assignment back on the main page

9) If you have a more sophisticated blog program, add widgets and bells and whistles such as the tiger skin blidget below which links to a bestlibrary.org site.

photos: earl53 and mantasmagorical@morguefile

MORE AT SITE

I feel strongly that the Internet has provided us with a window of opportunity to connect powerfully with our students and teachers. But we need to:

1. adopt online resources as part of our holdings, not something out there, and
2. to create an online presence for communicating and leading students to resources and as a key to teaching information literacy.

I feel a sense of urgency as teachers and students become increasingly independent of us “information specialists”, and access is eroded by info glut, advertising and big media bias.

The purpose of this site is to show you how to create a multilevel resource-based online assignment:
- which is a collaborative lesson or assignment between teacher and teacher- librarian including some or all of the following components:

• A basic text assignment which is posted online and which is edited
and enhanced with some or all of the following:

• Various pages or levels that are interlinked (or uploadable)

• Hyperlinked text to: definitions, explanations, images, etc

• An information literacy narrative threading through the lesson ( as simple or complex as you like).

• Professionally chosen online resources (databases, interactive
sites, RSS feeds, embedded video, e-books, etc)

• Critical analysis of issues can be naturally integrated into a lesson if all the
stakeholders’ points of view are part of the research (www resources allows us
to do this).

PRACTICALLY SPEAKING...

1) Sign up for a Google account
2) Sign up for Google Docs and Blogger ( free, sponsored by Google)
3) De-construct (cut apart) the digital copy of an assignment into logical bits.
4) Search for online resources to enhance or deepen the assignment. This may include such things as: definitions, diagrams, maps, online lessons, embedded videos, images, charts, databases, RSS feeds.
5) Add an information literacy narrative, or component.
6) Post it in layers (various posts) on Blogger
7) "Sew" it back together with hyperlinks
8) Put the enhanced assignment back on the main page

9) If you have a more sophisticated blog program, add widgets and bells and whistles such as the tiger skin blidget below which links to a bestlibrary.org site.

photos: earl53 and mantasmagorical@morguefile

MORE AT SITE

1) Sign up for a Google account
2) Sign up for Google Docs and Blogger ( free, sponsored by Google)
3) De-construct (cut apart) the digital copy of an assignment into logical bits.
4) Search for online resources to enhance or deepen the assignment. This may include such things as: definitions, diagrams, maps, online lessons, embedded videos, images, charts, databases, RSS feeds.
5) Add an information literacy narrative, or component.
6) Post it in layers (various posts) on Blogger
7) "Sew" it back together with hyperlinks
8) Put the enhanced assignment back on the main page

9) If you have a more sophisticated blog program, add widgets and bells and whistles such as the tiger skin blidget below which links to a bestlibrary.org site.

photos: earl53 and mantasmagorical@morguefile

PRACTICALLY SPEAKING...

I feel strongly that the Internet has provided us with a window of opportunity to connect powerfully with our students and teachers. But we need to:

1. adopt online resources as part of our holdings, not something out there, and
2. to create an online presence for communicating and leading students to resources and as a key to teaching information literacy.

I feel a sense of urgency as teachers and students become increasingly independent of us “information specialists”, and access is eroded by info glut, advertising and big media bias.

The purpose of this site is to show you how to create a multilevel resource-based online assignment:
- which is a collaborative lesson or assignment between teacher and teacher- librarian including some or all of the following components:

• A basic text assignment which is posted online and which is edited
and enhanced with some or all of the following:

• Various pages or levels that are interlinked (or uploadable)

• Hyperlinked text to: definitions, explanations, images, etc

• An information literacy narrative threading through the lesson ( as simple or complex as you like).

• Professionally chosen online resources (databases, interactive
sites, RSS feeds, embedded video, e-books, etc)

• Critical analysis of issues can be naturally integrated into a lesson if all the
stakeholders’ points of view are part of the research (www resources allows us
to do this).

PRACTICALLY SPEAKING...

1) Sign up for a Google account
2) Sign up for Google Docs and Blogger ( free, sponsored by Google)
3) De-construct (cut apart) the digital copy of an assignment into logical bits.
4) Search for online resources to enhance or deepen the assignment. This may include such things as: definitions, diagrams, maps, online lessons, embedded videos, images, charts, databases, RSS feeds.
5) Add an information literacy narrative, or component.
6) Post it in layers (various posts) on Blogger
7) "Sew" it back together with hyperlinks
8) Put the enhanced assignment back on the main page

9) If you have a more sophisticated blog program, add widgets and bells and whistles such as the tiger skin blidget below which links to a bestlibrary.org site.

photos: earl53 and mantasmagorical@morguefile

MORE AT SITE

1) Sign up for a Google account
2) Sign up for Google Docs and Blogger ( free, sponsored by Google)
3) De-construct (cut apart) the digital copy of an assignment into logical bits.
4) Search for online resources to enhance or deepen the assignment. This may include such things as: definitions, diagrams, maps, online lessons, embedded videos, images, charts, databases, RSS feeds.
5) Add an information literacy narrative, or component.
6) Post it in layers (various posts) on Blogger
7) "Sew" it back together with hyperlinks
8) Put the enhanced assignment back on the main page

9) If you have a more sophisticated blog program, add widgets and bells and whistles such as the tiger skin blidget below which links to a bestlibrary.org site.

photos: earl53 and mantasmagorical@morguefile

PRACTICALLY SPEAKING...

1) Sign up for a Google account
2) Sign up for Google Docs and Blogger ( free, sponsored by Google)
3) De-construct (cut apart) the digital copy of an assignment into logical bits.
4) Search for online resources to enhance or deepen the assignment. This may include such things as: definitions, diagrams, maps, online lessons, embedded videos, images, charts, databases, RSS feeds.
5) Add an information literacy narrative, or component.
6) Post it in layers (various posts) on Blogger
7) "Sew" it back together with hyperlinks
8) Put the enhanced assignment back on the main page

9) If you have a more sophisticated blog program, add widgets and bells and whistles such as the tiger skin blidget below which links to a bestlibrary.org site.

photos: earl53 and mantasmagorical@morguefile