Collaborative+Learning+Activity

= = == =Collaborative Project=

For this activity, you will be working with a partner. You can create partnerships through course mail. Read each other's blog entries to find someone with whom you would like to work. It can be because you have something in common or because you are very different!

Getting Started

 * Click on the edit tab above to put your names on the technologies you will be exploring. There should be two names next to the topics...Or put your own there and see if anyone joins you??

Need Help?

 * Click on the help link at the top of the page to learn more about how to use this wiki. You can also search the web for wikispaces tutorials and specific funcitons (wikispaces editing, wikispaces embedding, wikispaces images, etc.)

Discussion Tab

 * You can use the discussion tab to communicate with your partner...or use course mail.

History Tab

 * The history tab will show who worked on the page and when. Be sure both of you contribute to both pages.

=A Little Inspiration= "Change is good, but sometimes it is also hard. Emerging tech trends are also good, but sometimes the change needed to implement those emerging trends feels like scaling a mountain! David discusses the current social networking transformation taking place, how it affects our jobs, and how we can deal with those changes. Then David discuss changes a library needs to make to meet and participate in our new online, participatory world." (from SlideShare) media type="custom" key="5072127"

=Directions= You are responsible for:
 * working collaboratively
 * learning something new
 * challenging yourself
 * producing a page that will teach others what you have learned.

Details:
 * 1) With your partner, choose 1 "technology" and 1 "device" from those listed below. Claim them by editing this page and adding your names. First come, first served.
 * 2) Research your topic. *Focus, Investigate, Note, Develop, Score! (FINDS)" or other research model is suggested.
 * 3) Create a wiki page here for each. Name the page whatever your technology or device is named. At the top of your new page, find hte little arrow next to PAGE in the tab. Select Detials & Tabs and use the word "__emerging__" as a tag. Then your topic should appear in the sidebar.
 * 4) On each page provide:
 * an overview of the technology (explain it so that anyone reading it can get the idea and learn what you have learned.) You may embed video, slides, images--whatever to make your message clear.
 * Examples or links to examples
 * Impact or potential impact of the technology or device on school library media centers and school library media programs
 * Ideas for using the technology in education and/or school library media centers
 * Pros and cons
 * Links to resources, articles, etc.
 * At least one image
 * Citations for the resources you use. Plagiarism is not tolerated.

The Educause [|"7 Things You Should Know About...."] series might be a good model to begin your work....

To help you plan and stay on schedule, try the Research Project Calculator.

Use a research process model to guide your work. This could be the [|Big 6], [|FINDS], [|ISearch], or any other model. If you have one you use in your school, feel free to use that. You might also want to take a look at the Research Log Template used in a high school in Pennsylvania from media specialist supreme, Joyce Valenza, if you need some organizational ideas. (She has her students use a blog, but you'll be using a wiki page instead. Guiding questions are still the same!)

=Chinese Menu= // __Choose 1 from each section:__ //

**Technologies**

 * Blogs- Jackie Lorente; Tiffany Swensson
 * Wikis
 * RSS
 * Microblogging -
 * Scratch -
 * Open Source -
 * Open Content -
 * Data Visualizaton -
 * Moodle - Justin Buckland; Scott Dollins
 * Nings -
 * Personal Learning Networks -
 * Wolfram Alpha -
 * Deep Web -
 * Search Engines (other than the usual) -
 * Google Wave -
 * Augmented Reality -
 * Cloud Computing -Ann Saucer, Wejdan Hack
 * Web 3.0 -
 * Back Channels -
 * Google Earth -Andrea Falana, Charles Padera
 * Mashups -
 * Google Goggles -Lisa Markham, Karen Gibson
 * Creative Commons ( not really a technology or a device, but something not covered in this course yet and it should be!) -
 * Other (check with me first) -

**Devices**

 * Cell Phones - iPhone -
 * Tablet PCs - Lisa Markham, Karen Gibson
 * Digital Picture Frames -
 * Laptop Computers (1:1) - Ann Saucer, Wejdan Hack
 * Blackberry -
 * iPod (especially Nano and Touch) - Justin Buckland ; Scott Dollins
 * GPS -
 * Digital Cameras - Jackie Lorente; Tiffany Swensson
 * Graphing Calculators -
 * Kindle and/or Nook - Andrea Falana, Charles Padera
 * Mobile Responders -
 * Interactive Whiteboards -
 * XO-3 (One Laptop Per Child)
 * Internet Enabled TVs
 * Other (check with me first) -