My final thoughts...

These are my final thoughts, my reflection, now that I have completed my final project for this class. A number of technology components were used in making our wiki.
Among them were the wiki itself, a gizmos, a webspiration, an animoto, a wordle and the use of library thing.
These components would be effective in the learning need of 6th graders completing a research project as they were both entertaining (the gizmos and the wordle), and they were also educational (library thing) & informative (webspiration).

The online collaborations and the social networks that now exist have redefined school libraries in the 21st century. Libraries are becoming more technologically advanced and have gone beyond the bookshelves to providing avenues of learning to students that can take them around the world. In present day libraries, "shh" has become extinct.

One of the potential problems in the development of the wiki was the inability of the user to stay within the wiki while selecting a link given in the wiki. This might prove to be a problem with younger students in "finding their way back" to the wiki. Another problem that was encountered occurred while reviewing the wiki. I wanted to change the home page and re-label it as the welcome page and vice versa. It did not seem that this was able to be done.

Collaboration definitely aided in the development of this wiki. Of course, another person helps by bringing in a different point of view and may see things that I did not. As a team, we can critique each others contribution before it is submitted to the professor.

My Summer as a Grad Student!! from Denise Bento on Vimeo.

Big Huge Labs assignment

This is my magazine cover created from Big Huge Labs. This can be used by students to create a magazine for book reviews done by students

Wordle

LIS629 survey

social networking

How exciting these new social networking sites are. Again, this opens up a whole new world for our future students!! The possibilities for learning are becoming endless and how lucky we are as librarians to be able to be a part of this.

Using blogs in media center

Using blogs in a media center can open up an entirely new world for our students. Blogs can be an invaluable learning tool. It can teach things that we, as librarians would not have thought or have been able to teach without the use of blogs. As one of the videos mentioned, blogging truly does open up the four walls of the classroom, or in our case, the library. As a librarian, I would create a blog for library students, allowing students to suggest or recommend books for their fellow peers based on their interests or upcoming assignments. I feel that when other students recommend books to their peers it might hold alittle more weight than having a teacher or librarian recommending a book. By having the library media center students commenting on other students blogs from other states or countries would even further their interests in other books and subjects that they would not have even considered previously.