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A nice reminder. How far have we traveled in a year and a half?

SLJ Summit 2006

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SLJ Summit: Notes on Trust and School Library 2.0

There’s coverage of the SLJ Summit in this month’s School Library Journal:

Building trust means dispelling other educators’ fears over their students’ use of Web 2.0—the second generation of Internet-based services, such as social networking sites and wikis, which emphasize collaboration and sharing among users. The learning potential of these technologies should outweigh any [...]

L2 Entry at Wikipedia to be Deleted

Michael Casey reports this am that the entry for Library 2.0 is up for deletion at Wikipedia:

http://www.librarycrunch.com/2006/11/delete_library_20_from_wikiped.html

I’m amazed really, especially after recent professional journal articles hereand here, the SLJ Summit focus on School Library 2.0, and the fact I have students writing about it in my classes!

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SLJ Summit Podcast: Panelists Discuss SL2

At the end of the day Friday, David Warlick recorded a podcast discussion with the panelists. Take a listen to hear some thoughts about the read/Write School Media Center.

http://m2.slapcast.com/mp3/dwarlick/dwarlick-2006-11-03.mp3

I was impressed at how easy and fluid this was” David had a mic for his iPod, we went round robin and each person responded [...]

SLJ Summit: Trust Drives Change

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SLJ Summit: David Warlick on Diane Chen

http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/11/03/this-is-a-library-maven/

This is a pretty bold person. She’s not going to let any native take over the technology, because she’s a leader, an information leader.

She hijacks classrooms when the substitute is there. There are never enough lesson plans, so she is able to cover things that she’s been trying accomplish. Tweet

SLJ Summit: David Warlick in the School Library 2.0 Group

(I’m a fanboy!)

http://davidwarlick.com/sljsummit/slj_summit.ppt.htm

David’s son at college: still carrying on text conversations. It’s not the machine, it’s the information he’s engaged in. Kids are talking, working toward a goal, collaborating and then they come in our schools and WE CUT THEM OFF.

Kids think everything should be clickable. What does a clickable library [...]

SLJ Summit: Learning & Libraries in the Digital AgeThe im

Dr. David Cavallo, MIT Media Lab

http://www.laptop.org/

What should education be when any information is just a few mouse clicks away. He showed a picture he found by “googling ‘boring school’” of some students in class looking tired:

Kids would rather be challenged than bored.

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SLJ Summit: On Trust, Technologies & 2.0 Thinking

Today, I head downtown to participate in the School Library Journal Leadership Summit. In preparation, participants and speakers have grown a wiki of discussion questions, links and insights. Take a look at the School Library 2.0 page and don’t miss Diane Chen’s incredible lists of SL2 links:

http://sljsummit.pbwiki.com/School%20Library%202point0

I really look forward to hearing [...]