08.12.08
Flickr, trading cards, and more
I have spent many hours over the last couple weeks exploring the latest ‘things’. At this point I feel that I may be getting overwhelmed with all the different applications that are available to me. My goal when I joined the learning experience was to become familiar enough to present some ideas to my teachers so they could begin including one of two things into their lessons with their students. But my question now is what one do I start with? With the time constraints that we all work under I have a short opportunity to make my case and I want it to be a good one.
I think flickr and some of the activities I have explored recently lend themselves easily to the currcuilar needs of a number of my teachers. I can see the LA teachers having the kids create trading cards as a quicky activity before open house and having the cards posted on a bulletin board. I can also see my social studies teachers using mappr and flickr to demonstrate acquired knowledge on a number of different topics. I am constantly looking for ideas where the students are asked to do something that doesn’t lend itself to cutting and pasting. This type of activity might just work here.
Lastly I have been reading additional blogs and conference presentations on the Library 2.0, most recently I looked at some of Annette Lamb’s work. She also lists many different applications. I am most interested in what people have to say about the changing landscape of our media centers. After working in the field for 30 years I have reinvented myself a number of times and over the last couple of years I have started looking once again at the relevancy of my media program. Besides advocating for new ideas and processes with my staff I also have begun to visualize how I bring the other district media specialists on board. Between the 12 Things activity and Netvibes and my own explorations I think I will be busy for quite sometime. Here is my attempt at a trading card:
August 14, 2008 at 7:00 am
Great post and trading card! Thanks!
August 26, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Greetings from Down Under!
I read your post today – my 12 things experience slowed right down after 3 things when uni started again! Anyway, just thought I’d share this in relation to your ‘where do I start’ musing. My thougts …. where there’s impact. We had our school Book Week Parade last week and I created an animoto video of some of the images. My main motivation wasn’t to show the pics, but to share the new technology with the teachers. Our school is having Parent Night soon and the principal has encouraged teachers to use the technology for a presentation on that night. If you’d like to check out the video, it’s at: http://animoto.com/play/18baKJ7LpRXhf50q0awHDg
I’m not saying you SHOULD start with animoto, but just catch their attention with something funky to peak their interest.
Best regards,
Lisa
September 3, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Lisa–What a great idea and so easy! Your video was wonderful so I thought I would start the school year off with a Welcome Back video for our students. I signed up for an education account and had my video made in just a few moments. I have posted it to my schools website and will be running it on our school announcement channel. Do you know if there is any way to loop the video?
Thanks for your advice and suggestion.