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Teacher/Librarian Role: act as collectors/selectors
Goal: to present well-defined containers of limited resources
Learner: chooses and uses
Software: holds and organizes
Assessment: not part of the design
| Example | Purpose | Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Collections, containers, distributors, contributors | ||
| Your library's
ILS Virtual libraries: school, academic and public SOSIG; Open Directory Project Newspapers "http://www.sfgate.com" "http://www.arabnews.com/" Developing program UN Oil for Food Vienna International School |
Presents
library's selection of resources
Subject portal or directory managed by a distributed team Historical perspective (1996-) archive |
Automated library system containing
OPAC, databases, etc. OpenBiblio open source PHP; Emilda open source MySQL, Perl WaybackMachine's Heritrix "open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler" |
| Third
Grade Bakers
|
A
limited search of recipes for young children who bake breads from
different cultures each week as part of a year-long study of bread's
significance for cultures.
Searches The Online Books Page, a comprehensive listing of free books available in full-text.
|
Rollyo |
| Merlot
(peer reviewed) OAIster MuseSeek
|
"Federated
search" enhanced with harvested metadata from contributing
institutions.
Order and appearance of various types of results are integrated with library's catalog. |
|
| Decentralized,
collaboratively
constructed, free encyclopedia
or group knowledge
base; grassroots content without intermediate IT
involvement. Peer-editing, norms and loose leadership result in balance, fairness. See Isuzu Experiment re: errors. |
MediaWiki
PmWiki |
|
|
MaNIS
(mammals)
GBIF (biodiversity) |
Open
architecture global data
"Anyone can them use it to construct thematic portals and specialized search facilities." |
Interoperable network of databases and information technology tools using web services and Grid technologies. |
| Shakespeare Overview | Single-focus annotated webliographies in a searchable collection that others can modify to create a new webliography. | Trackstar collector |
School-hosted blogs: Nanotechnology |
Deliver
current information for:
Distribute handouts Assess work sort by students Students in the district contribute to ongoing stories Teacher collects resources, plans sequence, shares work with others |
RSS
feed examples:
|
| Bend
But Don't Break
Debbie's My Yahoo
Keep current on library LISfeeds Debbie's search feed plagiarismGoogle Alert (e-mail) ChangeDetect (Web page monitoring) |
Logbook
for a science fair project
User(s) collaborate on bookmarks.
|
Blogger
BookmarkTracker Bloglines
(RSS feed) |
| Debbie's plagiarism archive | User selects and archives, comments on and shares Web content. | Furl Scrapbook Builder |
| Groups words into list by number of occurrences - writing analysis | Frequency Index | |
Effective teaching with technology matches the teacher's goals and the learner's characteristics and needs, with tools that enhance understanding.