E-Learning 4 Life Resources

New Books from ISTE in QA libraries

The books listed below were recently added to our professional library collection. They are available now in the senior library. If you are from Primary/ECE and would like to read them, please contact Sudha Konnanath. The book will be send to Primary/ECE libraries and you can check them out from there.

1 101 best websites for elementary teachers
2 Beyond hardware
3 Computer lab teacher’s survival guide
4 Digital images in the school curriculum
5 The school network handbook
6 Tablet PCs in K-12 education
7 Teachers as technology leaders
8 Educator’s Podcast guide
9 What works in K-12 online learning
10 RSS for educators: Blogs, newsfeeds, podcasts and wikis.

Flattening the walls of the school library
Presentation to the Primary School on the role of the library for 21st century learning - August 26 2008

Links to supporting articles:

AASL, (2007) Standards for the 21st century learner.
Asselin, M & Doiron, R (2008) Towards a Transformative Pedagogy for School Libraries 2.0
Lonsdale, M., & McCurry, D. (2004), Literacy in the new millennium
McKenzie, J. From Now On
Todd, R (2003), School libraries – Making them a class act

Women of Web2.0
WOW2 is for all who are using the tools of the internet whether it be in a classroom setting, leading seminars, authoring books, maintaining blogs or wikis, or just enjoying the tools of the internet in an educational and exciting way.
WOW2 is brought to you by Cheryl Oakes, Jennifer Wagner, Sharon Peters, & Vicki Davis, four women who not only love using the tools of the Internet but also love sharing the tools with others.
EdTechTalk
Vicki Davis, Sharon Peters and Cheryl Oakes interview Doug Johnson and Joyce Valenza about their impressions of libraries that work!
Some points covered:

What is the library in the 21st century?
What about Web 3.0?
What is happening in libraries?
What about intellectual property?
Creative Commons Licensing
Ebooks and podbooks

Delicious links from Women of Web2.0

General Resource

E-Learning Reloaded: Top 50 Web 2.0 Tools (from Online Education Database)
Wikis: Getting started and examples of educational use
Mac Applications (from Wesley Fryer) - a comprehensive list of commercial AND free software that Wesley considers essential on a Mac!

Blogging in Education

Blogging: Getting started and links to great educational blogs to read
Anne Davis is a wonderful inspiration and pioneer of classroom blogging. Read her blog Edublog Insights. Find resources on her wiki Blog to Learn. Also read her Blogger's Cafe article from the February 2008 edition of Learning and Leading with Technology (ISTE), A Vision for Classroom Blogging. (membership info needed to access this article online - ask our librarians at QA for this). The article is uploaded here as a PDF file.

Anne_Davis.pdf

Conferences

Exploring ICT in Education, College of the North Atlantic, Qatar April 5, 2008
ASB Unplugged in Mumbai, Feb-March 2008
Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation Feb 2008
EduCon 2.0 Jan 2008
Learning 2.008 in Shanghai, September 2008

Technology and Literacy Resources

Literacy is Priceless A terrific blog with all kinds of reading resources for grades K-3. It highlights great things on the internet,
such as interactive websites for kids, online books, and resources for teachers.
GIS and Geographic Enquiry: List of resources
Free Reading.net The videos are very helpful and even though most of the activities are more appropriate for K-1 students, Flocabulary is suitable for Grade 2.