Collected Ideas from the Audience in Technology:

(nte from  Dave Loertscher, editor: The following ideas came from all the tables. I did a little eiting and some commenting. You should feel free to edit and add to this list. I suggest that if you add something, use a different color and sign your name to the idea)

•  Using Moodle - a transparent tool.  Teachers love using the technology and in high school teachers love it. Moodle has wikis and forms built in....You can use the tools in a protected environment. Moodle is free:  Moodle.org
• Using Moodle discussion boards where teachers ask a prompt and teachers and students respond to the question. It has impacted circuatlion statistics.
• Hand Held Games for learning such as Nintendo DS or Brain Age where 6 kids to 8 kids can work on the brain games; Hand Held Games for learning; Play Aways:  MP3 Player Pre-programmed. Use at both seconday and elementary levels. Ideas submitted by: Latane Kreiser, Angelica Jutty, Rosemarie Bernier and Barry Bishop.
• webquests—Librarians collaborate with teachers on their lessons using rubrics and standards
• teacher’s web site advertises assignments homework (ed. note - If the librarian and the teacher collaboratively build these with RSS fees, then these assignments automatically appear on student's home pages they have built with iGoogle) Both the teacher and the librarian create the assignment, the goals and objectives, the rubrics and links to resources.
• mentor students online, but in doing so, don't "boss" them; solicity their help in building the information systems they will use.
• Gmail accouts for every student will allow them automatic entrace into a host of tools.  They can have other email accounts as well.  Help them have a link to their email on their iGoogle page.
• Drawing tool in Word (help them learn how) Remember there are drawing tools in many free applications and open source software.
• If you use RSS feeds from your teacher/librarian blogs, you can introduce specific database searches that will be hlepful and the kids will automatically get this info on their home page. They will go there rather than automatically Google the topic.
• The best philosophy in the shcool for teachers, librarians, tech directors, and every student is: You teach me, I will teach, you, We will all teache each other, and we will all learn together.
• Teachers should promote and encourage virtual/online learning schools. Kids love it, parents love it. (South Carolina example)  You can customize students' learning and maximize their natural interest in technology. Ed Not:  Does anyone know if there are librarinans as a part of virtual schools? It would be great to have them share with the rest of us what their role is and how they work. - ad this info here or email reader.david@gmail.com)
• A wiki or blog will allow students to take more time and effort with their work, but only if it is constructed propoerly. It takes a few experimental trials with the structre of these tools to see the result of learning and then modify the tool to see that it is producing better teaching and learning. Experience will help you know when to use a bog or a wiki or a Ning or Moodle or some other collaborative technology. It's the resultant learning that counts. David Loertscher said that it took him five semesters or redesign on his reading wiki before the learning results became verticle rather and incrementally good. Check out Dog Actherman's comments on wikis in this presentation When kids added their facts to the wiki, then had to draw and grphic organizer, they consulted not only what they knew about their topics but also what others knew. The result was a collaborative big think. When every student learns more in less time, then you know you are getting there. That is the innovation of web 2.0 tools. You don't need to divide sheep from goats. Everyone can learn beyond what they usually do.
• Remember that "the kids own this technology" and we can move in with them.
• *Purchased ebooks (now how do I get the kids to use it???) Ed. note: Multiple ways. You ca have them as part of the online catalog so they can browse and learn to select them because they prefer that format; you can provide them as a part of an assignment RSS feed right on to their home pages. If they are normal and leave the assignment to the last day, the digital book will get used because they can't get to the printed book; as students get comfortable with ebooks, they will stargt prferring one format over antoher, but convenience will be a major factor as we all know in what format gets used. If it is midnight and Harry Potter was just released and I can download it, I can buy the book abytime, but righ now, digital will do.
• How do we get kids to use the online catalog? - ed. comments: If the online caalog only refers me to books I have to go to the library to get and I can only get there once a week or can't get through the halls to get there, then I am going to Google. Sorry folks. You librarians have to get back into my information space.
• What about online daabases that can be sorted by lexile leve? Ed. note: If a company can't provide such information sorted any way we want it in the amounts we need it, then find a company that can. Don't just send kids to the databases, Through the RSS feeds, send them directly to the place that will get them what they need or give them suggested terms to search, or help them develop and share with their freinds the terms that seemed to work the best. Everyone helps everyone else find the good stuff and whatever level or in any language...
• Graphic organizers help overcome differences in reading ability to permit higher level thinking and learning. ed. note: remember thsee can be on paper, on technology, and I understand hat there are now collaborative graphic organizers. Perhsopas someone can enlighten us to some here.
• Google home pages are excellent examples of the "golden triangle" of online web pages. The pages are setup with important information in the high left corner and a high center search box. Ed. note:  Wither their millions, Google keeps doing new stuff. We need to keep tuned.  Perhaps the kidsand teens can help us keep up to date.
• If the school is blocking everything, they are just wasting their money spent on computers and networking. The taxpayers should be outraged. ed. note: we could not agree more.
• I am still back in the dark ages. ed not: So what? Everyone is in various stages of this stuff. Foret the fear. Move on.
• Ed note: Dave Loerter presented in Oregon at their conferencee and this is what happened by one person who was there and also at this presentation: Inspired in Oregon a few weeks ago, the librarian killed the animal units by honestly telling the teacher she felt she was encouraging plaguarism. The teacher spent the weekend researching it and came back with great ideas for a new redesigned assignments using their research, Google Maps, and Inspiration for the outputs. The teachers enthusiasm infected the older teachers to break the animal unit mould. The introductory paragraph is written in riddle form.
• TV video class to use wiki for students to do their discussion stuff in a tech high school. Also use the wiki for staff development opportunities.
• iGoogle eliminates the competition between libraries and Google and turns it into a partnership. ed not:e Please read this comment ten times and let's all take information space back. To most kids, we are irrelevant. Let's invade Google and win.
• The RSS feeds meets a students 20 second test. If I cannot figure it out in 20 seconds it was last year. ed. note: I think this should have been lik two seconds. If I as a student can't get to something I need in that time, I go somewhere else.
• Use web based bookmarks when you create them so that any computer you use has the same links.
• The RSS feed will show the headlines even though the filter would block the page. ed. not:  I think this might mean that if I could not see it at school for some reason, I might be able to see it at home on a different system.
• Digital audio is just as good (maybe better) as print. Listening to the book is reading - just different senses. ed. note: Since I am legally blind, I hae something to say here. Hearing books is linear. It is different than reading print because print has a text structure that you can use to skim , san and skip around. So there are advantages. The voice that reads the book is also important.  I also listen to my student's assignments so I can select a voice I like and have it read as fast as I can undertand it. Others come in the room and think I am listening to gibberish. However, as fast as the computer reads it to me is still slower than the speed at which I could read print. I gulped text. Perhaps this is just a very personal experience and I am sure that it is different for other readers and listeners.
• Prohibition has always led to interest by students in what is being prohibited.
• Freakonomics is a great read for people who want to understand more about how data is just data and needs the context to be information. edl. note: that is a good book to read.
• What are the alternatives to Google searches? ed. note: When you have the RSS feeds set up, have the students help you figure this one out.
• Live TV, upload to UTube. ed. note:  I don't get the first part, but  have their students upload their projects to YouTube and then replace the oral report time with a big think - see Koechlin and Zwaan.
• Susan uses document camera to show students while she discusses how to use parts of books. ed. note: I once went to a wchool where the kids were collecting wifflies from the swamp outside and watching them on a camera system. They were all copulating! Interesting lesson.
• Create t wo column table in Word. Copy the article that they are reading into the left column. Take notes in the right column using color. Students are engaged in reading and using technology and reading.
• MP3 audio books --students can access at home, on computer or on MP3 player. ed note:  Hey, I have an iPod like almost everyone else. Can you remember me in this one?
• what might happen if bloggs were incorporated more for the learning proces? ed note. Well, if used and tested for learning, quite a bit, but like everything else, they can fail.
• 1st grade project: global service learning/penpal project, communicating with other schoolsl. ed note: Web.2.0 is perfect for this kind of stuff.
• eboard is easy!  trial it! www.eboard.com
• 2.    Create a link so that students can search all a school's databases at one time.  This forces students to refine their search and search more thoughtfully to avoid too many hits. ed note. Meta searches produce more. Teach kids about the concept of "enough."
• Add internet links to school computer catalog records.  This can lead students to pathfinders you create on topics they are searching for or to other sources for books you do not own.  ed note. This is a good idea but they won't be used unless you RSS feed them onto their personal pages just at the time when they have an assignment on the topic you created the pathfinder for.
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