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Thinking outside
the library sphere
Learning 2.0 beyond the library environment
Presentation outline
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Why outreach our services?
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Learning 2.0 program
 Evolution of the program
 Ways Yarra Plenty has used it the library community
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The school environment
 Purpose behind the program
 Administration
 Challenges
 Rewards
Importance of keeping up-to-date
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Why outreach?
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Today’s economic climate
 Ideal time for libraries to share resources and
knowledge
 Now more important to develop partnerships
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Era of open source and cloud computing
 Organisations now have options
 Open source software
 Use of internal or hosted resources
The library environment
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Yarra Plenty Staff
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Now use Web 2.0 within the workplace
Other libraries
 Victorian public libraries
 State libraries
 Special libraries
Outside the library sphere
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The community
 A taste of Web 2.0
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Corporate Clients
 Web 2.0 workshops
 Seminars and demonstrations tailored to needs
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The School environment
 Library staff
 teachers
Todays student
“Our students live in a global, digital world that many of us could
never have imagined…
A world that has been transformed and will continue to be, in
part, due to technology. Of course, societies have always been in
a constant state of transformation due to human ingenuity, but I
bet we can all agree that the pace and scope of transformation is
accelerating due to the technologies surrounding us. ”
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(Godwin 2008)
Todays student
Technology used to
communicate
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Email
Friendships through social
networking
Facebook /Myspace
Mobile phones
Texting
IM
Laptops /iphones
Information needs are
immediate
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How students view their
future
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Generation of
multi-taskers
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Don’t think or task in a
linear way
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New technology
New jobs
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Victorian Essential Learning
Standards
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Students use ICT as a major element of their
learning environment
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Encourages change in teaching practice
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Encourages teachers and library staff to learn
about social networking applications which
their students are familiar with
Collaboration
Partnerships between
-State Library of Victoria
-School Library Association of Victoria
-Yarra Plenty Regional Library
Partnership between
-Sybasigns
-Yarra Plenty Regional Library
Learning 2.0
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Self paced online learning program
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Use of open source Web 2.0 applications
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Social networking software
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Emphasizes learning through play and
exploration
Set up of the program
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Set up under the umbrella of the global
teacher web blogging space
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Participants also set up blogs in this
environment
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Participants use the blogs they set up for the
program as online journals to record what
they have learned after each activity
Web 2.0 applications
Personal Development
Collaboration tools
Social Networks
RSS feeds
Google Tools
MySpace
Feed readers
LibraryThing
Faceook
iGoogle
BlogsWikis
Ning
EBooks
Flickr
YouTube
Audio books
YouTube
Ebooks
Administration
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Tracking of participants done using a Google
RSS Feed Reader
Tracking log set up using Google Docs
Weekly emails sent to participants with tips
for the weeks activities
Support was also given via email and phone.
The program was set out in a weekly sequence
however all the weeks were accessible so those
wishing to work ahead at their own pace.
The challenges
The security of the school environment
-IT issues
-Blocking of sites
-Use of alternative sites and alternative activities
-Email issues
-time
-new type of learning environment
Advantage of online learning
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Accessible 24/7
Can be done anywhere, not reliant on the school
network
Self paced
Online, no isolation issues
Not reliant on attendance at workshops
Suitable for casual and part time employees
The rewards
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The discovery of easily accessible technologies
that provide new and exciting ways to share
ideas and develop reading an literacy skills in
students
What an amazing journey has begun. I have so
loved seeing the big ICT world out there and the
potential for my own professional development and
teaching.
There is so much to discuss. We really need to look at
our current teaching practice and make
modifications to suit the world that the kids
are living in now!
Our teaching needs to become more interactive and
make use of these amazing web resources that are
out there.
I have found using these web tools over the last
few weeks has made me take the time to
explore the web and is keeping me up-to-date
with what is available on the net, what our
students are exposed to and how we can harness
these as educational opportunities.
Students in today’s society live on the web. …
My fear has always been that including technology into the curriculum will
only add to the already saturated usage by students.
What this program has been able to demonstrate to me is the vast range
of ‘educational’ value type activities and practical uses.
Setting assignments, students listening to and commenting on others work,
posting thoughts and comments onto the web, creating discussion forums
were just a small range of activities that I have been able to include into
my curriculum writing.
The challenge for today’s teachers is in making sure that when
technology is included into the curriculum that we as teachers
are not teaching ‘how to use a program - rather how to get the
program to compliment the students work’.
Future
“Learning in the 21st century is all about networks
and the connections we can make to other
learners and teachers ... But being literate in this
new learning environment requires more than
knowing how to read and write.
It requires us to edit, publish, collaborate, create
and connect in the process of building our own
personal learning spaces.”
Will Richardson
Summing up
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Libraries are community services
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Technology
 No boundaries...no start or finish
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Employment today
 Time management / multi tasking
 Web 2.0 an important skill
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Professional Development
 Need to strive to learn through exploration and play
 Continuous lifelong journey
Thank you
Lynette Lewis
Recruitment Consultant
The One Umbrella
[email protected]