Information_Landscape

What does your library information landscape look like using 21st Century methods? Back to Main Menu of 21st Century Library


 * ==Competency== || ==Examples== || ==Ideas== || ==Other Comments== ||
 * You know that searching various areas of the Web requires a variety of search tools. You are the information expert in your building. You are the search expert in your school. You share an every growing and shifting array of search tools that reach into blogs and wikis and Twitter and images and media and scholarly content. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * You open your students to evolving strategies for collecting and evaluating information. You teach about tags,and hashtags, and feeds, and real-time searches and sources, as well as the traditional database approaches you learned way back in library school. || Discovery College : teaching Yrs 5&6 to use Diigo to organise their finds on the internet, and share. This will be implemented across the school. ||  ||   ||
 * You organize the Web for learners. You have the skills to create a blog or website or wiki or portal of some other type to pull together resources to meet the specific information needs of your learning community. || Discovery College Netvibes pages for whole school, primary school. ||  ||   ||
 * You make sure your learners and teachers can (physically & intellectually) access developmentally and curricular databases, portals, websites, blogs, videos, and other media. || Discovery College - website is linked to school page in an easy to find location. Page is designed to be accessible for all learners. Physical- shelves ar enot too high or low, distance between shelving is wide enough for a wheeelchair, differentiation in the collection and resources created, collected and maintained. ||  ||   ||
 * Your web presence reflects your personal voice. It includes your advice and your instruction, as well as your links. You make learning an engaging and colorful hybrid experience. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * You think of your web presence as a knowledge management tool for your entire school. It includes student-produced instruction and archived (celebrated) student work, handouts,policies, and collaboratively built pathfinders to support learning and research in all learning arenas. (Checkout Pathfinder Swap for examples.) ||  ||   ||   ||
 * You help learners put together their own personal information portals and Knowledge Building Centers to support their research and learning, using widgets, embedded media,and personal information portals like iGoogle, PageFlakes and NetVibes and wikis and Google Sites ||  ||   ||   ||
 * You intervene in the research process online while respecting young people’s need for privacy. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * You work with learners to exploit //push// information technologies like RSS feeds and tags and saved databases and search engine searches relevant to their information needs. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Your own feeds are rich with learning content, evidence of your networking. You embed dynamic widgets (including your own database widgets) wherever students live, work, and play. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * You integrate dynamic interactive features in your library’swebsite–Google calendars, RSS feeds, delicious bookmarks,Flickr photo galleries, online presentations, blogs, surveys,polls, as ways to interact with and teach students. ||  ||   ||   ||