Books+&+Web+2.0

=Meet The Stars: Books & Web 2.0=

The vicarious star-studded glamour of the Hollywood era provides a backdrop for a professional development opportunity available to Saskatchewan teacher-librarians. Designed to engender a passion for reading and exploit the potential of a range of emerging technologies, //Meet The Stars: Books & Web 2.0// explores all facets of the school library program - information literacy and the reading and literature programs. //Meet The Stars// is poised to become an overnight sensation in Saskatchewan libraries.

Remaining abreast of exciting new releases and then finding the time to read the novels, much less promote them in an exciting booktalk, can overwhelm teacher-librarians. Joyce Valenza, in her blog post [|Booktalking 2.0], discusses teacher-librarians can "share our booktalks, and in true 2.0 style, we can involve learners in creating them. I love that we can link to or share a colleague's booktalk. Through the magic of streamed media, we can involve learners in creating them. I love that I don't have to create them all from scratch."

About this Course
//Meet The Stars// is divided into two parts - book promotion and the information literacy cycle. Each part consists of four learning blocks, with each block organized as follows:
 * **Part One - In The Spotlight:** Using a list of potential book award winners, participants explore ways to reflect upon, critically examine, and promote the literature through professional dialogue and emerging technologies.
 * **Part Two - The Backlot:** Illustrating the information literacy cycle, participants develop their repertoire of search tools, pathfinders, and online organizational tools.
 * **Introduction:** Major concepts addressed in the block are introduced
 * **Block Overview:** Description of the Web 2.0 tool and its relevance to teacher-librarianship
 * **Outcomes:** Overarching statements about the expected learning. The outcomes are based on the 2007 [|International Society for Technology in Education's] (ISTE) [|National Educational Technology Standards]) for students.
 * **Achievement Indicators:** Skills, understandings, and knowledge required to use and apply specific Web 2.0 tools[[image:tryitout.jpg width="75" height="75" align="right"]].
 * **Learning Activities:** Readings, relevant sites, and specific activities required to attain achievement indicators. The icon, //Try it Out!//, denotes an activity to complete**.**
 * **Learning Resources:** Tutorials to help accomplish the tasks and further resources to extend your knowledge.
 * **Time Frame:** Each of the blocks of learning should take one week to complete. We encourage participants to work within this time frame. The depth of conversation that is intended to occur depends on responding to each other's work in a timely manner.

=Events=

Block One: The Nominees
An introduction to the list of nominated books and the impact of emerging technologies on traditional booktalks. Participants explore sites featuring book reviews (blogs, author Web sites, and book review sites) and build a list of their favourite links.

Block Two: The Review
Be the critic! Create a blog as a means to communicate thoughts about the potential award-winning books - questions that were not answered explicitly, but inspired by the text, the author’s ability to evoke detailed and richly descriptive images, etc.

Block Three: You Oughta Be In Pictures
Advertise your book! Use image generators to provide a book teaser or to communicate, encapuslate, and emotionalize memorable moments in the nominated book.

Block Four: Lewis Theatre
Take on the role of the director. Turn your book into a movie. Premiere your movie and view other's contributions.

Block Five: Behind The Scenes
Explore a variety of technological resources that can be used to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.

Block Six - The Talent Agent
Redesign activities to discourage plagerism and foster critical and creative thinking.

Block Seven: Digital Citizenship
Explore the norms of behaviour in regards to technological use (etiquette, responsibility,security, etc.) in order to practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.

Block Eight: The Screenwriter
Create a product that synthesizes your learning in Meet The Stars - the benefits of participatory culture, including opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, a changed attitude toward intellectual property, the diversification of cultural expression, the development of skills valued by the twenty-first century learner, and a more empowered conception of citizenship.

Facilitators
Donna DesRoches and Carlene Walter To hear our opening message, double click on the play button or the + in the top corner of each voki.
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