School Library Learning 2.0 -- online Continuring Education Credit Course

	School Library Learning 2.0 Classroom Learning 2.0 “23 Things” ...An online professional learning opportunity for educators Play for free to learn on your own  or pay for units at: http://schoollibrarylearning2.csla.net

Join School Library Learning 2.0:  
"23 Things"

• Experience the latest Web 2.0 tools that can be used in your library and throughout your school or classroom…a self paced program.
• Develop your own blog or wiki and find out about what the blogosphere is all about for education
• Have you wanted to find out all about this Web 2.0 stuff?  Now is your chance!
• 23 fun, new “Things” that will help you to better use online tools for education. 

Do it for your own enjoyment and personal growth or you can earn two units of continuing education credit.

How to Start/Register: 

When? Start now on your own… then apply for units beginning Dec 1, 2010.  Info: http://schoollibrarylearning2.csla.net/2007/02/about.html

Continuing Education/Professional Development Credit:

Fresno Pacific University

Course # is IND 1150.  Cost is $220 for two (2) units.  

Registration can occur any time and is completed online.  Transcripts can be issued within a month of the completion of the course.  http://schoollibrarylearning2.csla.net/2007/02/about.html

To Sign Up for Credits

Please send an email to Robdarrow@cusd.com with “School Library Learning” in the subject line to activate Fresno Pacific credits for this program.  (Rob will be your primary “online instructor” to verify work completed and help you to register for the units.)

For more info, contact Rob Darrow (robdarrow@cusd.com)

60second Recap - Book Trailers

Recommendation from Teacher Librarian Rebecca Johnston:

(CALIBK12 listserv)

"Here [60Second Recap] is a great site for your English teachers.  The host, Jenny Sawyer, gives 1 minute video summaries of topics on many literary classics.  There are 10 videos for each title including the plot, cast of characters, themes, context, motifs, a trailer, and a conclusion.  She also has several videos on literary terms and how to write a paper.  The style is fresh, entertaining, and innovative and very connected to the standards for English literature.  Most of our required reading is covered including Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby, Oedipus Rex, Romeo and Juliet, 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and many more.  Jenny also has her "Pick of the Week" which is a video trailer on current YA titles."

"The only negative is the videos are hosted on YouTube so if YouTube is blocked at school you will not be able to stream them.  I had to download them for the teachers :-( "

Here is an article about Jenny, the host of 60 Second Recap http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-09-07-jenny-sawyer-60-second-recap-classics_N.htm

 

Rebecca Johnston

Teacher Librarian

Redlands East Valley High School

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be
called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein

Memorize -- a new, cool tool

Here's a new tool that lets you create and share flashcards and other tools for memorizing and learning things.

What would be good to create?  Weekly vocabulary/spelling tests? Topics that help prepare for SAT and other tests?  

When I was in high school Spanish, we had weekly vocabulary lists and I got my mother to help quiz me.  Poor mom!  Memorize.com would be a good tool for Spanish OR English teachers (Remember weekly Word Wealth Words?). 

Check out the Typography in the logo, too.