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Personal Learning Networks

The new shape of information

Manypathstoknowledge

Yesterday Vicki Butler and I attended an online presentation through LMC@The Forefront. The subject -  Personal Learning Networks – was presented by David Warlick, a nationally renowned school technology advocate.  You can read more about it here at the ISTE Technology site.

Here is an excerpt from the link above:

As we work in a time of rapid change, with students who are digital natives, from within a dramatically new information landscape, the best description of the 21st Century teacher is Master Learner. Participants in this presentation will learn how to utilize a variety of new web-based applications to construct and cultivate personal learning networks. Educators will learn to attract information from other professional educators, experts in the fields of study, current news and news searches, student perspective, relevant resources from a growing library of web-based digital content, and other content sources to assist them in adapting to this age of change. (diagram from: http://davidwarlick.com/wordpress/?p=413)

I advanced my thinking on a number of fronts after this short presentation.  Learning networks are quite familiar to Librarians but for a long time I have been thinking that the tremendous fragmentation of information has been a negative thing:  something to manage and hard to keep up with.  Now my thinking is shifting from:

Fragmentation  ——>   Networking

David talked about these shifts as well:

Classroom Learning —–>  Network Learning

Institutional Learning —–> Independent Learning

Learning Literacy —–>  Learning Lifestyle

It’s given me a lot to think about. Personal Learning Networks are more convenient to build in a networked environment. What I think is very new is the fact that “conversations” too have become information artifacts and I am still trying to get my head around the implications of that.  Information and communications are converging in strange new ways. Now that we have the tools to train these conversations to find us (as in RSS, iGoogle pages etc.) they become more managable.

Diigo in the Hood

Last Saturday I rolled out of bed at a leisurely 8:45 a.m. …   jumped onto the computer and into a live presentation on Diigo with colleagues from all over the country. It turned out to be the best thing I’ve done all year.  Everyone bookmarks their favorite sites right?  If you are a fan of Del.ic.ious (currently the most prominent social bookmarking tool) then you will love Diigo.  I know, another cutsie Web 2.0 name – but don’t let the name fool you.  There is power under the Diigo hood and power in the Diigo Hood.

diigo

Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff    (link to site)

Here are some of the features that make it so compelling. You can:

  • bookmark items into categories (download the toolbar)
  • highlight important information (first time I’ve seen this really work)
  • see a list of your sites annotated with your highlights
  • see the original site even if the live site goes away (your site is archived)
  • can customize your own keywords for sites (tags)
  • share and collaborate in groups
  • make lists of links on any topics and share lists
  • can “follow” people just like you can on Twitter
  • can have Diigo bookmarks automatically populate your del.iou.us account

Right now I am most enjoying the highlighting feature.  Students – you can set up a research paper  “List”,  gather internet sites, highlight them, and access them from any computer. It’s all in one place, highlighted and secure.  Well, as you can probably tell, I can’t say enough about it.  Email me if you’d like a list of Diigo tutorials. You can be up and running in five minutes.

Note: Many of the history resources have been transferred from the MS library to the US library which is why the list is so long this month.

DVDs/Videos

Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond

Stand and Deliver

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

Autio Makes Night Music (Sculpture)

Gold Fever

Witness to History: 4 volumes

Liberty! The American Revolution – 3 vols.

Days of Waiting: A film by Steven Okazaki

..

United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the Constitutional Amendments

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery

Lincoln and Lee at Antietam

The Great Indian Wars 1540-1890

After Silence Civil Rights and the Japanese American Internment During World War II

Craft In America I & II

Secrets of the Mind

Secret of the Wild Child

Mind of a Serial Killer

..

Bad Seed:  The Truth About Our Food

The Triumph of the Nerds:  An Irreverent History of the PC Industry

Truman: American Experience

Aging Out:  What Happens When You’re Too Old for Foster Care?

The Panic is On:  The Great American Depression As Seen By the Common Man

Smoke Signals [Sherman Alexie]

Mesopotamia Ancient Civilizations for Children

Killer Flu: Secrets of the Dead

Online Resources

Tough Guise Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity (streaming)

Western Soundscape Archive (audio – animal calls)

FindLaw:  US Supreme Court Center   (database)

Educating the Net Generation            (e-book)

Our Courts – 21st Century Civics (Sandra Day O’Connor’s site) (info & games)

Reference

Encyclopedia of American Studies

Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History

Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy

Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia

Wordsworth Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations

Great American Court Cases

Social Issues/Government/Economics

Espionage : A Reference Handbook

Rethinking Life & Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics

Kings and Philosophers, 1689-1789

Without sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

Pitch Blackness

The Social Life of Information

The Anti-Federalist Papers: and, The Constitutional Convention Debates

Landmark Supreme Court Cases: a Reference Guide

Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France

The Ku Klux Klan A History of Racism and Violence

Language / Literature

Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon

Art/Photography

Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century

Peter Beard Scrapbooks from Africa and Beyond

A Certain Alchemy

Joseph Cornell’s Dreams

Making Things / Applied Technology / Business/ Management

Design Handbook Concepts Materials Styles

Python in a Nutshell

History

Step Into The Viking World

Step Into The Celtic World

How Would You Survive in the Middle Ages

Knights and Castles

The Usborne Book of Castles Internet-linked

The 1960s /

Maria Theresa and the House of Austria,

The Korean War

Liberty for All? 1800-1860 Book 5

The Truth about Sacajawea

The Viking World

Lewis & Clark Voyage of Discovery Bicentennial Edition

A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714

Doomed Queens

Marie Therese The Fate of Marie Antoinette’s Daughter

Civil Wars, And Monarchy In France, In The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. v.2 of A History of France Principally During That Period

The English King: A Study of the Monarchy and the Royal Family, Historical, Constitutional and Social

The Habsburg Monarchy: from Enlightenment to Eclipse

Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms : Pop Culture of 20th-century America

The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938

Ancient China

The Greeks:  The Usborne Illustrated World History

Growing Up in Ancient Greece

Find Out About Ancient China: What Life was Like in the Chinese Empire

Made in China: Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China

The Ancient Chinese People of the Ancient World

Ancient China – See Through History

The Great Wall of China

Adventures in Ancient China

Ancient China Early Civilizations

FDR: A Presidency Revealed

Ancient Greece Daily Life

Causes and Consequences of World War I

..

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

The Ancient Near Eastern World

The Medieval Messenger: Friday October 13, 1349

The Presidents

Escape – Teens Who Escaped the Holocaust to Freedom

From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles & Estates

Peoples of the Sea Wind: The Native Americans of the Pacific Coast

The Emperor’s Silent Army Terracotta Warriors of Ancient China

The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1715

The Fall of the House of Habsburg

Eighteenth-century Europe, Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789

The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559

Maria Theresa

AV Equipment

Mbox 2 Mini    (1)

FlipUltra 2nd Generation (4)

Education

The Change Handbook: the Definitive Resource on Today’s Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems

The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation

The Race Between Education and Technology

The Education of a Coach

DVDs

The Saga of World War II

V for Vendetta [Natalie Portman]

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

Greece & Turkey 2000 – 2009 (Travel Guide)

Wholphin No. 8:  DVD Magazine of Rare and Unseen Short Films

The Dancer Upstairs

A Man for All Seasons

Cry for Help A Critical Look at the Issues Surrounding Teen Depression

Who Gets To Call It Art? New York art scene of the 60’s and the man who made it POP!

The People’s Republic of Capitalism [with Ted Koppel]

The Secret Life of Leonardo Da Vinci

Reference

Dictionary of concepts in history

General

Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility

Facebook : the Missing Manual

Facebook for Dummies

Social Issues

Amendment XXVI: Lowering the Voting Age

A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom

The New Division of Labor: How Computers are Creating the Next Job Market

The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

A History of Fashion and Costume

Amendment XV: Race and the Right to Vote

An Introduction to African Politics

Non-violent Resistance (Satyagraha)

The Way We’ll Be: the Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

Waste and Want A Social History of Trash

Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends

Arts / Music / Drama / Sports

The World in Six Songs How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

Rodgers & Hammerstein

The Music Instinct Science & Song

American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle

George Balanchine, Ballet Master : a Biography

Film Adaptation

Museums of Cracow

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Museum of Art, Säao Paulo

Museums of the Andes

Prado, Madrid.

Louvre, Paris.

Brera Milan.

Vatican Museums: Rome.

Manufactured Landscapes: the Photographs of Edward Burtynsky

Master Posing Guide: for Portrait Photographers

Digital Photography in Available Light

Leonardo Da Vinci

The Sound of the City: the Rise of Rock and Roll

The Complete Paintings of Caravaggio

The Complete Paintings of the Van Eycks;

Michelangelo 1475-1564 Complete Works

The Essential Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams

The Complete Paintings of Mantegna.

The Complete Paintings of Giorgione;

The Complete Paintings of Piero della Francesca.

L’opera Completa di Giotto (in Italian)

National Gallery, London.

Museums of Yugoslavia

Uffizi, Florence

Pompeii and Its Museums

Leonardo da Vinci The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man

The Complete Book of Martial Arts

In-Line Skating! Get Aggressive

Literature & Language

Mixology

Desdemona’s Fire: Poems

One Girl Babylon

The Devil’s Garden

When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering

Language Myths

Science / Applied Science / Medicine / Business

Built to Last Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

Leadership and the New Science Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

Thank God for Evolution!: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World

Strange & Unexplained Happenings When Nature Breaks the Rules of Science

Diverse Atoms: Profiles of the Chemical Elements

Salmon of the Pacific

Guilt:   Ideas in Psychoanalysis

Phobia: Ideas in Psychoanalysis

Affect and Emotion:  Ideas in Psychoanalysis

Anxiety: Ideas in Psychoanalysis

Introducing Psychotherapy

Education

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

Redefining Literacy 2.0

One-minute Discipline: Classroom Management Strategies That Work

Opening Up Education: the Collective Advancement of Education Through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge

Scenario-Based Learning Using Stories To Engage e-Learners

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Sir Ken Robinson)

AV Equipment

Snowball Professional USB Microphone (2)

Monopod (for stabilizing cameras)

Flip Ultra HD video cameras (2)

History

NOTE: This list is long because many of these titles were transferred from Temple to Vanderbilt Library

Visual Dictionary of Ancient Civilizations

The Ancient South Asian World

The Underground Railroad in American History

Ancient Times A Watts Guide for Children

The Ancient World

World Atlas of the Past

The Earliest Civilizations Explore the history of the world from the first hunter-gatherers to the rise of ancient Greek civilization

Firsthand America

The Gold Rush Daily Life

Many Thousand Gone African Americans from Slavery to Freedom

The African Kings

The Emperors of China Treasures of the World

The Maharajas

The Rulers of Russia

Secrets in Stone All About Maya Hieroglyphs

Marco Polo A Journey Through China

Ancient History: Blackbirch Press Visual Encyclopedia

The Early Human World

Primary Sources and Reference Volume: The World in Ancient Times

America : a narrative history

Her Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut

Isabel, Ferdinand and fifteenth-century Spain

Gold Rush Women

The Character of Meriwether Lewis Completely Metamorphased in the American West

John Brown Militant Abolitionist

Japanese-American Internment in American History

Plains Indian Village Daily Life

Debatable deaths Unsolved History

Perplexing People Unsolved History

Legends or Lies? Unsolved History

Life of a slave on a Southern Plantation

Life Among the Puritans the Way People Live

Peoples of Washington Perspective on Cultural Diversity

Flags of Our Fathers Heroes of Iwo Jima

Voices of the Great Depression The 1930s

The Way We Were Reflections from the 1930s

Jefferson Davis Confederate President

Interstate 5 South Heritage Tour: Seattle to Vancouver, WA

Isadora Duncan

New York Dorling Kindersley Travel Guides

America’s Historic Trails plus Video: Yukon Gold Rush Trail, Seattle

Western Europe

Africa

Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe

Canada

East and Southeast Asia

In Search of York The Slave who went to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark, Revised Edition.

The D-Day Experience: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris

Seattle 150 Years of Progress

The New York Times Page One Major Events 1900-1998 as Presented in the New York Times

The Atlas of Ancient Worlds A Pictorial Atlas of Past Civilizations

The Usborne Illustrated Atlas of World History

Remembering Walt Favorite Memories of Walt Disney

Life Our Century in Pictures For Young People

Titanic Ghosts of the Abyss

Roman Army

The Pyramids

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Slave in Ancient Greece!

Athens

Causes and Consequences of the Vietnam War

Hatshepsut: The Princess Who Became King

Wonders of the World

The Atlas of Early Man

The Ancient Near East

The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece

Encyclopedia of World history

The American Frontier Pioneers, Settlers & Cowboys 1800-1899

The Rulers of Britain

The Greek conquerors

The Princes of Germany

The Pharaohs

American Peoples

Washington State

Online Resources

World Digital Library                       Online Resource

Sharia Law in Nigeria                       Online Resource

Global Trends 2025                           Online Resource

Videos/DVDs

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Brad Pitt]

A Great Day in Harlem A Historic Gathering of Jazz Greats

American Outrage

Jimmy Wales Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture

Adaptation

Running With Scissors

Shawshank Redemption

The March of the Bonus Army

China’s Lost Girls

Over Washington (aerial views of our great state)

Witness to History

Secrets of Lost Empires II: Medieval Siege

Gone With the Wind

Shackleton: The Greatest Survival Story of All Time (Kenneth Branagh)

Thomas Jefferson

Seattle Chronicle

Beloved

Their Eyes Were Watching God

General/Reference/ Technology

Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners

Video over IP : IPTV, Internet video, H.264, P2P, web RV, and streaming : a complete guide to understanding the technology /

ICD-9-CM Vol. 1,2,3 (Health & Medicine Reference)

Social Issues

The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

Souls in the Hands of a Tender God : Stories of the Search for Home and Healing on the Streets

The Rise of the Creative Class and How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life

Introducing Anthropology

Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives

Thirty Days has September: Cool Ways to Remember Stuff

A History of Fashion and Costume: Vol 1 – The Ancient World

The Ordeal of Change

Psychology/Philosophy

The Purpose of Boys: Helping Our Sons Find Meaning, Significance, and Direction in Their Lives

The Rise of Modern Philosophy

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success How We Can Learn to Fulfill our Potential

 

Science

Hubble Imaging Space and Time

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future

Good Germs, Bad Germs : Health and Survival in a Bacterial World

Microcosm: e. coli and the New Science of Life

The Drunkard’s Walk How Randomness Rules Our Lives

Applied Science / Medicine / Business

Toxic Psychiatry

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer

The Secrets of Medical Decision Making: How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of the Health Care Machine

Talking Back to Prozac: What Doctors Won’t Tell You about Today’s Most Controversial Drug

Education

The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need–and What We Can Do About It

A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

 

Art/Drama/Writing/Literature

Novels into film.

Literature through Film : Realism, Magic, and the Art of Adaptation

Suttree

Byron: The Major Works

MLA handbook for writers of research papers.

Cradle Song a poem

Magazines

Make: Technology on Your time

The Progressive

Poets & Writers

Online Resources

36 Learning Games to Change the World

PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy

Bartelby

Literary Resources on the Net

Voice of the Shuttle

Fishbase.org

Of Mice and Men (Internet Video Streaming)

Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia

Jet Stream – Online School for Weather

Here are a few book titles that might interest you

  • Coping with Academic Anxiety
  • The Overachievers
  • What Business Wants From Higher Education
  • Making the Most of College
  • The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking: Concepts & Tools
  • Learning to Learn — The Skill and Will of College Success
  • When Your Kid Goes to College A Parents’ Survival Guide
  • How to Survive Your Freshman Year By Hundred of college Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors Who Did…. and some things to avoid, from a few dropouts who didn’t
  • Letting Go A Parents’ Guide to Understanding the College Years
  • Building Partnerships for Service-Learning
  • The Launching Years Strategies for Parenting From Senior Year to College Life
  • A New Beginning A Survival Guide for Parents of College Freshmen
  • College Rules! How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College
  • A Miniature Guide to The Foundations of Analytic Thinking How to Take Thinking Apart and What To Look For When you Do / The Elements of Thinking
  • Looking Beyond the Ivy League : Finding the College that’s Right for You
  • Making the most of college
  • How the Brain Learns to Read
  • No Place to Learn Why Universities Aren’t Working

For Faculty and Staff

Welcome to the 2009/2010 School Year

Request New Titles What’s missing? Let me know what you think I should buy for the library collections. Before you request an item, please search the Library Catalog to see if we already own it! We also welcome publishers’ catalogs and your bibliographies. Please email me (kjohnson@seattleacademy.org) with your items. Remember to prioritize if you have many selections.

Netflix
I welcome your requests for Netflix DVDs. You can preview films for your courses or order films to show in your courses. Because Netflix involve mailings I need a week to schedule. We have a two dvd revolving subscription.

Library Instruction and Class Visits Please request services at least one week in advance for group or individual sessions. For general library instruction, contact Kathy Johnson at 206.676-6825 or kjohnson@seattleacademy.org, or come by in person to complete scheduling. if you are not sure how library instruction might benefit your students, let’s have a conversation and explore the possibilities. I can also double as a tech trainer for certain technologies and programs.

LibGuides Authored by You If you would like to set up – or have me set up – a customized LibGuide for your class, let me know. Here is an example of what’s possible for a course LibGuide for Harvard-Westlake Middle School Library.

Citation Guides
Many of you already have citation/bibliographic/footnote guides for your students. What if we were to consolidate these and have just two guides: Upper School and Middle School? Just a thought.

Copyright Guidelines In the use of copyrighted works in a digital environment, instructors and/or institutions must reasonably…*

* Limit access to students currently enrolled in the class.
* Limit access only for the time needed to complete the class session or course.
* Inform instructors, students, and staff of copyright laws and policies.
* Prevent further copying or redistribution of copyrighted works.
* Not interfere with copy protection mechanisms.

Fair use chart (PDF file) from the Flaxman Library, Art Institute of Chicago

Help with Citations

Create citations automatically

* EasyBib

The free automatic bibliography composer

* KnightCite

The free automatic bibliography composer

* Zotero

Free Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.   See Tutorials

..

Style guides on the web

* APA

American Psychological Association

* MLA

Modern Language Association

* Chicago Manual of Style

* Turabian

based on Chicago Style (Ithaca College)

DATABASES:  Some of our databases include citations for articles, so check to see if that is available.

IMPORTANT NOTE as of September 2009

MLA-style and APA-style guidelines have changed recently, especially for citing sources accessed electronically.  For the most up-to-date information about how to cite sources correctly, visit these pages.  If you are using a citation generator make sure the current rules are in place.


Interlibrary Loan

The Seattle Academy Library has an interlibrary loan agreement with the University of Washington libraries. If you need materials, books or articles, please email me and include as much bibliographic information as you have for each resource you need. It’s always best to plan in advance with interlibrary loan because it can take days – or weeks – to receive materials.

In many cases I can order books and DVDs directly from Amazon but again it can take up to a week to receive materials.

Please email me at  kjohnson at seattleacademy.org,

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