Hello everybody this my week 9 blog for LIS 568 This chapter we talk about professional development and wikis. I found most of the readings kind of short I was looking to read a lot more but I found I myself checking out all the other features of them instead.
I liked the wiki matrix website and while I've never actually created a wiki this seemed like an excellent tool for when I do. As always the Simpson chapters were informative. I hadn't realized how complicated something like distance learning could be.
In reading the Richardson chapter I learned what RSS feeds are and how to use them.
Lastly I liked the Marc Isseks presentation. Presentations are never easy but this describes ways to make them better. I made sure to print them out because they seem like simple, straight forward tips that would help not only me but my students as well.

Brians Week 8 blog

Hello everybody this is Brian’s week 8 blog for LIS 568. The main topic for this week is TPACK which stands for the complex interplay of three primary forms of knowledge technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge. Like I said in my post I had never heard of this word so it was kind of new to me. The first reading on the weekly readings list explained TPACK best. I particularly liked the graph showing the interplay of these three forms of knowledge and each of the four overlapping regions.

There were seven Harris and Hofer articles to read but I have to say they were hard to access it took me a while to scroll down the page, get the relevant pages, and enlarge it enough to be able to see them. As a result it made it harder to understand them and I found my concentration drifting because of this.

The Richardson article about wikis was very interesting. I hadn’t realized that Wikipedia is in fact a wiki I ‘ve used it for years not realizing that. .One of the things I liked in this chapter was when Richardson mentioned the University of Buffalo study that tested Wikipedia by sending inaccurate information and finding that within 24 hours all the misinformation was corrected. This emphasized how important Wikipedia is as an online encyclopedia. I cant think of anything else so I’ll see you next week

Week 7 blog

.Hello everybody this is Brian’s week 7 blog for LIS 568. This weeks topic is Cybersafety, Cyberethics, and Cybersecurity and the Simpson chapter on Music Materials in the School. To tell you the truth before I read this weeks readings on Cyberissues I didn’t really think of it as a major issue for todays school librarians, but it really is. We as technology experts need to understand what students are doing online to ensure their safety and protect their innocence.

Of the readings my favorite was the article by Pruitt-Mentle, Davina, and Portia Pusey because I loved the statistics and graphs that dealt directly with Cyberissues. The two facts that stuck out most to me were. Nearly all technology coordinators, school administrators, and teachers thought that Cyberethics, Cybersafety, and Cybersecurity should be taught in schools. But only about half schools/school districts actually require content coverage of these issues

The article also brought up the issue of Cyberbullying which is becoming an increasingly important problem because now children can be bullied not just at school but also in their homes through the Internet. We as school librarians need to be cognizant of what out students are doing online so we can steer them away from things that might be harmful.

See you next week.

Week 6 blog

Hello everyone this is Brian and this is my week 6 blogging post for LIS 568. This week we looked at websites and website design and read Simpsons chapter on Audiovisual Methods in Schools. It was about bookmarking, tagging, folksonomies, and taxonomies. I liked the part on Diigo but I think it might have been better to learn about this before we setup our accounts there.
As always the Simpson chapter was very thorough. I liked the Audiovisual Performance Worksheet that asks 5 Yes/No questions to determine if you can use a video without getting public performance rights. It also explains what to do if one of the answers is no. I was also shocked to find out showing a video to reward students violates copyright. I don't know how many times as a student I got to watch movies as a reward and I heard nothing about copyright issues. I think I have to research this particular instance more thoroughly.