SOTES for Fall 2007 will open on November 27th at 7am and will close at 11:59pm on December 10th.
During this time frame they will be available round the clock (exceptfor my.sjsu.edu downtime -see my.sjsu.edu homepage)
Students access SOTES as follows:
1. Loginto my.sjsu.edu
2. Click on the Self Service Link on the left
3. You will then see a link to "Online SOTE Rating"You will only see the link after the SOTES open at 7am on November 27th
To get credit for your participation (they are anonymous and confidential) complete your SOTE and then submit to the assignment manager a comment stating that you have completed it.
Yay!
Monday, November 26, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
SOTEs, wikis, ToteBoard and Transformations
Answers to common questions:
1. What is the difference between the class wiki and the bibliography?
A: The "class" wiki is where you enter your main synthesized points from your reading. It only exists as long as the class does so if you intend to use it for your e-porfolio, save your entries and/or a screenshot of your work. You can learn a ton by reading points that others have added in 1/10th the time it would have taken you to read all the articles and something might catch your eye as a must read.
The Bibliography, or pathfinder will grow every semester as we all add the best citations and a one line annotation. By providing a great descriptions you are creating a resource that could be used by anyone anywhere. Want the best articles on what a library facility should be? Consult the bibliography wiki for the best of the best.
Note of caution- A wiki, by its very nature, is never finished. The reading and wiki entries were meant to be done the first month so don't spend so much time on this that you run out of time for the larger assignments.
Much of the Knowville Website is also a wiki. It is a different wiki with different passwords and links. You all will be wiki masters by the end of this which is important because wikis are currently considered one of the most powerful collaborative tools.
2. What is a SOTE?
The last assignment is the "SOTE" or "Student Opinion of Teaching Effectiveness". It's a survey conducted at the end of the semester, much like an evaluation form. SLIS will release it at the end of the semester with instructions how to anonymously access it and in Blackboard you submit the date you sucessfully finished the survey (takes about 10 minutes) and get easy points. Note of caution- The SOTE submission period is finite. There is a certain date after which it cannot be submitted so be sure to do it between the posted dates. We will remind you.
3. I can't add to the Knowville Toteboard using my hotmail/yahoo/whoohoo account, how do I do it?
The Knowville Toteboard is a collaborative Google Document, another of the foremost online collaborative tools today. In order to make changes you must receive an invitation to your gmail account from Robin Williams. If you got an invitation to another account, simply send me an email with your gmail account address: whomever@gmail.com and I will add you as a "collaborator".
4. What is a Transformation?
Transformations are assignments for the 250 Instuctional Design Class that take old, tired lessons and transform them into dynamic deep-thought lessons. It's fantastic stuff, but nothing you need to worry about for this class. If you want to learn more about them Ban Those Bird Units is a fantastic interesting and well written book that gives you 15 clear models for transforming education. I wish that I had known about this book when I was a teacher!
5. What is the Second Life Assignment?
Second Life is being used by more and more libraries and universities and was an entire day's topic at Internet Libarian 2007. We have been putting Knowville into Second Life, making it come alive in 3D. We invited students who completed the 2D aspect to come into Second Life and create their vision "in-world". Everyone is at different stages technologically so the focus for most will be getting the regular part of Knowville completed. If you finish that I suggest you get a free account and search for "Knowville" to see the 3D build. If you email me when you're done with orientation island, I can give you a tour. You don't have to love virtual worlds, but with so many users it wouldn't hurt to have an idea of what everyone is talking about. We are in the knowledge biz. If you have mad SL skillz and are already in SL, let me know and I can get you started making something cool in the Knowville build. Realistically SL is very time intensive for building so although it would be amazing to have you all in there building, it's not incredibly likely and therefore not required or expected. So you might call the "Second Life" assignment the "Knowville" assignment.
The iGoogle personalized homepage for your library is a very simple, yet cutting edge solution and you are now experts. The evidence you are submitting would be great for your e-portfolio. Also the library community is very interested in how these and other web 2.0 tools could be used. I don't think it would be hard to publish an article on your use of it in a school and your CV would love to have a "Publications" section.
Good luck!
Robin
1. What is the difference between the class wiki and the bibliography?
A: The "class" wiki is where you enter your main synthesized points from your reading. It only exists as long as the class does so if you intend to use it for your e-porfolio, save your entries and/or a screenshot of your work. You can learn a ton by reading points that others have added in 1/10th the time it would have taken you to read all the articles and something might catch your eye as a must read.
The Bibliography, or pathfinder will grow every semester as we all add the best citations and a one line annotation. By providing a great descriptions you are creating a resource that could be used by anyone anywhere. Want the best articles on what a library facility should be? Consult the bibliography wiki for the best of the best.
Note of caution- A wiki, by its very nature, is never finished. The reading and wiki entries were meant to be done the first month so don't spend so much time on this that you run out of time for the larger assignments.
Much of the Knowville Website is also a wiki. It is a different wiki with different passwords and links. You all will be wiki masters by the end of this which is important because wikis are currently considered one of the most powerful collaborative tools.
2. What is a SOTE?
The last assignment is the "SOTE" or "Student Opinion of Teaching Effectiveness". It's a survey conducted at the end of the semester, much like an evaluation form. SLIS will release it at the end of the semester with instructions how to anonymously access it and in Blackboard you submit the date you sucessfully finished the survey (takes about 10 minutes) and get easy points. Note of caution- The SOTE submission period is finite. There is a certain date after which it cannot be submitted so be sure to do it between the posted dates. We will remind you.
3. I can't add to the Knowville Toteboard using my hotmail/yahoo/whoohoo account, how do I do it?
The Knowville Toteboard is a collaborative Google Document, another of the foremost online collaborative tools today. In order to make changes you must receive an invitation to your gmail account from Robin Williams. If you got an invitation to another account, simply send me an email with your gmail account address: whomever@gmail.com and I will add you as a "collaborator".
4. What is a Transformation?
Transformations are assignments for the 250 Instuctional Design Class that take old, tired lessons and transform them into dynamic deep-thought lessons. It's fantastic stuff, but nothing you need to worry about for this class. If you want to learn more about them Ban Those Bird Units is a fantastic interesting and well written book that gives you 15 clear models for transforming education. I wish that I had known about this book when I was a teacher!
5. What is the Second Life Assignment?
Second Life is being used by more and more libraries and universities and was an entire day's topic at Internet Libarian 2007. We have been putting Knowville into Second Life, making it come alive in 3D. We invited students who completed the 2D aspect to come into Second Life and create their vision "in-world". Everyone is at different stages technologically so the focus for most will be getting the regular part of Knowville completed. If you finish that I suggest you get a free account and search for "Knowville" to see the 3D build. If you email me when you're done with orientation island, I can give you a tour. You don't have to love virtual worlds, but with so many users it wouldn't hurt to have an idea of what everyone is talking about. We are in the knowledge biz. If you have mad SL skillz and are already in SL, let me know and I can get you started making something cool in the Knowville build. Realistically SL is very time intensive for building so although it would be amazing to have you all in there building, it's not incredibly likely and therefore not required or expected. So you might call the "Second Life" assignment the "Knowville" assignment.
The iGoogle personalized homepage for your library is a very simple, yet cutting edge solution and you are now experts. The evidence you are submitting would be great for your e-portfolio. Also the library community is very interested in how these and other web 2.0 tools could be used. I don't think it would be hard to publish an article on your use of it in a school and your CV would love to have a "Publications" section.
Good luck!
Robin
Monday, November 5, 2007
More than you ever wanted to know about the Digital School Library and Knowville!
We had a great session tonight that cleared up a bunch of questions about the digital school library and Knowville. Make sure you download the revised version of the Digital School Library Rubric and information!
The trickiest thing to remember about entering things on Knowville:
If you are editing the wiki (the hall of fame, or quests), you use the wiki password.
However if you are adding to the "tote board" remember that it is a GoogleDoc (Spreadsheet) so there are (at least) 3 ways to get into it to add your totals:
First Robin must invite you at your gmail account.
Then get there either through http://knowville.org/
OR go to your iGoogle page and click MORE at the top and "Documents" which will take you to Google documents where you can see all of the documents you are collaborating on.
OR you can get there through the link I emailed you.
Did you know you could subscribe to changes via RSS feed? I know...WOW!
So many options! So fun!
The trickiest thing to remember about entering things on Knowville:
If you are editing the wiki (the hall of fame, or quests), you use the wiki password.
However if you are adding to the "tote board" remember that it is a GoogleDoc (Spreadsheet) so there are (at least) 3 ways to get into it to add your totals:
First Robin must invite you at your gmail account.
Then get there either through http://knowville.org/
OR go to your iGoogle page and click MORE at the top and "Documents" which will take you to Google documents where you can see all of the documents you are collaborating on.
OR you can get there through the link I emailed you.
Did you know you could subscribe to changes via RSS feed? I know...WOW!
So many options! So fun!
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Fantastic Resource: Lee Rainey, Pew Internet & American Life Project
This week I attented the Internet Librarian Conference in Monterey, California. The opening speaker, Lee Rainey is the Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project and shared some of the latest statistics regarding Internet Usage. If you aren't familar with the Pew Internet & American Life Project, http://www.pewinternet.org/, you should be. They collect and analyze data that you can use to make a data driven case for increased support of technology in your library. The reports are interesting reading and their site has a computer useage "test" you can take to see what kind of technology user you are. For school libraries they have a host of new reports on kids on the Internet. I cite their reports in my papers rather often and it's nice to hear not only my passionate plea to investigate technology, but see current facts about teen use. I hope they continue their great work and if you get a chance to hear Rainey speak, he's a dynamic and entertaining speaker, and it would be well worth your time.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Wiki Wiki Wiki
Some brilliant souls have been working diligently on the wiki. Excellent! Many more of you need to start posting. The end of the semester is creeping up on us.
We'll be at Treasure Mountain and AASL this week and I'll be at Internet Librarian as well. Looking forward to meeting all who are going as well! :)
We'll be at Treasure Mountain and AASL this week and I'll be at Internet Librarian as well. Looking forward to meeting all who are going as well! :)
Um, what was that email? Click here to find out!
Terrible about the Elluminate session having technical difficulties tonight. Some mentioned they were unsure about having received an email from Dr. Loertscher so here are its contents:
Thanks for your input last evening as we began to prioritize elements of the reading program that would make the most difference using the least amount of effort.
So important is this as a management principle, often learned in LIBR 204, that I could see that we needed more work before quality vision projects can be constructed.
So, we will continue this effort next week, but as I advised, you each need to do some thinking beforehand.
Therefore, would you draw up your personal priorities and send them to me in an email before class next Monday night.
You can use the categories that I listed on the white board at the end of class and if there is something that does not seem to fit, create a new category.
This will help us as a group move forward. It is said the the library media program contributes to achievement, but it does so only if you as the library media teacher make it do so.
After our synthesis next week, you should be able to decide on what you will present in your vision project and will be able to match an assessment measure that demonstrates that what you chose to implement did, in fact, achieve the envisioned results.
How powerful it would be if the library media teachers of the state could document and defend what there programs contribute. It would be a giant step forward!
I don't like to assign extra work, but feel that this is not extra since you would have to make these types of decisions anyway.
Thanks for your hard work. I have been reading som summaries of good articles being added to the wiki. These will help in the above task. It all pushes us forward into learning how to build exemplary programs.
Thanks for your input last evening as we began to prioritize elements of the reading program that would make the most difference using the least amount of effort.
So important is this as a management principle, often learned in LIBR 204, that I could see that we needed more work before quality vision projects can be constructed.
So, we will continue this effort next week, but as I advised, you each need to do some thinking beforehand.
Therefore, would you draw up your personal priorities and send them to me in an email before class next Monday night.
You can use the categories that I listed on the white board at the end of class and if there is something that does not seem to fit, create a new category.
This will help us as a group move forward. It is said the the library media program contributes to achievement, but it does so only if you as the library media teacher make it do so.
After our synthesis next week, you should be able to decide on what you will present in your vision project and will be able to match an assessment measure that demonstrates that what you chose to implement did, in fact, achieve the envisioned results.
How powerful it would be if the library media teachers of the state could document and defend what there programs contribute. It would be a giant step forward!
I don't like to assign extra work, but feel that this is not extra since you would have to make these types of decisions anyway.
Thanks for your hard work. I have been reading som summaries of good articles being added to the wiki. These will help in the above task. It all pushes us forward into learning how to build exemplary programs.
Monday, October 15, 2007
What's Voki? -See one here!
Here is a Voki I did last semester. They are fun to do and embed in websites, blogs, email, whatever. A fun way to do an audio podcast. The main limitation is one minute max. But if you have 130 students you don't want them longer than one minute anyway.
Here is mine:
Get a Voki now!
Take the challenge! Try to make a sample on and see if you can embed it in a comment to this post. : )
Here is mine:
Get a Voki now!
Take the challenge! Try to make a sample on and see if you can embed it in a comment to this post. : )
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