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= Hello! Welcome to Poly Library Staff Wiki = ==You are participating in the revised California School Library Association "Tools2Create4school" tutorial. Upon completion, you will receive a certificate signed by the President of CSLA congratulating you on your achievement.==

This tutorial is designed so that you can learn how to use the tools of web 2.0. Yes...this IS a class assignment, but we hope that you will have fun – because these websites are full of creative ideas for you to use - not just at school, but for home or clubs, church or sports groups you belong to.Take time to explore and enjoy all the tools of this new Internet. Read on!

Here is a “teacher moment” for you: A word for you to consider: __responsibility__. Before you begin this tutorial, you need to know that you are entering the world of the Internet and “social networking”. This means that you will possibly encounter images and ideas that may be different from those that you are used to. While we have limited the places we’re sending you, you will still be interacting with your fellow students in a way that you may not have done before. Therefore, we expect you to behave respectfully, always be positive and, when asked to critique others ideas, you will do so in a way that promotes learning and is constructive.

This tutorial was first designed for teachers, and it included activities organized into 23 different topics or “things.” You will explore 10 different topics and complete the activities within each. There are loads of things to do and experiment with - do try them all!

How to complete this tutorial:

 * Each topic takes about two weeks to complete.
 * Each week you will will be introduced to at least one website [or ‘tool’].􀀀 You may also get information about an aspect of digital citizenship.
 * Next, you have an activity to complete using the website.
 * The last, and most important thing you need to do is to post about what you learned on your own wiki page.

You may work ahead if you like, just be sure to complete each task in order. IF you do work ahead, please help others! When you have completed the tutorial, you will be invited to be a part of the Poly Library Staff 2.0 Team. You will then be able to become a 2.0 "cheerleader" for your fellow students.

Working with some of these tools for the first time can sometimes be frustrating. Take your time to view the site tutorials, ask questions of your blogging classmates and try to work things out on your own before approaching your teacher librarian for help. Most of the time you can figure it out by yourself or with a friend. Don't give up! Email your teacher librarian if you do need help or drop by the library for some 'hands on' help.

Participating in optional activities will bring you more information - and more cool tools to know about - but it can also bring you more class credit. You will only get any extra credit if you apply your new knowledge to your wiki by including an image and an explanation of how you made it, difficulties (or ease) of making it and any helpful hints for others reading your wiki. =Topic 1: Blogging= A blog or wiki is an online journal. Your job is to create a wiki in which you will share your insights and experiences and to demonstrate some of the things you'll be learning in this tutorial. This wiki is how we will evaluate your learning for class.

Blogs are very public and you will be sharing this blog with your teacher, your parents, your fellow students and students from other schools who are also working through this tutorial. All of these people might comment on your blog. You will add comments to your classmates’ blogs, and you can encourage your friends and your parents to makes comments on yours. So spread the word among your family and friends. For example, when we get to image makers - you'll add an image to you blog to show what you have learned. Be creative - experiment! Include your comments about those things that frustrated you as well as those that were easy. Be sure to ask for help from fellow students via their blogs BEFORE you ask for help from Mrs. Oehlman. Let’s start:

Blogging Activity 1
I have added you to this educational version of wikispaces. While you to not need an additional email account, it is helpful to know how to set one up for your use. If you do not already have an email account: set up an email account if you do not have an email address and are over 13 years of age, you can set up an account with gmail by Google or any other email program. In addition to having an email, it is important to know how to access your email online so you can send and receive email from any computer. If you are under 13, ask your parents if they are willing to set up a family account for your use. TIP: A word about creating a user name / password / blog name: Sign on with a name that does not identify you.

Blogging Activity 2
You will set up your own wiki page. We will create this in the library together. With this format Mrs. Oehlman will provide you with your login information. While you will be blogging about things you will be learning in this class, you can make all these things using topics you’re interested in. For example, if you like to skateboard: your avatar can be a skater, the images you choose can be of famous skaters, or excellent skateparks, or if you want to choose a color theme, or icon...use it widely and creatively! The more you fiddle with these tools, the more fun you will have creating things online. You can also use many of these tools to create your own posters, party invitations, or family photo albums. All of these can be turned into great gifts for your family or friends.

2A: Take a look at the grading rubric. This is the overview of what we will be doing this year with the California School Library Association Teen Learning Tutorial. There will be some addition fun sites to explore as more and more web2.0 possibilities are opened in our district. ,


 * 3.Review our blogging guidelines**: [[file:Blogging guidelines tools2create4school wiki.doc]]


 * 4.** **Watch these short video tutorials** to gain a better understanding of what blogging is all about.[|What is Blogging] [|Post to be Private] [|Social Networking] [|Protecting Online Reputations]

You can use one of the writing prompts below, or strike out on your own, remembering your digital footprint. Your post is on YOUR wiki page, (not this HOME page). I watched a video called: .... __from it I discovered….__ __Today I learned….__ __From the blogging guidelines I now know…__ __The hardest part about making a blog was…__ __The easiest part about making a blog was…__ __Three things I learned about blogging are….__ __I chose__ for my blog name because…. I expect this___to be……__ __This reminds me of…__ __This is similar to…__ __I wonder…__ __I realized…__ __I noticed...__ __You can relate this to__ __I’d like to know…__ __I’m surprised that…__ __If I were, I would__ __Although it seems…I__ __I'm not sure that…__ (Hello everyone...this is Mrs. Oehlman, to avoid confusions about where to leave comments.... do NOT leave comments on the video websites that you watched for this topic. Close out of the videos, then go to YOUR wiki page and write your blog post there about the videos. Use the sentence starters above to get you started if you need to). Still have a question? See me right away...or email me!) There are FOUR videos.
 * 4A. Write and post your first blog entry**. Write at least 4-6 sentences on each of the above videos. You may use the following sentence starters if you want:

=Topic 2: Digital Citizenship= Here are 2 questions for you to think about: What is digital citizenship? What are the rights and responsibilities of a digital citizen in today’s world?

By exploring new online tools and using them to publish online in this tutorial, you will get to experience many new ways to be creative. You will also have the freedom to interact with friends in new ways and possibly even with people from around the country or the world. With that freedom, comes the responsibility to practice good etiquette as a digital citizen.

Digital Citizenship Activity 1: Watch the following video.
To help you explore these topics and try to answer the questions above for yourself or through conversation with your friends and classmates, reflect on the videos you watch in Topic 1: Blogging, "Post to be Private" and "Protecting Online Reputations". Consider your digital footprint: Click to play “A Tale of Two Footprints” on the Vimeo site.

Digital Citizenship Activity 2: Blog about “A Tale of Two Footprints”.
Here are some sentence starters if you like: Privacy is important online because… Playing the game “A Tale of Two Footprints” showed me that…. Digital good Citizenship is important to know about because……

Digital Citizenship Activity 3: Are you already online?
To see whether you have a “digital footprint” established already, try going to Google and searching for your name. You may be surprised by what you find. Your digital footprint will stay with you your entire life, so you want whatever people may find about you online to be positive.

Digital Citizenship Activity 4: Blog about your online presence
Try the following sentence starters: I discovered myself online….. I searched through ……pages of hits but did not find myself online. I found others who had my name, or similar name and he/she/they….. I feel …….about finding myself online I feel……about this assignment…

Digital Citizenship Activity 5: Make a public relations word cloud to inform others of one aspect of digital citizenship.
Use one of the following word cloud generators to make your point, [|Worditout], [|Tagxedo], [|Wordle] Save your cloud as a J-Peg, and post to your wiki page. We will use these as a slide show on the library webpage. =Topic 3: Avatars= What’s an avatar? An avatar is a pictorial representation of you. It can look somewhat like you, but in comic form, or it might be a picture of something you like. In the computer world, you can use an avatar to create an online personality while still protecting your privacy. This blog posting from Edublogger blog about avatars has some tips on how to save and edit your avatar on a PC. Once you have your avatar saved, add it to your blog sidebar. With Edublogs blogs, you do that by uploading it as your blog avatar, then adding an avatar widget to your sidebar. Also add your avatar as your user avatar so that it appears in your comments. The Edublogger blog post can help you with that task also. With Blogger blogs, you add a picture gadget to your sidebar and upload your avatar file to it.

**Avatar Activity 1: Try one or more of these sites to create your own avatar:**
Bless this Chick Build your Wild Self Doppel Me Hero Factory Mad Men Yourself Picasso Head Simpsons Avatar Yearbook Yourself

Post your avatar to the upper left-hand corner of your wiki page.Then, also upload your avatar to your profile under My Account.Follow the directions on the site to create an avatar, then save the image.

On a Mac, you can very easily save an image by holding down the Command, Shift, and 4 keys all at once, then dragging from one corner to the opposite diagonal corner of the image you want to capture. It will now appear as a .png image file on your desktop.

On a PC, you can right click, then “Save As” your image from the dream avatar site, but won’t work for the others that don’t create the avatar as a separate image.

This blog posting from Edublogger blog about avatars has some tips on how to save and edit your avatar on a PC. Or check out tips at: @http://take-a-screenshot.org/ Once you have your avatar saved, add it to your blog sidebar. With Edublogs blogs, you do that by uploading it as your blog avatar, then adding an avatar widget to your sidebar. Also add your avatar as your user avatar so that it appears in your comments. The Edublogger blog post can help you with that task also.

Avatar Activity 2 (optional) More to try:

 * Voki **lets you create an animated avatar. To upload this to your blog, copy the html to your computer clipboard, then paste the html into a widget or gadget in you sidebar. Note: The dream avatar and Voki sites offer the option of creating accounts, but you don’t need to create an account to use them.If you would like to save your Voki as a video, try out Screencast-O-Matic.

Avatar Activity 3:
Now, write a blog posting about your avatar. Tell which site you used to create it, how you made it, and why you chose the options you did. When you tell which site you used, be sure to make the site name a hyperlink so that your visitors can easily click on it to visit the site. Whenever you refer to another website or page in an online posting, create a hyperlink to make life easy for your readers.

=Topic 4: Images and Giving Credit=

Activity 1: Copyright, public domain, fair use and Creative Commons.
Now that you have a blog, you are a publisher. Before you begin searching for and adding images and other items to your blog, you need to learn a little about copyright, public domain, fair use, and Creative Commons, so you make sure that you are only publishing material you are legally entitled to. Watch this fun VIDEO (skip through the ads) to learn about what copyright, public domain, and fair use are. You will notice in it lots of copyrighted images you recognize that are used in a "fair use" way.


 * Write a blog post defining public domain, fair use, and Creative Commons.**

Images Activity 2: Creative Commons
In recent years, a new option has become available to make finding and publishing other people’s material – and sharing what you create yourself – easier: It is called Creative Commons. Watch this VIDEO to learn about Creative Commons. In your blog, comment on why it is important to pay attention to copyright and how YOU might use Creative Commons in school and in any posting you do online.


 * Write a blog post relating the main points of Creative Commons in your own words.**

(Post your favorites for Activity 4)
===An easy way to find Creative Common licensed images, videos, music and sounds is through the Creative Commons site itself. Their seach directory filters all of the most used sites to look only for those licensed images. This website is also available 24/7 on the library webpage. Creative Commons Search Below is the directions to do a Creative Commons search from the main Flickr and Google Images site, it is far easier and more reliable to use the Creative Commons search.=== ===An outstanding resource for primary source material is the [|Library of Congress]. You will need to find one image from the LOC, and determine if it is public domain, fair use, or Creative Commons by the definitions you provided in Activity 1. Post this image and your response at the end of Activity 4, after the other 3 Creative Commons images and their citations.===

(Flickr is a website used primarily for storing and sharing photos. You can use this site to find pictures on any topic. It includes photos taken by individuals as well as from important museums and archives like the Library of Congress. If you open an account, you can also use this site to upload pictures you’ve taken and then you can share them with your family your friends or the whole world.

Flickr includes many Creative Commons images, as well as many that are copyrighted. If you want to publish an image you find at Flickr on your blog, be sure to search for images with Creative Commons licenses. **Hint:** To find images with Creative Commons licenses, go to the Advanced Search screen, enter a keyword to search, then scroll down to check the bottom box: search within Creative Commons-licensed content. Then click Search. Or, you will probably find it much easier to use the Flickrcc site, which searches just Creative Commons-licensed images on the Flickr site for you. When you publish one of these images, be sure to give credit by citing and linking to the url of the page where the photo appears. Look for the word “attribution” on the Flickrcc site. Copy that address and paste it under the photo in your post and make it a hyperlink. Remember, it’s very important to give credit to the creator of the original image.)

Other image sites that are not blocked by the district. Google Images and tend to use that most. In advanced search you can request - **Free to use share or modify.**. You will need to check the conditions for reuse.

Google Images, advanced search Stock.xchng - Stock images Picsearch Free Photo Bank CC OpenPhoto Pics4Learning StockVault DK Clipart Classroom Clipart Kidsclick Animation Library Bubl Link

Images Activity 4:Citation and Reflection on images, process and sites.
Find at least three Creative Commons images (those that are covered by CC license, not the Creative Commons logo) you like and add them, along with a credit link, to a blog posting. Add your Library of Congress primary source image.

Use NoodleBib Express for a fast/easy citation. Use the Photo and Images (digital born) from a photo website, or Photo and Images from an Archive for the Library of Congress. Open Noodle Bib in another window then copy and paste the information from the photo to the citation form. Be sure to follow the image back to the site of origin to retreive the best information.

Last, write about your experience finding the images and why you chose them. Which sites are easy to use, to navigate, to find what you wanted? Which sites would you recommend to friends.

If you haven’t already, it’s time to start visiting your classmates’ blogs and leaving supportive comments. First, though, remember that having good manners online is at least as important as in person. Why? Online, anything you write can spread far and wide before you know it, and it is so easy to misinterpret someone’s intentions when you don’t see their expressions or gestures or hear their tone of voice.
 * Topic 5: Good Manners and Commenting **

Watch this VIDEO  about cyber bullying, and think about what precautions you can take to make sure you are always kind and supportive, not hurtful, in everything you write, in comments and everywhere else online.
 * Manners Activity 1: **
 * 1) List at least three important points from the video.
 * 2) Give 5 tips you plan to follow to be supportive.
 * This guy friend had post these things about a girl and had raided them.
 * Couple girls were crying at school just because of what have been posted up online.
 * He don't want to do anything to his own friends for posting dumb stuff online about his own sister.

Now, start visiting your classmates’ wiki pages and contributing comments. Good comments generally include a compliment, suggestion, and/or question. And, don’t forget to use your best writing skills. Remember that everything you write online contributes to your digital footprint.
 * Don't put dumb stuff about another person that can hurt someones feeling.
 * Talk to others before posting personal things.
 * Students should get a warning for rude comments and post on others.
 * Don't be disrespectful to someone that you don't know.
 * Over check what you put online before posting.
 * Manners Activity 2: **

To add a comment in a wiki, you go to the class member's page, click on the discussion tab, and add a new post. You do not write on their actual page.  Write a comment on three fellow student pages, they can be from any period class. I wrote a discussion comment on the following student’s pages. 1. Elvis95 - Elvis looks like a good friend to hang out with. I can tell he likes to listen to music and he loves riding skateboards. I should try what he do one day. Maybe something new i need to do that can be fun. 2. Jordan4 - Jordan is a good friend. He has long hair and he likes it that way. It may be to hard for me to grow that because I don't believe in having long hair. He likes lion and listen to tupac. These are very famous characters/animals. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">3. Steven3 - Steven likes to listen to music and one of his favorite artist are kendrick lamar. Im on the same page as him on that artist but I don't just have one favorite artist. Also he likes fishing. It looks like a very fun hobby. This something i use to do when I was little but now I dont like getting my hand dirty, but i will fish one of these days.

=Topic 6: Creating Your Own Images= You know now from your Flickr searches how to find great images online. There are also a lot of Web 2.0 tools that will help you create your own images by rearranging graphics and words. These are usually called mash-ups or remixes.

Creating images Activity 1:
Visit one or more [the more, the merrier!] of these sites, create an image, add it to your blog, then write about your experience:

ImageChef This site lets you customize signs and pictures with your own text. These images make fun additions to reports, cards, your blog, and anywhere. Big Huge Labs This site lets you “mash” images into magazine covers, puzzles, trading cards, and more. Wordle This site lets you turn text into beautiful word mosaics. Use it to create mosaics of your personal traits or hobbies, to analyze a writer’s key concepts, or to evaluate words you may be over-using when you write. Copy & paste parts of the U.S. Constitution, or the words to your favorite song…see what gets highlighted! Aviary (optional) This site lets you draw or edit images and record and edit audio. This site requires you to have an account. Your librarian/teacher may be able to set up an educational account on this site for you. Tagxedo (optional) This site is part of a blog and may still be blocked by the district. You may use it at home, if you post a mashup from this site, it will not appear on school computers if it is still blocked. Visitors will be able to view it on a non-district computer. Tagul (optional) This site does require registration with an email address. Very cool features. Take a look.

Creating images Activity 2
Now, write a blog posting about what site(s) you explored and how you think you could use this software for school projects or for fun. Add the images you created to your blog posting to share them.

Creating images Activity 3
MakeBeliefscomix offers a way to easily create your own comic strip. For this activity create a comic for a class- use it for a title page in a class, or to study for Spanish vocabulary, for science, terms or other class related assignment. For credit in this class post this comic on your blog. = = =Topic 7: Creating Animations and Videos= In addition to still images, there are lots of great Web 2.0 tools for creating your own videos.

Video Activity 1
Animoto lets you upload or select images and music, then generates a video for you with stunning transitions. To give credit to the images and/or music you upload, you can add an image file with urls for these items. You will need an account to create an Animoto video.

Video Activity 2
(Optional): More to Try: dVolver This site lets you create simple movies with bubble text using a set of characters and backgrounds you select on the site. You don’t need an account, but you will need to create and save your video in one session; you cannot return later to edit it. Makeagif This site lets you create simple movies from photographs.

Video Activity 3:
Now, write a blog posting about what site(s) you explored and how you think you could use this software for school projects or for fun. In your posting, link to or embed what you have created to share it.

=Topic 8: Creating Documents and Presentations=

Docs Activity 1:
You may already be familiar with office applications like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, but there are also online Web 2.0 tools that let you create documents, spreadsheets, and presentation files. When you use these Web 2.0 tools, you can access your files from any computer, and you can easily share them with other people. Two options to try are **Google Drive** and **Zoho**. Both of these require that you sign up for a free account. Create a document, a presentation or use another template to create a presentation to post on your blog.You can create a chart, write a poem or essay, create a slide show, create a form for a survey or game quiz.

Docs Activity 2:
More to try: a different approach to presentations is to create an online poster using Glogster This site lets you design a lively poster display with pictures and text, embedded video and sound, and attached files.

** Docs Activity 3: **
Now, write a blog posting sharing what you created and telling about what you explored and how you think you could use this software for school projects or for fun.

=**Topic 9: Evaluating Information Websites**= While there’s a wonderful world of websites out there for you to use both to create – as you have been doing during this tutorial – and to get information. Unfortunately, though, since anyone can publish a website, not all sites are of good quality. They may have incorrect or biased information. So, you need to be careful about what sites you select when you are looking for information.

Evaluation Activity 1:
Take this tutorial. Blog about the the tutorial. What did you learn? Describe some of the websites on the tutorial including the site about the velcro crop in CA, the octopus, and any other of interest from the tutorial.

Evaluation Activity 2 :
When you added images to your blog, you gave credit by creating a link back to the page where you found the image. When you write research reports, you will need to create “Works Cited” list and write a complete citation for each book, website, database, image, and other source you use. There are some excellent citation makers, including **Easybib** and **Make Citation** and [|**Bibm**e] and **[|Son of Citation Machine]** Pick an article from one of the Poly HS library databases on the Library webpage. and cite it. Use all four machines and see which you like the best. Write a review of each machine giving 1 star for the generator you liked the lest, to 5 stars for the one you liked and would recommend to friends. Give at least 3 factual reasons or example for your assessment. Write a short paragraph description of the article to let us know the main purpose of the article. This is called an annotation. It is like a "movie trailer" for an article.

** Evaluation Activity 3: **
Now, write a blog posting about what you have learned about website evaluation and bibliographic citations. Why is it important to the artist or author who created something that you cite them?

=**Topic 10: Online Sharing**= There are also a lot of great tools out there that will allow you and your classmates share conversations and/or information together.

__**Wallwisher**__

 * This site lets you create a wall on which you and your friends can add “sticky notes.” The sticky notes

can include text as well as images, audio, and video files you embed by linking to the online address where they are stored. You don’t need an account to set up a wall, but you do need to have an email address. If you share a wall address, anyone can contribute sticky notes to it without having an account.

__**VoiceThread**__
 * A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos,

and allows people to comment on the slides by typing, with a microphone, with a webcam, or by phone. You can use VoiceThread to have conversations, but you can also use it to record an online presentation. You do need an account to create or comment on VoiceThreads. If you are under 13, ask your parents if they are willing to set up a family account on this site for you to use. VoiceThread makes an excellent way for your family to share pictures amongst yourselves. For example you can ask your mom to comment on a picture from her childhood, then get your grandmother to add her views along with others in your family who may like to comment about the picture. It's a lot of fun!.

__**Diigo or del.icio.us; **__
These sites allow you to keep track of all your website bookmarks online, so that you can access them from any computer. You can also share your bookmarks with other people. When you bookmark a webpage, you add as many keyword “tags” as you like to it, so that you can find it later with any of the tags. You can also add a description, highlighting, and sticky notes to the websites you save. If you are under 13, ask your parents if they are willing to set up a family account on one of these sites for you to use.

** This site lets you set up and share a multi-user whiteboard with live audio,images, text-chat, and **
more. If you are under 13, ask your parents if they are willing to set up a family account on this site for you to use.

__**Shelfari, Goodreads, and Librarything**__
There are several websites – that allow you to find information about books, keep track of the books you have read or want to read, add comments and/or reviews, and exchange ideas about what your are reading. All three of these options also let you display a “shelf” of your books on your blog. The sites all require that you sign up for a free account. If you are under 13, ask your parents if they are willing to set up a family account on one of these sites for you to use, then add some favorite books to your shelf and embed the shelf on your blog. Poly HS library uses Goodreads as the book club online.The Wiki users use Shelfari. Check it out on . Join in the fun,set up your own account and link to us...we can swap book ideas! Sharing Activity 2
 * Now, write a blog posting about what site(s) you explored and how you think you could use

this software for school projects or for fun. How might you use one or more of these tools to make a difference in your community, school, or home? Using the power of the Internet, how might a student such as yourself create positive change? Be creative in your thinking and write - or better yet - embed a voice thread, or image or other 2.0 tools to make a statement about change, or about your interest, or other positive activity you could promote or show off. If you used VoiceThread or Wallwisher, you can embed your work in your blog. For the other sites, create a link to your work in your posting to share what you have created. Your last assignment: Answer the questions on our: CRITIQUE form. CONGRATULATIONS! Congratulations! You have completed Teen Learning 2.0! Welcome to the 2.0 Team. Now, you can help cheer on other students completing this tutorial. {kapri6MyHero.jpg} {alison hero.jpg}