MARVEL is MARVELOUS! Google has been circular-filed. Any searches the kiddos will be doing will be going through MARVEL. It's amazing how much information (already categorized) is out there. (Does this spell an eventual phazing out of librarians/media specialists?? just kidding, Connie)
As for blogging?? hmmm... I've never been much of a journaler, so this wouldn't be done outside of class (for me at least)... but it serves as a good tool for our colleagues to see what we're all thinking, asking questions we might not think of in class, hear feedback from our excellent instructors without taking up too much class time.
I'll probably look up the wiki thing on my own, because I'm working on a class-created story... it would be keen for the kids to be able to add to it whenever/wherever the fancy struck them. Then we could also pass the finished version's link to whomever we'd like to read it. Hmmm... more thoughts on this later.
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Jason, Steve and I have a great activity planned around wikis for next time. We used it today with high school teachers, with great success. Wikis are an awesome collaborative tool. I'm sold. Marvel is great. I wish more people knew about it. I think it is important not to overwhelm kids, but to choose one database at a time.
Hey! Librarians are even more important now...we need to teach people how to be information literate: how to find, use, and evaluate information! Even in a solid database of databases like Marvel, instruction is needed. Librarians are not extinct. I think I'll change my title to Information Specialist :-)
Several people in class have commented on how impressed they are with your contributions to class. Thanks.
Connie
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