INTRODUCTION

= = =** TEACHING INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS USING WEB 2.0 **=

** WHAT IS WEB 2.0? **

 * Collaborative communication tools that have the ability to be multi functioning devices, combining **
 * still images, video, live feeds, mailing, chatting, journaling and publishing. **

** WEB 2.0 TOOLS **

 * BLOGS - A weblog is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in**
 * reverse chronological order. Blogging is the posting of journal like pages to a website. Blogs are**
 * about communicating. You observe your experience, reflect on it, and then write about it. Other**
 * people read your reflections and respond.**


 * Take a look at [|Edublogs]and Blogger. An amazing website about blogging by Steve Hargadon is**
 * [|support blogging.]**


 * I have created a Blog suitable for Year 9 English students to share their thoughts on the creation**
 * of their group Wiki which is to create on on-line information handbook about Copyright when using**
 * the web.**


 * WIKIS -** **What** **is a wiki?**
 *  A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or **
 * modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative **
 * websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia [|Wikipedia] is one of **
 * the best-known wikis. **
 * Get started with first wiki at [|wikispaces.com]**
 * To see a YouTube video called __Wikis In Plain English__ go to Resources page.**


 * I have created a Wiki suitable for Year 9 English students which is for groups of students to create an**
 * on-line information handbook about Copright when using the web. It is on my other wikispaces**
 * site at - [|copyITrightfromtheweb.wikispaces.com]**


 * SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES **- **Include the ability to post written material to the web like blogs do,**
 * revolve much more around the ability of an individual to build a web "presence" and to create visible**
 * links with others in the network. Writing on a social networking site is often in computer slang,**
 * intended to be "different." These sites often allow the ability to place music, photo, and video content**
 * on the site, allowing the individual to showcase their likes and dislikes. A form of text messaging is**
 * often included as well, with a history of the messages appearing on the site. Again, all of the features**
 * of social networking sites are intended to create social interactions with others. More about**
 * [|social networking as an educational tool]**
 * A Social Bookmarking and Networking Tool which allows users to remember URL's or web locations is **
 * called [|delicious]. **
 * These bookmarks are accessible from any computer and students and staff can collaborate and use **
 * keywords and notes to make retrieval of saved location easier. **


 * Visit Teacher Jessica Oram's [|delicious site] that she recently shared at the 2010 Buzz Conference. **


 * PODCASTS - A podcast is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released**
 * episodically and often downloaded through web syndication.****[| en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasts >]**
 * A Podcasting Video that shows [|An Introduction to Audio Podcasting] is available from**
 * Atomic Learning.**
 * The Education Queensland - Thinking Digitally site has a large amount of information on[| Podcasts.]**


 * MULTI-MEDIA PRESENTATION AND COLLABORATIVE SITES - Voice Thread is an interactive online **
 * tool that can be created and then allow groups of people to leave comments at different times **
 * around images and videos. Audio can be added to a Voice Thread by several ways such as phone, **
 * webcam, microphone and audio files. Explore how to create a [|Voice Thread>][| Collette Cassinelli] **
 * has created a Wiki which gives examples to educators and opportunities for teachers to share. **
 * Voicethread 4 Education. **


 * Andrew Churches from edorigami has created an instructional [|video about Voicethread]**

** INFORMATION LITERACY IS: **

 * **a perception of self efficacy**
 * **a concept**
 * **a process**
 * **a set of skills**


 * An information literate person has: **
 * "An understanding and set of abilities enabling individuals to recognise when information is**
 * needed and have the capacity to locate, evaluate and use effectively the needed information"**
 * (American Library Association (ALA) (1989)**


 * 'Students live in a technological world where information and communication technologies (ICT's)**
 * are integral to everday situations. ICT's include the hardware, software, peripheral devices and**
 * digital systems that enable data and information to be managed, stored, processed and**
 * communicated.**
 * QCAR Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's)**
 * Cross-curriculum priority by the end of Year 9.**