Challenge Brainstorm Area:

Instructions:  Assign a table recorder. The editor should click on edit tab above befor any editing can happen. If the editor needs to establish an account, please do that. Record the ideas you hear around the table. Save the page between presenters.

Cathy Nelson's challenge:

SO WHAT? The big challenge here is HOW to get them on board--

1) Teachers using the tools--harnessing them for educational purposes

2) Getting students to use them ethically & responsibly, and

3) Getting the filter guards to crak the portals! 

Wiffiti.com -- put cell phones on desk and students (with unlimited coverage) in groups can respond to ideas by voting.

Etiquette--be in the know--make it cool to know what is safe, courteous, appropriate and polite online.

Take a counseling approach--this is a life skill, nor just a school subject.

Needs to happen at the foundation of the project and rethink the process.

pipl.com website--put in first and last night and it will tell you where you are linked--have kids see how easy it is for employers, colleges to find their online activities.

Collect fun, shocking stories of bad decisions as lesson starters.

Chrisopher Harris' challenge: Cloudy, with a chance of learning: How will school libraries interact with the cloud? As applications and services move online into an always connected space for working and interacting, how do our libraries respond? What applications and platforms can we best use?

Need apps if iPhone or iPod is planned, such as science probes, voting tools. Use video editing.

Use Flip for input to keep is simple, easy, portable and kid friendly.

Give kids options of tools of their choice with options for keyboards.

MaryFriend Shepherd's challenge: What is the single most useful online tool for helping students collaborate on school projects?  How can this tool be used to help students do things differently AND how can this tool be used to help students do different things?

Wikis

Students in multiple classrooms who don't see each other work on the same project and build on it.

The editing becomes important so other can understand--authentic writing for an authentic audience.

Takes it beyond the school day.

Safe environment with solid guidelines and good organization key. Email addresses available through google if district permits.

Work with district tech staff.

David Loertscher's challge. Instructions: pick one or several challenges below and put table ideas right under the particular element you are talking about.

Elements of the Virtual Learning Commons to Develop:

• Turning assignments from classroom teacher dictates into conversations that include the teacher, students, specialists in the school, parents
• Building a reading community through virtual book/movie/other media discussion clubs including wrting and utlizing social networking such as Facebook and Twitter, wikis, blogs, nings.
• Encouraging the production of learner-created content whether for assignments or for fun and storing that content in a virtual school yearbook and museum. The center of fun and creativity.
• The center for school improvement or experimental learningcenter where trials, experiments, action research, professional learning communities are centered.
• A center for metacognitive reflection by both individuals and groups
• The use of various types of tools to create a learning commons nested in the cloud. For example: signing up for Google APS as a school; Netbives, Pageflakes, etc.
• Design as a method of capturing attention and collaboration; for example, perhaps there are multiple "main" pages as direct entry points for learners, classroom teachers, teacher librarians, etc. rather than trying to direct traffic all through one central page.
  • Provide opening screens for both students and teachers which would appeal to their interests and needs. Direct students through this page to resources/curriculum links/interactive sites. Refine approach to allow age appropriate multiple resources.  
• Invitations to collaborate at every appropriate place
• Creating Knowledge Building Centers (idea from Deb Wallac) that are major collaborative pathfinders for learning units that are repeated in the school over and over. These knowledge centers might have links created by everyone, tools, data sets, sample units and their success over time, projects across the class/school/world, places to collaborate with experts; links to special collections at various libraries/museums/govt. agencies; student created tutorials/projects/interviews/data sets.
  • Global awareness Centers
  • Financial literacy centers
  • Health and wellness/obesity collaborative centers
  • Any other school wide effort to integrate themes into regular curricular efforts.
• Demonstration of what clients can expect from teacherlibrarians, teachertechnologiests and other specialists (idea from Deb Wallace, Harvard business School)
• Lots of collaborative tools for kids and teachers along with tutorials for their use. CollabTools
• The integration of ICT literacy along with information literacy into learning activities designed to boot achievement.