The Power of Web 2.0 Tools

Wanted to share this YouTube video recommended by David Warlick which has a humorous take on tech support.

Warlick educates teachers and librarians about literacy in the 21st century which is being redefined due to the nature of information itself. He says, "It is changing in what it looks like, where we find it, what we look at to view it, what we can do with it, and how we communicate it."

As a result of learning with David Warlick yesterday, I learned that along with librarians providing those feeds, we should also be teaching students to control their own information worlds by selecting relevant RSS feeds for their research needs. This will bring information automatically to them.

With blogs, podcasts, wikis, and RSS, we can connect, share, respond, and grow knowledge anytime, anywhere. Librarians know that access to information is changing and David is a master teacher in breaking it down for us. He patiently demonstrates new ways to view it, what we can do with it, and how we can communicate these changes to our peers and to our students. See links to a variety of resources about RSS.

As David says, “we train the information to come to us”. He refers to his Del.icio.us bookmarks as his “personal digital library”. I also learned about bringing someone else’s del.icio.us tags in as an RSS feed. He demonstrated Netvibes as a way to cluster your aggregators into one web page to build a “personal learning network”.