well everyone it feels like it’s been a long time since we last been together. Shockingly we are now in the second half of our series is a session 7 of our webinar series using emerging technology to improve your school library program. Today we will talk about social capital my name is Michelle Little and IM your wedding Ian today.

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a few housekeeping items where no two 1488 members in our emerging tech community which sounds me. I’m going to need a few upcoming conferences I will be a decline in the end of January and the New England Association school librarians Association Nice law will be hosting its leadership conference on February 5 in Bedford New Hampshire I will be a panelist speaking about advocacy which will be timely since our next session and the Tories second is on advocacy. Lisa and I will be call presenting with my colleague Kathy Swan and Joe Bogle who teaches at Fairfield University, but formerly taught at Southern Connecticut State University, my alma mater. We will be talking about professional development. I will also speak at the American Library Association national conference in New Orleans in June.

We are starting a small co curricular club where students in Ed Web please contact me if you’re interested in nominating a student with a special expertise in technology whose talents exceed your schools curricular offerings. Our objective with the club is to form a community of very talented students who will collaborate to build educational software and or websites. We have drafted a mission statement, guidelines for conduct, and the contract. They are all available in the tech or its community. As of now it is a closed community Lisa and I are monitoring membership so that we can ensure that all participants understand the guidelines for membership.

we are still in housekeeping believe it or not. I am running for the position of region one director elect that’s the Northeast on the AAS L. board. This weekend I recorded this statement for the AFL membership and you can find it at

you can find the video at it.Lee AAS L. 2011 are one

final piece of housekeeping I opened a new blog externally from here. Not that I need to manage another blog, but very often I like to post video or embed HTML, or I-frames in resources here so for now I’m treating the blog as an annex to redirect viewers to add Web.

Finally onto social capital. What is social capital? And what is it for educators, and for students. These are the questions we are going to explore today. I Think social capital in education is where student engagement In learning is increased exponentially through the use of communication and collaboration Technologies. It may feel like you have more students, what you really have is more contact with students, but generally virtually. What this does for libraries is transformative. On many of the upcoming slides I had social capital in education? And libraries. I took out the library as part because I don’t separate education from school librarianship. As a core component of the learning Commons, the library program is a vehicle to enhance learners educational experience.

you may remember from session 6 I named a number of experts in library science research and, as one of the experts I mentioned with David Lorch or. Two days after that webinar he called me up and asked to interview me. He had heard a webinar I done about our hybrid program. He was working with Carroll koechlin on an article for teacher librarian and, and he wanted vignettes from practitioners who were or had moved their library program to a blended instructional environment. The interview was great we had a terrific conversation. And he asked me to write up a little blurb for the article. It’s been accepted happy to say. What I talk about in the article is how online course management can serve as a tool to a) bypass the whole resistant teacher thing with a hybrid program we are no longer at the mercy of the teachers for face time with kids. For those of you who have been here for months, you’ve heard this before. It is nothing to. But the piece on a focus on today about a blended learning is the student to student communication, and the increased expectations for student accountability and participation. when we start a new unit, students have a wide array of options for collaboration. As ninth graders they can use our online course management they can use a number of other tools that might go straight Google docs. It’s part of the process and it’s part of our expectation for them to choose the modality that works best for the task at hand. And the beauty of these technologies is that we can monitor them in a variety of ways. we now have 800 and roll leaves in our second quarter courseware. For those of you who’ve not been here we have four separate course courses because there isn’t enough room in anyone for all of the projects that come through the library.

Just to get a sense of how participatory students are in our courseware I did a quick e-mail search to drum up recent posts in our courseware when students post we automatically get an e-mail. But you can see just in the last couple of months, that many students are starting conversations. We opened our courseware and the fall of 2008, and it has taken until recently for students to independently turn to that is a resource for collaboration. It takes a long time to reach the paradigm shift we’d hoped for two years ago. We’ve made great strides in the last month alone.

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This is tough. How do you teach creativity across the curriculum? How do you measure creativity? It is so subjective. I think I mentioned this way back in July, but we had a PhD candidate visit our school. Her dissertation was about how schools are embedding 21st century learning in their curriculum. And after doing all the research and writing and interviews, the one thing she walked away with the teachers do not see creativity as something that can be taught. it is part of our mission today to prove them wrong.

Teachers value collaboration. How many of you worked with classes that were working in collaborative groups this week? Assigning students to work in collaborative groups does not ensure that collaboration is happening, nor is it necessarily Helping students develop collaborative skills. Times all it means is that one kid is carrying the weight of the other students in the group. Assigning specific group roles helps. Following protocols helps. But that doesn’t necessarily engender a collaborative spirit. And that, I think, is what we need to foster among our students. The irony of course, and I have I said this before is that they have the collaborative spirit. It is a part of who they are, socially. Our job, is to have them apply their collaboration skills to academic productivity. They practice Collaboration almost religiously at home, just not in school. He more about that on the next C.

Our kids communicate. We know this.

So creativity is tough to measure and teach, collaboration is happening, but not necessarily as a strategy towards productivity. Communication is exploding, but not necessarily in a way that is going to help students be Effective communicators in college, in the workplace and as citizens. So what of critical thinking? Critical thinking has been an educational priority for nearly 30 years now. Are we teaching it any better than we did 30 years ago? About 20 years ago? About 10 years ago? What are we doing differently, as educators, to help our students become critical thinkers in the 21st century-which, by the way, is vastly different than being a critical thinker in the 20th century..

So, that’s the four C’s. I think I’ve mentioned it in every one of these webinars.

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“This was actually really helpful when I was choosing a topic for my persuasive essay. I used the one from the girl at the end..."Facebook and social networking is a danger to teenage society." THANKS!”

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Questionnaire We posted a 14 question survey on www.nchslmc.org homepage on December 14, 2010. As of January 12, 2011, 383 students responded. That’s 26% of our students!

Do you have a personal Facebook account?

Does at least one of your parents have a Facebook account?

Do your parents monitor your Facebook account?

How do you feel about Facebook?

Are you Facebook “friends” with your parents?

If “yes” to “friends”, do you communicate with your parents on Facebook?

Do you keep a “secret” (under the parental radar) profile?

How frequently do you check your Facebook page?

Facebook time spent on: Getting non-social stuff done

Facebook time spent on: Communicating with friends

Facebook time spent on: Communicating with family

Facebook time spent on: Connecting with people I don’t know

Facebook time spent on: Sharing photos, video, & music

Facebook time spent on: Interacting on news feed

On which other sites do you have a profile?

Should schools block Facebook?

“Believe it or not, facebook can be extremely helpful in school. Using it to connect to friends about academics and homework is always nice to rely on. The people who use facebook in a 'unwise' fashion is their fault... and if their grades suffer leave it as a message not to go on facebook unless its helpful to academics. It’s their fault and there’s no reason to take facebook away just because some students don’t use the time online in a wise way.”

“Facebook is a great way for people to quickly communicate throughout the school day, since most people check it more often then there email. It's a good way to schedule school activities and meetings because communicating through it is very effective.”

“I am writing an essay in Mr. Luongo's English class regarding this topic. I am finding some very interesting information and I feel that once I am done I will really have a stronger opinion regarding social networking.”

“It's a student's responsibility to use the resources at school responsibly, and that includes social networking websites! It's all a part of time management.”

“The only reason why facebook should not be blocked at school is because of school related facebook actions. A lot of students have created help groups to study for tests together and to answer questions regarding the class or homework assignments. Also, school events are announced on facebook, and if it weren't for that, many people would be unaware of these events and clubs would lose attendance. Also, some teachers have fan pages or accounts specifically to help their students with questions. These school-related actions are easily accessed through facebook, since most students use it daily to begin with.”

“You fools don’t realize we use facebook to talk with each other about sharing school work because none of the sites you made for us work at all. And i filled out most of the form as a joke. There are a million ways we could get on it anyway that none of you have any idea how to stop so it is just a waste of time. Block facebook go ahead because i will go on it anyway.”

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What’s a phone to a kid?

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