Week 6, Thing #15

It's exciting thinking about possible Library 2.0 applications, such as:

1. OPAC that includes student written book reviews and lists of favorite books (a la Amazon).
2. Pathfinders that have been turned into wikis (see Joyce Valenza "Ten reasons why your next pathfinder should be a wiki") to invite teacher and student collaboration.
3. Student book reviews and tutorials as podcasts and video posted to your website.
4. Student groups conducting their research using wikis and del.ico.us.
5. Librarians within a district creating an school library operations guide and capturing best practices in a wiki.
6. Librarian and teachers collaborating on a children's lit wiki that recommends books that tie to curriculum, including read-alouds, books for guided reading groups, supplemental reading.

For the summer I'm going to start planning for #3 and 6 for the fall. I'm reading the CYRM nominated titles and will experiment with podcasting or video to promote those, and I've been developing bibliographies for teachers around curricular topics which I'll turn into a wiki so they can add their expertise to.