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=**NISD's 23 Things**=

Listed below are 23 Things (or activities) that you can do on the web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0 tools. You are encouraged to complete all 23 items on this list by August 1, 2010 in order to receive the 18 hours of Staff Development credit through Eduphoria. You will use NETSchool as your online course platform.

1. Read articles on [|Learning 2.0] and Digital Natives 2. Reflect on the articles in a Discussion Forum in NETSchool.
 * Week One - Read and Reflect**

3, 4, and 5. Set up a Blog on your Library website in SchoolWires. Create 3 blog entries on book reviews with images or book jackets. If using a book image, use one that can be found in TitlePeek in your Destiny catalog. Make sure to include the publisher, publishing date, and copyright date of the book. If using images of students, be aware of FERPA limitations. [|Peggy Sharp] [|Fuse #8] [|YA Books and More] [|Salem Library Blog Awards]
 * Week Two - Blogging**

If you are interested in creating a personal or professional blog, please visit Blogspot.com, LiveJournal.com, or WordPress.com. Read and comment on at least 2 other online blogs that review books.

6 and 7. Download and Sign Up. You are going to be using the sources for week three to create an project (booktrailer, poster, website, online presentation) the following week. Be sure to find images and sounds that you can use that pertains to a book(s) you've read. Download and attribute seven photo files to be used in a online presentation based on a book or books. You also need to download two music files to use. VERY IMPORTANT: read the instructions/disclaimers on how to attribute images from a particular website. In order to follow copyright and fair use, attribution to the imageholder should always be followed. IMPORTANT: sign up for accounts on these sites: Animoto: [|www.animoto.com/education] Prezi: [|www.prezi.com] Glogster: [] Wix: [|www.wix.com] Weebly: [|www.weebly.com]
 * Week Three- Images and Sounds**

[|Wikimedia Commons] [|Pics 4 Learning] [|Stock Photos] [|Creativecommons Flickr] [|Incompetech Royalty Free Music] [|Attributable Music] [|Freesound Project]

ATTRIBUTION OF IMAGES written by N. Bates
 * How to attribute using Creative Commons**

1. Go to creativecommons.org. Make sure you use the green areas for your search!! Click on the “find” button on the left hand side. 2. Click on the flickr tab. When this comes up, you need to use the green area at the top for your search. Click off commercial!! 3. Type in the keyword for the image you’d like. 4. When you find an image, click on it to go to the bigger one. 5. Save the image into a folder or anywhere you’d like 6. After you save the image, you need to go back and find the “Additional Information section on the screen where you saved your big image from. Under that, click on the blue hyperlink letters 7. This is where you’re going to find your attribution. It’s a rather long link, so right click and copy or do the control-c to copy this. 8. Go back to your image, do not open it, but right click on it. Click on “properties” and then click on the “summary” tab. 9. Paste your long attribution into the summary. It’ll look like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the8rgrl/ / <a rel="license" href="http://

10. The only part of this you need begins with www.flickr.com and ends with a number. Get rid of everything else to clean up your attribute 11. It should now look like this:

www.flickr.com/photos/the8rgrl/3197291927

12. That’s all the attribution you need when using a creativecommons flickr image. It has the website, name of the imageholder and the photo ID. This is what you’ll use in your credits.

8, 9, 10, and 11. Explore, Play, Create, Use. Explore each of the presentations you signed up and created an account for in Week Three (Animoto, Glogster, Prezi, Wix, Weebly). Play with Animoto and Glogster to create a simply project for each. On the discussion forum, post a link to your creation as well as write about which product you enjoyed most and the reasons why. Create a simple Prezi that reflects your downloads. This does not have to include sounds, but please incorporate images. Share the web address with the group. Take time to explore Wix and Weebly. Choose which website creator you feel most comfortable with and create an original website for or about your grade levels/school. Post a link to your website and write a description about the site you created. For all of these sites, use the previous images and sounds you saved from Week Three, where applicable.
 * Week Four- Online Presentations**

12 and 13. Tagging and Webliographies. Create an account for [|Diigo] and [|Delicious]. Spend time looking at and searching through these two sites and post an entry about the features, pros and cons, and your preference on the forum provided. Add five websites that are favorites of yours into either one of these two websites. Make sure you tag (or label) the websites you add as well as including a brief description of each bookmark. Share you Diigo or Delicious link with the group. Create a webliography using [|Jog The Web] appropriate for your campus level. Find a unit that is taught within your school and create a Jog the Web site to share with the group. Search this website to find other relevant webliographies you could share with your colleagues on your campus or within your department or PLC. Use a Microsoft Application (Word, Publisher) to create a hardcopy of a webliography that includes your Jog the Web link, books in your library through Destiny, and databases found on your library website.
 * Week 5 - Webliographies and Tags**

14, 15, 16, 17, and 18. Create an account and explore the websites [|Go Animate] and [|Xtranormal]. Choose the platform you'd most like to use and create a brief animation for your library with it. Post the link of your animation to the forum. Next, look at different types of online avatars (use the links below), including Voki, Meez, and Otaku Avatar Maker. Create an avatar for your library, and after creating it, embed it onto your webpage. Finally, go to schooltube and teachertube and look around the sites. On either site, find two videos you'd like to use in your library and/or for staff development. Share the link with the group through the forum. After that, embed or link this video onto your library website. Week 7 - Google and Online collaboration 18. Play with iGoogle and re-arrange your "stuff." Create a Google doc and share it with others on 23things. Also, subscribe to two different blogs with Google Reader. Comment on entries posted on blogs you're following that are relevant to your grade level or educational interest. 19. Go to writeboard [|www.writeboard.com] Create a writeboard about a subject or list you'd like outside collaboration on. Share your link and password for others to post to. Post on at least four other writeboards that have posted their links and passwords as well.**
 * Week 6 - Animations, Avatars, Videos, and Embeds**
 * 17. Go it iGoogle [|www.google.com/ig] and create your own personal webpage. Add your own theme and "stuff". Make sure to add Google Docs and Google Reader

Week 8 - Reflect 19.**
 * 20 and 21. Go to [] Explore this site and find three sites to play around with. Write a short summary about the sites you chose, the pros and cons, and how it could be effectively used by teachers and/or students.


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