1.1.9

**1.1.9 Collaborate with others to broaden and deepen understanding.**
====Standard 3.0 – Technology for Learning and Collaboration: Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration==== ====Standard 4.0 – Technology for Communication and Expression: Use technology to communicate information and express====
 * Skill 1.1.9's Connections to State Curriculum** - MD Voluntary State Curriculum Technology Standards

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====Standard 5.0 – Technology for Information Use and Management: Use technology to locate, evaluate, gather, and organize====

**Skill 1.1.9's Connections to NETS -**
2: Communication and Collaboration

**The Tools**
====** Middlespot ** is touted as a place "where search meets research." The tools support research, sharing and collaborating using mashtabs. You can add documents, files, even code - and you can embed your mashtabs into blogs, websites, and even Twitter. Another nice feature is that mashtabs are private and cannot be seen by others unless they are shared.==== ====**Connections to Multiple Intelligences** - Inter and Intra-personal learners will benefit from this tool because they can make their own mashtabs (intra) and have the option to share them and collaborate with others (inter).====

Connections to the text
Chapter 7 - Communicating with Technology

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**American Association for School Librarians (2009). Standards for the 21st Century Learner in Action. Chicago: ALA.**
==== AASL wrote this accompaniment to their Standards for the 21st Century Learner in Action to give working examples of how to incorporate each of these skills and dispensations into classes and curriculum. The examples are broken down into stages of development, and sample behaviors that the librarian should aim for or look for in his or her students.What I find most useful are the Action Examples that describe a lesson in detail, which indicators the lesson hits, and for what grade this is appropriate. There is also a sample worksheet on how to create your own Action Example. However, from personal use of this worksheet for a previous class, it is clunky and asks for more details than are actually needed to teach the lesson. It is also not reflective of how teachers plan in the schools, so I don't recommend using it for collaborative lessons, or you will scare off the teachers. ==== ==== **Connection to Multiple Intelligences:** This is a tool for teachers to help plan, not anything for students to use, but teachers and librarians who are linguistic learners and like to read and write to process information will enjoy using this book. Similarly, logical learners will respond to the highly organized layout of the book and the indicators. ====

Connections to the text:
The Standards for the //21st Century Learner in Action// connect to every chapter of //Meaningful Learning with Technology//

== Kuhlthau, C. C., & Maniotes, L. K. (2010, January). Building Guided Inquiry Teams for 21st- Century Learners. //School Library Monthly, 26//(5), 18-21. ==

==== Kuhlthau and Maniotes (2010) recommend using three-member core teams to guide students through the inquiry process. These core teams are made up of the school librarian, a classroom teacher, and a specialist (e.g., reading specialist, special education teacher, technology teacher or content area expert). Each member of the team assumes responsibility for supporting the types of learning skills required for students to successfully engage in the inquiry process. These types of learning include: Curriculum Content, Information Literacy, Learning How to Learn, Literacy Competence, and Social Skills. By adopting a team approach to teaching inquiry, students benefit for the collective knowledge and expertise of the team members. ====

This is a resource for teachers, but those instructors who are visual/linguistic will like reading this article.
 * Connections to Multiple Intelligences**

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====Jing is a free tool (though there is a professional version available for a fee) that allows you to capture screen images and edit them to add graphics and captions, make a video (with audio) by recording your screen actions of up to 5 minutes, and lets you share it instantly via email, Twitter, Flickr, or whatever your program of choice may be.====

====This program would work well for students who are working on their homework remotely who want to share something with a classmate or ask a question of a teacher, and the video function would be a great assessment tool for librarians to assign to their students as a way to see if they can navigate whatever software they are currently using/learning on their own.====

Connections to the text
Chapter 7: Communicating with Technology

Google Wave
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====[|Google Wave] is a notepad style space that supports text, images, and multi-media. Each space has a unique URL and students can invite guests to meet in that space for collaboration. Collaboration is real time and it includes a chat function. Google Wave is still in the testing phase, but students can get an account and use the applications. Google Wave offers students many more features than Googledocs. Encourage your students to give it a try! ====

Note Mesh
Note Mesh is a free tool that "makes it simple to share and improve your notes with friends and classmates." Free registration is required. Note Mesh works by creating a wiki for individual classes that users can edit. Users are free to post their own lecture notes or contribute to existing lecture notes. The idea is that users in the same class can collaboratively create a definitive source for lecture notes. This would work best at the high school level, though Note Mesh says on the website that the product was created for college students.

****Application to multiple intelligences****
Interpersonal learners: they will like the collaborative process