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Web Elements Engaged is a joint project of the School Library Association of Victoria and ITmadeSimple. 'Students of today should be creators of ideas, not consumers of information'. Based on this premise, the project, Web Elements Engaged has challenged ten school teams, consisting of a teacher-librarian, a teacher and 15 - 20 students, from Year 3 to Year 10 across Victoria.

I really love the way that Monarch Academy Elementary (Primary) Librarian Keisa Williams has incorporated Google forms into her already excellent library wiki. Students get involved in the library and get experience using web 2.0 tools such as Google Docs, while Keisa gets an organised documents with records of all student requests, along with names, date of request and so on.

A good framework for introducing web 2.0 tools for educators, especially teacher librarians. via Kurt Paccio

This presentation focuses on a diverse array of web 2.0 tools teachers and librarians can use to enhance classroom websites, collaborative projects, and multimedia reports created by students individually or in distributed teams.

Presentation by Buffy J. Hamilton at Internet@Schools West 2009 in Monterey, California.

As School Library Media Specialists, it is expected that we connect our students and staff with the information and resources that they need for everyday learning. In today's digital world of social media and Web 2.0 tools, it is vital that we are not only sharing these new tools with our school community, but modeling their use for communication, collaboration and professional development. The articles and websites below reinforce the importance of Library Media Specialists being experts on the use of Web 2.0 tools.

"...the digital divide, technological advances and our digital transformation in an information-rich world was the driver in this year's LILAC. Mobile technologies and web 2.0 applications are going to definitely impact the IL agenda."

Prezi by Darren Walker Introduction to Web2.0 tools

A wiki by Anita Beaman and Amy Oberts to try to mesh Web 2.0 interactive technologies with traditional books and reading.

Free, downloadable resources for using Web 2.0 tools to create multimedia texts. Research skills, visual literacy and literature response focus. There are lesson plans, worksheets and a teachers guide to explain the resource.

Libraries have done a world of good for schools. They provide a self-directed learning environment and a quiet place to work and study - not to mention the wealth of carefully organized stories, articles, reference materials and other information for students to use whenever they need it. It's no secret that the library is essentially a campus warehouse for media products. Trouble is, media is changing....

I heard that a lot of school libraries closed recently. That's too bad. Maybe this could help school libraries alive.

"Create beautiful timelines - Tiki-Toki is web-based software for creating beautiful interactive timelines that you can share on the internet."

The "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

ResourceBlog Article: New from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI): new from the 7 things series