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=Taft Education Center=




 * Welcome to Web 2.0 tools for Teachers and Librarians! **

**//Imagine a world in which people learn and research better when they collaborate with others.//**
===What are the tools that permit a teacher to collaborate with the librarian when time constraints are critical? What are the tools that permit students to collaborate with their peers while meeting our expectations for academic integrity? With little or no prior experience, you will learn to use a set of research and learning tools that will enhance the learning and experience of your students and colleagues. You will be introduced to tools (many are free) including: wikis and blogs in the classroom, note-taking and collaborative document tools, a variety of search engines that permit sharing and saving searches, tools for collaborative storytelling and online instruction, and wonderful research tools. The framework we will utilize maintains a focus on student learning, and how Web 2.0 tools can augment that learning, rather than simply incorporating these applications as enjoyable exercises.===

===The goals of this workshop are to gain hands-on experience with many of these tools, and to engage colleagues in stimulating discussions regarding how collaborative learning can be more effective, how it will change the face of education over the next ten years, why it will not require complete retooling, and can be used to augment what we are already doing, and how our professional work can be enhanced through collaboration with colleagues around the world. Don't miss this opportunity to share your experience with colleagues and enhance the classroom experience using tools that help us to learn in ways that most closely parallel the design of our brains.===

//Instructors: Dianne Langlois, Library Director, Choate Rosemary Hall & Joel Backon, Director of Academic Technology, Choate Rosemary Hall.//