Bloom's is Booming

There has been so much talk about Bloom's taxonomy lately... changes to the original Bloom's hierarchy.. and a digital version as well. I wanted to show you all what I have found.

First, Mike Fisher's digital Bloom's. I think this is an interesting display of applying Web 2.0 to the original Bloom's taxonomy. See this link:

http://digigogy.blogspot.com/2009/02/digital-blooms-visual.html

I am hoping that Mr. Fisher links each element of his diagram to the Web 2.0 application. Some of them I don't know or don't recognize yet.

Next, Tech & Learning just published an article by Andrew Churches (April 1, 2008) called "Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally." Mr. Churches provides a discussion of the original Bloom's and compares it to the Revised Bloom's developed by Lorin Anderson in 2001. The discussion includes current social networking applications, searching (googling), blogging, and other current Web 2.0 features. Here is the link to this interesting Bloom's revision:

http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670

Jeanne Swedo
JSerra Cath HS

Web 2.0 Summer Self-Study

Everyone:

It's Monday and I'm back at work. I received an email from CALIB today about The 23 Things -- the web 2.0 self-study program that you can complete over your summer vacation. I highly recommend you go through this little program. It is not difficult at all and hopefully you will find some things you did not know previously and learn other ways to apply them at work.

Check out this link. I plan on doing this, even though I am already fairly tech savvy. I learn something new every day.

http://schoollibrarylearning2.blogspot.com/

I will be in touch with all of you this week. We are on the downhill stretch to the end of the school year. I have one son graduating high school and the other graduating 8th grade and entering JSerra in the fall. My older son will be attending Concordia in August. Big changes this year!!

Jeanne Swedo
JSerra Cath HS

Time to get reorganized

Hello everyone.

The NCEA/Cath Lib Assn conferences are over and it's time to get rejuvenated and reorganized. My workshops at the conference with Chris Plaia, JSerra English instructor and founding Chair of the department, and Dr. David Loertscher, from SJSU SLIS, went very well. We received great evaluations and most people agreed that we could have used up a double session to deliver all our info.

The slides that I and Dr. L presented are on the JSerra library webpage, http://www.jserra.org/library under the downloads section. Dr. L discussed his latest publication, The New Learning Commons, which is available from LMCSource.

NCEA was held at the Anaheim Convention Center and CathLA was at the Hyatt Regency a few blocks away. I attended several sessions, but spent a lot of time going back and forth. The tech sessions seemed very low level to me, but I know I have a lot of knowledge in that area.

Next on my agenda is preparing for my panel discussion on information literacy at JSerra for Esther Grassian's UCLA library school grad students which will be held in Second Life on April 29th, 1:30pm to 5pm.

I understand many changes have occurred in the public schools regarding our precious LMTs and I am going to spend some time this week ascertaining the current status of our local school districts. Then we will regroup and move forward.

I was in a videoconference with Glen Warren at OCDE and some other CA librarians in March to discuss the new task force being formed by Glen. I will have more information for you about that this week.

I will be contacting all the co-authors of the blog this week. It is important that we all communicate and collaborate.

More from me later this week!!

Jeanne Swedo
JSerra Cath HS