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=[|Alan November's]= =Building Learning Communities Conference 2007=

Last year we were able to share with the 50 libraries in our School Library Service at Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES in Rochester, NY, information about the latest library technologies and trends as a result of attending the Computers in Libraries Conference in Washington, D.C. Their response to our Tech Series that grew out of that trip was overwhelmingly positive. In fact they asked that we continue to keep them abreast of the rapid changes being brought about to the information landscape by digital technologies, technologies that are completely redefining libraries. [|Alan November’s Building Learning Communities], an international conference of educators, is considered one of the premier conferences of its kind and this year's theme was expanding the boundaries of learning. We knew by the list of topics and presenters that we would be able to gather valuable information around which we could design our 2007-2008 Tech Series. We were not disappointed.

The three days we spent in Boston in July 2007 at BLC07 were informative, exhilarating, fun, and mentally exhausting. It was truly an international gathering where we were exposed to new ideas and forced to reassess old perceptions. What we have tried to do with this wiki is share our experiences with you. We only were able to attend a limited number of sessions and because of that this synopsis will fall far short of all that the conference had to offer. However, we do hope to at least give you a small sense of all the exciting technological innovations taking place in educational communities around the world today. And as is the case with any wiki, this one will continue to grow as we have time to add to it.

You can access the pages in this wiki by clicking on the titles in the list below or by using the table of contents on the left of each page. Additionally, if you click on the program image above you will be able to view a two-minute video slideshow of images and quotes from the conference (the photographs used in this slideshow are the property of [|Ewan McIntosh]and [|Marco Antonio Torres] and are copyrighted under a Creative Commons License [requires [|Windows Media Player] 9 or above]).

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__**KEYNOTES**__: Tools for Creative Thinking Dr. Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA

Online Communities of Learning Professor Angela McFarlane, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Digital Citizenship in a Global Economy Dr. Yong Zhao, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI

Lights, Camera, Learn Marco Antonio Torres, San Fernando High School, Sylmar, CA
 * __SESSIONS__**:

Games Margaret Meijers, New Town High School, Hobart, Tasmania, AU

School Library Websites Dr. Joyce Valenza, Librarian, Springfield Township HS, Erdenheim, PA

Webliteracy Alan November, November Learning, Marblehead, MA

Web 2.0 Meets Information Fluency Dr. Joyce Valenza, Librarian, Springfield Township HS, Erdenheim, PA

Google Earth Dean Shareski, Prairie South School Division, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, CA

Programming as 21st Century Literacy Marc Prensky, Speaker, Writer, Consultant, Learning Game Designer, New York, NY

The Death of the Classroom Marc Prensky, Speaker, Writer, Consultant, Learning Game Designer, New York, NY

The Hype About Skype Brian Mull, Director of Research and Content Development, November Learning, New Orleans, LA

Reel Celtic Connections Ewan McIntoch, New Technologies Research Practioner, Learning and Teaching Scotland, Glasgow, UK


 * RECOMMENDED READING**

Jane Reeves and Karen Mitchell Library Automation Team Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES Rochester, New York July 2007

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