Susan Ettenheim begins this podcast by wondering if bookmarking and databases can go together. This question came from a recent webcast (TTT 165) when Joyce Valenza started an inquiry into a division she is beginning to see in her school. She has noticed that those students who have been introduced to social bookmarking in delicious and diigo are becoming less likely to use the library databases.

Like many of us, these students hesitate to use a source for their research that they are not able to comment on and get responses from members of their personal learning networks. Part of the value or a source comes from the on-line conversations that get attached to that source, and bookmarking sources found in a library or specialized database seems to be impossible. Links are not persistent and the resources remain behind a password. We agree with Joyce that we want students to be able to do both: use the rich material in library databases and learn how much knowledge comes from bookmarking in social networks.

(Joyce Valenza, by the way, will be on The Future of Education with Frandes Jacobson Harris and Howard Rheingold and hour before our show this Wednesday, September 30. Tune in to that show, then join us at EdTechTalk at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA / World Times. Our guests will be Troy Hicks, author of the new Heinemann title, The Digital Writing Workshop, and four teachers as they discuss how they foster student choice and inquiry in their writing classrooms.)

For this podcast, Susan Ettenheim invited Ron Burns, Director of Software Product Management at EBSCO to answer the question of whether or not bookmarking and databases go together. He begins his conversation by pointing out that Diigo is part of their "Bookmark" bar on the EBSCOhost interface, but many more issues arise as Susan is joined by five amazing teachers, tech integrators and media specialists/librarians: Alice Barr, Vicki Davis, Madeline Brownstone, Suzanne Hamilton and Carolyn Stanley

Here are few of the specialized/state databases that are discussed on this podcast:

• http://ebscohost.com/ EBSCO Publishing
• http://novelnewyork.org/ NOVEL NY New York Online Virtual Electronic Library
• http://libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/ MARVEL, Maine's Virtual Library
• http://www.galileo.usg.edu/welcome/ GALILEO, Georgia's Virtual Library
• http://www.statelibrary.state.pa.us/libraries/cwp/view.asp?a=11&Q=37628 Power Library, Pennsylvania
• http://iconn.org Connecticut's Research Engine

Please stay tuned to Teachers Teaching Teachers. On TTT 169 (webcast on 09.23.09, and to be uploaded soon) Joyce Valenza and Chief Diigo Ambassador, Maggie Tsai joined us to further the dialogue. More to come!

Click Read more to see more notes from Ron Burns and a transcript of a chat that was happening during the webcast.

You may not have made it to NECC08, but believe me by the time you read the chat, listen to the podcast and check out the links, you will feel like you were in the audience. The podcast was recorded in full, which will help all of you who missed pieces of the conversation due to the bandwidth dropping!

Show 58, all the Women of Web 2.0 are here and enjoying our guest Nicole Pinkard, CEO , Chief Technology Officer - Center for Urban School Improvement.

Again, the chat is incredible and you are all a part of it.

Chat for Jan. 15, 2008

Join our virtual staff room as we check in with a couple of 9th graders from Virginia--Victoria and Zack--along with teachers from these schools:

• East Bronx Academy for the Future, New York City - Paul Allison
• J. Frank Hilliard Middle School, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia - Lee Baber
• High School at UCLA, California - Lynne Culp
• Westwood Schools, Camilla, Georgia - Vicki Davis
• Eleanor Roosevelt High School, New York City - Susan Ettenheim
• Florin High School, Sacramento, California - Bob LeVin
• Judge Memorial High School, Salt Lake City, Utah - Chris Sloan

Join Jen, Vicki, Sharon and Cheryl in a conversation with Clarence Fisher, Bob Sprankle, Alice Barr, all the great folks in the chat room and the K12onlineconference.org

Here is the Chat:

Week 44, WoW 2.0, Cheryl, Jen, Vicki and Sharon are joined by Dianne Hammond, from yesican-science.ca for an evening of online collaboration that is out of this world! Why? Because it is a project where you and your class can blog with an astronaut from the Internation Space Station.

SKYPE gave us a little echo at the beginning of the show, for FREE!

Come learn some more.

Chat, and all the great links.

What a rockin show we had on September 18, 2007. The Women of Web invited Darren Drapper, Steve Hargadon, Dean Meyer and had a blast talking about professional development, done differently.

With over 40 people in the chat, you will need a roadmap to get through this maze of great ideas. A special shout out to Jeff Lebow for dropping the link to the first webcast for Women of Web, can't wait to listen to that. http://edtechtalk.com/Women_of_Web_2.0.1

Here is the CHAT!