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I haven't let students do this yet, but it is possible to let users (including students) create "resource lists" of books that they share with others.
 * Does Destiny have an application where you can set up social bookmarking?**

InfoCentre has a button so that you can set up web sites with Visual Search and teachers give me their bookmarks for their grade levels and we can use colorful icons for the Elementary students. Teachers and students find it easy and love it since they can access it from home.

__**I'm curious to know the percentage of folks in this room from other districts who have at least some control over web filtering in their school**. (i.e. some sort of authenticated bypass of the web filter or a process for asking a site to be unblocked.)__

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 * When you get to WIkis here is how one of our teachers use it**:

_ __**What do your AUPs look like (to everyone)?** I__s there any representation in the conversation about the AUP by a librarian or information literacy specialist? We require the district policy/AUP signed by every kid. However I keep them from when they first enter the school until they leave. I'm begging to have it switched to opt-out instead of opt- in (like our high school). "My building requires AUP be on file. I have to get them, but I keep them until they kids leave. I've asked to go to the opt-out system (used at our high school), but no luck yet"

__**How many districts here have an Instructional Technology dept/team/group/person at the district level**?__ I think that this is common in most large districts--but having teacher-librarians coordinating with those IT teams to ensure wide access to quality information doesn't happen often enough.

In small districts who do you go to if you don't have such departments or teams?

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 * Our district uses Twitter and Facebook**

Interesting article (blog) on educational uses of Twitter.

_ __**Where did the terms WIKI and BLOG come from? Anyone know? Do they stand for something**? Wiki comes from the Hawaiian term for "fast fast" (wiki wiki). Blog is short for web-log.__

_ If youtube is blocked in your district, you might want to try schooltube: www.schooltube.com

_ __**I used goanimate.com to create my 8th grade orientation**. When you get there you can__ search for totem and click on orientation__. You can view the video. It is a free site and fun and easy to do.