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quicker than before. I feel that my Netvibes can speak for itself. It’s obvious I have evolved my work ethic from the beginning of the year to now. My research has become more complicated and complete.

Conclusion and Future Directions

Media 21 has provided students a unique opportunity to be part of a collaborative partnership in which collective intelligence, crowdsourcing research and learning, and inquiry have taken center stage in a participatory environment. Ms. Lester and I have been able to function as sponsors of transliteracy as we have scaffolded students’ efforts to build their ability to read, write, and create content across multiple forms of media. We strongly believe that the learning experiences of the last year will go

with these students and be the seeds of their ability to see transact with the world of information in more powerful ways for both academic as well as personal information seeking needs.

We will spend this summer triangulating the data of this project and end of the year student feedback as we try to learn and grow as educators from our experiences with the students and prepare to implement this learning model with at least two sections of seniors via an Advanced Composition and Literature course. I will continue to document and reflect these experiences at http://theunquietlibrarian.wikispaces.com and my blog, http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com . Susan and I are looking forward to helping more students create personal learning environments and engaging in conversations about learning in 2010-11!

Buffy Hamilton, Ed.S. works at Creekview High School in Canton, Georgia.

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