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Preparing our students to become 21st century learners by leveraging technology

Step 1- Online Reading Comprehension:
 * Why teach it?
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 * How to teach it... (sources from New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute)
 * [[file:Online Reading Comprehension.ppt]]
 * [[file:Think Quest.ppt]]
 * [[file:DD_Online_Reading_Talk.ppt]]
 * [[file:TICA_Basic_Skills.pdf]]
 * [[file:TICA_Basic_Skills.pdf]]


 * Step 2- Cool Tools essential to all content area teachers and free to use!
 * [|Notefish] (makes internet research simple. It is an online collaborative tool that enables note taking, and sharing. Notefish is the easiest way to save, organize and share snippets of internet web pages that you find. Users can save their notes to a personalized page and share these with other NoteFish users)
 * [|think quest] (a learning platform where teachers and students create learning projects, participate in a website competition, and browse a library of student projects. Participants develop 21st century skills such as critical thinking, teamwork, communications, creativity, technology, self direction, and cross cultural understanding)
 * permission slip
 * [[file:thinkquest permission slip.doc]]
 * [|Quest Atlantis] (an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation)
 * [|epals] (to the Internet's largest global community of connected classrooms! Safely connect, collaborate and learn using our leading protected email and blog solutions for school districts)

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 * Step 3- Other Cool Tools that can be incorporated into your lessons: Scan the list, choose 1 or 2 to try out, then share it with other teachers by posting your ideas and thought on the pcms new literacies ning (see above for link)...
 * wiki (the newest way for people to collaborate on a project. This allows you to add, edit, and share information. You may choose who is allowed to edit your wiki. Be careful, only one person can edit on a wiki at a time or you will erase everyone else's editing!)
 * [|voki] (Voki is a free service that allows teachers and students to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. Let your avatar explain what you learned in your inquiry process.)
 * [|ning] (An online service to create, customize, and share a social network. Free to use, you can choose who can and can't join your ning. Similar to facebook but with more security)
 * [|remix america] (allows you to create video presentations. You can upload videos and photos or use the ones already available, add voice or choose from a list of song loops as a background. This is easy to use and creates something the students then share with others. It's free to use. Great starting program for those less knowledgeable about video editing.)
 * [|webspiration] (Webspiration is the online version of Inspiration, the visual thinking tool that helps you capture ideas, organize information, and diagram processes whether working individually or collaboratively. It is currently in a free beta-version, but will eventually have a subscription fee.)
 * [|primary access](Primary Access is a free, web-based application that provides a highly scaffolded environment for student creation of digital documentaries. In this session we will learn more about this application and related tools, including PrimaryAccess StoryBoard and HistoryBrowser. Using sample social studies units, we will explore the various aspects of documentary creation, including script writing and narration, and ways to support literacy development in the Information Age.)
 * [|penzu] [Penzu can easily be used for class writing projects or students can access the program for keeping their own personal notes (accessible from any computer).Penzu is a free web-based private journal and diary. According to the Penzu, studies have shown that keeping a journal can not only boost your “working memory” but your grades too. One of the best things about Penzu is that it's incredibly easy to use. Whatever you write is saved automatically and you can insert images if you like. Students can keep journal entries private or email them to their teachers. Penzu can easily be used for class writing projects or students can access the program for keeping their own personal notes (accessible from any computer).]
 * [|toondoo] (Toondoo is a cool, comic-creating tool from Jambav, a fun site for teachers and students. Jambav is devoted to creating a unique array of free and customizable online games of educational value for children of all abilities. Represent what you learned in your inquiry process through a comic strip.)
 * [|wordle] (Wordle enables you to create artwork from words, its wondrous properties also allow you to identify key words within a written passage and analyze content. There are unexpected ways to make use of word clouds, classroom teachers already have stepped out in front by identifying all kinds of applications for the classroom that encompass everything from assessment to test review to storytelling.)
 * [|trailfire] (Trailfire rewires the web to your interests. It guides you as you browse, suggesting where you can find information related to any page you're on at anytime. It also lets you make your own connections on the web - to link pages that relate to a topic from your own point of view. By empowering individuals to distill the web, drawing on their knowledge and adding their opinions, Trailfire creates a web of meaning)
 * [|fizz]/1-take video (Fizz allows teachers to implement safe Web 2.0 environments in the classroom, giving them a private YouTube-like site for each school. Through the FIZZ Web site, teaching and learning outcomes can be easily broadcast over the Internet to increase student engagement and achievement, while still allowing school administrators to control the Web site's content.)
 * [|del.icio.us] ( Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that allow students to research issues/topics, and share information. Teachers and students can access the bookmarks from any computer, share sites with groups, and organize sites by topic. Also includes RSS feeds so students can sign up to receive information on any topic of interest)
 * [|voice thread](VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install.)
 * [|weebly] (This is a GREAT free Website building Tool. Literally drag and drop! A blog comes with every site)
 * [|independent lens](This tool is a easy as 1..2..3. Listen to a sample song. Compose your own poem or lyrics that represent what you learned in your inquiry process. Perform your song to ready made music.)
 * [|text2mindmap] (This online program automatically converts a student's structured list of ideas, items or sentences into a mind map on the web. The student can then freeze the map and move the pieces around on the screen. The final product is printable, or it can be saved and shared with others.)
 * [|glogster] (Glogster is an exciting poster-creation tool that provides a platform for students to combine text, images, video, and audio to create an interactive, Web-based poster masterpiece. It introduces students to 3-D communication skills, requiring them to merge the left and right sides of the brain as they seek to communicate and evaluate both information and meaning. The visual, audio, and textual capacity of Glogster not only will appeal to digital learners, it has the potential to support the visual literacy skills that are becoming essential skill sets for 21st century learners.)
 * [|letterpop] (Letterpop can be used to create eye-popping newsletters, actionable presentations, irresistible invitations, beautiful product features, sizzling event summaries, informative club updates, lovely picture collages, etc. It is a service that allows you to easily create online newsletters with text and images and several pages. It offers a free plan with which you can publish up to 10 newsletters. When you’ve created a new one, you can update up to 25 contacts with up to 10 emails per year. Newsletters will be available through online profiles and RSS.)
 * [|photostory] (Bring digital photos to life with Photo Story 3 for Windows. Teachers can download Photo Story 3 for free. Teachers and students can make show-and-tell fun again as they create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures.)
 * [|audacity] ( Audacity open source, free, cross-platform sound editing system that records music, voices, or any other necessary sound for presentation. Students can use Audacity to incorporate sound into podcasting, powerpoint, or moviemaker. Audacity is great for beginning podcasters.)
 * [|slide share] (This site allows students to upload a PowerPoint presentation, with an audio file included if the student has included an MP3/podcast. Students can upload and share their presentations with small groups or with the class.)
 * [|scrap blog] (Scrapblog allows you to create a scrapbook using your own photos, audio, videos, and text. Scrapblog is very user friendly and would be great in the classroom because it will be simple for the kids to use and it is free!)
 * [|free rice] (FreeRice is a vocabulary-focused site with a philanthropic side. Students and visitors go through multiple-choice vocabulary questions which get increasingly harder as they answer correctly. As the students answer correctly, rice is provided for Third World Nations through the United Nations World Food program.)
 * [|great book stories](This is a collaborative wiki space for K-20 students and educators wanting to listen and see a great digital story about a book, and to create and safely share stories about great books with a global audience and receive feedback.)
 * [|Teaching concepts in song]( Lodge McCammon, Ph.D., who is a specialist of curriculum and contemporary media at NC State's Friday Institute has created songs to help teach concepts in a variety of content areas)
 * [|SAS curriculum pathways] (SAS Curriculum Pathways provides interactive, standards-based resources in English, science, mathematics, social studies and Spanish for grades 8-12. SAS focuses on topics where doing, seeing and listening provide information and encourage insights in ways that conventional methods cannot. Fully funded by SAS, these resources are available at no cost to traditional, virtual, and home-school educators and their students)



Thank you to the New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute for ideas, info, and sources.**> > >my notes taken during the New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute.... = =