Summer Conference 2012 – Klondike and Rutherford

Literacy and Technology…The Perfect Marriage?  One of the six key elements for a 21 st Century Education is ICT Literacy, Information and Communications Technology Literacy.  ICT literacy is the ability to use technology to develop 21st century content knowledge and skills in support of 21st century teaching and learning. ~Partnership for 21 st Century Skills  The Internet is this generation’s defining technology for literacy (Coiro & Dobler, 2007; Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, & Cammack, 2004; Leu et al., 2007).

What’s the Connection?  Online communication has become an essential aspect of online reading comprehension (Castek et al., 2007).  While teachers lead the way, technology supports powerful literacy instruction and offers multiple opportunities to collaborate with more knowledgeable learners.  Allows students to access, manipulate, and share information with a community of learners, resulting in the ability to address content and communication simultaneously.

 Traditional literacy vs. Literacy in the 21 st Century  Formerly, children sought most of their information from parents and teachers; today students spend twice as much time learning from media resources each year (Quesada and Summers 1998).

So Let’s Join Their Fun!!!  Blogging  Online Noticeboards   Collaborative Storytelling  Storybird  Tikatok  Word Tamer  BoomWriter  Kerpoof

 Digital Magazines  Concept Organizers  Online Search Tools  E-books

Blogs  Short for weblog  Easily editable webpage with posts or entries organized in reverse chronological order  Provide an authentic audience for student writing and work  Types of blogs:  News blogs  Mirror blogs  Showcase blogs  Literature Response blogs

Where Do I Start?  Edublogs –  Free  Students may comment, if allowed  Video tutorial for setup  Each student may have an independent blog  21 Classes Cooperative Learning –  Free  Communicate with all students simultaneously through main portal  Kidblog –  Free  Complete teacher accessibility control

Online Noticeboards  Online noticeboards are a neat way of getting a shared space to collect ideas from your class for a brainstorm or quick formative assessment. These are some WallWishers (one type of online noticeboard):WallWishers  Ms. Conrad Ms. Conrad  Mrs. Hundley Mrs. Hundley  Ms. Reiss Ms. Reiss

Ways to Use Online Noticeboards  Book Reviews  Honor Wall (e.g. Veteran’s Day)  Share resources for research  Classroom collaboration of facts on a specific topic  Share opinions about a given topic  Tell me something you have learned in this lesson.  Phonics-Write down a word with the /ai/ sound in. You'll probably get some alternatives like /ay/ which you can then get the children to sort into groups.  Write down the opening sentence to your story.  Write as many adjectives as you can.  List different ways to make 10.  Record Science observations  Write down different animals and then sort into groups.  Write down one living and one non-living thing and then once everybody has done that you can sort into groups of living/non-living things.  Write down a question for discussion on a note. One can then then be chosen for debate PrimaryWall.com

How Does This Help Us?  Kindergarten – WK.1 – Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they will tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is __________).  1 st Grade – W1.7 – With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.  2 nd Grade – W2.7 – Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations)

How Does This Help Us? cont.  3 rd Grade – W3.8 – Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.  4 th Grade – W4.2.b – Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.  5 th Grade – W5.9.b – Apply grade 5 Reading standards to informational texts (e.g., “Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s)”).

 Every student in JCPS has a personal account.  Can be used as a means to “turn in” work and/or receive feedback.  Less inhibited about asking questions, raising objections, sharing input.

Storybird  Storybird is a collaborative storytelling tool that allows students to create short, art- inspired stories they can share, read, and print. Storybird  “Storybird reverses the process of visual storytelling by starting with the image and ‘unlocking’ the story inside.”

How Does This Help Us?  Kindergarten – WK.6 – With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.  1 st Grade – W1.3 - Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, including some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.  2 nd Grade – W2.6 - With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.

How Does This Help Us?  Grades 3-5– W3/4/5.3 – Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.  Grades 4 & 5 – W4/5.4 – Produce clear, coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Tikatok  Another collaborative storytelling tool that allows students to create and publish their own stories.  Unlike Storybird, Tikatok allows students to incorporate their very own drawings into the book.Tikatok  And for varying levels, there are different ways to create the books: simple picture books, StorySparks & start from scratch.  Like Storybird, this writing tool is completely free to use…unless you (or a parent) would like to purchase the published, bound book!

How Does This Help Us?  Kindergarten – WK.2 – Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.  1 st Grade – W1.6 – With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.  2 nd Grade – W2.3 – Write narratives in which they recount a well elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

How Does This Help Us?  Grades 3-5– W3/4/5.2 – Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

Word Tamer… THE BOOK  A story and creative writing training all in one book. A fast moving, rollercoaster of a plot, the book also provides maximum creative potential for teaching.  Word Tamer is created by children’s author Judy Waite and is born out of the creative writing workshops she delivers in schools.

Word Tamer… THE ONLINE CREATIVE WRITNG TOOL  Word Tamer is an interactive website where you “tame words and train stories.” Word Tamer  The site helps students create and develop new writing possibilities. All the ideas can be saved and printed off to be developed off-line. You can even print off certificates!  The site contains different sections such as Wild Words, Prowl Through Plot, Capture a Character, Snare a Setting and Grapple With Genre. Each task is simple to get into and fun for students to “play.”  Connection!! Connection!!

How Does This Help Us?  3rd Grade – W3.3.a – Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.  4 th & 5 th Grade – W4/5.3.a – Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.  3.b – Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.

Boom Writer  “BoomWriter is a supremely engaging creative writing website that has students reading, writing and assessing content in ways they’ve never done before!”BoomWriter

Kerpoof  Owned by Walt Disney Company  Allows great student creativity  Free (mostly)  Spell a Picture  Make a Movie  Tell a Story

Reading Starters  Digital Magazines  Time for Kids Time for Kids  National Geographic National Geographic  OWL OWL  Tumblebooks  Giggle Poetry!!!!! (Super fun ) Giggle Poetry  Digital Libraries (WONDERFUL!!!) Digital Libraries  Storyline Online Storyline Online  Bookflix  Dove Whisper  ABC Mouse ABC Mouse

Just Scratching the Surface  Comic Life  Word Cloud  Wikis  Podcasts  Read, Write, Gold  Kidspiration