1. Beyond the Basal Day #3 Literacy and Technology in the classroom
Tami Dean
& Dana Karraker

2. Today’s Outcomes View a model for our daily class opener
Evaluate current technology practices
Determine current knowledge about web literacy
View a variety of online tools
Play with tools

3. Course Tools
VoiceThread of the Day
Blog
Wiki
Chart

4. Continuum Fill out the continuum based on these factors:
Kids need to use technology in meaningful ways
Technology is used to deepen instruction
21st century literacies
Knowledge about online tools
Access to online tools
Common Core

5. Web literacy What is web literacy? Why is it important?
Connection to critical thinking
Connections to Common Core?

6. Question 1
What is a URL?

7. URL - Uniform Resource Locator
Answer
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
Source:

8. Identify these extensions and what they represent:
Question 2
Identify these extensions and what they represent:
.org
.k12
.gov
.com
.edu
.ac
.net
.mil
.jp

9. Answers Extensions .org - organization .k12 - school .gov - government
.com - commerce
.edu - college
.ac - academic
.net - business
.mil - U. S. military
.jp - Japan

10. List as many major search engines as you can
Question 3
List as many major search engines as you can

11. Answers Google Alta Vista Ask.com Quintura for Kids Quintura Kartoo
Meta-Search Engines
Dogpile
Clusty
Databases provided by libraries

12. How does a site get to the top of the search results in Google?
Question 4
How does a site get to the top of the search results in Google?

13. Getting to the top of Google
Answer
Getting to the top of Google
Google Bombing
Ultimate popularity contest
I’ll put your link on my page if you’ll put my link on yours
Google Bombing story

14. Why is knowing this important?
Question 5
What clues in a web address might indicate you are on a personal website?
Why is knowing this important?

15. Answers Website clues Importance ~ or % users, members, people in URL
Identifies the author and/or organization

16. Truncating
Being able to read and truncate a URL allows you to get the full picture of the site
Truncating example

17. An Example Another view of the Holocaust
Is this a public or personal site?

18. More of Butz’s pages An article he published
Let’s truncate and see what we can find
Folders, folders, and more folders

19. Another Example Ever heard of Mechanical Marvels?
What happens if we truncate this site?
Moral of the story:
Determine the source site

20. Question 6 How do you find the owner or publisher of a website?
Why is it important to know these facts?

21. Website owner/publisher
Answer
Website owner/publisher
Who Is
MLK search
Who Is Source
The owner of this site

22. Answer Why is it important?
MLK site screen shot
Civil Rights Library screen shot
Rosa Parks screen shot
Students have to be able to determine the validity and viewpoint of sites- CCR

23. Question 7 How do you find the history of any given website? OR
What do you do if the site is no longer available?

24. Answer Website history Wayback Machine at www.archive.org
Look at MLK.org in the Wayback Machine results
What do you know now?
Up since 1999
Change in design to appeal to kids

25. Remember Google Bombing?
Google Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let’s look again
Google: MLK

26. Resources November Learning http://www.novemberlearning.com/
Courses on Internet Literacy for $19.95

27. What tools can we use?
As you explore, fill in the chart with ideas on how each tool can be used

28. Web 2.0 Participatory Culture & the Power of the Network Collaboration
Creation
Connection

29. Literacy and Literacy Instruction are changing
The use of Web 2.0 tools affects both the learning and teaching environment.
Literacy instruction is no longer limited to paper and pencil, basals, and books.  Today's student in accustomed to being a producer of text, not just a passive consumer.
Students have to "shut down" to come to school
Web 2.0 tools provide authentic literacy learning experiences for students
Students can have a world-wide audience
Students can collaborate with students from anywhere in the world
Web 2.0 tools are designed to be easy to use, produce, edit, create, and share

30. Digital Literacy in Action
Response to reading
Digital literacy in “real” classrooms

31. Some tools to explore Diigo www.diigo.com Audioboo http://audioboo.fm/
Glogster
Ning
Animoto
Dipity
Voicethread
Mindomo
Mind 42
Yodio
XtraNormal

32. Some more spaces… Google Docs Our course wiki for links: Tech tools

33. Putting it all together
Common Core: Where does technology literacy fit in?
Baby Steps

34. 3-2-1 Review 3- Three things you learned 2- Ideas to try
As you leave….
3- Three things you learned
2- Ideas to try
1- One question you have about Web Tools