1. 1 Preparing Students for the 21st Century with New Literacies How Teachers Learn and Implement New Literacies Polly Parker, Teacher Leader/Co-Chair, MA NLI (Director of Curriculum and Professional Development, LPVEC) Mary Moynagh, 8 th grade History teacher, Ashland Middle School Sue Labonte & Kevin Jones, Special Education, LPVEC December 7th, 2010

2. 2 Introduction Welcoming Remarks (via cool tool – XtraNormal) http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7864515/ Acknowledgements – Mary Moynagh – Sue Labonte – Kevin Jones – MA New Literacies Logistics Team: James Walker, Online Technology Instructor Zachary Smith, Online Technology Coordinator - Anne McKenzie, Executive Director of the LPVEC

3. 3 Learning at the NLI TPACK model Teacher Leaders are paired with presenters. Participants choose a Cool Tool workshop. Design Studio Presentation day Retrieved from: http://tpack.org/tpck/index.php?title=Main_Page (December 6th, 2010) http://tpack.org/tpck/index.php?title=Main_Page

4. 4 Implementation Process Mary Moynagh’s work. http://www.voki.com/php/viewmessage/?chsm=7b68d479a8b7f91 096a6bd0898200ee5&mId=550272 http://www.voki.com/php/viewmessage/?chsm=7b68d479a8b7f91 096a6bd0898200ee5&mId=550272 http://animoto.com/play/ilJfkJ6I7gaC0KpihW20bw The Declaration of Independence is embedded into this animation in the shape of the United States. She used Tagxedo to create the word shape. She downloaded the pictures from the internet Uploaded them into Animoto for the video. Total time = 10 minutes.

5. 5 Teachers in Progress –Kevin Jones: –http://www.voki.com/php/viewmessage/?chsm=c4e62f2ae6fffc6 5911e399c2aed2cc4&mId=549615http://www.voki.com/php/viewmessage/?chsm=c4e62f2ae6fffc6 5911e399c2aed2cc4&mId=549615 – Sue Labonte: –http://www.voki.com/php/viewmessage/?chsm=61ba45eaa0a58 bc8bdaeb4f4899863a1&mId=549611http://www.voki.com/php/viewmessage/?chsm=61ba45eaa0a58 bc8bdaeb4f4899863a1&mId=549611

6. 6 Teachers in Progress What is a Hero? (Sue Labonte, Kevin Jones) –Our Twisted Hero by Yi Munyol –Pre-assessment video of each child defining the word “HERO”. - “Wordle” was created of a brief passage from the novel.

7. 7 Example of WORDLE (http://www.wordle.net)http://www.wordle.net

8. 8 Students in Progress Example of art show in Animoto (http://animoto.com/)http://animoto.com/ http://animoto.com/play/LnKS15Xa028tu0n0IdfB GA?autostart=true

9. 9 References for Web Tools http://animoto.com http://xtranormal.com http://www.wordle.net http://www.visuwords.com/ http://voki.com http://picasa.google.com/ http://www.tagxedo.com/

10. 10 References The New Literacy Research Team at UCONN: http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/pubs.html The New Literacies Collaborative at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation of NC State University: http://www.fi.ncsu.edu/project/new-literacies- collaborative/publications http://www.fi.ncsu.edu/project/new-literacies- collaborative/publications Lisa Harvey blog post “TPACK Meets New Literacies”. Posted July 27, 2010 at 9:00am, retrieved December 6 th, 2010. http://newlitcollaborative.ning.com/profiles/blogs/tpa ck-meets-new-literacies

11. 11 Thanks! Polly Parker Director of Curriculum/Professional Dev’t LPVEC pparker@lpvec.org Mary Moynagh Sue Labonte 8 th Grade Teacher Special Education Teacher Ashland Middle School Autistic High School (AHS I) Ashland Public Schools LPVEC Kevin Jones Special Education Teacher Brush Hill Academy LPVEC