Increase Literacy through Technology

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Increase Literacy through Technology

• Bridging the Gap Between Students and Teachers

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Why use Technology?

• Children today ARE different
• Different wiring
• Gadgets as babysitters
• Todays high-tech world
• Twitch speed
• The emergence of the Web
• A visual world

You Must read Ian Jukes
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Why Use Technology cont.

• A global trend
• Digital natives
• Screenagers not Teenagers
• The new digital divide
• DFL vs DSL
• Differentiated learning opportunities
• Just not interested.

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Do we care?

• This shift is so fundamental that theres no
  going back to the way things were. The problem is
  as educators some of us pay lip service to the
  notion that this generation is different - we nod
  our heads but then we shut the door and go back
  to business as usual ? it could just as easily be
  1960 all over again. (Ian Jukes)

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How to use Technology

• Best Practices of Technology Integration
• Inspiration Software
• For Student Research
• Cyberguides Grades 6-8

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How to use Technology 2

• Student Blogs - Applications
• video!
• Poetry
• Daily Journals
• Movies
• Close Reading
• Struggling Students
• Annotating Texts
• Majors

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How to use Technology 3

• Teacher Blogs Mrs. Wendt's New Blog
• Mrs. Wendt's Current Blog

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How to use Technology 4

• Atomic Learning http//atomiclearning.com
• You need to understand the technology to use it.

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How to Use Technology 5

• Podcasting and Book Talks
• Podcasting
• Mrs. Wendt's iweb
• Mrs. Wendt's World
• For Grammar Help- Grammar Girl- Look for it under
  educational podcasts on http//www.itunes.com.
• Podcasting Workshop Presentation from the ETTC

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How to use Technology 6

• Online Writing and Collaboration Writer's Window

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How to Use Technology 7

• Class Comic Books Article
• Why use comics at all?
• Explain a field trip
• Our Class Comics
• Windows Compatible
• READ-WRITE-THINK COMICS
• Strip Creator
• Make Believe
• Make your Own Hero

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• Wiki
• How Do Teachers Use Wikis
• For Teachers New to Wikis
• Brief Video
• Create Your Own Wiki
• Literature Circles see video!
• Virtual Circles Using Technology to Enhance
  Literature Circles Socratic Seminars
• Wiki Literature Circles

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• Parent Communications- Online Grading and
  Assessments
• My Grade Book
• Online Assessments

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• Free Downloadable Audio Books
• Why use audio books?  My students are not blind..
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• SJ Regional Cooperative Audiobook Download Center
  
• Atlantic County Library

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Activboards or Smartboards

• ActivBoards
• Promethean Planet

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Moviemaking

• Metaphor Movie using Apple's imovie
• Nick's Video's on Google Video using Windows
  Movie Maker.

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• Digital Cameras
• Free Language Lessons Through our Public Library- 
  Rosetta Stone
• Technology Assisted Literacy Knowledge  ?
• Teachertube.com http//www.teachertube.com