Using Technology

To Teach 21st Century Literacy Skills

Education Technology

Technology is constantly changing

Technology changes what it means to be literate

Technology changes the role of the teacher.

WHY TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM?

New media for self-expression

Supports the Multiple Intelligences

Going Global

New way of Collaboration

Efficiency

Personal Productivity

Interactive

ENGAGING!

Focus of this presentation:

•SMARTBoards•iPOD•iPAD

•Digital Story-Telling•PREZI

•Blogging• LINKS TO MORE

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SMART Boards

“Incorporating the digital whiteboard in our practice as a tool to teach early literacy skills may help us reach young children in many positive and powerful ways”

HOW?◦ Manipulation of text◦ Interacting activities◦ Promotes student engagement◦ Whole group, small group, and one on one lessons

◦ Multiple senses ◦ Incorporates movement

How can we use them to teach literacy?

SMART Boards

Personalized Alphabet Book-Writing

Use touch-screen to “break” words into familiar patterns

Annotating and Highlighting Text

Literacy Dice Game

Circular spotlight tool can be used to edit punctuation.

Find More!

About iPODS

A line of portable media players

Allows you to incorporate audio

Plays music

Listen to recordings

Download videos

iPODS:Practical Uses in the Classroom

Students can record and listen to their own reading

Make podcast videos

Interview community members

Listen to speeches

Listen to stories

Download content- related videos

Implementing iPADS

101 ways to use iPADS in the classroom

Digital Story-Telling

Computer-based tool to tell a story

Vary in length

Variety of topics

Mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music.

Watch This -Digital Storytelling Project

WHY PREZI?

NEW WAY TO PRESENT INFORMATION

More powerful and creative than PowerPoint

Create a canvas presentation as opposed to a sequential slide presentation

Combines text, images, and multimedia

More animation

Set it up TODAY!

Blogging

Kidblog Blogster

Student blogging tool

Safe for kids

Built by teachers FOR teachers

Teachers have control of accounts

No advertising

Offers blogging within the classroom

Check it out

Specific interest blogs

Used for older students and adults

Take a Look

Blog TalkBlogger: any contributor to a blog

Blogging: the processes of creating or maintaining a blog

multi-Blog: an online "conversation" taking place between several blogs

Why use Blogging in the classroom?

oHighly motivating to studentso Excellent opportunities for reading and writingoPromotes collaboration and discussionoOpportunities for scaffold learning

Ideas for using blogging in the classroom

Digital Portfolio

Reflections

Peer review

Inform students of assignments, post handouts, question and answer board

Collaboration projects

Links to technology tools for teaching literacy

www.voicethread.com

www.toondoo.com

www.webspiration.com/about

www.letterpop.com

www.diigo.com

www.trailfire.com

Resources

http://downloads01.smarttech.com/media/research/international_research/canada/smart_sympodium_dt770_ll.pdf

http://www.schoolcio.com/article/ipods-in-the-classroom/51713

http://www.activehistory.co.uk/Miscellaneous/free_stuff/worksheets/Prezi.pdf

http://kidblog.org/about.php

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/47