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Roland O'Daniel

Digital Writing, Digital Teaching - Integrating New Literacies into the Teaching of Wri... - 2 views

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    Troy Hick's blog. Great source of information about digital literacy!
Jill Griebe

NEA - Turning the Page - 1 views

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  • Getting students engaged in 400-year-old drama is usually a challenge, to put to mildly. But in Seale’s classroom, classic literature gets the Web 2.0 treatment. During Romeo and Juliet, for example, Seale used Ning.com to create a class-only social media group called Verona Lifestyles, where her students, posing as characters in the play, created profiles and posted updates and discussion forums. “Posting in character got them more engaged,” explains Seale, “and gave them confidence to tackle the language. They even took a stab at writing couplets and shared them on Ning
  • “It’s about initiating higher levels of engagement,” says Seale, “and making the learning more self-directed and self-motivated.” “Let’s face it,” she adds, “being literate today means more than reading words on a printed page and writing an essay.”
  • Digital technology, however, still suffers from an image problem. To their more boisterous critics, blogs, video games, wikis, and other social media have stunted the attention span and diluted the concentration of an entire generation. What’s more, Web sites provide not knowledge, but the lesser currency of “information,” broken down into bytes to be skimmed over and hyperlinked.
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  • Consequently, say the detractors, young people no longer have the time or inclination for books—not to mention proper grammar, smart writing, or reasoned thought.
  • “Kids have the passion, the technical know-how, and the creativity,” says Hogue, “but they need educators to teach them how to use digital media constructively and responsibly. There’s a huge difference between blogging for a friend or posting an update on Facebook and writing for a prospective employer.”
  • Instead, her students take To Kill a Mockingbird to the blogosphere and discuss the novel with a ninth-grade English class in Illinois, led by a teacher Seale met via Twitter. She also plans to have her students use Flip video cameras to record each other acting out different parts of the novel as they explore character motivation and perspective.
  • The key for students today, says Hogue, is the “authenticity” of the audience—in other words, creating for and sharing with someone other than the teacher. “Students are reaching literally global audiences online,” she explains. “Why would they be motivated to write an essay for only one person, who is only reading it because it is his or her job?”
  • In other words, Johnny can post, friend, update, and tweet, but he still can’t read.
  • a ninth-grade English teacher in Bryant, Arkansas, was confident that her students were enjoying the unit on Romeo and Juliet. But she didn’t realize the extent of their enthusiasm until the day she pulled out an audio CD of actors performing the Shakespearean classic.
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    Literacy in the digital age.
Roland O'Daniel

EmbedPlus - Easily add enhanced features like real-time reactions, movable zoom, slow m... - 3 views

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    If working in the virtual environment with students, you are likely aware that embedding video and other resources into pages/posts is an important aspect of online literacy. This site gives the user an enhanced interface. Good for more advanced users or for presentations that you want more control over. 
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    Very easy to use
Roland O'Daniel

Welcome to the William Blake Archive - 1 views

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    "A hypermedia archive sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by the Carolina Digital Library and Archives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "
Roland O'Daniel

Accessing Your Zotero Library on an iPad with Mendeley - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of ... - 1 views

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    Longtime fan of Zotero! I'm glad they are getting access to new platforms. I switched from Firefox to Chrome a couple of years ago, and have missed being able to use the tool as effectively. I know they've had Chrome tools for a while, but now they also have effective (more effective, but not perfect) iPad apps as well. 
Roland O'Daniel

Redu - 0 views

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    REDU stands for rethinking, reforming and rebuilding US education. Powered by people and technology, REDU is a movement designed to expand and encourage the national conversation around education reform by providing information and resources to learn, a community platform to connect, and tools and initiatives to act.
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