RE 6575: Lit-n-Tech

The National Reading Panel (NRP) was created by Congress and charged with the task of evaluating different approaches used to teach children to read and assessing the effectiveness of each.

This website is great for teachers who are looking to create a blog for their own classroom. I think it is wonderful that teachers can create their own blog and have parents jump on the internet to see everything that is going on in their child's classroom. This website links to a site that takes you step-by-step through the process of creating a blog.

An overview of social bookmarking in brief. Explanation of tagging and a few other commonalities across social bookmarking sites. Links to lots of social bookmark sites.

Non-threatening starting place to explore social bookmarking utility.

This site lists several ideas for using social bookmarking in schools. It also lists the top 5 social bookmarking sites.

This site has a really great mix of ideas on blogging in the classroom. Some ideas are general, some for older students and some for younger. Neat site with helpful ideas.

This article informs you of the problem with bookmarking, what social bookmarking is, why you should use it, and why you should choose Diigo over the others. According to this article, they feel that Diigo is more useful for teachers or students than the many others to choose from. It provides a link to the Diigo Educator Accounts and gives you instructions on how to set up your classroom or group.

Here is a short article about how education has changed over time and is now moving toward the technological era. It states that there are 3 ways education has become virtual, technical and computer generated.

This is similar to pinterest. It helps one to explore and bookmark ideas, tools, and sites. You can bookmark much like we are doing here.

These free applications provide a wide variety of engaging learning opportunities for young students (and you can't beat the price). The Apple iPad is becoming more popular in our schools every day (just check out this EmergingEdTech video to appreciate how quickly the iPad is gaining hold in our schools).

This website helps you create mind maps for free. This could be a great resource for grades 3-5!

Thanks Jennifer. I will try this out with 4th grade.

If you haven't heard of or used gaggle, look into it. Our whole school system uses gaggle, and it is great for the classroom, especially with the older students. They have an email address, a dropbox to put documents in, they can turn in HW via the dropbox, and I post my HW assignments on the calendar for them to see. It has a wall like facebook or a blog for them to post on as well. The most important and best feature is that at any time I can access any of the students accounts to monitor their emails or documents. This way I know they are having safe and clean conversations.

Create your own story.

This is my first weeks tech update from the blog I am following. Fun ideas for a day of reading with Tim Tebow. He is reading Green Eggs and Ham on webcast.

This blog has great ideas for the kindergarten classroom.

Veru cool site! Enjoyed grabbing a couple neat ideas to use with my students! definatly will be visiting again

This is a neat site with ideas on how to incorporate blogging with Kindergartners!

Wow! First-rate. William Joyce's latest collaborative fantasy effort. A must-see for teachers, book-lovers, fantasy-lovers. Wonderfully well-done.

This website talks about what literacy has been and how its definition has changed in the 21st century. The article further talks about new technologies and how they have affected the definition of literacy.

The following article describes how the meaning of literacy has changed over time. At one time literacy meant that one could read and write while now, literacy means that one can navigate the 21st century technology world with ease.

This is an article from a professor at the University of New Mexico. In it she gives several different definitions of literacy from various sources.

This website gives examples of how to use technology in the classroom and within schools. It gives various examples of how to incorporate technology when teaching.

I found this information helpful. I have never used social bookmarking before, so I am learning as I go. It provides basic information

Writer's Workshop consists of a mini-lesson, student writing time, and author's chair share each day in our classroom. Read more about our Writer's Workshop below! Writer's workshop begins with a mini-lesson. Mini-lessons are short 5-15 minute lessons in which the teacher addresses writers' needs.