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digital literacy for educators including videos, curriculim and lesson plans for grades K-12

Information Literacy is the ability to identify what information is needed, understand how the information is organized, identify the best sources of information for a given need, locate those sources, evaluate the sources critically, and share that information. It is the knowledge of commonly used research techniques.

Links to places on the Web that allow students to practice digital media literacy

ThingLink is a web tool that allows groups to comment on with text, audio, video, and to share and/or embed them. This resource has multiple applications in the FL classroom, including visual literacy, information literacy, enhancing communication and collaborative skills. One example activity: upload a map and have students describe various locations on map orally, in video, or text, and then have them comment on/expand upon each others' posts.

Fabulous compilation of key suggestions for How-Tos on literacies, rubrics, PLNs, website creation, collaboration and tools for creating classroom products.

Amazing compilation of key suggestions for How-Tos on literacies and creating products for our classrooms.

Good blogpost about Assessment Literacy. Talks about what it is and what it is not.

This article is a nice reminder that assessment has many facets, and is vital for measuring educational quality on lots of levels as well as student achievement.

This post by Silvia Tolisano offers a series of activities and a checklist to assist you in re-designing your curricula to support student empowerment and 21st century literacies.

I chose to use this tool to explore Connections and Media Literacy.

Spanish technology terms for students; site includes quiz and worksheets. Possible use in technology literacy lesson.

Teacher and author Larry Ferlazzo shares some great resources for creating visuals to accompany short texts.  This could be used by both teachers and students at all levels of instruction to address differentiated learning and to offer students options for demonstrating their learning.

Barbara - Thanks for sharing this blog article and the teaching tip. What a great idea for differentiation and integration of digital literacy. This provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their digital literacy skills with respect to appropriate use of images, citation, etc.

I am interested in using this in exchange with a Spanish-speaking country

A plethora of resources for using portfolios, strength-based and asset-based evaluation and assessment for language learning.

Portfolios are a great tool to use in the classroom, especially in a more digital environment where everything is already on the computer. I think that this resource could definitely be something that could help teachers who are unsure of how to use portfolios in their classroom.

I particularly appreciate the broad overview of this site. By including European example, it gives a wider range of perspective. Thanks for sharing

Making comic strips in the TL - fun for writing practice

good plagiarism lessons  good for 605 class

A young second grader uses evernote to record herself reading aloud and reflects on her progress and sets goals for improvement.  Something we could use in the WL classroom - students can use the app on their phones as well.  

Univ. of California Big 6 definitions - useful Eisenbert &Berkowitz

600 - copyrights

Heide: Thanks for sharing this concise and informative resource. I've found most educators, myself included, struggle with knowing how to appropriately use copyrighted resources as well as those with Creative Commons licensing. This tool is a nice addition to any educator's digital literacy reference library!

Bobby: I was in the same boat as you. I certainly couldn't expect my students to 'do the right thing' if I had no clue what to do!

A huge resource of many types of data visualizations 

This blog is for English Language Teachers, but the ideas can be used for any language - I could take the same idea he gives for Scrible and use it on another language site and have students respond to the readings.