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Assignments
Composition Theories
Reading Reserve List
July 5, Distance Learning Day 2
July 12, Distance Learning Day 3
July 19, Distance Learning Day--Wrap Up
Presentations
Digital Storytelling
Writing in the Digital Age
Distance Learning DayOne: June 28, 2010 |
Digital Stories and Learning |
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Directions: Good evening! |
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We will be exploring some websites devoted to using technology. I've created a discussion board forum dedicated to our work this week. You'll need to make several entries and respond later to the discussion board as the week develops. There are several questions that must be addressed in these dialogues. Note: You will not be able to read every word on these required sites; however, you need to make an attempt over the week to visit the requried sites and understand the significance of the material placed there. |
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| 3 Essential New Questions: | |
| #1 | What does Alan November suggest about having a Global Voice? |
| # 2 | Can digital storytelling improve reading comprehension, writing skills, and media literacy? |
| # 3 | What is the distinctive power that technology brings to learning to write and literacy? |
| The Readings: for the week of June 28, 2010 | |
| Fun Reading--Everyone | |
| Directions: Over the next week, read at least two of the the below articles in depth and take notes in a Microsoft Word document, as if it were a notebook, and be prepared to cut and paste your answers into our class discusson board. At least skim over the remaining article for key ideas. I'll place a * by a required article. | |
| * | Has Technology Killed Critical Thinking? Watch the Alan November video and respond to the discussion questions on the class discussion board. |
| * | Education 2.0 a short video from Frontline's Digital Nation. (We watched this in class.) |
| * | Global Kids Media Masters |
| The Global Kids Media Masters program, or GKm(2), works with young people to foster the acquisition of digital media production and analytic skills through youth engagement in participatory media or "Web 2.0" tools. Read some of the descriptions in the students' portfolios.. | |
| Serious Games--Watch the interview with Paul Gee on using games in education. | |
| Literacy,
ELL, and Digital Storytelling: 21st Century Learning in Action :January 2009 A short video documents a semester-long digital writing project led by two Bay Area Writing Project teacher-consultants. It features my friend Clifford Lee. You might have already read this article. |
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| Digital Storytelling Brings New Dimensions to Reading, Writing, and More: Can digital storytelling improve reading comprehension, writing skills, and media literacy? (Some of you might have read this last week.) | |
| * | A Discussion of Techno-literacy and Critical Thinking with Dr. Eisenberg. This interview includes an interesting description of the critical thinking process in order to be information literate. |
| Digital Storytelling for Language and Culture Learning, by Judith Rance-Roney | |
| Rance-Roney, a teacher with the Hudson Valley Writing Project, explains
digital storytelling, discusses its strengths in promoting literacy,
and, by documenting her own multilingual classroom work, suggests
a path for getting started with this technology. |
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| What do Digital Stories look like? | |
| Directions: Leaf through these sites at your own pace ant path. | |
| * | Stuart Moultrop's Spaces--Moultrop is a visionary on both curriculum and digital fiction. |
| Scott McCloud--comics | |
| Digital Dante--a hypertext that supports an understanding of the poet and the extra textual scholarship surrounding Dante's work. | |
| The Wasteland--A hypertextual site supporting an understanding of the poem by Eliot. | |
| The Jane Austen Information Page | |
| * | Youth Voices: A meeting place where students share, discuss, and distribute their digital work online. Be sure to check out their Collaborative Curriculum on the left side menu. |
| Student Examples of Digital Storytelling | |
| Digital Storytelling -a website by Today's Teacher, which includes lesson tips and student examples. | |
| Digital Storytelling: My Top Ten Lessons Learned, an article by Nancy Pratt. On the ISTE Connection site. | |
| Tech Head Stories: Examples of student digital storytelling and a great list of other sites. | |
| Comic Life--examples and teaching tips | |
| * | MacArthur Foundation Digital Initiative |
| The digital media and learning initiative is exploring the hypothesis
that digital media tools now enable new forms of knowledge production,
social networking, communication, and play. Through the use of such
tools, young people are engaged in an exploration of language, games,
social interaction, and self-directed education that can be used to
support learning. They are different as a result of this use of digital
media, and these differences are reflected in their sense of self,
in how they express their independence and creativity, and in their
ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systemically. |
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The MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning is a series of volumes that explore core issues facing young people in the digital world. It might be interesting to compare the principles addressed here to the curriculum developed by Youth Voices. |
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| * | Finding a Voice in a Threaded Discussion Group: Talking about Literature Online |
| Summary: Cathie English, a teacher-consultant with the Nebraska Writing Project, explores the use of threaded online discussions in the literature classroom. The online discussions helped high school students develop their thoughts in greater depth than in classroom conversations. | |
| Academic Reading: Required for Graduate Credit | |
Is the Age of Print Dead? |
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| * | Writing Space by Jay David Bolter Google Book |
| Directions: If you have time, I’d like you to read the first
chapter in Jay David Bolter’s book, Writing Space.
What is Victor Hugo's character, Frollo's, concern about the printed book? What does Bolter suggest about the coming refashioning of the book? |
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| * | Writing Space Hypertext Version |
Directions: Read as much as you can of this "hypertext" version of Writing Space and brings some of your own questions and concerns to class next week. What does Bolter suggest about the coming refashioning of the book? |
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| What Jay David Bolter Has to Say | |
| Directions: What does Bolter say about high culture as a unifying force? | |
| Visit Networked Classrooms | |
| Let's look at a few classrooms on the Ditigal Edge of Literacy. | |
| Valley of the Shadow: The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment." As a work in progress, Virtual Jamestown aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred-year anniversary observance in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony. | |
| Interactive Learning Resources: from distance learning classes around the country | |
| TrailFire: Youth Voices—NYC & Utah This is a trail of 8 pages, marked with comments, by Chris Sloan | |
| Youth Voices Coast to Coast: NYC and Utah Blogging and Podcasting from New York and Utah Writing Project Classroom | |
| Paul Allison: Personal Learning Maps: Introduce yourself by telling a story about a place near your school. This is a really cool site that shows a social learning environment supportive of communication arts skills. | |
| Online Educational Support Sites | |
| Google Wonder Wheel Keyword Research Tool | |
| A Youtube video that explains the new research tools on Google. | |
| New WayBack Machine Prototype | |
| WayBack Machine--Collections | |
| Read/Write Web—100 Alternative Search Engines | |
| Selected Nings and Facebooks | |
| Facebook: Do’s
and Don’ts University of New Hamphire |
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| Is
Your University Using Twitter to Its Fullest Potential? By Fachel Reuben—February 23,2009 |
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| National Writing Project Ning | |
| EduBlogger World | |
| PBS Teachers | |
| Directory of College & University Facebook Pages | |
| Missouri State University | |
| Washington University on Facebook | |
| Washington University on Twitter | |
| St. Louis University on Facebook | |
| St. Louis University –Class of 2011 Facebook | |
| SLU Connection | |
| Cambridge University Facebook Song | |
| Twitter Film Festival--Duke | |
| Some articles worthy of investigation | |
| "Why
IT Has Not Paid Off As We Hoped" An examination of the courtship
between higher educaton and information technology. Edward L. Ayers and Charlse M. Grisham |
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| "Why Teach Digital Writing?" from Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center Collective | |
| My New Teaching Partner? Using the Grammar Checker in Writing Instruction | |
| Summary: Reva Potter, a teacher-consultant with the Dakota Writing Project, and colleague Dorothy Fuller report on an action research project which concludes that Grammar Check instruction combined with direct instruction from the teacher can result in significant improvement in student understanding of key grammar concepts. | |
| Fun Sites | |
| GoogleNews | |
| Blip TV | |
| Magnetic Poetry | |
| Webby Winners | |
| Word Count | |
| Words at Play | |
| You Tube Games for Education | |
| Serious Games to Educate | |
| Games in Education | |
| Kids Making Games for Educaton | |
Education Arcade Conference--Discussion of Students making Serious Games and aspects of specific projects. Skip ahead to the descripts of the games. |
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| Assessment and Assignments | |
| Read, Write, Think: Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction. | |
| ISTE: National Educational Standards | |
| International
Society for Technology in Education Student Profiles for grades K-12
A general set of profiles describing technology (ICT) literate students
at key developmental points in their precollege education. The profiles
highlight a few important types of learning activities in which students
might engage. |
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| Assess your system with the North Central Learning With Technology Profile Tool | |
| Visit the Apple Classroom of Tomorrow | |
| Special Topic--The Social Networked Government | |
| The White House | |
| Rolling Stone Article: Inside the Machinery of Hope | |
Wired Article: Obama’s Secret Weapons: Internet, Databases and Psychology |
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