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From RE 5532: Technology-Supported Literacy
RE 5111-376: Literacies (New and Old)
This course is designed for students in the masters program in reading at Appalachian State University. It involves intensive exploration of technologies for improving literacy instruction, literacy learning, and classroom communication. It emphasizes primarily free technologies.
Student Pages
This is where you'll provide a little background about your teaching and links to everything you create in this class.
What We Want to Learn
Please go here and post your thoughts on what you'd like to learn in this online course on Literacies (New and Old).
Skype.
Please go here to post your reflections on (a) how you used Skype and how well it worked in your classroom (or not), and (b) how other teachers have used Skype in their classrooms.
Twitter, Ning, Edmodo, and Other Social Networking Tools.
Please go here to post your reflections on (a) how you use(d) one or more of these tools in your classroom (or not), and (b) how other teachers have used these tools in their classrooms.
Homepage Tools, Social Bookmarking, and Class Management Sites
Please go here to post your reflections on (a) how you use(d) one or more of these tools in your classroom (or not), (b) how you use some alternative to these; or (c) what you found on the internet about how other teachers have used these tools in their classrooms. Provide hyperlinks to your work to the greatest extent possible, and don't forget to electronically sign your entries.
Assistive Technologies
Please contribute links and information here about websites, videos, case studies, and other resources related to assistive technology in the classroom, or assistive technologies used by our students in other environments.
Multimedia Texts
Please contribute links and information here about multimedia texts you or your students create, good sources of existing digital/multimedia texts, links to additional multimedia text creation tools and websites, and benefits you observe to providing your students with multimedia text experiences.
Interactive Whiteboards
Please contribute links and information here about how you and your students use interactive whiteboards in your classroom, what you tried out this week and how it went, links to great interactive whiteboard ideas and information, and so on. Address advantages, limitations, and issues that will help all of us consider interactive whiteboard use in our own classrooms, whether or not we already have one.
Podcasts, Vodcasts, and RSS
Please contribute links and information here about how you and your students use podcasts in your classroom, what you created and tried out this week, how it went, links to great podcast how-to's, links to great podcasts for students, links to great podcasts for teachers, and so on. Help us learn what you learned--what advantages, limitations, and issues did you experience?
Technologies Teachers Should Know About
Please contribute links and information here about websites and tools that will help us do our jobs better.
Copyright and Fair Use Laws and Issues in a Digital World
If you find readable and useful explanations of copyright law as it applies to the internet and digital media, share the links here.
Try It Out Here
Here's a page you can try out formatting, hyperlinks, and anything else you're not sure of. Don't forget that there is a pretty helpful user's guide below.
Who Can Help How.
Here's a page where you can provide info for your classmates about what you can help them with and how.
Help
Here's a page where you can ask questions to get help from your classmates and Dr. K with your problems using this wiki.
Getting Started or Getting Help from Mediawiki
- Configuration settings list
- MediaWiki FAQ
- MediaWiki release mailing list
- Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
