Children's
Literature
Mandy Banks, Amanda Cox, Kathy Jackson, and Cindy Whittemore
This group provides a list of the following categories of web sites
that can be used to integrate children's literature and technology:
General, Music Education, Adolescent Literature, Primary Literature,
Software (list of 7 examples, evaluation of two examples), Living
Books list. (6-page pdf)
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Classroom
Web Pages
Soon Wha Kim, Jennifer Pruett, Tina Varma, Jakyung Yi
This group published a web
site that reports their three-stage analysis of how teachers are
using their classroom web pages to support their students' literacy
development. In the first-stage, the group identified 37 classroom
web pages. Then they e-mailed interviews to selected teachers. They
post a chart of the responses they received. In the second-stage,
the group highlights 5 exemplary classroom web pages by providing
descriptions of each page. In the third-stage, the group evaluates
10 web pages using two methods of evaluation: Valmont's (2003) criteria
and Baker's (2003) Framework. An excellent resource for teachers who
want to design or improve their web pages.
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Software
Wendy Mock, Keali Waldron
This group provides a list of 8 web sites that review educational
software, 10 web sites that sell educational software, and an evaluation
of 24 software packages that can be used to undergird literacy. The
software evaluations include this group's analysis of matches with
theoretical perspective, stance toward technology, aspects of literacy,
type of educational technology, age appropriateness, prices, and sources
for purchase. What a wonderful resource for those who want to know
what software they should buy to help children develop literacy abilities.
(42-page pdf)
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Web
Resources
Camilla Gilliland, Karyn Pocernich
This group reviews nearly 30 web sites that provide useful resources
for literecy teachers. Each site is described and categorized by the
following features: level (primary, intermediate, middle, high school),
target audience (teachers, students), focus (comprehension, vocabulary,
games, online texts), and attributes (printables, related links, lesson
plans). These features are cross-referenced in 8 pages of useful charts.
(12-page pdf)
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Email
in the Classroom: Kathy Jackson
First-graders were introduced to sending e-mail. Students, parents,
and grandparents express their excitement about being able to communicate
through this medium. (8-page
pdf)
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English Language Acquisition: Jakyung
Yi
This web
site details how different web pages and software were used with
a preschool Korean child to learn about the recognizing the letters
of the alphabet, simple words in songs, simple words in texts, and
writing the alphabet in upper and lower cases.
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Interviews with Teachers using Technology:
Jennifer Pruett, Keali Waldron
Is technology a valuable
tool in the classroom, what’s your stance? (5-page pdf):
Jennifer Pruett searched
hundreds of pages using information gained from her small group presentation
(Classroom Web Pages). She looked at how often the pages were updated,
what types of information were available on the sites, and if students
were included in the pages. From this search, she chose ten teachers
and sent a survey to these teachers. This attachment provides charts
of her findings as well as a discussion of her findings.
What
are teachers saying about using technology to undergird literacy?
Keali Waldron interviews five
teachers (including technology faculty) and reports her findings.
She compares her findings with professional readings and explains
what she plans to do in her own classroom.
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Publish Children's Writings: Amanda Cox, Soon
Wha Kim
There was an old lady: Amanda
Cox collaborated with 6th-graders to create 2 PowerPoint presentations
to be used by K - 2 students. The subject was "There
was an old lady who swallowed a fly," (PowerPoint attachment)
a popular song as well as book. The students made the first presentation
using those lyrics. For their second presentation, the 6th-graders
composed new lyrics for the melody, which turned into "There
was an old sailor who swallowed a clam," (PowerPoint attachment)
which aligns with the first grade sea-life curriculum unit. The 6th-graders
are very proud of their work and the fact that their work is being
used by younger students.
Different ways to publish student's work to a Classroom Web page:
Classroom web pages provide authentic and immediate publishing opportunities
for students to display their very best, most polished works. A class
web page can be an effective public relations tool for teacher. The
major purposes for publishing students' writings are to help students
go through the entire writing process and to provide audiences for
students writing (Anderson & Speck, 2001). On this web
site, Soon Wha Kim reports
findings from publishing children's writings using Word, Acrobat,
PowerPoint, Director, Dreamweaver, and Kidspiration. Soon-Wha also
provides access to some samples
of published children's work on a sample classroom web page.
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Standards-based Units (ISTE & IRA): Wendy
Mock, Tina Varma, Cindy Whittemore
Scooby Doo Unit
(21-page pdf): Wendy Mock created
a unit that was interesting to the students yet at their level, while
meeting the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS) and
the Standards for the English Language Arts from the International
Reading Association.
Early Immigration
in the United States Multidisciplinary Unit (22-page pdf): Tina
Varma created a unit that provides knowledge to students about
the history of the origin of the United States of America. Technology
is integrated by requiring students to use personal computers and
the Internet to read, write and search for information on this topic.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) resources are used
by students to prepare presentations to present to their classmates.
Literature
Unit: Cindy Whittemore
created a unit that is divided into several categories: Selecting
Literature, Prereading Activities, Reading Activities, Post Reading
Activities, and Assessment. She included two additional categories
that suggest sites for teachers to visit to see how other teachers
are integrating technology and literacy, as well as units she has
created for her present Language Arts Curriculum that integrate technology
and literacy.
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Web Pages: Camilla Gilliland, Karyn Pocernich
Camilla Gilliland created
a web page for her 4th grade class. She includes a link to her school,
4th-grade policies, the class schedule, newsletters, and 13 links
to online projects. Come
visit Mrs. Gilliland's class!
Karyn Pocernich created
a web
page to make the library of Harrison Elementary School a better
place. On this page and its links you will find what you want to know
about the library, books, and authors. You are also invited to share
your thoughts and suggestions to your fellow readers and Ms. Pocernich.
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Web Quest: Mandy
Banks
How would you like to go to the moon? Well, Jack and Annie
are on their way. So hop on, hang in, and join in on the space
adventure of a lifetime. This WebQuest
includes six tasks which will guide you while you read Midnight on
the Moon. Each task contains an activity that will be performed
before, during, and after you read. Each task contains an optional
scrapbook section that will allow you to find souvenirs to represent
Jack and Annie's journey to the moon. If you choose to fill
out a scrapbook, you can use whatever you desire to make your book.
Some examples may include construction paper, notebook paper, or brown
paper bags tied together to make a book.
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Dr.
Elizabeth (Betsy) A. Baker
Student
Projects, WS 2004