Beyond the Basal Day #3 Literacy and Technology in the classroom Tami Dean & Dana Karraker

Today’s Outcomes View a model for our daily class opener Evaluate current technology practices Determine current knowledge about web literacy View a variety of online tools Play with tools

Course Tools VoiceThread of the Day Blog Wiki Chart

Continuum Fill out the continuum based on these factors: Kids need to use technology in meaningful ways Technology is used to deepen instruction 21 st century literacies Knowledge about online tools Access to online tools Common Core

Web literacy What is web literacy? Why is it important? Connection to critical thinking Connections to Common Core?

Question 1 What is a URL?

Answer URL - Uniform Resource Locator Source:

Question 2 Identify these extensions and what they represent:.org.k12.gov.com.edu.ac.net.mil.jp

Answers.org - organization.k12 - school.gov - government.com - commerce.edu - college.ac - academic.net - business.mil - U. S. military.jp - Japan Extensions

Question 3 List as many major search engines as you can

Answers Google Alta Vista Ask.com Quintura for Kids Quintura Kartoo Meta-Search Engines Dogpile Clusty Databases provided by libraries

Question 4 How does a site get to the top of the search results in Google?

Answer Getting to the top of Google Google Bombing Ultimate popularity contest I’ll put your link on my page if you’ll put my link on yours Google Bombing story

Question 5 What clues in a web address might indicate you are on a personal website? Why is knowing this important?

Answers Website clues ~ or % users, members, people in URL Importance Identifies the author and/or organization

Truncating Being able to read and truncate a URL allows you to get the full picture of the site Truncating example

An Example Another view of the Holocaust Is this a public or personal site?

More of Butz’s pages An article he publishedarticle Let’s truncate and see what we can find Folders, folders, and more folders

Another Example Ever heard of Mechanical Marvels?Mechanical Marvels What happens if we truncate this site? Moral of the story: Determine the source site

Question 6 How do you find the owner or publisher of a website? Why is it important to know these facts?

Answer Website owner/publisher Who Is MLK search Who Is Source MLK search The owner of this site

Answer Why is it important? MLK siteMLK site screen shot screen shot Civil Rights LibraryCivil Rights Library screen shot screen shot Rosa ParksRosa Parks screen shot screen shot Students have to be able to determine the validity and viewpoint of sites- CCR

Question 7 How do you find the history of any given website? OR What do you do if the site is no longer available?

Answer Website history Wayback Machine at Look at MLK.org in the Wayback Machine results results What do you know now? –Up since 1999 –Change in design to appeal to kidsChange in design

Remember Google Bombing? Google Martin Luther King, Jr. Let’s look again Google: MLK

Resources November Learning Courses on Internet Literacy for $19.95

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What tools can we use?

Web 2.0 Participatory Culture & the Power of the Network Collaboration Creation Connection

Literacy and Literacy Instruction are changing  The use of Web 2.0 tools affects both the learning and teaching environment.  Literacy instruction is no longer limited to paper and pencil, basals, and books. Today's student in accustomed to being a producer of text, not just a passive consumer.  Students have to "shut down" to come to school  Web 2.0 tools provide authentic literacy learning experiences for students  Students can have a world-wide audience  Students can collaborate with students from anywhere in the world  Web 2.0 tools are designed to be easy to use, produce, edit, create, and share

Digital Literacy in Action Response to reading Digital literacy in “real” classrooms ger_id=1337

Some tools to explore Diigo Gabcast Vocaroo NingNing Blogs Blogs Voicethread

Some more spaces… Google Docs m/Audio+%26+Podcasting

Putting it all together Inquiry topic/text Matching Inquiry topic to the tool Baby Steps

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