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Enhancing Literacy through Technology in Schools

Explore innovative ways to integrate technology into literacy education, with tools like Glogster, Go!Animate, and Figment. Enhance reading experiences with e-readers and multi-platform books. Connect with a community of writers and readers to share and receive feedback on creative works.

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Enhancing Literacy through Technology in Schools

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  1. Why connect technology to literacy in our schools?

  2. Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2007.

  3. Glogster • social network to create free interactive posters • include text, images, and video • place variety of forms of information to which they link • post and receive feedback Glogster Core Standards Glog Eric's (a student) Glog

  4. E-readers/Multi-platform Books • A take on “traditional” reading in that both are books • E-readers (ie: Kindle) are quite simply, books in an electronic format • Multi-platform books (sometimes referred to as “transmedia projects”) are books with Internet resources that enhance the story The 39 Clues Amanda

  5. Go!Animate • Students and teachers create animations and interact, using backgrounds, props, and characters.  Curriculum connections • create an alternative book report • interview a character from history or a story • re-create scenes from a story • write a screen play • illustrate vocabulary words and math problems Go!Animate Carolyn's Go!Animate Sample Teacher Go!Animate

  6. Figment • Figment is a community where learners can share their writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors • Writers can submit their pieces from any genre and receive feedback from a wide audience • They can read other submissions as well as published authors and they can store their writing in one place until they are ready to publish

  7. http://www.tlconnected.com Look for “TLC at the Beach – April 2011”

  8. Kindle – to arouse or spark • /kindl/[v. trans] light or set fire; to inspire (an emotion or feeling): A love of learning was kindled in me • To become impassioned or excited: The teacher kindled at once! Here’s to YOUR passion for tech-lit! Adapted from one of the Kindle 2 screensavers

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