Course+Schedule

Professional Development Create a qwiki Gaming Ninja Info-Graphic Finland TransLiteracy || Improving Adolescent Literacy Please Read for Friday's (9/16) class Your FutureTeacher Evaluation effective 2012=2013 ||
 * Course Schedule: Content Outline and Assignments: **
 * Schedule may be subject to change per Instructor **
 * ** Date ** || ** Class Discussions ** || ** Reading Assignments ** ||
 * Sept 9 || Introductions
 * Sept 16 || ==== Reading and Technology/iPod-iPad apps ====

Miscue analysis
|| Please Read for Sat (9/17) Class We will go over this in class ||
 * Sept 17 || ==== Content Area Reading ====

Inference
Language Experience Approach

iPod-iPad apps
|| Horizon Report ||
 * Sept 23 || ====Writing====

Blogs/wiki/twitter/
Readers Qwiki

Journals
Poetry || **Guest Speaker** -Mr. Jesus Santiago Ralph "Rusty" Rousculp Free Technology for Teachers Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with Technology I have followed Richard Byrne blog for several years and he is a great source. I use Google Reader for several blogs. Vuvox this website would allow a student version VoiceThread Marhara Storybird Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. PhotoPeach Photopeach is used by educators and students in hundreds of schools world wide, including schools in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, England, Pakistan, Argentina,Thailand, and more. The combination of images, music, and text helps students learn about presentation, expression, writing, communication skills, art appreciation, and media literacy. The quality of the finished work is great and students will remember it forever. Start creating fun slideshows with captions, soundtracks, quizzes, and easy editing controls! FlamePainter A fun way to add illustrations and inspiration to writing assignments. **Dust Echoes** is a series of twelve beautifully animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law. Writing Prompts It is a fabulous blog packed FULL of writing prompts to use in the classroom. There are currently 247 prompts on the site but new prompts are added regularly (so subscribe to this one!). The prompts are pictures coupled with a text prompt and are sure to get the creative writing juices of your students flowing. InsideStory Flashcards I am not generally a fan of flashcards, however. . . || Assessment || Read for Friday's Class (9/23) Read for Saturday's Class (9/24) On Poetry: @http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_if_i_should_have_a_daughter.html || Info-Graphic || Please Note **New page** TPAII Part of the new TPA Guidelines for Lesson Unit Student Voice ClassConnect Project based learning summary report =Project Based Learning at HTH= Fun Stuff www.drawastickman.com/ BLOGS ON WRITING Two posts from different writers discuss writing publicly and the need for teaching teachers to be writers to promote students becoming writers. Here are the links. The Fish Bowl Ideas and Thoughts With our experiences in the classroom I hope you will consider expanding not only writing in the curriculum, but also blogs, wikis and other technology we have reviewed.The only way to improve is by doing, worksheets do not cut it. Remember what I said about worksheets! And lastly please remember my rule for reading "Don't make me eat Green Beans!" || Today's students are "digital natives" and are practically inseparable from their phones, computers, video games and the internet. Technology, particularly the internet, has assumed a substantial stake in their social and educational lives. One recent study reported students consume upwards of 6 to 8 hours of digital media each day. Of those 21 million online youth, three-fourths believe the internet helps them do better in school. And although digital natives may be tech savvy, they don't know how to think critically about the information they use. Students might be good researchers, but they tend not to scrutinize the information obtained from the internet. Twenty first century literacy skills include not only online reading comprehension and the skills required to navigate the Internet, but also other information and communication technologies such as wikis, blogs, video sites, audio sites and in e-mail. These skills are becoming increasingly vital to success in this century's global economy and workforce. Beyond the Book will be an informative conference, with each session and each activity rich in content and well worth your time. October 29, 20011 9 am to 3 pm WORD Fall Conference Gonzaga University -- Spokane Contact Dawn our Conference Coordinator (360.296.1670 or dawn.christiana@bellinghamschools.org) ||
 * Sept 24 || Writing
 * Oct 1 || Literacy Unit Share
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 * The one day conference will feature Dr. Donald J. Leu, an expert on the 21st Century learner. **