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eLiteracy

A Newspapers in Education Workshop

Presented by Margaret Chance and Tony Meza

August 4, 2007 – Brownsville, Texas

“Literacy alone is no longer our business. Literacy and technology are. Or so they must become,” Cynthia Selfe tells us in her Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century. With new technologies emerging every day, our curriculum must pay attention to the literacies that will enable our students to navigate this rapidly changing world. Becoming literate in the ways of the Web—learning how to evaluate and navigate Internet resources as well as how to publish texts online—is vital to providing our students with the literacy skills that will serve them throughout their lives.

E-edition [15 minutes] http://www.brownsvilleherald.com

Google Earth Demo [3 minutes] http://earth.google.com

Blogs [5 Minutes]

What is a blog? Wikipedia Answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

Links: http://blogger.com [Blocked by BISD web filter]

Try http://www.easyjournal.com/ at school

http://awd.cl.uh.edu/blog/ (Blogs in Education)

Podcasts [5 Minutes]

What is a podcast? Wikipedia Answer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

Links: http://www.libraryspot.com/podcast/index.html

http://thetechteacher.libsyn.com/ the techteacher network

http://www.ourmedia.org/learning-center OurMedia: Channels of Creativity

http://learninginhand.com/podcasting/index.html LearningInHand: Podcasting

http://www.toolfactory.com/products/page?id=2121 Tool Factory Podcasting

http://www.epnweb.org/ Education Podcast Network

http://thejournal.com/articles/20764 Podcasts: Where's the Learning

Video Streams [5 Minutes]

What is a video stream? Wikipedia Answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_streaming

Links: http://www.unitedstreaming.com/

http://www.teachertube.com/

http://www.uthtv.com/

RSS Feeds [5 Minutes]

What is an RSS feed? Wikipedia Answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rss

Newseum [7 minutes] http://www.newseum.org

Learn about more cool stuff…

Second Life: Do You Need One? (Part 1) http://www.thejournal.com/articles/20871

Part 2 http://www.thejournal.com/articles/20899

Part 3 http://www.thejournal.com/articles/20945

Part 4 http://www.thejournal.com/articles/20986

Introduction to Second Life (Video 4:13)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b72CvvMuD6Q [BLOCKED]

e-Portfolio by Digication http://www.digication.com
Digication's e-Portfolio and classroom tools provides not only a platform for exchanging and organizing resources, communication and knowledge related to courses but also supports the creation of an online learning community. This community is connected, engaged, and empowered by the work that is shared. Work that is generated through the use of a learning management system is extracted and easily published into a media rich e-Portfolios which can be customized to serve a number of different uses such as an interactive resume, a journal of educational experiences, an archive of work produced through a course, a collaborative project, and a teachers compilation of learning materials. Digication is available free for up to 1,000 users at accredited schools in the United States

SciTalks http://www.scitalks.com
Smart people on cool topics…In the same vein as YouTube, SciTalks.com (Boston, MA) has launched a searchable online collection of science lecture video files from across the world. Currently 1,000 lectures are online, with new videos being added daily. Linked sites for lectures in the humanities, government and business (www.humtalks.com, www.govtalks.com, and www.busitalks.com) are planned for launch in the next 3 months.

More food for thought:...

Did You Know Presentation and Update

http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2006/08/did-you-know.html

Link to youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U [BLOCKED]

Ten Great Activities: Teaching with the Newspaper

www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson139.shtml

Why Teach Current Events?