Johanna Prince
University of Maine at Farmington

EDU 513: New Media in the Elementary Language Arts Classroom

Spring 2010

January
February
March
April
May

 

 

January 20th (4-7 at UMF) Class 1

For Future Meetings

  1. Read and post reflection in NING (due 1/27)
    1. Central Issues in New Literacies and New Literacies Research
    2. Ten Tips for Teaching with New Media (Article in packet, available electronically here)
    3. Where We Stand: On learning to read and write (Article in packet, available electronically here)
    4. Technology and Young Children (Article in packet, available electronically here)

 

January 27th (Class 2)

  1. Background
    1. Digital Native (this is an interactive human ‘map’ is filled with a whole variety of facts and information, spend some time clicking about and seeing who this student is)  
  2. New Literacies and New Media
    1. How are schools prepared/not prepared to handle the world we live in? Do teachers need to change or do students need to change, or both?  What does this mean for you as an elementary school teacher? For the language arts classroom?
  1. Mobile learning: read an interesting article that looks at the growing content of the iphone apps store – almost half the top selling Apps in education section target preschool or elementary age children.  What does this mean about where learning takes place?
    1. http://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/publications/index.html (Download ilearn report)
  2. Check out Voicethread, take a look at the sample lessons – I encourage you to create an account and try playing with this tool – how might it support (or not) your language arts classroom? What would you need to do in order to make it work (gather parent volunteers, partner with High School students)
    1. Voicethread: General http://voicethread.com/
    2. Voicethread: Example lessons http://voicethread.com/library/
  3. Writing tools
    1. How to Use Wordle http://peterpappas.blogs.com/copy_paste/2009/01/build-literacy-skills-with-wordle.html
    2. Wordle http://www.wordle.net/

 

For Future Meetings

  1. Read and post reflection in NING (due 2/3)
    1. Collaborative Digital Writing
    2. A Call to Support 21st Century Writing (Article in packet, available electronically here)
    3. Selection from K-12 2009 Horizon Report (Article in packet, available electronically here)
    4. Blogging can make you smarter (online only)

 

February 3rd (Class 3)

  1. Option 1 investigate these tools for use in your classroom:
    1. Novlet http://www.novlet.com/
    2. Glypho http://glypho.com/
    3. Collabor-write http://library.thinkquest.org/2626/index.html
    4. Pic Lits http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx
    5. Students overusing certain words? http://www.wordcounter.com/
  2. Option 2 review these book making softwares
    1. Storybird
      1. Adults: http://storybird.com/accounts/signup/
      2. Kids http://storybird.com/accounts/kids-signup/
    2. UDL Book Builder http://bookbuilder.cast.org/
    3. TikaTok ($) http://www.tikatok.com/  
  3. Option 3 – try doing a modified monster exchange with another teacher/students in this course
    1. Monster Exchange http://www.monsterexchange.org/
    2. Example of a modified (simpler version) http://students.umf.maine.edu/coteml/public.www/p9.html
  4. Option 4 – investigate Young Writers Program http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/node/1
    1. February Album Writing Month http://fawm.org/
    2. April Script Frenzy Month http://ywp.scriptfrenzy.org/
  5. Option 5 – review these articles on writing with students
    1. PowerPoint http://www.edutopia.org/groups/multimedia-writing/11886?page=999#comment-72402
    2. http://www.edutopia.org/self-publishing-student-writing
    3. http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=214

For Future Meetings

  1. Read and post reflection in NING (due 2/10)
    1. Tomorrow will not be like today
    2. We Learn What We Do
    3. IM Friend or Foe (online only)
    4. What is Learning in a Participatory Culture?
    5. Participatory Culture and Schools, Can We Get There From Here?

February 10th (4-7 at UMF) Class 4

(4:30)  21st Century Literacy

(5:00) Podcast

5:30 - BREAK

The Class

The 21st Century Language Arts Classroom – Barriers and Brainstorming

6:30 Wrap up, work for future meetings, questions, suggestions, ideas.  Next Face to Face meeting March 24th 4-7

For Future Meetings

  1. Read and have a VOIP conversation with classmate (due 2/24-include a reflection in GoogleDoc for Class 5)
    1. "Proof-Revising" With Podcasting: Keeping Readers in Mind as Students Listen To and Rethink Their Writing
  2. Lesson with new media email me by 2/28 to arrange

February 17th (No class Winter Break)

February 24th (Class 5)

 

For Future Meetings

  1. Read and post reflection in NING (due 3/3)
    1. Video Games and Learning: Games May Not Be the Enemy (online only)
    2. Selection from What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
  2. Lesson with new media (email me by 2/28 to arrange, lesson and reflection by 4/1)
  3. By March 23 Please email me your contract for Final Project

March 3rd (Class 6)

For Future Meetings

  1. Read and post reflection in NING (due 3/10)
    1. Friending Boo Radley (online)
    2. Reader Response Meets New Literacies: Empowering Readers in Online Learning
  2. Lesson with new media (lesson and reflection by 4/1)
  3. By March 23 Please email me your contract for Final Project

March 10th (Class 7)

Engaging students in reading: This week I’d like for us to focus on how we engage students in reading and making meaning from text. In addition to viewing/reading the sites below, I'd like to collect any other resources you use to promote reading skills and engagement in the reading process - please send me your top 2-3 sites/projects that you feel promote 21st century literacy in your students -I'll compile a list and share with the class.  I am especially interested in any we haven't touched on in class.

Read: Are the viewpoints expressed in the articles below compatible? How?

Technology Integration Ideas

Resources for you and your students
I am sure you have lots of ways to engage and extend the reading process, but hopefully there is something new for you in this list- please keep in mind I am asking you to share your best resources as well in your GoogleDoc for this week

For Future Meetings

  1. Read and post reflection in NING note - this is your last NING post!(due 3/17)
    1. Rewriting “Goldilocks” in the urban multicultural elementary school
    2. Theories and Practices of Multimodal Education: The Instructional Dynamics of Picture Books and Primary Classrooms
  2. By March 23 Please email me your contract for Final Project
  3. Lesson with new media (lesson and reflection by 4/1)

March 17th (Class 8)

Hello! Hope you are all doing well - it is really fun that I am starting to get out and see you in action with New Media - I look forward to working with the rest of you.  The big topic this week is how new media can help build your students understanding of the global world they live in, and practice collaboration.  Although not always neatly linked into literacy, the options are there to instill 21st century literacy skills.  So this week spend some time thinking about how you might take steps toward collaboration and global awareness with your students.  Also the list of resources that you all have suggested are at the bottom of today's work - make sure to check them out!

New Sites of the Week (just some fun ones)

The Global Classroom

International Stories

Read

Current Collaborative Projects

Connect to other teachers

Project Ideas

Building Acceptance and Tolerance

Suggested Sites for Literacy from this Class

 

For Future Meetings

  1. Read and NO reflection (due 3/24)
    1. Chapter 3: Reshowing and Retelling Stories
  2. By March 23 Please email me your contract for Final Project
  3. Lesson with new media (lesson and reflection by 4/1)

March 24th (4-7 at UMF) Class 9

You might use

For Future Meetings

  1. Final Project Work
  2. Course Feedback Sheet (open as word doc)
  3. Lesson with new media (lesson and reflection by 4/1)

March 31st (Class 10)

For Future Meetings

  1. Final Project Work
  2. Lesson with new media (lesson and reflection by 4/1)

April 7th (Class 11)

For Future Meetings

  1. Final Project Work

April 14th at UMF (Class 12)

Agenda

For Future Meetings

  1. Final Project Work

 

April 21st (No class Spring Break)

April 28th (Class 13)

For Future Meetings

  1. Final Project Work - prepare for poster presentation

May 5th LAST CLASS (4-7 at UMF) Class 14

 

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