Konnected
Kids:
Literacy Connections Through Technology
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Site Created
1/30/07
Presenters
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Kelly Beuthin
Caryl Doetsch
Tracy Murdach
Glenview
School District 34
Primary K-2
Technology Facilitators
Contact Information
February 27, 2007
Site created for professional
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Digital Students - Who are they and
how they learn
| Blogging -
A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in
journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order |
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blogging
links |How
to start a blog |
Student Blog Examples:
Sharing Cultures, Sharing Knowledge | Thoughts from 3A
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• post short current events articles to invite students thoughts,
reactions, and possible solutions
• post photos and ask students to create captions
• book discussions in the form of an online book club
• curriculum web sites and have them read and make responses
• communicate with another classroom
• react to teacher entries about what students are learning
• students make connections to how learning is relevant to them
• invite one student a day to post a summary of and their reflections
on the day's learning
• observe the growth of plants or animals or keep records of
science experiments
• record student kindnesses or good deeds
• let student write short reviews of books they are enjoying
reading
• post a daily/weekly summary of the curriculum taught
• homework assignments
• a view of the class for parents
• list relevant class information
• provide a day-by-day description of a specific teaching unit
• time out of the classroom day to share with family and friends
• thoughts from the students in their classroom on any number
of ideas
• how-to's on using specific technology programs in the curriculum
• create an ongoing portfolio of samples of student writing
• students express their opinions on topics you are studying
in class
• ask parents to respond to what is being posted on the blog
over the weekends
For more ideas....Blogs
of Note, Blog Jargon, Blogging in Education - Site
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iLife Apple
Education - Quick
Tour
flickr  |
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What flickr hopes to do..."We want to help people make their
photos available to the people who matter to them. Flickr is
the WD-40 that makes it easy to get photos from one person
to another in whatever way you want. We want to enable new
ways of organizing photos."
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flickr in the classroom
for literacy?
Organize
your photos to share with your students' families ; family
and friends could ask questions about the photos. Students
would need to verbalize and explain content. Parents could
fill out an at home assessment provided by the teacher of
student's language skills at various stages in the school
year.
Students
can access photos in your classroom flickr account on any
computer in the building or at home for writing assignemnts
| Examples: Field Trip Photos, Current Event Photo, Writing
a Caption to a Photo |
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del.i.cio.us 
-del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website -- the primary
use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which
allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer
and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you
can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which
is a much more flexible system than folders.
del.i.cio.us in the classroom
for literacy?
Teacher can save sites for student
access anywhere any time!
Students can post to del.i.cio.us classroom account.
Teacher can "assign" topics to research using educational web
site content searching and students would locate and save sites
that meet criteria to a del.i.cio.us page.
- Reading from a website
for meaning
- Critical thinking
skills
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