Literacy+Links

=**Literacy Exploration Stations**=



//**TE 402 Literacy Exploration Stations**//

 * Assistive Technology**

"Imagine going to work and not being able to do your job. Now imagine that you can't leave your job. Imagine having to do that every day. This is what life is like for children with learning disabilities." (Dr. David Urion, Director, Neurology and Learning Disabilities Program, Children's Hospital, Boston)


 *  LOOK: What literacies are involved? **

Misunderstood Minds http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/attention.html

Webaim Simulations http://www.webaim.org/simulations/

**PLAY: Why might this matter to students?**

Explore the assistive technologies at this station and on the CAST website http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/tools/

**LEARN: How does it work?**

Learning Disabilities & Assistive Technologies http://www.gatfl.org/ldguide/default.htm


 * Audio/Podcasting**

//"Is listening literacy? As a blind person, my answer is a resounding yes! For me, much of each day is filled with auditory reading of Talking Books, email correspondence, news programs on a local radio reading service, and on-line databases at the library” (Dean Tuttle)//

LOOK: What literacies are involved?

Alexandra (Student who is learning ESL) http://www.tufsdbuilds.org/Audio/Bakala/Alexandra.mp3

Radio WillowWeb - Willowcast #24: Amazing Ants (1st Grade) http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/shows/Willowcast24.html

PLAY: Why might this matter to students?

Choose a picture book (with or without words) and use it as the basis for your own audio (mp3) file with Audacity,,then play around with layering the tracks! http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ OR

Garage Band OR http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/

Try recording from your cell phone directly to your blog with Gcast http://www.gcast.com/?nr=1&&s=341750759

LEARN: How does it work?

Scaffolding for Students

Radio WillowWeb: Guides to help make a great Willowcast http://learninginhand.com/podcasting/RadioWillowWeb.pdf

Teacher Tutorials: Audacity Quickstart Guide, Screencasts, & Tutorials http://msugrads.wikispaces.com/Audacity


 * Blogs**

“The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.” Edwin Schlossberg

LOOK: What literacies are involved?

Twenty-five Days to Make a Difference (10-year-old girl’s blog) http://twentyfivedays.wordpress.com/

Students in the Write: The Magical Menagerie at Morse - Mrs. Groven’s Class Shares Their Hearts of Writing (Early elementary) http://blog.tufsdbuilds.org/?page_id=70

Room 208 – Bob Sprankle (3rd/4th Grade Multiage Classroom) http://www.bobsprankle.com/blog/C1716715409/index.html

Primary 7v Class Blog http://carronshore.edublogs.org/

PLAY: Why might this matter to students?

Create your own blog with Blogger OR http://www.blogger.com

Edublogs OR http://www.edublogs.org

Tumblr http://www.tumblr.com/

LEARN: How does it work?

Scaffolding for Students

Blogging: It’s Elementary! http://www.webquest.org/questgarden/lessons/34308-060831081120/

Welcome to Your PBWiki on Blogging http://concepts.pbwiki.com/


 * Comics**

“Visual genres and mediums now dominate communication; photographs, television, film, video, the internet, cartoons, posters, t-shirts, comics, multi media presentations and computer simulations. Therefore, ‘increasingly, an argument can be mounted that a literate person in contemporary western cultures is, first and foremost, someone who is able to recognise, read, analyse and deploy a variety of visual genres and mediums" (Schirato & Yell 1996, p. 209)

LOOK: What literacies are involved?

Marengo Story Comics (2nd Grade) http://homepage.mac.com/adam_bezark/comiclife/

HowToons http://www.instructables.com/group/howtoons/

Andy Bobyarchick’s Field Trip Comics http://homepage.mac.com/geopick/Sites/comiclife/

Zam’s Quest Comic Book Maker http://www.zamsquest.com/comic_maker.php?id=9

PLAY: Why might this matter to students?

Create your own comic strip with Pikistrips (a.k.a. Comeeko) http://www.comeeko.com/

OR try one of the sites listed under Comic Creation Sites here: http://mlc2006.wikispaces.com/Comics+and+Graphic+Novels

LEARN: How does it work?

Comic Tutorial Dropdown http://www.between-worlds.com/tutorials/comic_tutorial_dropdown.shtml


 * Digital Storytelling**

“Literacy has always been about using the most powerful cultural tools available to make and communicate meaning. At the present, those tools happen to be multimedia tools that use video, graphics, sound, and traditional text in a hypermedia format. If we or our students don't know how to critically use these tools to their fullest meaning-constructive potential, then we—and they—are illiterate” (Jeff Wilhelm, 2000, p. 7)

LOOK: What literacies are involved?

Digital Storytelling Presented by Our Students in the Scott County Schools http://www.dtc.scott.k12.ky.us/technology/digitalstorytelling/studentstories.html

PLAY: Why might this matter to students?

Create your own digital story with Bubbleply http://www.bubbleply.com/default.aspx

You can also use one of the tools listed at the bottom of this page: http://msugrads.wikispaces.com/Digital+Storytelling

LEARN: How does it work?

Scaffolding for Students

Blank Storyboard http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/images/storyboard.pdf

Cookbook (Example Storyboard) http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/tutorialstory.html

Teacher Tutorials

Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/banaszewski.htm


 * Graphic Organizers**

“Hyperreading is not only finding and reading what is on the Internet, but learning to make one's own connections in what one finds there, to question the connections (the 'links' that others provide, and to interrogate the silences or absences of the Internet: what is not there (or who is not there)." (Nicholas Burbules & Thomas Callister, 2000, p. 33)

LOOK: What literacies are involved?

Scaffolds & Organizers http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/scaffolds.html

PLAY: Why might this matter to students?

Create your own graphic organizer with Gliffy http://www.gliffy.com/

OR explore these graphic oganizers http://del.icio.us/chericem/GraphicOrganizers

LEARN: How does it work?

Visual Literacy.org http://www.visual-literacy.org/pages/documents.htm