Online Learning Resources

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Online Learning Resources

• The Sarasota Learning Portal
• And
• Other Great Online Literacy Resources

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Using Technology to Support Literacy Instruction
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Literacy

• Media
• Math
• Environmental
• Computer
• First Language Learners
• Second Language Learners
• Music
• Information

• Views
• Academic
• Cultural
• Functional
• Personal
• Transactional
• Emergent

Jill Kerper MoraSan Diego State University
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Literacy
To be fully literate is to have the disposition
to engage appropriately with texts of different
types in order to empower action, feelings, and
thinking in the context of purposeful social
activity. Dr. Jill Mora, San Diego State (Wells,
1990)
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Youre literacy- focused! You encourage . . .

• Acquisition
• Understanding
• Appreciation
• Development
• Integration

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As children talk together, share their writing,
or lean over to read another's words on the
screen, they use language to communicate.
Computers and other forms of technology support
literacy and encourage speaking, reading,
writing, and listening, through formal and
informal language opportunities.
How Can Technology Help Encourage Literacy in the
Classroom?
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Technology can

• Provide children with ways to express themselves
• Offer support for young learners
• Encourage reading and writing

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Resources for Teachers
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Consider

• Time to find the resources
• Have the resources been reviewed by educators
• Are the resources correlated to state standards
• Are the resources grade level appropriate
• Are the links functional

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The Sarasota Communication Portal
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Learning Portal offers..

• Lesson plans and resources
• Assessment resources
• Access to reading and writing resources
• Much more!!!

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How do I locate the Learning Portal?
Sarasotacountyschools.net
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Other Great Online Literacy Resources
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Teacher Resources Mid-continent Research for
Education and Learning www.mcrel.org/standards-ben
chmarks
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Teacher Resources ProTeacher http//www.proteache
r.com/
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Teacher Resources NY Times-Learning
Network http//www.nytimes.com/learning/
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Teacher Resources The Gateway on Educational
Materials www.thegateway.org
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Teacher Resources Schools of California Online
Resources for Education Aligned to the
California Content Standards http//www.sdcoe.k12
.ca.us/SCORE/cla.html
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Teacher Resources http//campus.fortunecity.com/n
ewton/40/literacy.html
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Teacher Resources http//oswego.org/staff/cchambe
r/Literacy/index.cfm
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Teacher Resources http//www.surfnetkids.com/
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Teacher Resources http//school.discovery.com/sch
rockguide/edlearn.html
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Resources for The Arts

• Readers Theatre Aaron Shepard
• http//www.aaronshep.com/rt/index.html
• Defines readers theatre
• Scripts to reproduce
• Recommended books

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Resources for The Arts

• Fable Vision
• http//www.fablevision.com/index.htm
• Companion lessons and activities
• Online stories
• Clip art

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Online Museums
Resources for The Arts

• Web Museum, Paris
• http//www.ibiblio.org/wm/
• National Gallery of Art
• http//www.nga.gov/search/search.htm
• http//www.nga.gov/kids/

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Image Galleries
Resources for The Arts

• The Campaign to End Child Labor
• http//www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/nclc/index.htm
  l
• The Emergence of Advertising in America
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ncdhtml/eaahom
  e.html
• Like Television
• http//www.liketelevision.com/web1/classictv/tvcom
  m/

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Teacher Resources

• Learning to Read
• http//www.toread.com/
• improve the quality of reading instruction
  through the study of the reading process and
  teaching techniques.
• Serves as a clearinghouse for the dissemination
  of reading research.

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Teacher Resources

• Reading Online
• http//www.readingonline.org/
• Online journal of the International Reading
  Association
• Electronic Classroom
• sharing effective practices and new
  developments related to the intersection of
  literacy with technology

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Curriculum Integration and Project Based Learning
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Photo Essays

• A Photo Essay on the Great Depression
• http//www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/photoe
  ssay.htm
• Time for Kids.com
• http//www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/classtime/
  story/0,6772,99714,00.html
• Shattered-Photo Essay on 9/11
• http//www.time.com/time/photoessays/shattered/

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Resources for Students
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Student Resources http//kidpub.com/kidpub/
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Student Resources http//web2.airmail.net/def/
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Student Resources
http//www.gridclub.com/index.shtml
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Student Resources http//www.bbc.co.uk/education/
listenandwrite/home.htm
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Student Resources www.epals.com
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Student Resources http//www.ucalgary.ca/dkbrown
/index.html
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Student Resources http//hazel.forest.net/whootie
/default.html
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Student Resources www.kidnews.com
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Student Resources http//www.bconnex.net/kidworl
d/
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Student Resources http//www.yahooligans.com http
//sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ http//www.awe
somelibrary.org/
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Any Questions
Contact me Mike Horan 927-9000 Ext
31394 Tech4me2.com