Beyond PowerPoint Technology Integration for the Language Arts Classroom

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Beyond PowerPoint Technology Integration for
the Language Arts Classroom

• Larry Bedenbaugh
• Books at the Beach
• March, 2005

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Session Description

• Come explore how technology can be integrated
  throughout your curriculum.
• Some of the best practices we will examine
  include
• Webquests
• Online book clubs
• Online chat rooms
• Digital presentations
• Blogs
• More as time permits
• Plus leave with a wealth of online resources for
  you and your students.

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IRA Position Statement

• The Internet and other forms of information and
  communication technology (ICT) are redefining the
  nature of literacy. To become fully literate in
  todays world, students must become proficient in
  the new literacies of ICT. Therefore, literacy
  educators have a responsibility to integrate
  these technologies into their literacy curricula.

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Best Practices

• Brevard County Public Schools Best Practices in
  Language Arts
• Teachers assign a variety of research projects
  that access a variety of media. Students use many
  forms of media to research, report, analyze and
  evaluate topics/ideas.
• http//secondarypgms.brevard.k12.fl.us/bestlangart
  s.pdf

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WebQuests Bernie Dodge Tom March

• A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in
  which most or all of the information used by
  learners is drawn from the Web.
• WebQuests are designed to use learners' time
  well, to focus on using information rather than
  looking for it, and to support learners' thinking
  at the levels of analysis, synthesis and
  evaluation.

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WebQuestsLevels

• Short Term WebQuest
• Is designed to be completed in one to three class
  periods.
• Has an instructional goal of knowledge
  acquisition and integration.
• At the end of a short term WebQuest, a learner
  will have grappled with a significant amount of
  new information and made sense of it.

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WebQuestsCritical Attributes

• Short Term WebQuest
• An introduction that sets the stage and provides
  some background information.
• A task that is doable and interesting.
• A set of information sources needed to complete
  the task.

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WebQuestsLevels

• Longer Term WebQuest
• Typically take between one week and a month to
  complete
• Has an instructional goal of extending and
  refining knowledge.
• After completing a longer term WebQuest, a
  learner would have analyzed a body of knowledge
  deeply, transformed it in some way, and
  demonstrated an understanding of the material by
  creating something that others can respond to,
  on-line or off-.

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WebQuestsCritical Attributes

• Longer Term WebQuest
• A description of the process the learners should
  go through in accomplishing the task.
• Some guidance on how to organize the information
  acquired.
• A conclusion that brings closure to the quest,
  reminds the learners about what they've learned,
  and perhaps encourages them to extend the
  experience into other domains.

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WebQuests Bernie Dodge Tom March
http//webquest.org/
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WebQuests

• The Diary of Anne Frank
• http//library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312521/webquest.h
  tml

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WebQuests

• Author Cards
• http//www.west-bend.k12.wi.us/webquest/ms/author/
  Default.htm

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WebQuests

• SLATE
• http//landmark-project.com/slate.php3

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WebQuests

• Filamentality
• http//www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

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WebQuestsFilamentality

• A Filamentality WebQuest
• Presents students with a challenging task,
  scenario, or problem to solve.
• All students begin by learning some common
  background knowledge, then they divide into
  groups.
• In the groups each student or pair of students
  have a particular role, task, or perspective to
  master. They effectively become experts on one
  aspect of a topic.
• When the roles come together, students must
  synthesize their learning by completing a
  summarizing act.

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Online Book Clubs

• Discussion Board Format
• Informal
• Motivating
• Choice
• what they read
• when they read
• where they read
• how they read
• with whom they read
• Security

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Online Book Clubs

• Literary Book Club
• http//teach.fcps.net/lbc/default.asp

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Online Book Clubs

• Spaghetti Book Club
• http//www.spaghettibookclub.com/

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Online Book Clubs

• Book BackChat
• http//english.unitecnology.ac.nz/bookchat/home.ph
  p

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Online Book Clubs

• Book Raps
• http//rite.ed.qut.edu.au/old_oz-teachernet/projec
  ts/book-rap/

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Online Book Clubs

• Book Nuts Reading Club
• http//www.booknutsreadingclub.com/

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Online Book Clubs

• Educational Publishers
• Scholastic
• Authors and Books
• Flashlight Readers
• Houghton Mifflin
• Reading Scene

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Online Chat Rooms

• Can be used facilitate class discussions
• Real-time conversation
• Participants converse with each other by typing
  messages that appear on other users' screens
• Risk of banal chatter
• Security/Privacy issues
• BlackBoard

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Online Chat Rooms

• A Tale of Two Cities
• Two chat rooms ( England and France)
• Students Internet screen names based on the
  characters in the story
• Students responded to posed discussion questions
  about theme and plot lines
• Students received points for good contributions,
  but lost points for stupid talk

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Online Chat Rooms

• Great Gatsby
• Similar approach
• In the interest of encouraging participation was
  more lenient in allowing improper grammar and
  lower case letters
• Collaborative High/Elementary Project
• HS students became experts on various
  historical figures and assumed identity in chat
  room
• Elementary students posed questions to the
  historical figure

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Chat Rooms

• AuthorChats
• http//www.authorchats.com/

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Chat Rooms

• Scholastic Authors Book http//www2.scholastic.
  com/teachers/authorsandbooks/authorstudies/authors
  tudies.jhtml

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Digital Presentations

• Book Talks
• Video Book Trailers
• PowerPoint Poems

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Digital Presentations

• Book Talk using iMovie
• http//www.users.ties.k12.mn.us/wbierden/booktalk
  .htm

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Digital Presentations

• Digital Booktalks
• http//digitalbooktalk.ucf.edu/

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Digital Presentations

• Short Story Commercials
• http//education.apple.com/education/ilife/project
  _template.php?project_id93subject_id2

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Digital Presentations

• Book Ads
• http//education.apple.com/education/ilife/project
  _template.php?project_id22subject_id2

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Digital Presentations

• Digital Storytelling
• http//www.scott.k12.ky.us/technology/digitalstory
  telling/ds.html

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Digital Presentations

• PowerPoint Poemshttp//www.bmrsd.net/jfk/injfk/JF
  KWeb/JFKNews/PowerPoints/Lavergne_Spring_files/fra
  me.htm

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Blogs

• Short for Weblog a journal that is available on
  the web.
• Originally blogs started as online diaries
  (commentaries, personal thoughts, and essays) and
  were link driven
• Identified with
• instant publishing of text or graphics to the Web
  without sophisticated technical knowledge
• ways for people to provide comments or feedback
  to each blog post
• the opportunity to archive past blog posts by
  date, and
• hyperlinks to other bloggers

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Blogs

• Fred Roemers 5th Grade Site
• Tampa, FL
• http//www.pb5th.com/index.shtml

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Blogs

• Hunterdon Central Regional High School
• Fleming, NJ
• http//weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/beesbook/

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Blogs

• David Warlick - BlogMeister
• http//landmark-project.com/blogmeister/

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Blogs

• November Learning
• http//www.novemberlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid
  39

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Blogs

• Blogger
• http//www.blogger.com/

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Blogs

• Educational Bloggers Network
  http//www.ebn.weblogger.com/
• Weblogg-ed http//www.weblogg-ed.com/
• SchoolBlogs http//www.schoolblogs.com/storie
  s/storyReader265
• eduBLOGnews http//www.edublognews.com/
• Blogs in Education http//awd.cl.uh.edu/blog/
• Hipteacher http//hipteacher.typepad.com/school
  blog/