Beyond PowerPoint: Technology Integration for the Language Arts Classroom

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Beyond PowerPoint Technology Integration for the
Language Arts Classroom

• Larry Bedenbaugh
• FETC 2006

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IRA Position Statement on Integrating Literacy
and Technology in the Curriculum

• 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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NCTE 2005 Guideline

• Multi-Modal Literacies
• The techniques of acquiring, organizing,
  evaluating, and creatively using multimodal
  information should become an increasingly
  important component of the English/Language Arts
  classroom.

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NCTE 2003 Position Statement

• Resolution on Composing with
• Nonprint Media
• Encourage integrating multimedia composition in
  English Language Arts curriculum

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Florida Legislative Rule 6A-5.065

• The Educator Accomplished Practices of the
  Florida State Board of Education
• 12) Accomplished Practice Twelve - Technology.
• (a) Accomplished level. The accomplished teacher
  uses appropriate technology in teaching and
  learning processes.

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Consider These Quotes

• We need to prepare our children for a future
  that we cant even describe.
• David Warlick
• Technology Consultant Author

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Consider These Quotes

• Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who
  can't read he will be the man who has not
  learned how to learn.
• Herbert GerjuoyPsycholgist

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Consider These Quotes

• Whatever made you successful in the past, will
  not in the future.
• Lew Platt
• Former CEO, HP

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Consider These Quotes

• We need to prepare students for their future,
  not our past.

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Consider These Quotes

• We need to prepare students for their future,
  not their present.

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Consider These Quotes

• Same story, same tool
• Same story, different tool
• Different story, different tool
• Bernajean Porter
• Technology Planner Author

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Best Practices

• Digital Presentations
• Project-based Learning
• Online Book Clubs
• Online Chat Rooms
• Blogs

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Digital Presentations

• Multimedia Authors
• Video Book Trailers
• Digital Storytelling

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Digital Presentations

• Multimedia Authors
• Create a presentation of student original work
  that includes some combination of music, student
  artwork, graphical interpretation, or student
  reading

In The Ocean
September 11
Annoying Sister
Frank McCourt In America
100 Babies and the Diaper Changing Machine
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Digital Presentations

• Video Book Trailers
• Historical Fiction
• Monster
• Tell Tale Heart

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Digital Presentations

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

Personal Hero - Aunt Angie
Personal Hero Step Dad
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Digital Presentations

• Digital Documentaries
• http//www.atschool.org/digidocs/

Tragedy in a Bronx School Yard
The Consequences of Gangs
Think
What's Hot Shouldn't Take All You Got
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Digital Presentations

• DigiTales
• http//www.digitales.us/index.php

A Trip To The Moon
Grass Born To Be Stepped On
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Digital Presentations

• Digital Directors Guild
• http//www.ddguild.org

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Digital Presentations

• Apple iLife
• http//www.apple.com/education/ilife/

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Digital Presentations

• Microsoft Education
• http//www.microsoft.com/Education/default.mspx

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Digital Presentations

• Scott Firenzas Digital Storytelling Resource
  Page
• http//www.lubbockisd.org/sfirenza/

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Digital Presentations

• UH - Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
  Resource Page
• http//www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/default
  .htm

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Project-based Learning Description

• Project-based learning asks students to work in
  groups to solve a challenging problem.
• Project-based learning asks students to
  investigate issues and topics addressing
  real-world problems while integrating subjects
  across the curriculum.

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Project-based Learning Description

• Students decide how to approach the problem and
  what activities to pursue.
• Students gather information from a variety of
  sources and synthesize, analyze, and derive
  knowledge from it.

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Project-based Learning Description

• At the end, students demonstrate their newly
  acquired knowledge and are judged by how much
  they have learned and how well they communicate
  it.
• Throughout the process, the teachers role is to
  guide and advise, rather than direct and manage,
  student work.

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Project-based Learning Characteristics

• Curricular content
• Multimedia
• Student direction
• Collaboration
• Real world connection
• Extended time frame
• Alternative assessment

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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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WebQuests - Levels

• 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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WebQuests - Critical 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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WebQuests - Levels

• Longer Term WebQuest
• Typically take between one week and a month to
  complete
• Has an instructional goal of extending and
  refining knowledge.

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WebQuests - Levels

• Longer Term WebQuest
• 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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WebQuests - Critical 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

• WebQuests
• http//webquest.org

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Poetry WebQuest PowerPoint

• http//www.yorkville.k12.il.us/webquests/webqmurra
  y/

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Project-Based Learning

• OZ Projects
• http//www.ozprojects.edna.edu.au/sibling/home

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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

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

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Online Book Clubs

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

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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/WebCT

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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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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

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Blogs

• 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
• http//www.pb5th.com/

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Blogs

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

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Blogs

• East Side Bloggers 2008
• http//blogs.writingproject.org/eastside2008/

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Blogs

• Anne Davis
• http//www.eschoolnews.com/eti/contributors/adavis
  .php
• http//anne.teachesme.com/
• http//itc.blogs.com/gh/

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Blogs

• Tim Lauer
• http//www.eschoolnews.com/eti/contributors/tlauer
  .php
• http//tim.lauer.name/
• http//lewiselementary.org/

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Blogs

• Will Richardson
• http//www.eschoolnews.com/eti/contributors/wricha
  rdson.php
• http//www.weblogg-ed.com/

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Blogs

• David Warlick
• http//davidwarlick.com/2cents/
• http//landmark-project.com/blogmeister/

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Freebie of the Day

• Amazon
• http//www.amazon.com/
• Search Within The Book
• Concordance
• Text Stats

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Freebie of the Day

• gnooks
• Literature Map
• http//www.gnooks.com/

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Contact Info

• Larry Bedenbaugh
• FLaRE Center
• UCF - Teaching Academy Suite 403
• 4000 Central Florida Blvd
• Orlando, FL 32816-1250
• lbedenba_at_mail.firn.edu
• http//flare.ucf.edu