After addressing technology, media literacies, and the common form of literacy in previous blogs it is time to put it all together. For the remainder of my blogs I intend to find technology that can be used in literacy instruction. However, before I share my tech and literacy resource for this blog, I would like to divulge the list of resources I will be pulling from to present the technology, Web 2.0 tools, and 21st Century learning ideas. Over the course of the winter and spring I have done research on different technology for education. I have recently transferred this research to a social bookmarking website called Diigo (www.diigo.com). Through Diigo I have been able to create a list of sites for technology resources that are thoroughly organized. There are thirty resources in all within the list. Each site link inside the list has three tags with a word inside the tag describing what the resource is about. If a person is looking for Web 2.0 tools all they have to do is click on the Web 2.0 tag and every resource in my list that has to do with Web 2.0 tools will be at the user’s fingertips. I also can add resources to my social bookmarking list at anytime building the list as my knowledge on technology topics expands. I honestly believe this is a truly fantastic way to share resources and research between professionals. For your convenience I have listed the link for my social bookmarking list below.
My tech and literacy resource for this week comes from the Discovery Education website on my social bookmarking list. Within this website there are an abundance of resources organized in categories for the potential user (i.e. administrator, teacher, parent, or student). For this blog I will venture into the student section, specifically the grade 6-8 English segment. Once a student is in this area a world of literacy resource opportunities are available to the student. Many of the resources focus on writing. The subcategories are broken down into three sections: writing, mechanics, and grammar. Depending on what area the student is struggling with would dictate where to guide the student for remediation. For the sake of this example I will choose mechanics, specifically colon and semicolon. Once a student clicks on the topic they are immediately take to an interactive video on the topic chosen. In this example it would be colons and semicolons. After the video (which can be watched as many times as necessary) a student should have a better understanding of the topic. There are many other topics and academic disciplines for a student to research to help them learn. With these potential resources in place this is just one example of technology helping students to cultivate their literacy knowledge.
Brad,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading through your list. I chose Diigo as my social bookmarking site too. I have enjoyed the ease of use to catalog all of my resources. As I looked through your list, I found many great resources. I especially find TED.com speaker Ken Robinson to very insightful. I discovered him during our very first assignment in this class. I have used his knowledge and creative views on education throughout this semester as valuable resource. He has a great outlook on education. I was very interested in the way your Discovery Education site was interactive for students. What a great resource to teach many strategies and skills. Lastly, your web resource “Cool Tools for Schools” was a creative site. It provided links to any tool a teacher or student would need in the 21st century classroom. I especially liked the links for presentation tools, research tools, and collaboration tools. All your resources would be beneficial to any educator.
Brad,
ReplyDeleteI have found several entries in your Diigo site that I definitely want to include in my social bookmarking site as well. I have noted ones that are specific to my Early Childhood background and will be adding them to my Delicious account. I also enjoyed exploring the link you provided from Discovery Education. Although I am familiar with this site...I have to admit that I had never really dove into to all the aspects of it before today when you referenced it in your blog post. There is a wealth of information and resources just in that site alone. Thanks for posting it this week to make me delve into something that provides such great information.