Technology

Links on how to use technology and available technology tools

Keith LIghtbody’s Technology in Education is “about helping everyday people use technology to do a quality job – quicker, easier, smarter!”
Chris Proctor’s annotated list of the links posted in the “Dancing the Technology Tango: English Teachers, Tech Coordinators, and Students Learning Together” NCTE/ISTE webinar in September 2010
Erin Szymczak’s Websites for teachers
WordPress free blogging space
Audacity – free audio software
web.com – free and easy website development

Websites courtesy of Barb Podkowka

Blabberize – add audio or text to images; for example, have a student recite a poem that is posted online with a photo of a llama speaking with your student’s voice!
Twiddla – a “no set-up web-based meeting ground” for collaboration
Prezi - “create astonishing presentations live and on the web” – way beyond PowerPoint
Weeb – free online radio
Meez – create and animate avatars – for free

Links with standards and definitions of 21st c literacies

Links for visual literacy, collaboration, & project-based learning

Collaboration rubric
Learning models
The power of real audiences
Understanding visible narratives
How to design wikis
Selecting fonts
These course demos are bait for expensive courses, but the freebies provide excellent background and materials for visual literacy.
K-8 visual literacy - a very hands on resource that is appopriate for seconday classes, too.
David Jakes’s visual literacy wiki offers many resources and suggestions
Talking about visual texts with students
Visual literacy and the clasroom
Visual organization
Story boards

Articles

Samples