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RDG 579 Technology in Reading and 
Language Arts Instruction
Jamaican Cohort
Catherine Kurkjian, Ed.D.

COURSE OUTLINE

(SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITH APPROPRIATE NOTICE)  Summer 2009 JULY

SESSION 1

JULY 6 MONDAY

In-Class Agenda GROUP A- 1:15-3:15

GROUP B-

3:30-5:30

Introduction: Syllabus, Course Requirements, Work Groups, Blog Partners, Photos

Program Portfolio Template : Downloading, Inserting a photo, Organizing Documents, Linking documents, Saving Documents

 

Go over Cyberlesson

ONLINE LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

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Begin the What’s NEW in the New Literacies Cyberlesson

Preparation for Next Class

Complete  Cyberlesson

SESSION 2       

JULY 7 TUESDAY

In-Class Agenda


Visit Monk Help Desk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xmTTzCAALc&feature=related
Post a comment


 What is NEW in New Literacies?

ONLINE LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

 

Coiro, J. (2003, February). Reading comprehension on the Internet: Expanding our understanding of reading comprehension to encompass new literacies [Exploring Literacy on the Internet department]. The Reading Teacher, 56(6). Available: http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/rt/2-03_Column/index.html

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Preparation for Next Class

 Complete

SESSION 3

JULY 8 WEDNESDAY

In-Class Agenda


Reading Comprehension Online

ONLINE LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

 

Baildon , R., Baildon, M. (2008). Guiding Independence: Developing a Research Tool to Support Student Decision Making in Selecting Online Information Sources. Reading Teacher. Vol. 61, No. 8. 637-647.

Learn about evaluating websites at
http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/evaluate.html

 

With a partner select a website to evaluate using the checklist at http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/webcheck.html

Please copy and paste the checklist it into a word document and then fill it in.

 

Preparation for Next Class

  

SESSION 4

JULY 9 THURSDAY

In-Class Agenda

 Evaluating Websites In-Class WebQuest

http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/evalwebstu.html

ONLINE LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

Partner Blog: Website Evaluation

Visit the Evaluating Websites at http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/evaluate.html

Then select a website to evaluate together. Discuss this website according to

bullet Authority and Accuracy
bullet Purpose and Content
bullet Currency
bullet Design, Organization and Ease of Use
bullet Evaluating Web Sites: A Checklist  at http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/webcheck.html

Preparation for Next Class

  

ONLINE FRIDAY

JULY 10 FRIDAY

NO CLASS TAKE HOME EXAM

 
  1. Select a website and explain (by thinking aloud) how you will evaluate it with a critical eye to determine its quality. Now, find an example of website appropriate to a child and your curriculum and explain how you might teach students to evaluate it?
  2. Find two different examples on the Internet that invite children to engage in practices that may be unsafe. How might you teach your children to deal with these sites? What rational would give them for engaging in this safe behavior.
  3. How might you teach children to realize that not everything on the Internet is accurate? Find websites on the Internet to help you to get this point across.

Preparation for Next Class

Safety Do’s and Don’ts

http://www.cybercrime.gov/rules/rules.htm

Web Wise Kids

http://www.webwisekids.org/index.asp?page=about

Navigating the Internet with a critical eye
 http://pbskids.org/license/index.html

copyright quiz
 http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright_quiz.html

SESSION 5

JULY 13  MONDAY DUE: TAKE HOME

In-Class Agenda

Safety and Copyright Issues

LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

Partner Blog: Safety
Find two different examples on the Internet that invite children to engage in practices that may be unsafe. How might you teach your children to deal with these sites? What rational would give them for engaging in this safe behavior.

How might you teach children to realize that not everything on the Internet is accurate? Find websites on the Internet to help you to get this point across.

Preparation for Next Class

HENRY, L. A. (2006).SEARCHing for an answer:The critical role of new literacies while reading on the Internet..The Reading Teacher Vol. 59, No. 7 614-627.Searching on the Internet

SESSION 6

JULY 14 TUESDAY

In-Class Agenda

Searching and Internet Inquiry

Select a focus question from below:

How does an African elephant adapt to its environment?
How are the life of a wild dog different and the same as a wolf’s life?
How could someone who was deaf like Beethoven compose such beautiful music?

Can you search for the information efficiently explaining your thinking of the process? Can you use different strategies to get the same information and explain the alternative ways of doing this?

LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

Partner Blog: SEARCHING

Find a focus question on a topic you might give to a student to research.

Model (by thinking aloud) how you would teach them to go about finding this information on the Internet. Use specific Internet sites in your discussion to teach these strategies.

Preparation for Next Class

Lisa Zawilinski, Z.(2009). HOT Blogging: A Framework for Blogging to Promote Higher Order Thinking. The Reading Teacher Vol. 62, No. 8. 650-661.

SESSION 7 

 JULY 15 WEDNESDAY

In-Class Agenda

 

 

  LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

Partner Blog: BLOGGING ON BLOGS

Please discuss blogs and blogging in relation to HOT Blogging article.

Preparation for Next Class

Create your own bookmarking tool at:http://ikeepbookmarks.com/

LEIGHANN S. Forbes, L. S. (2004).Using Web-based bookmarks

in K–8 settings: Linking the Internet to instruction. The Reading Teacher .Vol. 58, No. 2. 148-153.

And

Rebecca S. Anderson, R. S. &  Balajthy, E (2007). Exploring a Literacy Website That Works: ReadWriteThink.org. The Reading Teacher 61(1), pp. 94–96.

SESSION 8

JULY 16 THURSDAY

In-Class Agenda

Create your own bookmarking tool at:http://ikeepbookmarks.com/

WebQuests, Internet Projects and Cyberlessons

LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

 

Visit the Following Internet Projects Websites

A Teacher’s Guide to International Collaboration on

the Internet

www.ed.gov/teachers/how/tech/international/index

.html

Internet Project Registry Sites

www.ed.gov/teachers/how/tech/international/guide

_pg2.html

An Internet Collaboration Model: Speaking From

Experience

www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow7/mar99/collaboration.pdf

Collaborating in the Global Classroom

nschubert.home.mchsi.com/education/index.html

Partner Blog: INTERNET PROJECTS Can you find an Internet Project that would be integral to your curriculum, feasible, and of value for you to use? (Assume that you have at least one computer for student use that is connected to the Internet.) Discuss a project that might work in your setting and your curriculum. What might you  have to do to implement it effectively. What would be the challenges of the project?

Preparation for Next Class

 Anne Davis, A. & McGrail, E. (2009) “Proof-Revising” With

Podcasting: Keeping Readers in Mind as Students Liste To and Rethink Their Writing. The Reading Teacher Vol. 62, No. 6.522-529.

SESSION 9

JULY 17

In-Class Agenda

Podcasts for Storytelling

INDEPENDENT PROJECTS

LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

  

Preparation for Next Class

  

SESSION 10

JULY 20 MONDAY

In-Class Agenda

  

LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

  

Preparation for Next Class

  

SESSION 11

JULY 21 TUESDAY

In-Class Agenda

  

LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

  

Preparation for Next Class

  

 SESSION 12     

JULY 22 WEDNESDAY

 In-Class Agenda

  

LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

  

Preparation for Next Class

  

SESSION 13

JULY 23 THURSDAY

In-Class Agenda

  

LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

  

Preparation for Next Class

  

SESSION 14

JULY 27 MONDAY

In-Class Agenda

  

LAB  TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

  

Preparation for Next Class

 

SESSION 15

JULY 28 TUESDAY

 

 In-Class Agenda

  

LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

Begin Course Portfolio Reflection

Preparation for Next Class

 

SESSION 16

 

July 29 Wednesday  DUE: Final Projects

In-Class Agenda

   Project Presentations

LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

Complete Portfolio Reflections

 

 

SESSION 17

JULY 30 THURSDAY DUE: Portfolio Reflections

In-Class Agenda

Project Presentations

LAB TIME

Group B

1:15-3:15

Group A 3:30 - 5:30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 1

January 24
In-Class Agenda Introduction: Syllabus, Course Requirements, Work Groups (Blog and Webquest Activity) Teaching Competencies

Visit Monk Help Desk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xmTTzCAALc&feature=related
Post a comment

Create your own bookmarking tool at:http://ikeepbookmarks.com/

NEW LITERACIES SURVEY
http://www.reading.ccsu.edu/Kurkjian/carrsurvey5.htm
Preparation for Next Class  Chapter 1: What are the new literacies for new times?
Chapter 4: section on Weblogs  170-172
What are Weblogs? Visit Chapter 4 on the companion website and visit Blog sites at:
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~djleu/fourth.html
How are educators integrating weblogs into the classroom?
 
SESSION 2

January 31
In-Class Agenda Weblog possibilities

View and respond to my Blog
http://kurkjian.blogspot.com/

Create your own blog.
http://www.blogger.com/start

What is new in the New Literacies?

Preparation for Next Class
Check out intriguing sites for Chapter 1
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~djleu/fourth.html
Read article by Julie Coiro at this site
http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/rt/2-03_Column/

Blog entries and responses
SESSION 3

February 7
In-Class Agenda New Literacies Perspective & Reading Comprehension on the Internet
Preparation for Next Class Chapter 2
Visit companion website and find some intriguing and useful sites that you can use in your teaching situation.
SESSION 4 February 14
In-Class Agenda Navigating the Internet with a critical eye
http://pbskids.org/license/index.html

copyright quiz
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright_quiz.html

Analyzing and Evaluating Websites Activity
Preparation for Next Class

 Drawing on information in Chapter 2, please write a written response to the questions below.

  1. Select a website and explain (by thinking aloud) how you will evaluate it with a critical eye to determine its quality. Now, find an example of website appropriate to a child and your curriculum and explain how you might teach students to evaluate it?

  2. Find two different examples on the Internet that invite children to engage in practices that may be unsafe. How might you teach your children to deal with these sites? What rational would give them for engaging in this safe behavior.

  3. How might you teach children to realize that not everything on the Internet is accurate? Find websites on the Internet to help you to get this point across.

 
SESSION 5 February 21 DUE: Questions 1,2 & 3
In-Class Agenda Navigating the Internet with a critical eye share
 
Preparation for Next Class Chapter 3 :Internet Workshop, Internet Project, Internet Inquiry Effective Instructional Models/ Webquests
 
SESSION  6 February 28
In-Class Agenda Effective Instructional Models: Internet Workshop, Project, Inquiry and WebQuest
Preparation for Next Class 4.Drawing on information in Chapter 3 write a response to the following questions. Be prepared to share in class.

Can you find an Internet Project that would be integral to your curriculum, feasible, and of value for you to use? (Assume that you have at least one computer for student use that is connected to the Internet.)

bullet Explain how it would support your curriculum.
bullet How it might play out in your setting
bullet Describe what you might have to do to implement it effectively
bullet The learning benefits for students
bullet The challenges of the project

5. Select a focus question from below:

  1. How does an African elephant adapt to its environment?
  2. How are the life of a wild dog different and the same as a wolf’s life?
  3. How could someone who was deaf like Beethoven compose such beautiful music?

Search for the information efficiently explaining your thinking of the process.  Can you use different strategies to get the same information and explain the alternative ways of doing this?

Now generate a focus question on a topic you might give to a student to research.

Model (by thinking aloud) how you would teach them to go about finding this information on the Internet. Use specific Internet sites to teach these strategies.

SESSION 7  March 6 DUE: Questions 4 & 5
In-Class Agenda

Internet Inquiry

Preparation for Next Class
Chapter 5: New Literacies and English and the Language Arts
SESSION 8 March 13  
In-Class Agenda New Literacies and English and the Language Arts
Preparation for Next Class Groups will read one of the following chapters-7,8,9,10 or 11. To be determined in class (for March 27th class). Each person (0r group) will read designated chapter and prepare a  Scavenger  Hunt for classmates. Use the Scavenger Hunt Template and websites from the companion website to highlight some key components and interesting ideas from the chapter.

What is a Scavenger Hunt?  Briefly, the teacher selects a unit or topic that the class is studying and researches web sites that are related to the topic.  The teacher then creates a list of questions from the site/sites.  Students use the hyper links or URL address provided by the teacher to reach the site/sites and answer the questions. (http://peoria.k12.il.us/shwhite/ScavengerHunts.html)

SESSION 9 March 27  DUE: Scavenger Hunt on selected chapter
In-Class Agenda Scavenger Hunts
Preparation for Next Class Chapter 12
SESSION 10 April 3
In-Class Agenda With a partner do Homepagewebquest
Preparation for Next Class Projects
SESSION 11   April 10
 In-Class Agenda Projects
Preparation for Next Class Projects
SESSION 12 April 17
In-Class AgendaProjects
Preparation for Next Class Projects
 SESSION 13 April 24
In-Class Agenda Projects
SESSION 14 May 1 (No Class)
In-Class Agenda Projects
SESSION 15 May 8 DUE: Technological Instructional Model Project#1 and Portfolio Reflection,
In-Class Agenda Project Completion
Preparation for Next Class Project Completion
SESSION 16 May 15 DUE: Project #2
In-Class Agenda Project Share and Wrap Up

   

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  COURSE OUTLINE ASSIGNMENTS   NCTE/IRA STANDARDS
&
IRA Teaching Competencies (Revised)
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ISTE Technology Standards 		OBJECTIVES ALIGNED WITH STANDARDS AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK