My latest Diigo links (weekly)

• Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century [from PBS]

  "Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century explores how exceptional instructors are increasingly using digital media and interactive practices to ignite their students’ curiosity and ingenuity, help them become civically engaged, allow them to collaborate with peers worldwide, and empower them to direct their own learning."

  tags: 21st_century_literacy new_literacies multiliteracies video

• Literacy in Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects: Scaffolding Levels of Text Complexity (With Discipline-based Texts) [from Literacy in Learning Exchange]

  "This one-hour on demand web seminar describes strategies piloted among teams of interdisciplinary teachers, grades 6-12, who implemented reading strategies for complex texts, including primary sources, and facilitated students in conducting research to answer a question, citing evidence to make their claims."

  tags: contentLiteracy 3210 disciplinaryLiteracy STEM socialstudies textComplexity

• Piccsy

  Customizable photo streams

  tags: photography art graphics

• ReciteThis

  Select an inspirational quote or supply your own, and this meme generator styles it with fancy typography and an appropriate background. You can share through social media or download to your desktop.

  tags: memes quotes

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My latest Diigo links (weekly)

• Graphic Novels for the Digital Classroom

  tags: graphicNovels

• 5 Digital Storytelling iPad Apps for Elementary [from iPad Apps for School]

  "Reading stories, watching videos, and listening to podcasts is one way to learn with an iPad. But a more fun way to learn with an iPad is to create things. Here are five iPad apps that elementary school students can use to create stories."

  tags: digitalstorytelling

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• Global Conversations in Literacy Research [YouTube channel]

  "Global Conversations in Literacy Research (GCLR) is a series of interactive open access web seminars that feature cutting-edge literacy research conducted by international literacy researchers. GCLR is grounded in critical literacy, and sees as its mission to use networked technologies to connect global audiences in a virtual space that allows participants to exchange ideas on literacy theory, research, and practice. Each year, GCLR features scholars whose work addresses a range of literacy areas of interest to international audiences. GCLR is sponsored, in part, by the National Writing Project."

  tags: literacy videos

• Choices Reading Lists [from IRA)

  "Each year, thousands of children, young adults, teachers, and librarians around the United States select their favorite recently published books for the “Choices” reading lists. These lists are used in classrooms, libraries, and homes to help young readers find books they will enjoy. The annotated and reading lists of titles and authors of Choices selections for the current year are made available in April, just before the Association's annual conference and are available for free download. Check individual Choices programs below for details."

  tags: textSets ya literature

• YALSA's Book Awards & Booklists

  tags: textSets

• MERLOT

  "MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is a free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community."

  tags: multimedia blendedLearning flippedLearning

• Guides from the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University

  tags: instruction pedagogy strategies reflection assessment

• Team-based learning [from Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt]

  tags: TBL

• Educational Leadership:Reading: The Core Skill:Every Child, Every Day

  Allington and Gabriel describe six basic elements of instruction that every child should experience every day: "Each of these elements can be implemented in any district and any school, with any curriculum or set of materials, and without additional funds."

• 21st Century Literacies [fron Reading Rockets]

  "Because success with technology depends largely upon critical thinking and reflection, teachers with relatively little technological skill can provide useful instruction. But schools must support these teachers by providing professional development and up-to-date technology for use in classrooms." This is the NCTE 2007 policy brief on 21st Century literacies summarized in the form of a blog post.

  tags: 21st_century_literacy teachers teacherlearner

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• Writing and Thinking Through the Student User's Guide Assignment [from Edutopia]

• Teach with Your iPhone: Apps to Use in the Classroom [from Edutopia]

  tags: apps iPhone instructionalTechnology

• Vocabulary Voyage: How a Spontaneous Lesson Became a Favorite Strategy [from Reading Today Online]

  A good vocabulary lesson and, more importantly, a good lesson about teaching

  tags: vocabulary wordStudy instruction

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My latest Diigo links (weekly)

• Using Mentor Texts to Motivate and Support Student Writers [from Edutopia]

  tags: writing mentorTexts 3210 USTU3400

• What Will You Do Differently? [from Reading Today Online]

  A collection of strategies, practices, and digital tools for getting to know students and for promoting school-to-home communication from Day 1 of the new school year

  tags: technology backToSchool assessment

• Technology Fuels Engaged Summer Reading [from Reading Today Online]

  "The Cyber Cafe Summer Reading Program has grown over the years with varying themes but consistent in digital reading and discussion, collaborative response projects, and communicating with authors and others online. Its success relies on great books, the collaboration of a public middle school, library, and university and the integrated use of multiple technologies."

  tags: summerReading 3210 technology

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