Assignment 5 Chapter 9 and Chapter 12

TECHNOLOGY IN ENGLISH

What does TPACK look like in English?

Remember TPACK integrates appropriate technology, in a content area, as part of a pedagogical approach.

A good illustration is writing and storytelling.

i.e. Creative Writing:
1. Use movie or voice thread to tell the story.
2. Extend the story with pictures.
3. Increase audience using digital spaces accessible to others not just one audience.

New technologies create a need for new literacies that students need to learn. An example would be for a teacher to provide appropriate electronic information sources for a research product. Another example would be how to use information stored in a variety of sources such as sound, print, still images, moving images and text.

Adapting Technologies for Special Needs

Electronic texts can be downloaded from the following sites:
Infomotions: http://www.infomotions.com
Bibliomania: http://www.bibliomania.com
Electronic Text Center:http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/finding_digital.html
Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/
The Plays of William Shakespeare: http://www.theplays.org

Once the texts are on your computer, the font and type size can be adjusted.
The text can be copied and pasted into talking word processors or text-to-speech programs.
Another consideration is to use a language translation tool for ESL learners.

Weblogs as journals.

Technology helps create a social learning environment. At times a student's knowledge can assist a teacher which gives the student enjoyment and pride in being their teacher's teacher.
A further review is on Table 9.2.

Technology enhances students' motivation to write but encourages them to assume a greater responsibility for their own learning..this is only one of the benefits of technology integration.

Students can use word processors to reflect and work through correct verb tenses, conjugations, and plurals. Often larger point fonts assist with an easy visual for the teacher.

Network Literacy Projects

Story starters creates an email chain for a person to start a story and forward it on for an addition.

Online literature circles with online mentors.

Digital Storytelling

Students produce a series of digital images to visually communcate meaning and provide a narration for the video. This aids visual learners. http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html

Video Projects

Script writing for the video project is an excellent way to engage students in writing.

The Writing Process

Concept Maps are available under Inspiration Software Inc.http://www.inspiration.com/popups/kidstutorial/index.com
A tool for revising and editting is to place a student's rough draft onto a screen and then model the thinking and decision making that goes into analyzing and revising the text.

Chapter 12 Social Studies Instruction

A social studies teacher is considered a jack of all trades and a master of more than one content. The term social studies more commonly describes k-8 classes than high school.

This curriculum interfaces with English because often history and/or current events relate to the literature being read.

Current Events: Personalized Newspapers (Filters for topics of interest.)
Crayon http://crayon.ed

Problems with reading sections of text use the Reading Bar to read the problem areas.http://www.readplease.com This can be installed on the web browser.

Internet accuracy is a problem. Students need to learn to questions accuracy and become "critical consumers of information."

Some sites that would assist accross the curriculum into English are as follows:

Geothentic (People, places, environments) http://geothentic.umn.edu

Virtual Field Trips that might help connect to literary eras are as follows:

Colonial House a tour of life in the Colonial era.http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/history/index.html

Digital Storytelling allows students to compare the past and the present.
http://www.teacherlink.org/content/social/digresources/

Geospatial Technologies can not be ignored when exploring literature.
Consider Google Earth, Virtual Earth 3D, and Arc Web Explorer.

Classroom Jeopardy is a great way to engage students in a quiz show game for the whole class.
http://www.edin.com