Learners Publishing on the WebWisconsin State Reading Association Convention Background Information Teens and Technology Pew Internet and American Life Study Teens Creating Content Online Pew Internet and American Life Study International Reading Association position paper on Integrating Literacy and Technology Related IRA resources National Council of Teachers of English resources on multimodal literacies Popular teen sites could pose safety risk--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Dvorak's Blogging Primer on PCMag.com Sites where learners already publish (for better or for worse): MySpace.Com, Facebook, Quizilla, AOL AIM Profiles Ideas Sample hypertextual document: Oxford University's Isaac Rosenberg page Sample student-created web pages: MidLink Magazine (created with adult support) ThinkQuest (contest sponsored by Oracle Corporation): Follow links to "Visit the Library" and "Books and Literature" Will Richardson's Class weblog on The Secret Life of Bees, as discussed in Kajder and Bull's article in Learning and Leading with Technology Class E-zine
produced by students in Maya Eagleton's study, as described in her
articles in Reading Online Resources HTML Editing: Webmonkey for Kids Website creation and management tools:
Netscape
Composer Blogs: On public servers: weblogg-ed: The read/write Web
in the classroom (blog on educational blogs) WS_FTP Home for Education (client for transferring files, no longer free but still relatively cheap)
Microsoft Web Folders system installed by an IT manager on a server that
allows transfer of files from a local Windows computer to the server by use
of a drag-and-drop interface Bibliography Castro, E. (2003). HTML 5 for the World Wide Web. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press. Eagleton, M. (2001, August). Making text come to life on the computer: Toward an understanding of hypermedia literacy. Reading Online, 6(1). Available: http://www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?HREF=eagleton2/index.html Gruber, S. (Ed.) (2000) Weaving a virtual web: Practical approaches to new information technologies. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. Kajder, S. B. (2003). The tech-savvy English classroom. Portland, ME: Stenhouse. Krug, S. (2000). Don’t make me think: A common sense approach to web usability. Indianapolis, IN: New Riders. Kajder, S. B., & Bull, G. (2003). Scaffolding for struggling students: Reading and writing with blogs. Learning and leading with technology, 31(2), 32-35. Nielsen, J., & Tahir, M. (2002. Homepage usability: 50 websites deconstructed. Indianapolis, IN: New Riders. Mac Gregor, S. K., & Lou, Y. (2004). Web-based learning: How task scaffolding and web site design support knowledge acquisition. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 37, 161-175 Poling, C. (2005). Blog on: Building communication and collaboration for staff and students. Learning and Leading with Technology, 32(6), 12-15. Weblogs in education (2004). Technology focus online 2(1). Available: http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/downloads/tfo/weblogs.pdf Wood, J.M. (2004). Literacy online: New tools for struggling readers and writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. View the PowerPoint presentation of this session, saved as a Web page (click "slide show" in the lower right corner)
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