Debbie's Tech Class

Refection on Literacy and Technology

Ending Thoughts on Literacy and Technology

Our world is ever changing. We have to keep up with the times. The possibilities are endless!

Actually, as I was thinking about literacy and technology, I realize that I was new literacy illiterate. I thought I know a lot about things that could be done on the computer and with the computer, but I quickly found out that I didn’t really know as much as I thought. I also began to think about people who can’t read. Do they really realize that they don’t know? Thinking about this it is much like people who live in third world countries. They don’t know what they are missing because they haven’t been exposed to it. My desire now is to keep up with the times and continue learning. I have a lot of practicing to do.

A recap of how what I am going to use from this class, with more practice.

Flip Video—I already use and will continue to use with more vigor.

Pageflakes—This will be my communication between myself, my students and parents. I hope to teach my students different aspects of writing a front page of a newspaper using Pageflakes.

Skype—I plan on finding other people who are on Skype and do exchanges.  More studying about this.

Digital Text—There are endless possibilities with this. I want to have camera’s and flip video’s available for students. Every nine weeks, I am going to allow my students to create a project for extra credit. This would be one avenue they could explore.

WebQuest—Using these in my class is going to be a must. I think this is a great tool to use to help with independent study. I like to be available for students to help, but still allow them the freedom to explore.

Social Bookmarking—This tool will be used to speed up my searches for projects. It will allow me to also help students with their searches.

Threaded Discussions—I can use this tool posing a questions of the week, a problem of the week. Students can spend all week discussing with each other, commenting on each other’s posts. This is a great writing tool.

Twitter—I like this now that I have gotten use to it. I was thinking about all the possibilities. One thing I thought of was for students to take pictures of their projects, events, or classroom happenings and post them using twitpic’s. Parents can then make comments. This is a great tool to bring parent closer in the loop as to what is happening in school.

Blogging—This is a must for me. I am going to set each student up with a blog that they can work with, and post their work.

Caption Tube—I have really thought about this one. Students can create movies, up load them to You Tube, many have accounts, and then create captions to them. How fun would it be for them to make a silent movie and let someone else create captions? Just though. Caption Tube can be used to read a book and add the captions to assist students with fluency. They can read the text and hear the story.

Movie Maker—I will continue to use this tool but I will also give my students the option of using PhotoStory.