Digital Resources for Literacy and Media Pedagogy
Blogs – Weblogs
Blogs can be used in the classroom as:
• Parent communications – as a weekly newsletter
• A response to common readings
• Individual reading response notebooks
• A portfolio of students’ writing
Wikis
• Can be used as a collaborative reader response log
• Creating “platform statements” – collaborative statements
• Project presentations – notetaking site
Podcasts
• Short audio or video clips that are published on the web
• itunes has organized may of these in their software interface
• can be used as a form or publication
• information dissemination
For creating podcasts
Screencasts
• Create “screencasts” that demonstrate computer procedures
• Contain audio – video – movement in one file
• Student assessment of video / visual data
Social Bookmarking Sites
• Allows people to share visited sites
• Organizes sites by interest – topic
• Highlight and comment on sites for others to review
• Search common sites
Reading Workshop 2.0 Tools