RWSL

= What's in your RWS&L Coaching Toolbox? =

Virginia Glatzer (PIIC RMC) and Stevie Kline (IU 1 PIIC Mentor)
Why? Standards and Research that Support the Use of Technology in Learning []#

Digital Blooms Resources referenced in this video: http://allmywikis.wikispaces.com/Digital+Visual+Blooms @http://www.digigogy.com/index.html @http://thinkonline.smarttutor.com/blooming-orange-blooms-taxonomy-helpful-verbs-poster/ @http://www.appitic.com/index.php/bloom-s/apps-for-bloom-s-taxonomy @http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy @http://static.pdesas.org/content/documents/Instruction_Depth_of_Knowledge.pdf

As a coach, the BDA often results in the need to make connections between literacy strategies (for reading, writing, speaking, and listening) and tools for learning. In this session, you’ll use digital learning tools and reflect upon how you would work with teachers to use them to foster student engagement, comprehension, and reflection.

It’s about the learning; these are the tools that can help. Our philosophy is:
 * Use what we have.
 * It shouldn’t start with the “tools.”

=Why?= As a Coach, you are often part of the lesson design. As you look at the use of language, ask: The multimedia tools available to our students often incorporate all of these skills. In this course, you'll explore tools that engage students in purposeful activity that has an authentic audience. As a coach, help teachers to reflect by exploring: When you are finished, you will have used several tools for reading, writing, speaking and listening, so that when you work with a teacher who is focusing on literacy, you'll be confident in recommending an appropriate tool.
 * Are students in a rich language environment that integrates reading, writing, speaking, and listening about content?
 * Are they forming questions about the content?
 * Are they reflecting on the content?
 * What are the kids reading, writing, talking about, and sharing?
 * How are the students doing the work today?
 * Who is going home tired?

=Defining Text = Text is no longer simply defined as words on paper. Text is a medium through which ideas, experiences, opinions, and information can be communicated. Text can be oral, electronic, or on film. As you explore the following forms of text, think about how they can be used in reading, writing, speaking, and listening across all subject areas. When you are finished, you will be asked to record your thoughts orally. Please jot your notes down, so that you can record them later.

Blogs (1) Pocasts (2) Digital Storytelling (3) Movie Making (4)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Middle School Student Blog
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">High School Student Blogs
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Podcasts from students around the world
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Podcasts from NPR

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Wikis (5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Twitter (6)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Digital History Textbook created by students
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The Twitter Experiment
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Educators using twitterTweeting for schools
 * As of today, there are 2,104 who have added their name to this list.
 * 95 are from PA.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Now that you have explored the forms of text, think about how they can be used in reading, writing, speaking, and listening across all subject areas.You will record your thoughts orally. Do the activity. Take turns at the table, if everyone does not have a microphone.

Now that you've pulled your thoughts together, it's time to record them.


 * 1) Go to@http://vocaroo.com/.
 * 2) Click to //Record//.
 * 3) //Allow// access to your microphone.
 * 4) Start talking.
 * 5) Click to //Stop//.
 * 6) Listen to your recording.
 * 7) If you don’t like it, click //Retry//.
 * 8) If you like it, //Click here to save >>//
 * 9) Copy the link that is displayed. (//Use CTRL+C or Command +C//)
 * 10) Paste your links into this Google Doc. @http://tinyurl.com/speaklisten

Here are the results. Listen to your colleagues' podcasts.

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 = Use the Essential Q's = @http://tinyurl.com/essentialQs At table, count off 1-6. Then answer 1 question from Engagement and 1 question from Content based on your number.

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Results @http://tinyurl.com/essentialQsR

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Embedding
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaking and Listening FYI **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPad <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mobile devices
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Recording **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">GarageBand <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Audacity
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Editing **

= = = Writing for an Authentic Audience =


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">@http://www.writingfix.com/wac/RAFT.htm
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">@http://writingfix.com/classroom_tools/picture_prompts.htm
 * 3) Do an Google Image Search for any word. Use that image as a writing prompt.

@http://tinyurl.com/writeauthentic

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See what your colleagues wrote: @http://tinyurl.com/writeauthenticR

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Easiest but print only; no account
 * Writing in comic book form. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">@http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> @http://www.cutepdf.com/ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a free download enables one to create a .pdf from anything that can be printed - becomes part of your printer function

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">More advanced; email a link to it; no account
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">@http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

Comic strip creator - Professor Garfield Comics Lab simple login - strips can be saved
 * http://www.professorgarfield.org/pgf_comics_lab.html

Make Beliefs Comix <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">The site can accept words written in Spanish, including appropriate accent marks and characters. The same for French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Latin. Can be printed or emailed. No logon required
 * h[[@redir.aspx|ttp://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/]]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Most advanced; send a link; need an account
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">@http://bitstrips.com/pageone/

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=Reading=

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Try it now. @https://www.google.com/
 * Differentiating for Reading Level **
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the Google Search box, enter "how a bill becomes a law pa"
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Press Enter/Return.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Select Search tools below the Google search box.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Go to the All Results drop-down.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Select Reading level.
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Depending upon your reading level, at the top of the search results, select Basic, Intermediate, or Advanced.
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Then make an appropriate choice.

=Removing Distractions= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students (or adults, for that matter) who are easily distracted may have a great deal of difficulty reading online. This website, Readability, cleans up the cultter on web pages - in your computer's browser and on the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.


 * PRINT - but not really. **

@http://www.readability.com/ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here's an example. Start with an online news article - for example, this one from the New York Times - nytimes.com. Click the Read Now button. The website is converted by Readabilty. And it looks like this!
 * Readability **

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