Presentation for Literacy in the Humanities workshop at MICDS

1. Literacy in the Humanities
Classroom
A 21st Century Toolkit
Presented by Elizabeth Helfant and Patrick Woessner

2. A Challenge!

3. TPCK - Technological Pedagogical
Content Knowledge
From- http://www.tpck.org

4. Requirements to Teach with Tech
Teaching successfully with emerging
technologies requires:
• A spirit of experimentation
• Willingness to engage learners in the
creation of learning resources (co-creation of
content)
• Willingness to “let go” of control and content
presentation approaches to teaching
• Tolerance of failure
From Handbook or Emerging Technologies for Learning- Siemens and Tittenberger

5. New Literacies
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
ISTE Nets
NCREL-Metri Group

6. Basic Literacy

7. Information
Literacy

8. Visual/Media Literacy

9. Intercultural Literacy

10. Digital Citizenship/Ethical Literacy

11. Network
Literacy
Image-lngwitches on flickr

12. New Skills or New Tools?
Note taking Collaboration
Research Creativity
Reading Critical Thinking
Paraphrasing Managing Information
Writing Connecting/Networking
Presenting Managing Media

13. Questions to Consider
•How are our students different? How do
they learn and manage information
differently?
•Do our students need different skills?
•How has literacy changed?

14. New Skills or New Tools?
Note taking Collaboration
Research Creativity
Reading Critical Thinking
Paraphrasing Managing
Writing Information
Presenting Connecting/Networking
Managing Media

15. RSS
iGoogle
Google Reader
Feedbeater

16. New Skills or New Tools?
Note taking Collaboration
Research Creativity
Reading Critical Thinking
Paraphrasing Managing Information
Writing Connecting/Networking
Presenting Managing Media

17. OneNote Notebooks
Create Original Workbooks
Students can add audio
Students can clip screenshots
Students can share notebooks

18. New Skills or New Tools?
Note taking Collaboration
Research Creativity
Reading Critical Thinking
Paraphrasing Managing Information
Writing Connecting/Networking
Presenting Managing Media

19. Zoho Shared Notebook
Exercise Workbook wih
Audio and Video
Ability to Share
Also good for Research
Notebook

20. Diigo and Delicious

21. New Skills or New Tools?
Note taking Collaboration
Research Creativity
Reading Critical Thinking
Paraphrasing Managing Information
Writing Connecting/Networking
Presenting Managing Media

22. Teaching Collaboration

23. Wiki Literature

24. WIKI BOOKS

25. WIKI LABS

26. WIKI Lesson Plans

27. New Skills or New Tools?
Note taking Collaboration
Research Creativity
Reading Critical Thinking
Paraphrasing Managing Information
Writing Connecting/Networking
Presenting Managing Media

28. Blogging

29. GOOGLE Writing Assignments

30. New Skills or New Tools?
Note taking Collaboration
Research Creativity
Reading Critical Thinking
Paraphrasing Managing Information
Writing Connecting/Networking
Presenting Managing Media

31. Google Presentations

32. Fredrick Douglass Project
Use of Image and Video
Ustream.tv

33. Photo Essay
Photo Essays (digital storytelling)
combine images, audio, and text
Photostory 3 for Windows Free tool for
creating essays and stories
Sharing Culture Through Digital Stories
Includes a unit plan with lessons

34. New Skills or New Tools?
Note taking Collaboration
Research Creativity
Reading Critical Thinking
Paraphrasing Managing Information
Writing Connecting/Networking
Presenting Managing Media
(Visual Literacy)

35. Cell Phones and Flickr Groups

36. Postcards from the Odyssey-
Microsoft Publisher VoiceThread Projects

37. New Skills or New Tools?
Note taking Collaboration
Research Creativity
Reading Critical Thinking
Paraphrasing Managing Information
Writing Connecting/Networki
Presenting ng
Managing Media

38. InterCultural Literacy

39. Networked Literacy

40. Facebook 1800s

41. Networking for Professional
Development
Classroom 2.0
EnglishCompanion
Global Collaborations
New Media Literacies
Library 2.0

42. New Skills or New Tools?
Note taking Collaboration
Research Creativity
Reading Critical Thinking
Paraphrasing Managing Information
Writing Connecting/Networking
Presenting Managing Media
(Visual Literacy)

43. Podcasting
Resource Page

44. Podcasting with Gabcast
Gabcast.com is a podcasting platform
that offers an easy way to create and
distribute audio content.
Record using your phone
(.10/min), VoIP (free), or upload files
(free)
200 MB with automatic RSS feeds and
blog integration

45. Enhanced Podcasting
trakAxPC or GarageBand

46. Podcasting with FirstClass
Podcasts can be created using Audacity
and FirstClass email
Record the audio in Audacity and save
as an .mp3 file
Use the Web Publishing feature in
FirstClass to create the podcast

47. Annotated Video Examples
Viddler
YouTube Annotations
Asterpix

48. Comic Life and ArtRage

49. Glogster.edu
Glogster.edu easily allows users to
upload photos, videos, text, and audio
to create an online, interactive poster.
With an EDU account, you can create a
virtual classroom for up to 200 students
Only members of your classroom can
view class content

50. Glogster.edu

51. MixBook

52. Google Earth Tour
Google Earth 5.0 allows users to create
tours with motion and audio
Tours can be created with or without
placemarks
Placemarks can include
text, images, and embedded audio

53. Ning

54. Project Based Learning
•US Museum
Wiki
Final Project
•Adv History Documentaries
•Blip.tv
•Global Climate Change Symposium

55. Additional Resources
Visit the MICDS Summer Teacher Institute 2009 Wikispace
for more information and resources