May 3
Technology in the Reading Classroom
"Educational Technology: Media for Inquiry, Communication,
Construction, and Expression": http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~chip/pubs/taxonomy/
The abstract for the article reads:
We describe a new way of classifying uses of educational technologies, based
on a four-part division suggested years ago by John Dewey: inquiry, communication,
construction, and expression. This taxonomy is compared to previous taxonomies
of educational technologies, and is found to cover a wider range of uses, including
many of the cutting-edge uses of educational technologies. We have tested the
utility of this taxonomy by using it to classify a set of "advanced applications"
of educational technologies supported by the National Science Foundation, and
we use the taxonomy to point to new potential uses of technologies to support
learning.
Essential Skills Software: http://www.essentialskills.net/
eXpLOrE, LeArN, and gRoW @ RightinClass: http://www.rightinclass.com/
Carolyn Hinshaw is a classroom teacher who has a clear vision as to how a teacher
moves through the stages of literally no technology in the classroom to a technology
rich environment. She has lived the changes and can clearly articulate them
in terms that
anyone can understand. She was the NCCE (Northwest Council for Computer Education)
technology teacher of the year (2000) and has been recognized by the State of
Washington as an exemplary teacher.
Textbooks of the Future: http://techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20300250
This article explores how textbooks might change, as a concept, as they become
increasingly digital and networked.He is now in the process of converting a
book he wrote 1998, last revised in 2002 (3rd ed), Raw Materials for the Mind,
as a model for some of these ideas. The book is often used as a text in graduate
instructional technology classes. He has converted the book to HTML and placed
it on his Web site as an IDA-Book (Interactive, Dynamic, & Associative).
The current URL is: http://landmark-project.com/rmfm/ebook/
Because of the way it is set up, readers can annotate most paragraphs in the
book. These annotations are shared with other readers. Readers can add URLs
to Web site listings. A number of discussion boards will be planted in the book
The acknowledgments, foreword, and introduction are available for free on the
website now so you can get an idea of what it looks like.
LittleFingers Software: http://www.littlefingers.com/
There are things to buy and by scrolling down the page, there are freeware programs
to download. Many are for Mac's.
Assessment
To see running records modeled, visit: http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_mylabschool_demo_1_UB/0,9736,1641430-,00.html
This site began in March 1998 by Janet Luch.
Email comments and questions to studyplans@yahoo.com