Practical Strategies for Using Web 2.0 Technology to Engage Struggling or Reluctant High School Readers and Writers Elona Hartjes cc/2009

Practical Strategies

To engage struggling or reluctant readers and writers

To engage struggling or reluctant readers and writers

- do some struggle? - are some reluctant?

- do some struggle?

- are some reluctant?

-learning disabilities -competition from other activities -lack of interest

-learning disabilities

-competition from other activities

-lack of interest

Sometimes reading and writing just isn't valued.

Sometimes reading and writing just isn't valued.

Stop reading. Go do something!

Stop reading.

Go do something!

- think they don’t read and write outside the classroom

But they text message email visit Facebook

text message

email

visit Facebook

Need to make a paradigm shift.

Good pedagogy says start where students are.

Good pedagogy says start

where students are.

Where are they? - on line 44.5 hours a week

Where are they?

- on line 44.5 hours a week

- very comfortable on line - used to collaborating

- very comfortable

on line

- used to

collaborating

Let's use that to our advantage .

Let's use that

to

our advantage .

Web 2.0 R'US - Anyone with access can read/write on the web now. - No need to know programming languages.

- Anyone with access can read/write on the web now.

- No need to know programming languages.

What's the difference ? Web 1.0 Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Toolkit Blogs Slideshare Anamoto Voicethread PBwiki Social networks- Delicious Creative commons Wordle Cartoons Voki

Web 2.0 Toolkit

Blogs

Slideshare

Anamoto

Voicethread

PBwiki

Social networks- Delicious

Creative commons

Wordle

Cartoons

Voki

My favourite guru

My favourite guru

My Blog www.teachersatrisk.com

Blog tool and platform www.wordpress.com

Class Blog www.mrshartjes2.wordpress.com

Blog tool and publishing platform http://edublogs.org

Protecting students online is easy.

Choose settings so that - only students invited by the teacher can contribute to blog - all comments are moderated by teacher - blog is invisible to search engines

- only students invited by the teacher can contribute to blog

- all comments are moderated by teacher

- blog is invisible to search engines

Decisions ??? -write in comment box -write in own page -write in body of blog

-write in comment box

-write in own page

-write in body of blog

www.slideshare.net

http://www.wordle.net

Free photos http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

www.animoto.com/business/education

www.animoto.com/business/education

Bookmark http://delicious.com/

Collaborate http://pbwiki.com/academic.wiki

http://voicethread.com

www.makebeliefscomix.com

http://www.voki.com

Web 2.0 Tool kit Blog tools and publishing platforms - www.wordpress.com and http://edublogs.org Slideshare - www.slideshare.net Anamoto - http://animoto.com/business/education Voicethread - http://voicethread.com Pbwiki - http://pbwiki.com/academic.wiki Delicious - http://delicious.com Creative Commons- Flickr http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons Wordle - http://www.wordle.net/ Cartoons - www.makebeliefscomix.com Voki - http://www.voki.com Personal Blog - www.teachersatrisk.com Class Blog - www.mrshartjes2.wordpress.com Email - emhartjes@gmail.com

Blog tools and publishing platforms - www.wordpress.com and http://edublogs.org

Slideshare - www.slideshare.net

Anamoto - http://animoto.com/business/education

Voicethread - http://voicethread.com

Pbwiki - http://pbwiki.com/academic.wiki

Delicious - http://delicious.com

Creative Commons- Flickr http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

Wordle - http://www.wordle.net/

Cartoons - www.makebeliefscomix.com

Voki - http://www.voki.com

Personal Blog - www.teachersatrisk.com

Class Blog - www.mrshartjes2.wordpress.com

Email - emhartjes@gmail.com

Have fun!!!

Have fun!!!

Remember, you don't need to know everything. Invite your students to help with any technical glitches. I just thank my students with a big smile. They love that.

Remember, you don't need to know everything.

Invite your students to help with any technical glitches.

I just thank my students with a big smile.

They love that.