The document provides guidance for educators on effectively using technology and digital tools in teaching, emphasizing the importance of organizing online information and fostering critical media literacy among students. It discusses collaboration, digital citizenship, and copyright awareness, alongside suggesting resources and tools such as social media and various educational platforms. The aim is to equip teachers and students with essential skills for navigating and contributing to the digital landscape.

1. Where to begin???
Information for educators and their students
Dawn MacIsaac
November 2011

2. Access information efficiently
and effectively
* Owning and organizing the
internet
* Collaborative and digital
citizenship
Analyze media and
information critically and
competently
* Curating, copyright awareness and
digital judgment
Use information accurately
and creatively and apply tools
effectively
* Creating for audience and
purpose
* Based on the curriculum
continuum

3. Continue to
learn and
create for
yourself and
with
students.
Incorporate
a few tools
for the
classroom.
Join a PLN and
create
organizational
tools.
Start by talking
to other
educators and
see what tools
they use.

4. Some words are new and some words
are not what they used to be…..
 Dashboard  Embed code
 Widget  2.0, 3.0
 Tags  #hashtags
 RSS  .dll
 Themes  .epub
 Settings  Friends
 Mashup  Privacy
 pings  Post

5. Access Information efficiently and
effectively
Means…
*organizing the Internet
*Learning to collaborate
and be a digital citizen
Picture by Adam Baker (FlickerCC)

6. Your favorite social networks and tools can be
organized into your own home page. Home
page organizers allow you to put all your web
favorites in one place.
IGoogle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbf0dlESX8E
Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com/en

7. The internet is huge.
 It’s full of useful and not so useful information.
How do you make what is relevant come to you?
netvibes
IGoogle

8.  http://livebinders.com/play/play/110805
 https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/INSITE/Web+2.0+Tools+-
+New+Possibilities+for+Teaching+and+Learning
delicious

9. (Create a PLN)
Use twitter hashtags
(tweetdeck)
#edchat
#elemchat
#edtechtalk
#scichat
#mathchat
#mschat
#hschat
#cpchat
Image created with twitter mosaic maker. http://sxoop.com/twitter/

10. Photo by Alec Couros

11. Teachers are….
Connectors
Locally and Globally, Content and People
Content Creators
Teachers who use interactive media professionally will find they
rapidly develop learning styles and strengths similar to their
students
Collaborators
We can no longer try to be the “holder of all the knowledge”
Coaches
Model the skills the students will need
Change agents
Use web tools to move away from some traditional paradigms of
instruction
Pg 136&137, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts (2009)by Will Richardson

13. The Moral Imperative
This video is an abridged version of :
http://bloggingonthebay.edublogs.org/2010
/10/12/dean-shareski-sharing-is-a-moral-
obligation-for-teachers/

14. (pg26 Language arts Curriculum Guide)
Photo by Paul Bica

15. TEDxNYED - Will Richardson - 03/05/2011

16. http://markaklassen.com

17. A 21st century skill is the ability to
analyze media and information
critically and competently.
*Copy right awareness
*Using “settings” as protection for their
digital footprint
Picture by Mo Riza

18. Topics that students need to understand…
1) Discuss being aware of who made the website and why
the website was created. (tree squid) (provincial
guidelines)
2) Discuss that search engine results must be double
checked.
3) Discuss that every time you agree to use a username and
password you must study the settings to see what parts
of your profile are being made public. Old accounts
should be purged.
4) Discuss changing passwords.
5) Talk about digital footprint.
6) Explain that copyright must be respected.

19. Copyright in Canada
http://www.media-
awareness.ca/english/resources/legislation/canadian_law/federal/copyright_act/cdn_copyright_ov.cfm
Media Awareness
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/index.cfm
You tube Creative Commons
http://www.youtube.com/t/creative_commons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InzDjH1-9Ns

20.  Emerging devices, tools, media, and
virtual environments offer opportunities
for creating new types of learning
communities for students and teachers.
 Searchingfor content requires wise
information literacy strategies
(embedded in the curriculum learning
processes) to avoid being lost in the
information labyrinth.

21. A 21st century skill is to use
information accurately and
creatively and apply tools
effectively.
•Using the curriculum
Picture by Jeremy Hall (FlickrCC)

22. Technology, in the continuum, is divided into three strands
Publishing Gather
*Scan/embed information/Research
materials into
projects *Understand the
General *Create graphics importance of
Communication *Cite and credit multiple sites
*Email materials and valid
*participate in
* Create sources for
presentations research
online learning (choice of tools) to
groups communicate
knowledge
*understand * Understand the *Understand
copyright and connection between strategies that
ethical issues presentation on a try to influence
website and its people to detect
* Understand audience.
personal safety bias
*Frame points and
issues to create
persuasive
productions. *Sources should
be cited and
credited
pg195

23. Grade one teacher Kathy Cassidy
describes this as “fun” while
students were predicting,
recording, counting, writing
numbers, finding the largest
number. Some children chose to
talk about it on video.
During other activities Kathy
might provide choices such as
using an iPad app called
Screenchomp to explain what
they had learned. A few children
could make a drawing
Animationish, an animation
program . Others might chose a
digital drawing program and to
Students creating for a larger global audience and record their explanation on
while learning about digital citizenship. Audioboo.

24.  You Tube  Movie maker
 Diigo, Delicious,  My favorites
Symbaloo
 Blog  Word processing
 Prezi, Gliffy  Slideshow
 Flicker  Camera
 Glogster  Poster
 Shelfari  Book clubs
 Youth voices  Presentation
 Skype an Expert/Author  Text books
 Museum Box  Heritage fair

25. http://pwoessner.com/2010/11/08/digital-literacy-2010-
differentiating-through-expression-styles/

26. Try new tools..
Befunky
Duckduckgo
Quizlet
Squareleaf
Turnitin
Primary wall
Apps
Story bird
Wordle
Slideshare
Quickmaps
Mobileme
Popplet
Wikibooks
Partner and Santa Animoto
created in Befunky Voicethread

27.  Point of view: Outlines the point of the story and the
perspective from which the story is told.
 A dramatic question: Sets the tension of the story by
identifying issues to be resolved.
 Emotional content: Engages the audience through
common emotions and themes (love, pain, humor).
 The gift of your voice: Helps the audience make
meaning of images.
 The power of the soundtrack: Sets the mood of the
story.
 Economy: Balances the auditory and visual tracks of
meaning.
 Pacing: Sustains the attention of the audience by
establishing and modifying the rhythm of the story.
http://www.amle.org/Publications/MiddleSchoolJournal/Articles/May2011/Article3/tabid/2409/Default.aspx

28. http://www.district18.nbed.nb.ca/other/
http://www.district18.nbed.nb.ca/whats-doc
video/pressure-be-perfect
Watch the award winning "Pressure to be
Perfect" and "Live the Dream” videos by clicking
on the link to view an award winning student-
created documentary by N.B’s District 18
students.

30. Let’s look at the curriculum guidelines
Effective Use of Technology Within the Core Curriculum Areas

31. Look again…with
Wordle!

33. Systems for strategic actions for processing written text
Strategies to Strategies to
Sustaining Reading Expand Thinking
Solving words Predicting
Monitoring and Correcting Making Connections
Searching for and Using Inferring
Information
Maintaining Fluency Analyzing
Adjusting Critiquing

34. Books
Richardson, R (2009) Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other Powerful Web Tools for
Classrooms, Corwin Press
Trilling, B. Fadel, C. (2009) 21st Century Skills: Learning For Life in Our Time
Pinnell, G., Fountas, I. (2007) The Continuum of Literacy Learning
Pinnell, G., Fountas, I. (2006) Teaching for Comprehension and Fluency
Web
Shareski, D. Sharing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6k4kZCL6P0&feature=related
Or http://bloggingonthebay.edublogs.org/2010/10/12/dean-shareski-sharing-is-a-
moral-obligation-for-teachers/

35.  WEB
Middle School Journal Digital Storytelling: A Tool for Teaching and Learning in the
YouTube Generation
http://www.amle.org/Publications/MiddleSchoolJournal/Articles/May2011/Article3/ta
bid/2409/Default.aspx
Judy O’Connel School Libraries and Meta Literacies in Action
http://www.slideshare.net/heyjudeonline/learning-without-frontiers-school-
libraries-and-metaliteracy-in-action
Judy O’Connell The Next Big Thing is Web 3.0. Catch It If You Can
http://www.slideshare.net/heyjudeonline/the-next-big-thing-is-web-30-catch-it-if-
you-can
Judy O’Connel Learning in an online World
http://www.slideshare.net/heyjudeonline/learning-in-an-online-world
The 2011 Horizon Report http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf
Or http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project/horizon-reports/horizon-report-k-12-edition
Kathy Cassidy http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337
The Digital Toolbox http://livebinders.com/play/play/110805
Bloom’s Taxonomy by S Penny http://www.usi.edu/distance/bdt.htm
You Tube Copyright School http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ds_xQI2X0M