Reflection on Foundational Print Literacy and "New Literacies"

Reflection on Foundational Print Literacy and “New Literacies”

            Foundational print literacy and “new literacies” are both important in this technologically evolving world.  Foundational print literacy, traditionally, played a major role in education and the ELA classroom.   From printed materials, students would read poems, books, and informational text.  The purpose of ELA is to develop students’ abilities to communicate orally and literally and prepare them for the job force.

Foundational print played an important role in education because that was type of media that was available.  However, the needs of society have changed due to the development of technology.      As the world continued to develop technologically, ELA classroom and education has changed dramatically.  Students needs have changed.  Currently, they need to be able to become literate with not only the foundational print literacy but also the technological components. With the development of the internet, the world has become dependent on technology and continues to engulf its self with it. 

            Today’s students have the luck to be surrounded with such a diverse literate environment and are able to produce and publish their work through many different types of medians.  For example, they have the ability to blog, create movies, write/publish online books, and so much more.  The possibilities are endless!

Check out my GLOGSTER!

Please check out my glogster!

http://www.glogster.com/jenflave1/wishlist-glog-by-jenflave1/g-6lir6ldsjr3hla8gkovnea0

The educational affordance of a GLOGSTER

Features of Glogster	Affordance
The ability to create posters featuring different types of media.	Encourages higher-level thinking and allows to students the ability to be creative.
Ability to add text.	Students can add text to the poster and choose different types of format to display information.
Ability to add video.	Students can personalize their glogster by adding video, sound, or pictures.  .
Ability to collaborate	Students have the ability to work individually or collaboratively on a project.  Each member of the group can log on, at their convenience, and add to the project. Teachers also have the ability to collaborate with their students.
Ability to comment	Students have the ability to add comments on other glogs.
Safe environment	Safe closed environment that the teacher has control of.
Exciting Projects	Students can create poster to highlight information from a book.  They can create interactive poems and have classmates comment on them.  They can create an advertisement of a product.  The possibilities are endless.

My Voice Thread Post:

Hi Everyone,

I think I fixed the access to my voicethread... Please try to view it again and make some comments....

Thank You,

; )

  https://voicethread.com/share/2982638/

Evaluating Pedagogical Affordance of Media Sharing Web 2.o Technologies: A Case Study

                I learned a few things from the article, evaluating pedagogical affordances of media sharing Web 2.0 technologies: A case study, by Kevin Burden and Simion Atkinson.  I am already familiar with voice thread because I just used it to create an assignment for this class.  Voicethread allows the user to create threads or conversations around different types of media.  The media can be images, drawings, video clips, audio files, or documents.  It is extremely user friendly and fun to use.   People can upload comments using their cell phones, microphones, web cams and many other ways.

                I love that student are able to zoom in on a type of media and then post comments asynchronously and on one single page.  This feature is a lot like Facebook and other types of social media. I also like how this can all be done privately, publicly or mixed.  The applicable DiAL-e learning designs posted in the table was fabulous.  I love the ideas that had posted there especially the narrative or story-telling design where students take on a cooperative narrative role as they comment on a video or artifact.

Initial draft for Final Keystone Unit Implementation and Evaluation

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60707866/Initial%20draft%20for%20Final%20Keystone%20Unit%20Implementation%20and%20Evaluation.doc

Digital Storytelling

Hi Everyone!

I created my digital story through voicehthread! I hope you like it!

https://voicethread.com/share/2936367/