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Best 15 Ideas About How To Teach New Literacies in Classrooms with More Limited Access

1. Learn from exceptional online educators:

Jack Fontanella’s Kindergarten
Ms. McGowan’s 1st. Grade
Mary Kreul’s 4th Grade
Mrs. Renz’s 4th Grade

To locate other exceptional teachers on the Internet search google using this syntax:
Example: 4th grade classroom home page or 8th grade science classroom home page

2. View online videos of new literacies in the classroom:

View the WGBH program on new literacies in grade 3-5

Videos of the major instructional models integrating the Internet into your classroom

3. Use Starfall (early reading development)
http://www.starfall.com/

4. Use Read Write Think (all grade levels)
http://readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp

5. Discover the potential of Internet Workshop:

Internet Workshop: Making Time for Literacy: Reading Online

View the videos on Internet Workshop (at the bottom of the webpage)

Read this book: “Teaching with the Internet: New Literacies for New Times”

6. Use ePals and Discover the potential of Internet Project

ePals
in2books
Global School

7. Teach the Online Comprehension Skills of Locating Information

Locating Information at Google
NoodleTools: 21st Century Literacies and Tools for Reading the World

8. Teach Critical Evaluation

Use the following sites to help students understand false sightings on the internet:

Martin Luther King
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Dog Island
http://thedogisland.com/

Critical Evaluation Techniques

Check for sites that have been rated as "true," "false," or "undetermined."
http://www.snopes.com/

9. Help the last become first. Students can become the experts.

10. Explore the potential of Wikipedia for your class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

11. Explore the use of NING and/or Wikispace

Create a blog at Blogger:
https://www.blogger.com/start

15. Keep a patient heart and be willing to help others on their journeys.