Digital Literacy: Collaboratively Celebrating the Story

Digital Literacy: Collaboratively Celebrating the Story CEA Convention 2007 Marj Terpstra materpstra@gmail.com http://materpstra.googlepages.com/cea

Objectives • Describe digital literacy • Define Web 2.0 • Explore applications • Brainstorm classroom uses • Discuss ways to claim this technology for God’s work • Collaborate with colleagues • Reflect on how internet technology impacts students

PreTest • Grade Level • Google groups, blogs, docs, calendar, web pages • Wikis • Podcasts • BubblePly • Second Life • Know about it? • Used it?

Literacies • Literacy- reading and writing • Literacy- reading and writing signs, symbols, gestures, ways of speaking, etc. • Meaning making involves more than just reading the text, it involves reading the writer as well

21st Century Learning From: Literacy for the 21st Century: An Overview & Orientation Guide to Media Literacy Education

Digital Literacy • Text literacy • Visual literacy • Media/Critical Literacy • http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/basic/readstrat/readingstrategies.viewlet/readingstrategies_viewlet_swf.html • Cultural literacy • Social/Collaborative Literacy

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 • Reading, participating • Editable Information • Anyone • Wikipedia • GooglePages • Reading, publishing • Information artifacts • Experts • Britannica • Netscape From A New Literacies Sampler, Knobel and Lankshear

Googlehttp://www.google.com/ • Calendar • Groups • Documents • Web Pages • Blogs

Blogs Classroom and Professional Applications • Classroom • Pose Q’s on line-Students assigned to give collaborative responses • Students reflect on line to differentiate personal and professional use of lap tops • Research on composers and post a blog and peers respond on line to the presentation • Summary of what’s coming up this week - parents can keep up - post links • Schoolnotes.com - Free!!! • Professional

Wikis • Online software for web page creation and linking information • Used collaboratively • Wikipedia • WikiMatrix • Pbwiki.com • Add to your resources to your group’s assigned page

Wikis Classroom and Professional Applications • Classroom • List of links • Create, edit scripts across classrooms as homework - multiple topics possible • Page for each topic - combine later -each has a separate link joined to one later I.e. solar system • Current events posted - students update in response - revising on line- thoughts on line but protect privacy • Professional • Meetings on line across schools

Podcasts/VodcastsYouTube • Movies • Interact with the world • Ask the presidential candidates as question • http://youtube.com/contest/RepublicanDebate • BubblePly • Train Runs Through Bangkok Market (2007). http://view.break.com/368159. • Add your own comments to your assigned online video • Share your link on our wiki

Podcasts/Vodcasts • Audio/Video recordings • subscribing • GarageBand, Audacity • iMovie, Windows Movie Maker • Lit2Go • iTunesU • Create a podcast in GarageBand- each group member offers one idea for how the internet can be used in reclaiming the world for Christ • Share as mp4 and post on pbwiki

Podcasts/Vodcasts Classroom and Professional Applications • Classroom • Students can produce book podcasts • Middle school social studies students can make radio shows from particular time periods • Language vocabulary can be recorded for listening • Professional • Share how-tos

Second Life • Online community • Meet people, own property • Take classes

Second Life Classroom and Professional Applications • Classroom • Setting up an island community- economy • Communicating with others around the world • Professional

More to Explore • Fan Fiction- books, movies, comics, etc. • http://www.fanfiction.net/ • Bookmark Sharing • http://del.icio.us/ • Survey Monkey • http://surveymonkey.com/ • Lots of other cool tools • http://teensntech.wikispaces.com/Cool+Tech+Tools • VideoChat • iChat and web cam

References Abilock, D. (2007). 21st Century Tools for Reading the World. NoodleTools, http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/ Center for Media Literacy (2006). Literacy for the 21st Century: An Overview & Orientation Guide to Media Literacy Educationhttp://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article540.html Do You Have a Facebook? (2007). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMWz3G_gPhU Facebook Stalker (2006). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCh9bmg0zGg Fisch, C. & McLeod S. (2007). Did You Know 2.0, http://youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U Introduction to Second Life (2006). http://youtube.com/watch?v=b72CvvMuD6Q&mode=related&search= Ironman Triathlon (2007). Team Hoyt- Redeemer, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPLCaAu_H2U&mode=related&search= Knobel, M. & Lankshear, C. (2007). A New Literacies Sampler. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. Madden & Fox (2006). Riding the Waves of “Web 2.0”, Pew/Internet, http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/189/report_display.asp Piper, T. (2006). Dove Evolution. http://youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U. Schwartzberg, L. (2006). "YAC"-New York Bike Messenger, http://youtube.com/watch?v=sj1-218EnvY. Train Runs Through Bangkok Market (2007). http://view.break.com/368159. Wesch, M. (2007). Information R/evolution, http://youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM. Wesch, M. (2007). The Machine is Us/ing Us, http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g&mode=user&search=.

Resources • Technology Resources: http://materpstra.googlepages.com/home • Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ • Google: http://www.google.com/ • iTunes U: http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu/ • NPR podcasting: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php?type=help • Second Life: http://secondlife.com

Digital Literacy: Collaboratively Celebrating the Story