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New Ways to Learn and Communicate Around the World

New Ways to Learn and Communicate Around the World. www.readingonline.org. ROL Editorial Team. Editors. Dana L. Grisham San Diego State University. Bridget Dalton CAST. ROL Editorial Team. New Literacies Ladislaus Semali, Penn State University Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt, Le Moyne College

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New Ways to Learn and Communicate Around the World

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  1. New Ways to Learn and Communicate Around the World www.readingonline.org

  2. ROL Editorial Team Editors Dana L. Grisham San Diego State University Bridget Dalton CAST

  3. ROL Editorial Team • New Literacies • Ladislaus Semali, Penn State University • Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt, Le Moyne College • Margaret Hagood, College of Charleston Electronic Classroom Charles Kinzer Vanderbilt University International Perspectives Jan Turbill University of Wollongong Online Communities Gary Moorman Appalachian State University

  4. ROL Editorial Team • Advisory Council (Donald J. Leu, Jr., Chair) • Review Board • IRA Staff • Anne Fullerton, Managing Editor, Electronic Publications • Cynthia Sawaya, Managing Editor, Journals • Cindy Held, Senior Editorial Assistant • Christina Lambert, Editorial Assistant • CAST • Nicole Strangman, Editorial Assistant

  5. What Is Reading Online? • A peer-reviewed journal • focusing on literacy research and practice for educators working with students aged 5 to 18 • An electronic journal • exploring how to use Internet capabilities to support communication and collaboration

  6. What Is Reading Online? • An international journal • committed to expanding communication across nations and cultures • A free journal • available to anyone with Internet access • an IRA service to the worldwide literacy community

  7. Who Reads Reading Online? • Teachers, researchers, teacher educators, graduate students, preservice teachers, specialists, parents • ~ 70% US readers; 7% international; 23% unknown

  8. ROL Traffic • Approximately 70,000 sessions per month (February and March 2002) • Traffic is increasing • July 2000 • 134,868 views, 6.27 minutes per visit • March 2002 • 348,137 views, 7.05 minutes per visit

  9. A New Literacy • We know how to communicate using traditional print literacies • We are learning how to communicate in hypertext and networked environments • interactive and multimedia capabilities can • Enhance content • Promote reader engagement • Support opportunities for social interaction

  10. Internet Literacy • Defining characteristics • Integrated media • Interactivity • Other potential features • Contextualize knowledge • Personalize the reading/viewing experience • Scaffold learning • Build social relationships and community

  11. Composing with Links • Linking in, linking out • structuring hypertext • providing content • Purposes • Window on the Internet • Window on the world represented in the article

  12. Technical Issues on Linking • Size and downloading time • Accuracy and updating of URLs • Expression of links, semantically and visually to support readers’ efficient use • Open-ended nature of hypertext and potential of losing your audience

  13. Integrating Media • New forms and symbol systems • Graphics, animation, video, audio, text • Purposes • Conveying content: Primary, complementary, supplementary • Influencing affect, aesthetics

  14. Submitting an Article • Click on the “About ROL” button • At the site, view: • Instructions for Authors • Article Content • Guidelines and Policy • Preparing a Manuscript for Submission • Submitting a Manuscript to Reading Online

  15. Submitting an Article • Use the Online Submission Form • Most suited for submission of articles that include a single file of text content. Allows submission of multimedia files (audio, video, graphics, etc.), linked to or embedded in the article body. • Send in HTML Format by E-mail or Diskette • Articles created as hypertexts with multiple linked text files are best submitted by e-mail or on disk.

  16. The Peer Review Process • Three peer reviews • Editorial review and disposition • Notification of author, ideas for possible revision • Publication

  17. What We Love about Editing ROL • Ideas and creativity • Personal relationships • Timeliness • Expanded possibilities

  18. READ LISTEN WATCH REFLECT VIEW WRITE DISCUSS PARTICIPATE CONNECT

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