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Kathleen A. Gormley, PhD, Peter McDermott, PhD, & Debbie Dermady, MSED

Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the NYS Reading Association, Saratoga Springs, NY, April 3, 2011.

Kay Gormley

Faculty Member, The Sage Colleges

Teaches face-to-face, online and hybrid courses in literacy and digital literacy

Co-Chair, NYSRA Digital Literacy Committee

Contact: gormlk@sage.edu

Pete McDermott

Faculty Member at The Sage Colleges

Teaches face-to-face and online courses in literacy, particularly adolescent literacy and digital literacy.

NYSRA, Vice President

Co-Chair, NYSRA Digital Literacy Committee

Contact: mcderp@sage.edu

Debbie Dermady

Fifth grade teacher at Guardino Elementary School, Thousand Island School District, Clayton, NY

President, NYSRA

Member, NYSRA Digital Literacy Committee

Facilitator, PBS Teacherline

Contact: dermadyd@1000islandsschools.org

  Content ◦  Web 2.0 Tools for

Composing ◦  Web Authoring ◦  Collaboration ◦  Video Messaging ◦  Interactive

Whiteboards

  Breakout Portion

  Questions

  Feel free to ask questions !

  Help Sessions on Monday!

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 Sharing  Tags  Highlighting  Identify tools/websites

 Commenting  Following  Groups

Social Bookmarking

 Multimedia world tudents are writing and reading online   Social nature

(Facebook, MySpace)

 Open source (Free) Easily used  Tools for task, not reverse Engaged, motivated students  Complex reading and writing

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 Donald Leu and colleagues ◦ Hear him at NYSRA Conference -

Monday at 11AM

 New Literacies (IRA Position Paper, 2009)

 Harrington, Hodgson & Moran (2009)

  Free open source tools

  Web-based

  Interactive

  Producers and composers

  Participatory

 Dropbox

 https://www.dropbox.com/  Free 2 GB cloud storage  Give Kay your email and we will

share: ◦ PPt ◦ Handout

 http://www.slideshare.net/  Slideshare (free version) allows: ◦ Unlimited uploads (PPt, PDF) ◦ Three videos ◦ Recent feature—sync PPt with mp3 ◦ Converts to Flash file and can embed

  Free!   Time’s Best

Websites (2007)   70 Templates   Drag and Drop   Multimedia

Features   Free hosting

NO Advertisements!

Tummy Fat and Viagra be damned!

http://ddermady1000islandsschoolsorg.weebly.com/about-me-mrs-dermady.html

http://education.weebly.com/

  Composing versus Writing

  Favorites ◦  Google docs:

documents, presentations and Excel (good for groups) ◦  Zoho Writer (good

for 2-3 people)

 Google docs  Advantages ◦  Saves automatically ◦  Share options and edit options ◦  Synchronous writing allowable

 Disadvantages ◦  Formatting Issues ◦ Only saves most recent version

 Zoho Writer  Advantages ◦ Much like Word processor ◦  Easy Sharing ◦  Earlier versions available ◦  Can determine who made which changes

 Disadvantages ◦  Glitchy in saving with many people ◦ No spell check or grammar check as write.

 Allows many to edit variety of items   PDF, PPt, Word. Web pages

  Feedback Opportunities

  Share and Embed

 Caution: Cannot track changes with free version.

 View documents without opening Office.

 Edit: PPts; Excel, Word  Convert to PDFs  1GB storage  Mobile apps  Spelling checks  Cautions: ◦ PDF conversions -- slow

 VoiceThread  Viddler  Zipcast (from Slideshare—online

meetings) NEWEST!  Vyew  Wiggio  Slide.com

 New from Slideshare (2011)  Online meetings ◦ No downloads ◦ Public (free) and Private (cost)

Meetings ◦ Uploads for meeting ◦  Join from anywhere (mobile apps) ◦ Personalized meeting room with

Slideshare login ◦ Caution: cannot video for archiving

 Real time meeting (e.g., webinars, presentations)

 Upload documents, images, files  Collaborate  Annotate   Shared workspace (vyewbooks)  Easy navigation  Chat feature   Free version (unlimited meetings;

participants limited to 10)  Caution: Best features are paid

 Collaborative work  Email, voice mail group members  Host meetings  Private list-serve and web address  Shared folders  Shared calendar with ‘to do’  Poll group members  Created for students (Terms of

usage)

 Eyejot

 Screenr

  Free video message   1 minute in length

  Send as email and ‘clicks’ open.  Can respond to Eyejot with return

recording  Need webcam and microphone  Group Creation  Mobile App  Cautions

  Must upload emails individually initially   Picture and voice can be out of sync

  Scribblar   Glogster

Uses

Teacher Presentations

Student Projects (group) ◦  Book reviews ◦  Unit summaries ◦  Assigned topics ◦  Introduction of self

Cautions ◦  Some content

problematic ◦  13 and older

•  Interactive Whiteboard

• Video

•  Images

• Text

• Voice

  Eileen’s National Poetry

http://emathena.edu.glogster.com/glog-3398/

  Dan’s art glog http://gribbd.glogster.com/alexis-

rockman-/

 Multiuser, interactive whiteboard   Live audio  Text chat  Good for brainstorming  No limitations—length of time,

number of users  Revise images, artwork, and graphics  Can have pages for specific group  Note: rated 5/5 by AppAppeal (see

review)

 http://www.scribblar.com/ksffq5z

  Conceptual Understanding ◦  Big and related ideas

linked ◦  Images and/or words

  Our favorites ◦  Inspiration ◦  Bubble.us ◦  Popplet

  Easy diagramming   Add words/images   Hyperlink   Many color, link and

font choices   Outline   Switch between

diagram and outline   New with 9th: can

view Inspiration on computer without software!

 Free  Basic connectors  Flexible layout  NEW—drop and drag sheet sharing  Folder options  Caution—can only link once

Source: http://teacheng.us/?p=3

Bubble.us is very basic!

 Mindmapping, browser based ◦ Text, links, images, files, tasks ◦ Change color, multiple connections ◦ Works well for complex concept maps

  Free version—limited to 3.  Paid version: $59/year—a bit pricey.

  Kay: gormlk@sage.edu

  Peter: mcderp@sage.edu

  Debbie:   NYSRAPresDermady

@1000islandsschools.org