Chapter Five
“Teaching with the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times”
As a C.S. Lewis had us experience a new world by going through a closet door, we also find that turning on the internet carries us to new worlds on the internet portal.
Many opportunities on the internet are available from reading and listening to poetry, to reading and discussing Shakespeare, to electronic discussions, reading books and reviewing book reviews, publishing writing, and watching author videos.
At this point, I am interested in copyright issues because of the one site I visited looking for material for my ELL students this week. The author said that her material was copyrighted and permission would be needed to give out her web address. I have questions about this because her site was linked to this other web site that everyone has access too. So hopefully, I can peruse the copyright rules web sites and understand this issue in more depth. This address was also helpful for me in giving me ideas for my survey. It is
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright.html
A quote I liked this week with this lesson was “how important it is to learn from one another about the internet.” While at lunch with a friend this Tuesday, I discovered why I could not find the print queue to delete the print job. She told me that the print job information leaves my computer immediately and goes to the host computer at school. That was nice to know.
It was interesting to discover that many books/stories are online now that are not copyrighted anymore. So now children have even more access to books to read. For our fourth grade class, the Magic Treehouse Web address would be interesting http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/magictreehouse/books/ to read. What I found to be especially exciting was to view the author, Mary Pope Osborne give her video story of her beginning in writing at the National Book Festival. She shared how she lived in her imagination as a child. Her best friend was her brother who played make-believe with her. For her, the make-believe life was more real that her real life.
One child in our class has already discovered the delights of viewing the Jan Brett site at Http://www.janbrett.com. Jan has over 4,138 pages of free activities for children. I checked on her video of Honey, Honey Lion. She made three trips to Africa so she shared some views from the trip which are shown on the video. She describes how she got her ideas for the book.
One of our talented writers in the classroom, should see the web site of http://www.kidpub.com/. If you will notice, this address is a bit different from the one in the textbook which will not take you to the correct site. This is a delightful site for children to publish their work and to receive comments from others. Then I checked the http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb.html web site which is a site that the appears to me to be for older more mature writers such as college or high school age. This site comes from the University of Richmond and is called the Writing Center. There were many topics with links underneath. These include: getting started, writing in disciplines, first draft, focusing and connecting ideas, analysis and argument, editing and peer editing, punctuation, sentence structure, documentation and use sources.
The one particular Web Site that I really like for ESL students was the www.webenglishteacher.com/. At this site are many activities for these students. They can locate online exercises in grammar, vocabulary, and spelling. Then there is a link to Boogle World ESL which would be helpful, also.
Then for the Jr. High or High School student “Why Does the Caged Bird
Sing” http://edweb.sdsu.edu/wip/examples/cagedbird/index.htm ,which is an inquiry project, would be helpful to those writers.
It was exemplary that internet information for all ages are found in this chapter on English and the Language Arts. Each person taking this class should be able to find some helpful information that is very useable.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
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