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Preparing Students for the 21st Century with New Literacies

How Teachers Learn and Implement New Literacies

Polly Parker, Teacher Leader/Co-Chair, MA NLI(Director of Curriculum and Professional

Development, LPVEC)Mary Moynagh, 8th grade History teacher, Ashland

Middle SchoolSue Labonte & Kevin Jones, Special Education, LPVEC

December 7th, 2010

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Introduction

•Welcoming Remarks (via cool tool – XtraNormal)

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7864515/ •Acknowledgements

– Mary Moynagh– Sue Labonte– Kevin Jones– MA New Literacies Logistics Team:

James Walker, Online Technology Instructor Zachary Smith, Online Technology Coordinator- Anne McKenzie, Executive Director of the LPVEC

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Learning at the NLI

• TPACK model

• Teacher Leaders are paired with presenters.

• Participants choose a Cool Tool workshop.

• Design Studio

• Presentation dayRetrieved from: http://tpack.org/tpck/index.php?title=Main_Page (December 6th, 2010)

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Implementation Process• Mary Moynagh’s work.

http://www.voki.com/php/viewmessage/?chsm=7b68d479a8b7f91096a6bd0898200ee5&mId=550272 http://animoto.com/play/ilJfkJ6I7gaC0KpihW20bw

• The Declaration of Independence is embedded into this animation in the shape of the United States. • She used Tagxedo to create the word shape.

• She downloaded the pictures from the internet

• Uploaded them into Animoto for the video.

• Total time = 10 minutes.

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Teachers in Progress

– Kevin Jones: – http://www.voki.com/php/viewmessage/?chsm

=c4e62f2ae6fffc65911e399c2aed2cc4&mId=549615

– Sue Labonte:– http://www.voki.com/php/viewmessage/?chsm

=61ba45eaa0a58bc8bdaeb4f4899863a1&mId=549611

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Teachers in Progress

• What is a Hero? (Sue Labonte, Kevin Jones)– Our Twisted Hero by Yi Munyol– Pre-assessment video of each child

defining the word “HERO”.- “Wordle” was created of a brief

passage from the novel.

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Example of WORDLE (http://www.wordle.net)

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Students in Progress

Example of art show in Animoto(http://animoto.com/)

http://animoto.com/play/LnKS15Xa028tu0n0IdfBGA?autostart=true

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References for Web Tools

http://animoto.comhttp://xtranormal.comhttp://www.wordle.nethttp://www.visuwords.com/ http://voki.comhttp://picasa.google.com/ http://www.tagxedo.com/

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References

• The New Literacy Research Team at UCONN:http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/pubs.html

• The New Literacies Collaborative at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation of NC State University: http://www.fi.ncsu.edu/project/new-literacies-collaborative/publications

• Lisa Harvey blog post “TPACK Meets New Literacies”. Posted July 27, 2010 at 9:00am, retrieved December 6th, 2010.

http://newlitcollaborative.ning.com/profiles/blogs/tpack-meets-new-literacies

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Thanks!Polly Parker

Director of Curriculum/Professional Dev’tLPVEC

pparker@lpvec.org

Mary Moynagh Sue Labonte

8th Grade Teacher Special Education Teacher

Ashland Middle School Autistic High School (AHS I)

Ashland Public Schools LPVECKevin Jones

Special Education TeacherBrush Hill Academy

LPVEC