Teaching English and Language Arts with Technology

* Workshop introductions
* Opening: "Textured Literacy in English and Language Arts Classrooms"
tewt 09.pdf
* Internet directories for English/Language Arts: Web English Teacher, readwritethink.org, Teaching English with Technology, etc.
* Internet Searching - Google tips & strategies: Google Wonder Wheel; Google Timeline; Google Advanced; Google Books; Google Scholar; iGoogle; etc
vietnamchart.jpg"Vietnam" searching chart *
Classroom wikis
* Hands-on with wikispaces
wiki1.doc
wiki2.doc
Sample Photo 1 workshop2mid.gif
Sample Photo 2 Skypetutorialpic.jpg
* Discussion & resources

Teaching With New Emerging Technologies (Part 2)

* Blogs and Blogging
* Hands-on blogging
* Leading Edubloggers and resources
* Discussion; wrap-up
* Hands-on audio blogging with VoiceThread
voicethread.pdf
Vocaroo.com for free, simple web recording
* Podcasting
* Hands-on with GarageBand (Mac); Audacity (PC)
Audacity.pdf
* iTunes
* Discussion & resources

Teaching With New & Emerging Technologies (Part 3)

* Customized editing with MS Word: Word preferences, file statistics, file readability, inserting comments, auto-correct
Word Grammar N&G.pdf; AutoCorrect tutorial MAC.pdf; AutoCorrect tutorial.pdf; Word AutocorrectME.xlsTom's Auto-Correct sheet
* Small-group jigsaw: Twitter; Ning; Diigo; Google Earth (Google Lit Trips); Jing; Skype, SlideshareMoodle.
* Small-group "elevator speech"
* Discussion & resources
* Please complete the following Workshop Survey before departing!