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Here are the newsletters for this year.

September Issue (Metaphorical Thinking)
October Issue (Write Around)
November Issue (Assumptions about Race and Save the Last Word
December Issue (Web Generation 2.0 and Deeper Reading)
January Issue (Discipline with Dignity and Mystery Envelopes)
February Issue (Postcards)
March Issue (Digital Reader’s Theatre)
April Issue (Testing Tips, Lesson Closure, and Simile Summary)
May Issue (Teacher efficacy and What’s on Your Walls?)
June Issue (Read Alouds and Build Your Own Test)

Striving Reader’s Tech Presentation

Principles of Employing Technology in the Classroom
1. Don’t wait for something better.
2. Accept the fact that it won’t always work.
3. Think short term versus long term.
4. They need less guidance than you think.

Thinking of technology differently:
We are largely using it as simply a means of retrieving information.
- Publishing writing
- Communication
- Role Playing
- Digital Storytelling
- Digital poetry
- Interaction

Web Ideas:
- wikis / AVWriting Bird Walk
- bulletin boards / Role Playing
- bubbl.us / Sample bubbl.us
- found poetry / Wordle.net
- Digital Reader’s Theatre
- voice thread / Try it here.
- google docs
-Moodle

Striving Reader’s Tech Presentation

Principles of Employing Technology in the Classroom
1. Don’t wait for something better.
2. Accept the fact that it won’t always work.
3. Think short term versus long term.
4. They need less guidance than you think.

Thinking of technology differently:
We are largely using it as simply a means of retrieving information.
- Publishing writing
- Communication
- Role Playing
- Digital Storytelling
- Digital poetry
- Interaction

Web Ideas:
- wikis / AVWriting Bird Walk
- bulletin boards / Role Playing
- bubbl.us / Sample bubbl.us
- found poetry / Wordle.net
- digital reader’s theatre
- voice thread / Try it here.
- google docs

2nd Hour Autobiography
7th Hour Autobiography

prfdevel0809b1.ppt

Here are the newsletters for this year.

September Issue (Metaphorical Thinking)
October Issue (Write Around)
November Issue (Assumptions about Race and Save the Last Word
December Issue (Web Generation 2.0 and Deeper Reading)