avreading.org

This is a blog that I set up probably three or four years ago to keep in touch with teachers at AVHS. As a secondary purpose, I use it as a “basecamp” for my students. I paid extra for the simple URL AVReading.org, which means that my students (who aren’t always very good with detail), can access a home base rather easily.

In regards to teachers, I post my monthly literacy newsletters as well as my powerpoints from various presentations I do. Initially I was attracted to the ease with which I could post things: texts, powerpoints, pictures, embedded movies etc.

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

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