Digging+Deeper+Session

Links to last years Session: -Social Media (Collaborative Inquiry-need to demonstrate how you can teach content in blended environment) -Online Reading Comprehension (Find links to Mass New Frameworks. Focus on innovative ways to assess both formatively and summatively). -Video (Online Content Construction (You can decide what or how many modes you will work with. Just video, visual texts, blogs,The goal here is to show how writing standards can be met and assessed).

Links to North Carolinas Sessions this year http://nli2011.wikispaces.com/Social+Networking http://nli2011.wikispaces.com/Digital+Video Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research ||
 * Focus Area || Definition || Alignment with Common Core State Standards-need to switch in New Mass Frameworks ||
 * Online Collaborative Inquiry || Group of local or global learners who arrive at a common outcome via multiple pathways of knowledge || Use technology, including the Internet to interact and collaborate with others. ||
 * Online Reading Comprehension || The skills, strategies, and dispositions necessary to question, locate, evaluate, synthesize, and communicate information during tasks that utilize multiple modes of information . || Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
 * Online Content Construction || Process by which students construct and redesign knowledge by actively encoding and decoding meaning on the world through the use of ever shifting multimodal tools || Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing ||

Below are just a sample of possible technologies. You can go in any direction.


 * Focus Area || Tool || Pedagogical Affordances || Grade Specific Standards ||
 * Online Collaborative Inquiry || Wallwisher || Create collaborative and save collaborative notes on an interactive wall. || (3-5)With (some) guidance and support from adults, use technology interact and collaborate with others ||
 * ^  || GoogleDocs || Students can create collaborative documents while teachers use the discussion feature to annotate texts and offer feedback || (3-5)With (some) guidance and support from adults, use technology interact and collaborate with others ||
 * ^  || Blogger || A free blogging tool that will allow students to enage their audience with multimodal texts || (6-12)use technology interact and collaborate with others ||
 * ^  || Google Groups || A free dicussion board software that can be used to inestigate contemporary issues. || (7)Use technology, including the Internet to the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others. ||


 * Focus Area || Tool || Pedagogical Affordances || Grade Specific Standards ||
 * Online Reading Comprehension || Diigo || A collaborative tool that allow students to annotate websites, compare sources and share notes || (5) gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list ofsources. ||
 * ^  || Google Spreadsheet Forms || A tool for data analysis and formative assessments. Create forms that export to spreadsheets. || (8) Use nformation from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively;assess the credibility and accuracy of each source;and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others…. ||
 * ^  || Zotero || A free Browser plug in that includes a Word plug–in for citation generation. Students can take notes on pdfs, websites, and other digital sources. || (-9-10)Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text… ||

Student Interactives || Many tools that help students organize information and publish writing. || 3-5) With (some) guidance and support from adults,use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing ||
 * Focus Area || Tool || Pedagogical Affordances || Grade Specific Standards ||
 * Online Content Construction || Voicethread || A free presentation software that allows feedback through voice recordings and text prompts. || 3-5)With (some) guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing ||
 * ^  || ReadWriteThink
 * ^  || GoogleSites || A free tool students can use to create websites for informational and argumentative texts. || (6-8_use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing ||
 * ^  || Glogster || Create an interactive poster that combines links, pictures, and video || (6-8)use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing ||
 * ^  || Wikispaces || A free wiki tool that allows students to create shared texts || (12)Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and updateindividual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information…. ||