MULTIMEDIA TOOLS FOR LITERACY LEARNING

Affordances of iPads/iPhones

Touch: Intuitive navigation of texts and virtual worlds

Portability/storage/ownership Personal learning device

Social reading/writing Multimodality Collaboration/communication

Affordances

Affordances not “in” app

App Activity Affordances created by teachers

Activity App

App affordances: Literacies to learn across the curriculum

Accessing/Analyzing Information to Learn

Reading Digitally to Learn Writing to Learn Discussing to Learn Images to Learn Audio/Video to Learn Games, Simulations, and Drama to Learn Reflection to Learn

Accessing/Analyzing Information

Accessing/Analyzing Information to Learn: Wikipedia

Qwiki includes videos, images, graphs, and

entries for millions of topics Articles for iPad Wikipedia Mobile Wikipanion Plus Simplepedia iWiki

Accessing/Analyzing Information to Learn: QR reader apps

Create QR code images Entering in a URL in a QR create

site such as Qrafter, QRstuff.com, Kaywa, Tec-IT, QR-app

Insert QR codes into texts provide other related texts or pose questions 

Reading/writing to learn

Using Diigo social bookmarking for sharing annotations

1. Add Diigo to your iPad or computer toolbar

2. Find an online text

3. Highlight sections of the text

4. Click on the icon to add a Sticky Note response

5. Have other students add their responses

Diigo annotations: Pro-con readings: benefits of energy from wind power

7th grade students iMelanie Swandby’s Lighthouse School Community

Charter School, Oakland, California Students posed questions for each other

“What does that mean, virtually free?”

What are some things that use energy or power?”

Adding sticky-note annotations

One student’s annotation: Pro wind turbine essay

One student’s annotation: con essay

Students responding to each other’s annotations

Dialogic interactions through annotations

“There is a bad and good thing about this. Bad is it kills birds passing by. Good it makes energy cleaner.”

“Tarnished with wind turbines? Aren't wind turbines supposed to be a good thing? Why are they complaining about the turbines? it doesn't even look bad.”

Use of annotations for summary writing

I am perplexed in choosing if wind energy is a good courses or bad source. While, wind energy is a good source because it’s renewable and needs nothing more but construction, it can also cause irritation and attention of some people. Wind turbines are loud, noisy, and risky. Even though, it doesn’t cause any greenhouse gases in the air, wind turbines are harmful to wildlife and space. More birds die by getting hit by wind turbines which is very dangerous to our wildlife.

Graphic novel app: Teacher guide: http://www.freespirit.com

Writing to learn

Digital concept mapping

iPad apps: iBrainstorm, MindMeister for Ipad,, Sundry Notes, Idea Sketch, Total Recall, inShare, iMindMap MindNode, iThoughtsHD, Popplet Lite

Hierarchical/logical relationships between key concepts

5th Grade Students: Popplet Lite for Concept Mapping

5th grade students in Laura Kretschmar’s class at Lighthouse Community Charter School, Oakland, California

Lesson on rare earth metals to address the question, “What is gold?”

Mateo’s initial map: What is gold?

Mateo’s revised map

Twitter apps

Twitter Apps such as Twitter, TweetCaster Tweetbot, Tweetdeck, Twitteriffic, HootSuite

Create class account Use Twitter hashtag for your class

#JonesHistory10AikenHS

Twitteriffic

HootSuite

Collaborative writing/data collection: Google Docs forms

5th graders: Weaver Lake School, Osseo, MN

Data on parasite presence in Monarch butterflies

49% had parasites

Writing multmodal story books

StoryKit, Storyrobe, Book Creator, Bookemon Mobile, Picture Books, Writer's Studio, StoryPatch, Demibooks® Composer, StoryBuddy, My Story, MoglueBooks, myebook, StoryJumper (for younger students), Tikatok

Comics/graphic novels

Comic Life, Strip Designer, ComicStrip CS Shttp://tinyurl.com/6or7bvz, Comics Creator, PhotoComic, Comic Touch Lite

Apps for Sharing/Publishing Writing

ePub: Mac Pages (soon to be on iPad Pages)

Apple iBooks Author (requires OS Lion): iBooks

Dotepub or Inkling books

Discussing to learn

Subtext.com: exchange ideas in the pages of digital texts. (Edmodo)

Discussing to learn: Collaborize Classroom

Free platform for classroom discussions

App/Web-based Extensive curriculum

resources Focus on fostering students

collaboration Professional development

Discussing to learn: Google+ Hangout: Up to 10 people

Images/audio/video to learn

VoiceThread: Multiple audiences share responses to the same images

VoiceThread affordances: Literacy practices

Collaborative shared reading Mediated by focus on same images Learn from each other’s focus/practices

Scientific thinking: claims/counter-claims Exposure to competing arguments

“The asteroid couldn’t have caused the dinosaur extinction because the asteroid only landed on one spot and there were dinosaurs everywhere.”

Screencasting app: Doodles and audio voice-over for collaborative reading/writing/video

ShowMe, Explain Everything, VoiceThread, Screenchomp, Educreations

7th grade students at Lighthouse Community Charter School Mendelian genetics Created ShowMe presentations

Students ShowMe’s: Genetics: dominant vs. recessive traits

“If a brown eyed and a blue eyed parent had a baby, what color eyes would the baby have?” http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=ibbycYS

Mother and father birds and baby bird http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=RNKspgu Pea plant genetics http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=GC6q3nM

ShowMe affordances: Social reading/writing/video synergy

Unfolding doodling voice-over talk Use of ShowMe for prewriting/revision

Testing our/erasing doodles Collaborative focus on same images Video: Rhetorical sense of audience Use science disciplinary literacy

Images, charts, figures as data evidence

Screencasting: Students or you create how-to tutorials for peers

VoiceThread, ExplainEverything, Screenchomp, ShowMe, Educreastions

Snapguide http://tinyurl.com/ctkslx8 Students:

Discussing to learn: Teen texting: Pew Research

63% text daily Median number sent daily was 60 in 2011.

39% cell phones 35% face-to-face socializing, 29% social-networking messages, 22% IMing 6% emailing.

Texting/message apps

iMessage (iPad or iPhone), Messages (Mac), AK Messenger!, textPlus Free Texting + Group Text, Textie™ Messaging

Classroom-based texting systems: Class Parrot, Kikutext, WeTxt, Remind101, Sendhub, Class Pager

Gaming/simulation to learn

Games/simulations/drama to learn: Game/simulation/roleplay apps

Tiny Tower, CityVille Hometown, My Town 2, Trade Nation, Farm Story, Epic Citadel (medieval fantasy town with a cathedral).

Students creating characters and stories based on the Epic Citadel medieval setting

http://www.porchester.notts.sch.uk/citadel

Reflection to learn

Screencasting: feedback

VoiceThread, ExplainEverything, Screenchomp, ShowMe, Educreastions

Video response to writing: Jing http://tinyurl.com/3kkw4am

Speeches/drama: Formative Feedback for Learning http://formativefeedbackapp.blogspot.com

Professional development to learn

Apps for planning/organizing instruction

Nearpod http://tinyurl.com/6ts55kp http://new.nearpod.com videos, polls, sketching tools, or featured

presentations GoClass http://tinyurl.com/chbmeke

http://tinyurl.com/blgogqs SHOW (online resources), EXPLAIN (add

notes), ASK (questions for students)

App uses/recommendations

EdReadch channel (MobileReach, MacReach)

Appy Hours 4 U The TechChef4u app

The iPad Show The Daily App Show TWIT channel Tech Chick Tips