tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220390520594776250.post6974553048802456669..comments2023-12-28T16:31:10.689-06:00Comments on Literacy Learning Zone: {Digital Reading: Part 2} #cyberPDMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822472844833732246noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220390520594776250.post-5672405775415208782018-01-07T05:46:44.934-06:002018-01-07T05:46:44.934-06:00This book sounds so good! I wish we had more techn...This book sounds so good! I wish we had more technology here.Loraleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10196420351567403826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220390520594776250.post-22062950432648551532015-07-22T22:54:06.329-05:002015-07-22T22:54:06.329-05:00Michelle,
I absolutely love the way you chose to o...Michelle,<br />I absolutely love the way you chose to organize your reflection! Such a fabulous way to really get to the heart of what you learned and how you plan to apply it. Your three goals for connecting students (blogging, GRA and Twitter) are the same for me. While I've used/done all three in the past, I have a renewed sense of motivation and purpose for weaving these into our day, just as I weave these kinds of things into my own life. Thanks for sharing your thinking!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13652775885614986773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220390520594776250.post-21923477047894429192015-07-19T11:51:27.307-05:002015-07-19T11:51:27.307-05:00Michelle,
I loved your organization of this post: ...Michelle,<br />I loved your organization of this post: take away, think about, try it. As educators who provide support to students from a variety of classrooms we face challenges we have to learn to work around. I appreciated your thinking specific to the work you do with smaller groups. You've given me to ideas to consider (and maybe a few more topics for Voxer). <br /><br />When you talked about blogging this is one I worked on last year and will continue to grow this year. Last year, blogging with students who were in classrooms that blogged was easy. Our first grade team blogs regularly with students making it easy to embed that into our lessons. When students don't have blogging as a regular part of their classroom I found I had to work to figure that out. Last year, I would write a post on our reading hub and allow students to comment. Students liked this way of connecting to one another, but it was hard for them to have as much choice as I would have liked in topic and ways to respond. This year I'm going to consider giving them blogs through our room or helping teachers in these classrooms get started with class blogging. <br /><br />Using digital text with the readers I support remains a challenge. Sites like Toon Books and National Geographic magazine provide some reading material that seem to work for my readers, but often reading is too difficult. Here are a few of the sites I've linked for my readers: http://merelyreading.weebly.com/kid-clicks-read-it-learn-it.html. Thanks for reemphasizing the importance of working harder to make this possible for my readers. You are right when you mention the possibilities of motivation and engagement for readers. Many videos, digital texts, and other media can help build background knowledge so students can grow their understanding and step into texts of varying difficulty. <br /><br />Last year we participated in GRA. I took one lesson each week to support this conversation. I think there were tremendous benefits across the year in referring to these common titles and having an author we knew well. Maybe there's a way we can link our communities in common work. Perhaps we can add that to our try-it list. <br /><br />Thanks for sharing your thinking,<br />CathyCathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08233792477358685156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220390520594776250.post-52985639456700629562015-07-19T10:10:47.342-05:002015-07-19T10:10:47.342-05:00Love the organization!
Thank you for creating the ...Love the organization!<br />Thank you for creating the resource page. I'm hoping to look through and okay with things soon. <br />I love the possibilities of some of the ideas - padlet for exit slips, GRA. Lots of new ideas!Michele Knotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05087579707297009719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220390520594776250.post-370375036834258122015-07-17T05:43:38.552-05:002015-07-17T05:43:38.552-05:00I'm thinking the same as you: Finding digital...I'm thinking the same as you: Finding digital resources for students do use during regular reading workshop time is going to be a huge game changer for me. I think. :) I'm always feeling like I don't have enough books, but the Internet is pretty big. We would never run out of reading content! <br /><br />Connectedness has been a huge help to me! I started participating in Two Writing Teacher's writing challenges and the writing/teaching community there about 8 years ago. I was teaching in a small school with only a few teachers. I didn't have anyone who was teaching the same grades I was teaching, and I needed a community. I found it there, and it has shaped my teaching. I continue to build that community and connect to more like-minded teachers and it helps me feel more passionate about the things I love to do in the classroom. I often think about who different school would have been had I had a similar kind of community as a teenager, or younger. I grew up in a small town and to be able to connect with the "outside world" would have been huge for me. I was always a reader, but didn't have a reading community. (Although, looking back, I probably had one and didn't know about it!) I'm feeling like getting my class connected should be a bigger goal for me than it has been. Lisa Corbetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12602428975643562609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220390520594776250.post-59581393022161070812015-07-16T20:49:57.285-05:002015-07-16T20:49:57.285-05:00I like the organized way you shared your thinking!...I like the organized way you shared your thinking! Well crafted!!Mary Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078793537148794310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220390520594776250.post-52061439432894929082015-07-16T16:15:25.800-05:002015-07-16T16:15:25.800-05:00Thanks for the addition and suggestion! I added t...Thanks for the addition and suggestion! I added the column for the website.<br />MichelleMichellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08895290340118654990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220390520594776250.post-4029084024578063372015-07-16T14:10:05.908-05:002015-07-16T14:10:05.908-05:00I was so glad to see you mention using digital lit...I was so glad to see you mention using digital literacy in an intervention setting. I have been contemplating the same thing as I teach a graduate class as part of an after-school ISA reading program. We are so focused on skill and strategy work that we do not 'have time' for the digital pieces. I write 'have time' because I now realize if we weave these tools in authentic ways, it will not be an add on, but a natural piece of our work and we WILL have time. I am thinking about using digital early readers (will have to find some), Educreations for writing, word work apps and SeeSaw Journal to share our work with families. What do you think?<br /><br />StephanieStephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02575907849285378665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220390520594776250.post-67043233803630129782015-07-16T14:02:01.082-05:002015-07-16T14:02:01.082-05:00I loved the way you shared your thinking - take aw...I loved the way you shared your thinking - take away, think about, try it. Exactly what one hopes to do! Thanks for the resource page, too, Michelle.Tarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13626451110946889157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220390520594776250.post-29602610816400589442015-07-16T13:09:49.839-05:002015-07-16T13:09:49.839-05:00Hi Michelle- Great post! I love how you organized ...Hi Michelle- Great post! I love how you organized it! Thank you too for starting the resource list. I'm loving the cyber-opportunity. ;-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15091611841576073034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220390520594776250.post-48070743798310331062015-07-16T09:28:42.813-05:002015-07-16T09:28:42.813-05:00Hi Michelle,
We love the way you created the Digi...Hi Michelle,<br /><br />We love the way you created the Digital Reading Resources. We added Wonderopolis and wondered if you wanted a column with a link to the website. Thank you for doing this - Such a terrific idea!Tammy and Clarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10198606590637294057noreply@blogger.com