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Here is a valuable source of many [|technology tools] that are available to you in one place. I hope you will take time to explore and use these tools.

I hope you will take the time to view this [|Prezi] on Assessment for learning.

If your are not busy with holiday stuff, you can view online an author [|writing] a novel in real time. Once on the web sit Click on the link livewriting. I found it interesting, Hope you will too.

[|Social Media in the Classroom] Here is an article on using social media in the classroom (similar to our discussion Monday) JRF.

National Educational Technology Plan 2010
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** Seminar featured aural reading and Bookshare program ** ** BY TAJUANA CHESHIER • TCHESHIER@JACKSONSUN.COM • November 17, 2010 ** ·  · Type Size West Tennessee educators learned about the use of assistive technology to help students with learning disabilities read books during a two-day seminar held on Lambuth University's campus. On Monday, Mike Matvy, a school psychologist from Knoxville, gave a presentation titled, "Aural Reading: Moving Bright Students with Dyslexia from Mediocrity to Excellence." "We're learning more about how we can help students," Matvy said. During aural reading, a student listens to a narrator read material to them. Matvy said most books could be made accessible to students by contacting the Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, or RFBD, organization. According to the group's website, it works with publishers and technology innovators to bring accessible materials to people with visual and learning disabilities. Its digital library offers state adopted textbooks as well. The theme of the seminar was "Solving the Puzzle," said Kathy Pierce, an assistive technology specialist with Jackson-Madison County Schools. "This is our third year to host this conference," she said. "We invite educators and service providers to attend." On Tuesday, the seminar featured a representative from Bookshare, a California based company that offers its members access to more than 90,000 sources of reading material. Bookshare offers free membership to all students in the United States with a qualified print disability - blindness, a physical disability or a learning or reading disability that impacts a students' ability to read printed books. Participants have to qualify to participate, but there is no cost to implement the program. Bookshare representative Christine Jones said there are 110,000 members and that 105,000 are students with memberships through their schools. Once a student or teacher has a membership, he or she has access to Bookshare's inventory of auditory reading, which includes textbooks, newspapers and magazines. <span style="display: block; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0.1in; padding: 0in;">"We really want schools to catch on to this program," Pierce said. "In Jackson-Madison County, only some of our special education students have access, but anyone in the schools that meet the criteria can start to use it." <span style="display: block; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0.1in; padding: 0in;">Student memberships are paid through an award from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. <span style="display: block; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0.1in; padding: 0in;">—Tajuana Cheshier, 425-9643 <span style="display: block; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0.1in; padding: 0in;">For more information about Bookshare log onto bookshare.org. || @font-face { font-family: "Calibri"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } ===Here is a blogpost on strengthening vocabulary through a classroom wiki. I thought it was very pertinent. [|Vocabulary Wikis] JRF=== Thanks JRF This is a great site. I also use this concept for Reading Methods. Due to the plethora of specific terminology related to Literacy. Here is a link of the previous class. It was my intent that the next reading course would add to it. This develops the wiki into a generational wiki.
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0.1in; padding: 0in;">** Technology helps students with learning disabilities read books **

Here is a new website that offers teachers to offer supplemental math support for students. http://www.tenmarks.com/teacher/
It would be great to just try it out as it is free for teachers. Here is the login password/computer generated.

[|NaNoWriMo]
=The 2010 [|Global Education Conference] will be held November 15 - 19, 2010 **online and free!**=
 * You can also follow on Twitter .** The Twitter account is http://www.twitter.com/ globaledcon. The hash tag #globaled10. :) Now you're social-media ready!

Ipod Touch Thread on Classroom 2.0
There is a pretty neat thread on Classroom 2.0 about Ipod Touch usage in the classroom. It is old but people are still commenting on it. It originated from a blog post on the schoolwide implementation of ipods in a North Carolina school. Here is the link :[|Classroom 2.0 Ipod Touch Link] **JRF** A lot of great discussion here that may help you in your assignment. In addition I have added some links to the iPod page of this wiki. AS

On Thursday **(10/7/10)**
There was a great discussion on classroom management. I am looking forward to hearing more from Y with regards to the student she mentioned. I wanted to share an open source [|text book] with you regarding classroom management particularly chapter 6. I would also like your thoughts on open source ed and textbooks as I am planning on using three open source textbooks for the Content Area Reading Course. Source: http://www.oercommons.org/ []

~Open Text books seem like a good idea. If i am reading right about this it is a text book online that you can download (some for free)? If this is correct they would be awesome so we don't spend so much on them in the book store, we have them online for free**. -EEP** ~I am one that likes to have books in hand but am open to change and can certainly see the benefits of online textbooks. **RBK** ====I agree RBK, the large amount of boxes of books I dragged down are a testiment to that, however, textbooks come and go, are updated or not, and teachers should try to use updated materials when ever possible. Often online text books are the most recent publication, not always. My plan for the Content Area Reading course is three online text books (most are only 100 pages) yet each specific for Science, Math and Social Studies. I hope you will enjoy using them and an added benefit is the reduction in cost for the course.AS====

[|MEET ME AT THE CORNER], Virtual Field Trips for Kids, is an interactive site which encourages individual expression and participation through video submissions from children worldwide. The idea is that kids make their own "instructional mini field trip" videos that they upload and share. I think this would be an awesome class project. Their is also a good deal of content that could be used for instruction, a kind of by kids-for kids theme. **JRF** [|__Tagxedo__] turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. Basically "[|Wordle] on steroids" according to Scott Leslie http://www.edtechpost.ca/ I think this could be a great class project. Please offer your thoughts.
 * Welcome to Tagxedo, tag cloud with styles**

I played around with it and I thought it was pretty neat. This would be awesome to use in any class. You could build one from writing samples or famous text for a language arts class. You could also construct one from terminology for a science or math class. The program allows you to upload your own image as well. There is even an option to use the finished image on t-shirts or posters that you can order. **JRF** OKAY, I did not try Tagxedo for myself but I will when time permits. I am a scrapbooker and can already see these creations on some great pages not to mention the ideas to use in a classroom. This is really cool! **RBK**
 * Thanks JRF for a great resource!** I particularly like the idea of interviews with authors so much more exciting than a book report, don't you think? Students can also interview other students that have read the same book and offer a readers insight to others.

How would [|wordia] support students in your classroom?
This would really be good for working with grades 1-3 on vocabulary. What better way to remember the meaning of words than to construct your own video definitions. I bet the students would not soon forget any definitions they did videos for. Definitely more creative than the old word list, phonetic spelling, and dry definitions I had in school. **JRF** I agree with Jon. I have been working with my 2nd grader today and struggling with how to help her. Maybe we should try this out! RBK

[|5 Tools to Create and Administer Quizzes Online]
Thanks for your post. The children's answers were great. I also think the class did a great job in our discussion today.

I thought that this video was very interesting and that it fit right in with our discussion on the gender stereotypes in the classroom. It really made me think about my own prejudices and sterotypical views. Even more interesting is the comparrison between the school kids' answers and the adults' answers. Here is the link : Different Generations, Same Riddle. JRF

Great video. I think I'll ask the riddle of my youth group tonight and see what answer I get! RBK

[|Voki]for educators For more [|ideas]

Are you a [|//Bookfuturist// or //Bookservative//]?

Definitely a bookfuturist, but with a fondness for print books for some applications. JRF

Your future text books @http://video.ted.com/talks/podcast/RichardBaraniuk_2006.mp4

Something new to me and I found it interesting. [|http://www.wallwisher.com] :) The wallwisher looks fun ! If ever I find the time to play with it RBK

I would like to share this portion of text from Department of Teacher Education Middle Georgia College, Preconditions. This was submitted to Georgia Professional Standards commission for approval of our program Sept 15, 2009.

** Diversity ** The urgency of guiding all learners to success has been clearly articulated by Linda Darling-Hammond. “This nation’s ability to embrace and enhance the talents of those who have struggled for voice and educational opportunity will determine its future” (1997, p. 30). If all children are to be effectively taught, educators must be prepared to address the substantial diversity and experiences children bring with them to school – the wide range of languages, cultures, exceptionalities, learning styles, talents, and intelligences (Darling-Hammond, Wise, & Klein, 1999). Students from different cultures exhibit behavior, language, and learning patterns that are appropriate for their respective culture, but differ from other cultures (Trawick-Smith & Lisi, 1994). Communications with adults and peers, play behavior, understandings of sharing, cooperation, decision-making, and family are all human activities influenced by culture (Trawick-Smith, 1997; Turnbull, Turnbull, Shank & Leal, 1995). Other factors that vary by culture include understandings of time, space, dress, food, work, leisure, status, and gender roles (Diaz-Rico & Weed, 1995). Because the culture of teachers often varies from that of their students, the role of teacher preparation programs in providing multicultural perspectives is unique and vital. Educators who have knowledge of differences attributable to culture are able to adapt instruction to address cultural strengths and avoid discontinuity between school and the child’s culture (Au, 1993). Knowledge of racial and ethnic identity, development differences, and cultural issues are essential for self-understanding and culturally responsible instruction (Tatum, 1997). Cultural knowledge enables individuals to increase self-awareness, demonstrate respect for cultures other than one’s own, extend equity, and minimize intergroup conflicts based on ignorance and misunderstanding (Gollnick & Chinn, 1983). Gay (2002) offers a powerful vision of a culturally responsive learning community that places “teachers in an ethical, emotional, and academic partnership with ethnically diverse students, a partnership that is anchored in respect, honor, integrity, resource sharing, and a deep belief in the possibility of transcendence” (p. 109).

I believe that through literature we can gain incite to many diverse cultures. However, the accuracy and/or stereotypes must be understood. Hence, our need for awareness of such and my request that we include an accounting of stereotyping or cultural diversity in our Annotated Bibliography. Thanks Anne

Dear Cohorts, I hope that you have found the RDED3122 Sylablus on LiveText. I have also posted the assignments that are required for this course. These assignments are a must for you to achieve a 4.0 in this course. Program requirements, not mine.

I have adjusted the language on the assignment for Anotated Bib to 10 books/week. See Annotated Bib page in this wiki for more info.

This means that the Suylabus posted is subject to change. ALL CHANGES ARE POSTED ON COURSE SCHEDULE OF THIS WIKI!

I hope you enjoy Dr. Cramer's first chapter.Take note of his writing voice and design of the book. We will discuss more in class on Monday.

Please note that while everyone can edit pages, the system can only load up edits one at a time. Should two people post at the same time you may loose some of your information. I suggest that for some postings that you write them in word first, store on your computer and then copy and paste to the wiki so you do not loose your hard work. Also you can see a history tab. I use this page to see that everyone is participating. When posting requirements for the course. PLEASE INCLUDE YOU INITIALS AFTER YOUR COMMENTS.

Just take some time to get use to things. I haven't lost a student yet. I am here to support your learning. Thanks Anne