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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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The Early-Literacy Shift: New Words, New Media, New Friends

The Early-Literacy Shift: New Words, New Media, New Friends | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"Literacy is changing. It really is. Even in my grade one classroom as the students begin to learn their letters and sounds, as they start to put those letters and sounds together into words, and as they take their first hesitant steps to read and write —literacy is changing.

The change in our classroom was subtle at first. When my students began writing the word we with two i’s, I smiled and talked about the more traditional spelling of the word. When students came to school with a clear understanding of what it meant to get to the next level or to have several lives, I took notice of the new vocabulary they had."

Beth Dichter's insight:

Putting young students together with technology creates a win-win situation in this classroom. Learn how one teacher has her students writing in blogs to share their work, using twitter, learning vocabulary (such as pingback) and much more. This post is complete with a video where students provide definitions of words and share how they use technology in their classroom.

Mariana Soffer's comment, July 29, 2013 5:53 AM
Great post, do you have a website or a blog?
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An interactive video round-up (seven tools to explore)

An interactive video round-up (seven tools to explore) | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"Interactive video is a powerful new tool that allows teachers and learners to enhance video they make themselves–as well as the videos they discover on the Web–with text, images, maps, links, and other media...It appears that a new subgenre of interactive video creation tools is emerging...if you want to be part of the conversation, if you believe that video can do more than talk at you, you’ll be a lover of these powerful interactive annotation tools for video."

Beth Dichter's insight:

If you are looking for "powerful interactive annotation tools for video" look no further than this post from Joyce Valenz. She discusses seven tools that you may want to explore:

* Mozilla Popcorn Maker

* The Mad Video

* TED-Ed's Flip this Lesson

* wireWax

* YouTube Video Annotation Tools

* Embed Plus (available as a Chrome extension and coming soon for Firefox

* Blubbr

Each of the tools is discussed and in most cases samples of work are also provided. 

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