Assignment # 1 Technology to Support Literacy

My first impression about the article was multimedia technology tools to support digital story telling. However, the article did mention that students do need to follow creative steps of literacy writing. In so doing students need to organize their thoughts on paper, brainstorm, drafts, review, revise,edit and polish. I believe these writing steps could also be completed digitally with an added dimension which includes publication of polished digital story. I did find a digital literacy tool intended for middle-and high school students. The digital tool which I could integrate in my classroom to support literacy instruction is scholastic.com/write it essay. I though this digital literacy tool was great to support student’s literacy skills because they can follow the creative steps of writing a story in different genres and content areas, write with writers, and many different writing activities. Activities such as, descriptive writing, journalism, myth, and many more student friendly projects to explore. I also found that telling a story using multimedia can bog students down with semantics of video production; so this does not happen the article suggested a story board organizer plan-with four parts first, next, then and last. The article also introduced me to different strategies for cooperative groups if computer space is limited. For example if space is limited students could sign  up on a computer sheet and take turns for internet use-(30 minute each); also for weaker students they can be paired with a computer buddy which could be an older student or parent volunteer for help with practical skills. 

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