Using the Internet/Technology to Improve Literacy Skills

NYSCATE
November 20, 2005

DR. SHEILA GERSH sgersh@ccny.cuny.edu http://www.schoollink.org/twin

ePals
http://www.epals.com

Searching Strategies
http://www.schoollink.org/workshops/search_tools.htm

Filamentality (to create a Hotlist)
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

Videos on Internet B asics
http://www.schoollink.org/TechTips.htm

Subject Matter Experts
http://www.schoollink.org/twin/smes.htm

Cyberguides
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html

WebQuests
http://www.webquest.org

CultureQuest
http://www.culturequest.us

Audio Stories
http://www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au/requested_sites/audiostories

Online Stories
http://www.magickeys.com/books

Place to create a Blog
http://www.blogger.com
http://www.schoollink.org/techliteracy/sum05blogs.htm

Word to Image; Image to Word
http://t3.preservice.org/T0211900 (click gallery and then library in left frame)

Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.com

Write your own stories with icons
http://www.kids-space.org/forms/story/formS_month.html

Template to create your own electronic books
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/highlandes/agraywww/electronicbooks.html

PuzzleMaker
http://www.puzzlemaker.com

My Favorite Poem
http://www.favoritepoem.org/

Concept Maps
http://www.2learn.ca/construct/graphicorg/concept/conceptmapindex.html

Digital Stories:
http://www.digitalstories.org/home.asp
http://www.ymdi.org/glossary/words/000996.php

Addition Literacy Links
http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/littech.htm

More Literacy Websites
http://www.schoollink.org/twin/Language%20Arts%20Web%20Links.html

Digital Stories on PowerPoint

http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html