Archive forJanuary, 2007

Online Reading Literacies

January 22, 2007 @ 6:42 pm · Filed under Literacy

In exploring the topic of online reading, as informed by Coiro & Dobler’s research on skilled and less skilled readers (2004), we asked the following questions:

What does online reading involve?

How does it differ from reading traditional texts?

What do skilled readers do? What do less skilled readers struggle with? Why?

What must students acquire to become proficient at online reading? 

What types of pre-reading activities would best help all kinds of learners?

What would the potential drawbacks be to directing student to reading online texts? Conversely, what would the benefits be?

Have online texts reached its pinnacle (in development) as a source of information?  If so or if not, what are the implications for both teachers and learners?

We considered both cognitive strategies and navigation behaviors. The comments in response to this post record our attempt to address some of these questions. Feel free to join our discussion by adding a comment of yours.

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Getting Started: Setting Personal Goals

January 8, 2007 @ 9:57 am · Filed under Introductions

This first web log entry gives you an opportunity to introduce yourselves as educators to others in this course and beyond. Tell us something about your expectations from this course in general as well as from the web logging experiment at large.  Happy blogging!

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Welcome to EDRD 7360!

January 8, 2007 @ 9:12 am · Filed under Introductions

Congratulations, you’ve logged in successfully. This web log is a home page for EDRD 7360: Literacy and Technology. It will serve as a clearinghouse for our dialogue in the blogosphere. This is where you will share with larger audiences interesting ideas from research and readings in our course and beyond, thought-provoking questions, and helpful resources for practice.

Your blog entries may utilize a variety of media (images, links, film clips, etc.). You will also be asked to read and respond to at least one of your colleagues’ blog entries using the Comment feature on this blog. Please review the Commenting page on my professional blog before posting your first responses to others’ web log entries on the EDRD 7360 blog. Also, make sure to give each post or comment a title so that it can be associated easily with our discussion topics.

You will post comments to students on their individual blogs. I will provide the links to these students’ blogs in the near future.

Let us begin our journeys into the blogsphere that celebrates collaborative learning, reflection, and sharing of expertise and resources!

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