Harnessing the power of new technologies for literacy

Caroline RocheLead Practitioner for the Humanities 2011

caroline.roche@holmesdale.kent.sch.uk

Twitter is an excellent tool for communicating with other professionals

You can get instant answers to your questions

All of the online tools I will show you were shared with me on Twitter

Best practice, blogs, information from DFE I downloaded the White Paper within

minutes of it going online thanks to tweets

@carolineroche

Wordle: http://www.wordle.net Tagxedo: http://www.tagxedo.com/

To analyse the content of a website To analyse a speech To analyse an essay, picking out the main themes

To use as shelf ends, showing Dewey To use as a poster

http://animoto.com Create a short free video, or get a free educational account for slightly longer ones

Promote author events, visits, books – whatever you choose

Animoto on school libraries

• Click on Create, once on the website, and then choose Short video, which are the free ones

Use this button to import pictures from your computer

Put your pictures in these boxes, in the order in which you want them. You can only have 15 pictures and text.

Use this tab to add music, your own or Animoto’s preselected range

Use this tab to finalise your Animoto. Effects are added by Animoto, and can’t be changed

http://vodpod.com Use this for collecting videos and sharing

them on your blog Needs YouTube to be enabled You can belong to a community so you are

informed when others collect a video Easy to embed on blogs – all instructions

are on Vodpod Use book trailers to enthuse students about

upcoming books http://youtu.be/JF5wu8TLOaU

Go to http://storybird.com Either sign in to create your own stories and

save them, or you can create a story right away

Simple, easy and quick to use. Great for encouraging creative writing

http://storybird.com/books/an-unexpected-party/?token=nwg3nv

Here’s one I made earlier …

http://www.heromachine.com/

This needs to be supervised, but use it to end a lesson where students have been creating their own superhero stories

Then ask them to create a character on Heromachine to illustrate their story

http://piclits.com Drag and drop words on to photos to create

poems Sign in to free account if you want to save Can be use for starters or plenaries on IWB Can embed clickable preview, but whole

thing must be viewed on website

Getting boys to read: http://bookzone4boys.blogspot.com/

Fun site with several authors: http://www.trappedbymonsters.com/

Comics in the Classroom: http://comicsintheclassroom.net/

Children’s literacy and comics research: http://www.physorg.com/news176648788.html

Poetry for children: http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/home.do

Library Advocacy: http://heartoftheschool.edublogs.org