Literacy – ICT Applications
Word-processing
Text type swap
- poetry to prose and vice versa- story to playscript
Two documents
Thesaurus
Thesaurus surfing
Reading without expression
Find and Replace
Comments
Audio Comments
Audio Comments
Multimedia
• Clicker, PowerPoint, IWB software, PhotoStory3, Windows Movie Maker, 2Create a Story and others…
• Combine– Sound & video clips into PowerPoint– Written PowerPoint slides into PhotoStory– Audacity into all!
Record Voice
Save as .jpg
.jpgs in Folder
Tea break?
More Audio
• MP3 commentary
• Description:Produce audio commentaries to be played back by an individual on a portable audio device as they move around a particular location.
• Examples:- a guide to an art exhibition in which artists describe their pictures and sculptures;- a guide to accompany a local history walk with descriptive and explanatory speech pertinent to specific points on the walk
PhotoStory3
Podcast
• Description:Take any digitally recorded audio outcomes from pupils' work and share with a wider audience via the Internet. For example, as part of the Y6 journalistic writing unit pupils may produce a radio news bulletin and augment it with interviews, adverts and other types of text appropriate to the medium of radio.Audio files may be simply uploaded to a website so that they may be downloaded manually by listeners. Alternatively, if regular episodes are to be broadcast, have a podcast feed set up so that listeners may subscribe and have episodes delivered to them automatically. For example, a regular radio podcast through which a single class share examples of poetry, audio plays, interviews, stories, reports/recounts, advertisements etc.
Radio drama
• (audio enactments of narrative text)
• Description:Produce drama conforming to the conventions of radio plays. Digitally record dialogue, edit and add music and sound effects. Share outcomes with a wider audience via the Internet.
Audacity
• Free download from:
• http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rQr5YVNqI0&feature=related
Where next?
Types of screen texts
Computer Applications e.g. Word, CD ROMS,
Websites
Blogs Social networks
Wikis
Other 2 way applications –including Chatsites
The Internet
Presentation software e.g.Interactive Whiteboards
Communicating Information
Web 1ReadDownloadConsumerKeep to yourselfWatchStatic pages that don’t changeLocally Installed applicationWork on your PC
Web 2WriteUpload
Publish
Share
ParticipateDynamic pages that changeWeb based applicationWork on the Internet
Web 2
Allows users to write to as well as read pages on the Internet
On screen texts
• Awareness of the range of examples of on screen reading available to children and the different conventions that go with them
• Able to identify skills and strategies for on screen reading
• Validating and evaluating information on the Internet
Implications for shared, guided and independent reading
• Explicit discussion of reading pathways and factors that influence a reader’s choice
• Modelling reading pathways with children• Drawing on children's own pathways• Explicit teaching of page design as an indicator
of authorial intent
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