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media type="custom" key="2244099" [|Technology Integration] - Huge site of resources on how to integrate technology into the classroom [|Internet 4 Classrooms] - Huge site with tutorials, lessons, interactive activities for grades K-12 and for any subject [|Internet 4 Classrooms] - Links for K-12 Teachers (skill building, classroom organization, differentiated instruction, integrating technology and more!) [|Global Classrooms] - Created by Patti Weeg it has tons of things for teachers and students [|Interactive Quizzes] - The site has interactive quizzes for grades 3-5, & 8 in Reading & Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, & Technology [|Interactive Websites] - tons of websites and links for all content areas [|Interactive Games] - many different games for Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies [|Interactive Quizzes] - Reading, Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies quizzes for grades 3-8 [|Online Basic Skill Games] - Huge directory of Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, and Interactive Websites [|Visual Learning] - This site has ready made graphic organizers and technology resources to use in your daily instruction [|Teacher Resources] - huge site with many different resources for teachers [|K12Station] - Library of K-12 Educational links [|Fact Monster]- games and quizzes [|K-3 SMART board sites]- list of tons of activities for different subject areas
 * Internet Sites for Teachers and Students:** (My favorites)

[|Infusing Technology into Reading Instruction.ppt] - My Professional Development presentation I made for the RPDS conference that addresses reasons to infuse technology, defines new literacies, and describes how to use Turingpoint in reading instruction
 * Technology Research and References:**

[|Technology References.doc] - My references I used for research papers & other projects on how to infuse technology into your classroom [|Teaching with the Internet] - complete book that links to many great websites - written by Donald J. Leu & Deborah D. Leu [|Connecting Curriculum with and Technology] - National Educational Standards for Students - complete book with pdf files and links [|New Literacies on the Internet] - lessons, ideas, projects, research and tons of links on how to infuse new literacies in reading [|Language Arts and Reading Research] - huge website of research and resources to help improve reading and language arts. [|Technology and Classroom Practices]: An International Study - By Robert B. Kozma (research article)

[|Searching for an answer]: //The critical role of new literacies while reading on the internet// by Laurie A. Henry [|Infusing Literacy and Technology] - article from International Reading Association (2001) entitled, //Integrating literacy and technology into the curriculum// [|Edutopia] - Website that has articles and videos that show best practices of how to infuse technology into your classroom
 * Articles for Educators:**




 * Below are some reading skills and strategies that teachers can use with their students so they can use technology more proficiently** **when they are searching the internet.**
 * [[image:search.gif width="49" height="39"]] __6 strategies for searching the internet:__** Eagleton & Guinee (2002) [[image:search.gif width="53" height="33"]]
 * Activating a student's prior knowledge will make their search more successful and meaningful
 * 1. Be specific - try to narrow your focus || 4. Be distinct - don't repeat your focus ||
 * 2. Be exact - use only words/phrases you want to find || 5. Be succinct - try to eliminate unnecessary words ||
 * 3. Be direct - only search one focus at a time || 6. Be concise - carefully & thoughtfully select keywords ||
 * Locating information in your search is extremely important. All your other decisions and functions rely on the search process.
 * Know what type of search engine you are using. Some search engines use text matching while others are organized by categories.
 * Ways they search: text matching and frequency of a word appearing on a page and also search how the pages are linked together.
 * The more a word appears and the more pages it is linked to then the higher ranked that website becomes.
 * A lot of the times the sites that are ranked higher are the results of fees that are paid to the search engine to rank their site high (Sponsors).


 * [[image:book.gif]] __Reading Strategies for Reading on the Internet:__** Laurie A. Henry (2006) [[image:book.gif]]


 * 1. Analyze data - reading to find the most relevant information about your focus || 4. Context clues - understanding key terms and meanings in the text ||
 * 2. Skim and Scan - browsing the text for main ideas and key words/phrases || 5. Text Structure - understanding text features and unfamiliar text structures of online texts is important for comprehension ||
 * 3. Making inferences - deciding if this information suits your focus || 6. Read Critically and Synthesize Information - being able to evaluate the information for its authenticity and relevancy ||



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