Future Now! the is © 2008 Virtual High School. All rights reserved. Digital Literacy for a Digital Age Liz Pape, CEO Tracy Sheehan, PD Specialist Virtual

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© 2008 Virtual High School. All rights reserved.

Digital Literacy for a Digital Age

Liz Pape, CEOTracy Sheehan, PD Specialist

Virtual High School Global Consortiumwww.goVHS.org


Purpose

Module Two: Project ShowcaseOverview Module Three: Effective Digital

CommunicationSuggested Modification to Module ThreePost-course Feedback Surveys Rubrics for Module Three ProjectsBest Practices Professional Development FeedbackQ and A


Syllabus

Module 2: Technological Literacy and

Web 2.0

is knowledge about what technology is, how it works, what purposes it can serve,

and how it can be used efficiently and effectively to

achieve specific goals.


Project Showcase


Project Showcase

http://digitalliteracyforadigitalage.wi

kispaces.com


Project Showcase


Project Showcase


Project Showcase


Syllabus

Three Six-week Modules:Module One: Information Literacy Module Two: Technological Literacy

and Web 2.0Module Three: Effective Digital

Communication


Syllabus

Module 3: EffectiveDigital

Communication

Dec. 15th – Feb. 1st

Understanding, managing, and creating effective oral, written, and multimedia communication

in a variety of forms and contexts


Module Three: Effective Digital Communication

Everyone completes Week 13 as an Introduction and Week 18 as a Wrap-up.

Students complete one of the Units using one of the Tools from this Module over a six week period.


Syllabus

Week 13: From Consumers to Critics to Creators (Dec. 15th – Dec 21st )

Week 18: The End(less) Development) (Jan. 26th – Feb. 1st)


Module Three: Effective Digital Communication

Classroom teachers choose which Unit they would like students to work on as part of the module.

Classroom teachers choose which Tool from each unit they would like students to work on as part of the module.


Syllabus

Classroom Teachers Pick one Unit: Unit D: Once upon a Time Unit E: Paint by Numbers Unit F: Multimedia Mania


Unit D: Once upon a Time Tools


Applications

Unit D: Once upon a Time Create subject-specific digital stories; Annotate pictures of famous works of art; Create a video dictionary for ESL or science class; Create digital stories about current events Share, comment, and add notes to photos or images to be

used in the classroom; Use tools in Flickr Toys to create motivational posters,

magazine covers, cd covers, and more, using shared photos;

Create a storybook using shared images; Post images to inspire writing and creativity; Find resources to embed in blogs and wikis; Represent literature or poetry through photos.


Syllabus



Unit E: Paint by Numbers Tools


Applications

Unit E: Paint by Numbers Creating graphic organizers and Venn Diagrams using

Excel can include any discipline – Ancient Civilization graphic organizer, cell organelle graphic organizer

Create timeline; Analyze classroom data from science experiments Create single use spreadsheets to convert temperatures

from Celsius to Fahrenheit, determine sales tax on an item etc;

Create charts and graph or scatter plots for homework or projects in Math or Science lab reports;

Create mindmaps; Real-world student projects like predicting trends in real

estate, mortgage rates, stock market, obesity in America.


Syllabus



Unit E: Multimedia Mania Tools


Applications

Unit F: Multimedia Mania Flash cards for foreign language; Field Trip Slide Shows - Develop field trip slide shows to

review and apply knowledge learned on a field trip. Students can work together to make a slide show that presents what they saw, as well as what they learned; or better yet a virtual field trip;

Autobiographical Stories or Biographical Stories; Interactive Book Reports; Presentations of any type for any subject; Authentic student projects such as starting a new business Screencasting; eScrapbooking.








Post-Course Teacher Survey

Link sent in email









Best Practices

Professional Development for TeachersStart Jan 14th

6 week online coursesRegistration is openhttp://www.govhs.org/Pages/ProfDev-HomeGrad Credit available


Feedback?



Image Citations

Feedbackhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/sunep/2760954968Silly Questionshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/223839049/

Documents

Future Now! the is © 2008 Virtual High School. All rights reserved. Digital Literacy for a Digital Age Liz Pape, CEO Tracy Sheehan, PD Specialist Virtual