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 * Digital Literacies for the English Classroom**

//Jamie Meyers, Penn State, and a panel of teachers from State College Area School District

Description: English teachers share various activities for laptop digital tools that engage students in communication activities to develop both print and digital literacies.

Computer teacher shares how she connects with classroom:// Use Word to outline a project from a text. Create video file also for history project. History text is online now - use that as a source for English class.


 * The Evolution of a Collaboration**
 * Benefits of a fundamental course - computer apps
 * Clearly defined roles and objectives for each stakeholder
 * Flexibility

Outline objectives to get them be authentic historians Collaborators Resources
 * Project - Immigration Video (iMovie)**
 * Find primary sources
 * Introduce and practice sound historical research methodology
 * Communicate Findings
 * Foster understanding of immigrant struggles and appreciateion of their heritage
 * LIbrarian! Very important resource
 * Computer applications
 * History
 * Access PA
 * EBSCO
 * POWER
 * Discovery Streaming
 * Historical Newspapers
 * Free web - show websites last to keep them using the in house sources fine.
 * Content based sources first and then visual sources after that.
 * Plan the resource introduction carefully as the students get overwhelmed.
 * Librarian created a checklist for students to evaluate sources. Forces students to be careful about where they get their information.

Library Checklist
 * Think about search terms, evaluate results of search terms, look at secondary sources for new key terms.
 * Force other types of resources (books, online articles, etc...) Put them on the checklist.
 * Be Holistic - Stay away from Google

Note taking Guide
 * Collecting citations is not intuitive
 * Grade attached to thesis
 * Teacher evaluates note taking guide
 * 6 different things to look for to put in video project

Assessment (Who is grading what? Computer apps teacher grades technical side, English teacher graded content)
 * Thesis Check
 * Note Check
 * Storyboard (signed off on this b4 video project got underway)
 * iMovie
 * Bibliography

Rubric for each

Challenges
 * Class Mix
 * Time consuming (Development, Class time, feedback)
 * Students need to understand different perspectives/objectives
 * Technology Failures
 * Time Management
 * Not using a breadth of sources, overwhelmed by information
 * Lack of flow

Year 3 - Shake it up due to boredom, need to differentiate
 * Increased topics, by focusing National History Day as a model
 * Show multiple ways to convey research findings.
 * Did paper and turned into video...
 * Research paper to documentary (thesis, outline, paper, defend paper, documentary)