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 * Incorporating New Literacies into the K-6 Curriculum Through Inquiry and Choice **

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 * WONDERING **
 * **Setting Google settings for "Safe Search"**
 * Go to Google and click on More in the top menu bar.
 * Then select "Reader" from the pull down "More" menu.
 * Click on the "[|Privacy Policy"] link at the bottom of the page.
 * Click on "[|Google Family Safety Center]" in the middle of the page.
 * Click on "[|Learn about safety tools]".
 * Learn how to set your "[|search settings]" to Safe Search and to [|"lock" safe search] into Google.
 * Here's another great website that I know about how to use....[|google]
 * **Making Space and Time for Wondering**
 * [|Inquiry Buddies]: Tips for pairing first graders (who ask the questions) with fourth graders (who answer them)!
 * Mystery Foods: National Geographic
 * Ugly Bug Contest (and followup with books about those bugs)
 * [|Mystery Bugs: Novice and Expert] (with followup information) from University of Kentucky Entymology
 * Nanoworld Image Gallery
 * Junior Master Gardener: Images in Nature
 * Jigzone: Solve or make your own!
 * Name That Food Flickr Group (ideas to create your own with Flickr)
 * Look at the Inquiry Opportunities awaiting: Praying Mantis ([|Image] > [|Kids Click Search Results] > [|Praying Mantid Caresheet] ([|What's an Entomologist anyway?]) > [|Google Images] > [|Google Videos] > [|Entomology for Kids] ...
 * [|Animal Diversity Web from University of Michigan] (photos, specimens, and sounds)
 * **Making text more accessible with text-to-speech tools like [|Natural Reader 10.0 for Windows]** or [|Readability Toolbar]
 * **Generating Open Ended Questions with Internet Inquiry Baskets and Whole-Group Internet Projects****
 * What Do Cherry Blossom Trees Look Like? see example: [[file:Internet Inquiry Baskets.pdf]]
 * Why did Alexander Want to Move to Australia? (Kindergarten, 2000)
 * **Generating Deep Questions with the Question Matrix**
 * Question Matrix - Resources to explore
 * [|SmartBoard template] to actively engage students


 * EXPLORING **
 * **Connecting With Experts:**
 * Using [|Voicethread] to ask questions
 * [|Skype An Expert] like these elementary students did
 * [|Skype An Author] (amazing!)
 * **Locating**: Using search engines and reading search engine results
 * **Learning**: Using Internet Workshop to determine key ideas, evaluate sources, and consider online reading strategies - read more at Leu, 2002 [|Internet Workshop: Making Time for Literacy]
 * Read what other schools are doing to explore the Internet and digital tools with [|TryCuriosity.com] (Information Literacy for Young Digital Citizens)

**RESPONDING**
 * Sharing with an audience for a real purpose
 * Foundational components of Digital Writing Workshop (Troy Hicks, 2009) include choice & inquiry*, conferring*, author craft, publishing*, and assessment
 * To explore some online tools and resources for getting started with your Digital Writing Workshops, click here.
 * Several ideas about responding from a teacher's blog, [|Teaching in the 21st Century].

**MATTERING**
 * Making it personal and authentic through Internet Projects (authentic audiences, new friends, classroom connections)
 * [|Small Voices Podcast]: [|S][|ports Braves Talk Show Grade 3] or
 * Classroom Connections and Models
 * Kindergarten-Grade 1: [|Jack Fontanella] (Alaska) Note weekly newsletters like [|Week 25])
 * Grade 1-2: [|Marci McGowan] (New Jersey)
 * Grade 4: [|Mary Kreul] (Wisconsin)
 * Grade 5:[| Mr. Romer’s 5th Grade Polar Bears]
 * [|Susan Silverman] (New York) - Explore the "Student Showcase" for any project to how students MATTER
 * Specific student-created projects that represent a purpose for learning and opportunities to make a difference in their own worlds
 * [|Mathtrain.TV]: Kids teaching kids using math videos they create, from Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, California
 * The Students' History: A digital history textbook created by students, for students
 * [|Radio WillowWeb]: Audio Podcasts from Elementary Students, By Kids, For Kids
 * [|Children's Encyclopedia of Women], created by Third and Fourth Graders at Pocantico Hills Elementary School
 * [|Exploravision Winners]: Innovative projects for the future from today's young minds - winners from clusters in Grades 10-12, Grades 7-9, Grades 4-6, and Grades K-3
 * Various examples on [|The Langwitches Blog]
 * Even teachers are joining in with [|CK-12.Org Flexbooks]
 * [|Epals Global Community]: [|Projects] and [|Partners] Galore!
 * [|Global Virtual Classroom]: Annual competitions

How are students using online tools in ways that matter? Post your ideas at this [|Wallwisher board] (for Group A) to share with others. (Group B - Use this [|Wallwisher]).

If you're ready to start your own inquiries with your students, some starting places:
 * [|Edublogs Classroom Blog Challenge]
 * [|Wonderopolis]: Explore over 590 days of different wonders!
 * [|Science A-Z leveled texts] with multimedia anchor videos (e.g., K-2: [|Animal Parts]; Grades 3-4: [|Sound]; Grades 5-6: [|States of Water]
 * [|Quadblogging] - see a [|short summary] about the concept of quadblogging
 * [|SideVibe]: Create your own inquiry tasks and discussion prompts and embed them into side by side online learning environments
 * [|MysterySkype]: Check out how these fourth graders exchanged 10 clues from their own state with another class using Skype - and then used the Internet to help decide which state each class was in.
 * [|Web 2.0 Middle School Collaborative Project Tools]: Use tools such as Cacoo (online diagramming); Weebly for Education (website designer); PhotoStory 3 (for persuasive advertising and book trailers); FotoFlexr (for editing photos in a media literacy lesson);
 * [|Youth Learn]: Technology, media & project-based learning to inspire young minds (From Education Development Center)