My digital literacy is creating a website using Weebly.com. This week I have added a few pages to my website, adding for more variety. One of my concerns is being able to get other users to blog on my blog page. I think that I will have to look at the technicalities of it and unfortunately I might have to set up a link to a separate blog website (such as this one, I like blogger :). But it would be nice if students or parents could blog right on the website without having to navigate away. I also want to figure out how to add U-tube videos. I know there are a lot of good teacher friendly videos and I would love to be able to have a "video of the week" type of deal where students could go online and watch the fun educational video. My other idea is to add a homework page where I tell the work for the day/week/month. This way if students are absent they have an easy way to see what they missed and reminders of when tests are etc. I also would like a place online where I could post notes to lectures, I also haven't figured out if I can use web reader or add one to the page because that would be ideal. I want my web-page to be user friendly, disability friendly and completely accessible. Hopefully i will be able to figure out how to add these amenities because they are key to allowing my future students the ability to access the Internet and become digitally literate.
I have not finished the Tompkins reading (I plan on finishing it now) but I do have a huge concern with the basal readers I have seen in my placement. There are very simple texts that do not follow natural speech patterns or provide in depth plots. I hate the books that are "Sam likes bikes. Sam rides bikes. Sam falls off bike." They are ridiculous and do not teach children any normal form of fluency. If they don't know how to read they are told the first sentence and guess the rest because they know the words will be similar and they always go with the pictures. I have a problem with this because we have a huge number of students that only guess and do not even try to look at the words and they say that they are reading. (Not that it isn't a form of reading to be guessing and using context clues, but often the context clues that they pick up on are much more complex than the story actually provides.) They are trying to make up an elaborate story because that is what comes naturally. Even kindergarteners tell better stories than "We ride Bikes" so I think it is silly to have them read these context-lacking books.
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