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=**Building Tools for Communication and Growth: Literacy Changes!!!!**= toc

*BACKGROUND
[|ICSD Technology Literacy Standards K-8]

***SEARCHING**
[|Kids Search Engines] An article on search engines for kids from Search Engine Watch with links to search engines [|Ivy's Search Engine Resources for Kids] Search forms for the major search engines for kids, and more [|Kids' Tools for Searching the Internet] [|About.com] [|A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web] Check out lesson 7 for basic search tips [|Dictionary.com]

***INTERNET SAFETY**
[|Online Safety Rules for Kids] from FEMA Blogs and Social Networking A good place to get introduced to what these tools are [|Wiki on Internet safety]; puts it in pespective.

***CITATION**
[|TekMom's Citation Page] [|Citation Machine]. [| What I Learned About Being a Copy-Cat: A True Story by Andrew ("the") Kerr] A fictional tale to share with students about the need to respect copyright [|Sing along, and learn about copyright] **HOT!!**

***EARLY LITERACY**

 * 1) [|Building Language for Literacy]
 * 2) [|Learn to Read at Starfall]
 * 3) [|GameGoo]
 * 4) [|Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun (Vocabulary Building for K-12 and ESL students)]
 * 5) [|Literacy Center Links]
 * 6) [|WordCentral.Com]
 * 7) [|ITC Games for Infant Learners]

***SITES and COLLECTIONS**

 * 1) [|LITTLE EXPLORERS by Enchanted Learning Software]
 * 2) [|Busy Teachers' Website: Elementary School]
 * 3) [|Powatan Elementary School-librarylinks]
 * 4) [|Give your class a Daily Dose of the Web]
 * 5) [|Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators]
 * 6) [|Links for K-12 Teachers]
 * 7) [|Grade Level Skills Help]
 * 8) [|Sites for Teachers]
 * 9) [|Peterson Homepage]
 * 10) [|Literacy Center Education Network]
 * 11) [| APTE - Educator Tools - Puzzle Center]
 * 12) [| Mrs. Arnold's Second Grade Class]
 * 13) [| Cayuga Heights Elementary School Library]
 * 14) [| Technology Integration in the Elementary Classroom]
 * 15) [|Nasa for Kids]
 * 16) [|Scholastic]
 * 17) [|Coloring]
 * 18) [|Spelling]
 * 19) [|Keyboarding]

***MATH**
[|Everyday Mathematics]

***For mining:**
http://del.icio.us/ayale/Writing http://del.icio.us/ayale/Math

A Guide for 1-1 Paraprofessionals in ICSD by Wendy Wallitt

*Interesting
[|Did You Ever Wonder?] [|EPIC Videos] from the Museum of Media History [|Introducing the book] and [|this] too. These are humorous commentaries on our historical difficulties in adapting to new media. [|Web 2.0] Using the [|Web 2.0 write up in Wikipedia] this video is to help teach educators about Web 2.0 tools. [|Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us] Digital ethnography [| Pay Attention] http://web2videos.blogspot.com/ A compendium of videos and multimedia on Web 2.0 [|The next-gen lecturer] from [|Dan Meyer] http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=849 There are some ideas and video links in this review of the Flip video: http://terry-freedman.org.uk/artman/publish/article_1336.php http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8&amp;feature=related A Vision of K-12 students - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8 A Vision of Students Today - http://youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o Shift Happens - http://youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/t4/content/view/221/35/ The Maine is Us/ing Us - http://youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

Alan Levine's 50 Web 2.0 Ways to tell a Story would be a great one: his preso: http://cogdogblog.com/2008/05/14/50-ways-maricopa/ (audio) the actual project: http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways http://voicethread.com/#home.b409.i848804

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