Week+8

__Media Literacy__ Guest Lecture by Barbara McLaughlin while Bruce was away.

Assessment of learning (purposeful tools and strategies – performance tasks, rubrics) vs assessment for learning (diagnostic – e.g. students use comic life to recount a story)


 * __Bloom's Digital Taxonomy__**

Barbara talked to us about figuring where new types of technology would fit into Bloom's Taxonomy. Find the revised edition below.




 * __Media Literacy Triangle__**

Text (types of -narrative, persuade), production (process, techniques, tools, copyrights) and audience (target audience, message).

For more information check out this site I found explaining it in depth:


 * __Bitstrips__**
 * www.bitstrips.com is a website that will allow students to make avatars of themselves and create comics online.
 * Could be useful for a classroom, allowing students to express their creativity
 * This is my avatar!




 * __Assistive Technology__**

We looked at different types of assistive technology that could be used in the classroom,

1) Write Out loud - which is a talking word program, it could be very useful for students who have trouble reading and writing as well as different disabilities that affect processing abilities of information such as dyslexia.

2) Co-writer - a predictive text software, it seems to be very similar to T9 from your phone but for the computer, great for children who have trouble typing!

3) Dragon Professionally Speaking - I did some research and though this wasn't mentioned in class I thought it could be great for students who have trouble typing because they can just talk and have the information put down for them.

4) Kurszweil 3000 - Another program I discovered that could be great for teaching children who have problems reading because it can be used to help them identify words with sounds as it speaks, it will also speak from anywhere including websites.


 * __Comic Life__**

We looked at all the steps of the writing process including the preplanning, Comic Life is great for the last and final step of actually producing work. I've used this program in the classroom and found a great reception from my students. The program is so easy to use I threw together this comic in 15 minutes.