using Web2.0 tools to promote and facilitate reading
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This document lists various websites that can be used to support reading development and encourage cultural, emotional, spiritual, and social growth in students. It provides links to websites for creating and sharing stories, comics, voice recordings, and other digital media like Storybird, Storyjumper, Voicethread, Little Bird Tales, and Toondoo. Additional resources for digital stories and student projects are also referenced.
using Web2.0 tools to promote and facilitate reading
- 3. Purpose of study: “Through reading in particular, pupils have a chance to develop culturally, emotionally, spiritually and socially.”
- 13. www.twitter.com
- 15. www.piclits.com
- 19. www.toondoo.com
- 24. drive.google.com
- 26. www.scribd.com
Editor's Notes
- #4: Draft of new National Curriculum (Primary)
- #5: Can use it for: Teacher creating resources for chn to promote global and cultural ed Pupils creating resources to demonstrate their understanding and for peers to read Pupils creating resources to share with their partners
- #6: All these tools are free
- #15: I asked “Where are you now and where are you going on hols?” Lots of scope for chn reading the responses, finding out where the places are etc There are all sorts of qus you can ask
- #20: Just one of many available comic-making sites. Email me for a list of all of them
- #22: Tinyurl is Amanda Salt’s A-Z of tools
- #27: anyone can instantly upload and transform any file -- including PDF, Word and PowerPoint -- into a web document that’s discoverable through search engines, shared on social networks and read on billions of mobile devices.