Web-Based Constructivist Tools as Reading Resources
How can I motivate and engage my students and learning community towards greater reading through freely accessible web-based, constructivist tools?
You have several reading strategies to motivate and engage students to read. A strategy such as a literature circle is one example. List some other strategies with links to "how to" guides to use the strategies in this collaborative Constructivist Web-Based Reading Tools document.
Where can I find some of these tools?
You can always glean new tools by subscribing to reading teacher blogs, organizational sites, or collaborative tool repositories, such as go2web20.net and think out of the box in terms of tools such as polls, blogs, etc.
How can I specifically envision using one of these constructivist tools in my classroom?
Provide a couple of paragraphs or a bulleted list of how you envision using one of the tools in your classroom. Be specific about HOW you see your students involved in the construction of the overall end goal in using the tool to further motivation, reading, comprehension, and more.
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I could see a Reader's Theater (http://www.literacyconnections.com/readerstheaterblog) that could be recorded into a Podcast (http://go2web20.net/#audio+tag:podcast). Students' voices could be recorded as part of a progressive portfolio.
ReplyDeleteIf I couldn't video record their faces specifically, I could either use puppets, claymation, or paper-plate masks to hold in front of their faces as they act out the story. The masks would take the least time and still produce the great effect of having recorded the reader's theater into a blog that could be shared on my class website or at least through email to parents, other teachers, and administration.