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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking
You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary, the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience. However, at each level—middle […]
Anchor: for painless podcasts
If you’ve been reluctant to attempt podcasting for yourself or for your students, Anchor, just might be your solution. Available free at either the App Store or Google Play or at Anchor.fm, Anchor makes podcasting from your phone or iPad or Chromebook a breeze. It also makes podcasting a social media event. And there’s virtually no learning curve […]
Natural Reader and other free text-to-speech tools
I’ve been working on gathering resources on for our new Emerging Literacies course and wanted to share some of the resources/app lists I’ve gathered for learners with special needs. Among the tools I am discovering are a few free resources for supporting text-to-speech. These resources are so handy for struggling readers, for ESL students, for […]
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Play Me a Memory
Son, can you play me a memory? I’m not really sure how it goes But it’s sad and it’s sweet and I knew it complete When I wore a younger man’s clothes Billy Joel, Piano Man Every man’s memory is his private literature. Aldous Huxley Our memories are important. They form the tapestry of our […]
Tales2Go: an audio collection (and a literacy solution)
I LOVE audiobooks! They make it possible for me to always be reading. But for kiddos, access to audiobooks represents far more than a simple, hands-free convenience. Audiobooks allow children to build vocabulary, to attack sophisticated text and ideas beyond their current reading levels, Audiobooks can introduce children to new vocabulary, improve reading comprehension and fluency, […]
American Archive: A new online “reading room” of historical public media
To honor the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB)–a collaboration between WGBH and the Library of Congress-today announced the launch of its Online Reading Room. The collection preserves significant historical public media content and makes it discoverable and searchable. More than 100 public media organizations share content from […]
LC launches Online Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature & much more poetry goodness
I know I am late to the National Poetry Month party. Every time I started a post someone else finished the one I was beginning. (Darn you, dear Richard Byrne.) Assuming that we all believe poetry ought to be a year-long or life-long celebration, here is a tour some of my favorite resources. As part […]
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