Farewell Post: Stanley Silbanuz

As this course ED 638 teaching with the internet comes to its end, I am gladly to say that I have learned so many interactive and engaging internet tools that have expanded my knowledge in teaching and learning through the internet. This course has been a great experience because I had a great opportunity in learning new tools like Talentlms, Google slides, blogger, and weebly for education. I have also learned many different effective literacy websites that can help enhance and develop literacy skills. I do believe that everything that I have learned from this course would be beneficial for my students and empower them to accelerate their literacy learning skills. With this being said, ED 638 teaching with the internet is a great experience and I really enjoyed it.

 

Stanley Silbanuz

ED 638 Intersession Fall 2021

DR. M. Rivera

IRA News Project Effective Literacy Website # 5

 

            Amplify reading (https://amplify.com/programs/amplify-reading/) is a supplemental ELA program focusing on close reading of arguments, literary analysis, and writing (Meyers 2019). The targeted grade level is 6-8 grades in the content area English language arts to develop students reading, writing, comprehension, and critical thinking skills.

            This website or tool provides engaging programs that can prepare students to be responsible or work independently. This site also provides tools, programs many interactive resources that can help develop students’ collaboration in reading and writing. It also helps students to be creative in developing their own stories by creating new characters or adventures and writing their own endings. This site helps educators to be creative in teaching by providing many interactive and engaging resources for direct instruction. There’s also certain interactive assessment provided that can assess many writing activities. It also provided handful information on how to utilize this tool and it is really great for teaching and learning literacy.

            This website or tool provides engagement activities and procedures that can facilitate or support educators to teach reading and writing to a targeted level within English language Arts that will enhance student ability to read, write, communicate, comprehend, and to think critically. This is a handful and interesting website or tool can utilize within our classroom to accelerate students’ literacy skills.

 

 

Stanley Silbanuz

ED 638 Intersession Fall 2021

DR. M. Rivera

IRA News Project Effective Literacy Website # 3

 

            The common sense education (https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/middle-school-reading-apps-and-websites) is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information and education (Common Sense Education 2003). These apps and websites were for middle school reading. This site provided terrific tools and programs that can help enhance learners’ literacy skills.  It also provides tools and programs that can aid struggling readers and many interactive reading resources that can meet the needs of an individual student.

            This website provided 30 different sub-websites with different topics. When you will click on one topic it will take you to the page where all the instructions were already set, the required tools for the topic, videos, apps, and all the necessary information to support the topic when you will implement it. It also contains some significant features that can help supporters, educators, parents, and peers help shape up students’ literacy which includes digital citizenship, EdTech reviews, professional development and distance learning. There were many helpful and interesting guidelines and procedures within each feature.

            This website is well set and constructed. Everything that you need to teach based on a specific topic is already set, all you have to do is print or safe and utilize it as you please. This website is really handful and interesting that would be beneficial for all educators, parents, families, peers, and most importantly our learners.

           

Farewell Post- Merlyn Villaverde

I truly enjoyed all the things I have learned from this course. Because of this course, I am more familiar with the internet tools: Weebly for Education, Glogster and Google Earth. I also enjoyed learning about the many different effective websites that promote literacy such as, readwritethink.org, KitLit TV, storylineonline.net, spellingcity.com, readingrockets.org, readingbear.org and storynory.com. It was also fun incorporating Google Earth on my Geo-Narrative lesson plan. There were so many great things I have learned from this course in such a short span of time. I definitely look to utilizing the knowledge I have learned from this course to benefit the students in my class. Thank you, Dr. Rivera!

Farewell Post- Maricon Reyes

As this semester concludes, I have gained a great deal of knowledge about technologically-based literacy websites and tools. The exploration, writing reviews, and hands-on experience of using the tools are all great experiences from this course. Though it was challenging, the gains are great which I know can help in improving my teaching and will help improve student learning. Thank you Dr. Rivera for all your guidance and support. 

Farewell Post- MaryAntonnette Halmi

Upon completion of this course, ED638- Teaching with the Internet, I have gained so much knowledge about internet resources that will further improve my classroom instruction, most specifically in the area of ELA. I am confident that I will be able to use what I have gained to empower my students and help improve their literacy skills. I am thankful to have been able to share and learn from literacy websites I reviewed and that have been reviewed by classmates. I will definitely be referring back to our class blog in the future. Thank you Dr. Rivera for your support and guidance as we navigated through and completed this course!

Effective Literacy Website #7 - AdLit.org

       AdLit http://www.adlit.org/ is a national multimedia project created mainly for parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers, grades 4-12. Their mission is to share information on literacy research and best practices (adLit, 2021). 

        Much of the information includes articles on specific literacy topics to include data collected through various researchers. Each article normally begins with background information about the topic being discussed and offers steps to take when implementing the indicated strategy into the curriculum. The articles also provide links to topic related websites, articles, and resources. 

        Some of my favorite features of this website are the sample classroom videos, classroom strategies, and graphic organizers. In each sample video, they include a summary of the lesson with the appropriate common core state standard and give an idea of what materials may be needed to implement the strategy as well as a visual of how to appropriately execute it in the classroom. I found this to be beneficial, especially for new educators. As you navigate into the “classroom strategies” page, you will see a list of various strategies. Each strategy has background information, a description of how it benefits literacy development, and how to use it. Many of the strategies also come with a downloadable graphic organizer. Graphic organizers are an important tool in any subject area. They help in organizing and breaking down complex information for better understanding. 

        Overall, AdLit is a great resource for teaching literacy! Many times adolescents lose their motivation to read as they transfer from “learning to read” to ‘reading to learn,” but with the helpful information displayed through AdLit, educators will be equipped with appropriate strategies and tools to engage their students and build appropriate skills in order to comprehend more complex texts. 

Farewell Post - Laura Villagomez

ED638 has been an enjoyable experience. I am more than satisfied with all of the information and resources that I have obtained from this course. Even if I thought I was well-versed with the internet, there were still many new things that I have discovered and learned from exploring deeper into the web for literacy websites. I am thankful for all of you sharing your effective literacy websites. I am especially thankful to Dr. Rivera for your patience and guidance. 

 Good luck to everyone and farewell!!

 

Stanley Silbanuz

ED 638 Intersession Fall 2021

DR. M. Rivera

IRA News Project Effective Literacy Website # 7

 

            Wattpad (https://www.wattpad.com/) is a website or is a place where teens and adults can publicly share their fiction writing in a blog-like format, as well as read and comment on work from other users (Keivlan 2015). This site or tool is designed for grades 7 to 12. Concentrated in the content area of English language arts to generate and develop creativity, character, communication and collaboration.

            This website provides many selections for English language arts that you can choose to utilize within a regular classroom. This site is very easy to search for stories or to upload your own. This is a great community for readers and writers to share their passion for storytelling.  It also contains library feature to create reading lists of students’ stories; encourage students to visit this list instead of roaming freely across the site. This site is used as a tool to help students practice and study writing in depth.  For instance, they can talk about the brainstorming, writing, editing processes and the importance of receiving feedbacks. Talk about how collaborative writing can help both educators and learners improve and grow. This is basically an internet tool for reading and writing.

            This website already contains the necessary tools and procedures for both educators and learners to interact, communicate, read, and write through collaboration. It also enables students to share their thoughts online or publicly instead of on papers only. For these being said, Wattpad is a website where educators and learners can share their writing and reading to enhance creativity in reading and writing, character, communication and collaboration.

 

 

 

Stanley Silbanuz

ED 638 Intersession Fall 2021

DR. M. Rivera

IRA News Project Effective Literacy Website # 6

 

            Actively Learn (https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/actively-learn) is a reading platform for the web where students can highlight, annotate, and discuss text as they read (Kievlan 2019). This website or tool is designed for 4^th grades up to 12^th grades. Concentrated in the content areas of English Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies to enhance or develop learners’ communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills. It also empowers readers, keeps kids actively and independently engaged in any given task. Teachers can assign texts to students solo and in groups so that whole classes can read, annotate, and interact around texts at their levels (Kievlan 2019).

            The website or tool contains thousands of free ELA, science, and history texts, from "The Picture of Dorian Gray" to George Washington's Farewell Address to recent news reports on climate change. Teachers can upload any text of their choosing, from online articles to their own media. Most titles include Common Core-aligned and NGSS-aligned discussion questions for students to interact with (Keivlan 2019). These detailed, engaging questions and media make it easy to chunk readings and draw students into the text. Also, students can add their own questions, ideas, and comments to guide class interaction. It's also possible for teachers to monitor their students' progress, or even see students' notes as they're writing in their own "copies" of texts. The app's developers continue to add features that make the reading experience more flexible and accessible, including language translation options and flexible text-to-speech features. Plus, the developer's website features videos, blog posts, and extensive guidance on thoughtful ways to integrate this tool into the classroom (Keivlan 2019). 

            This website or tool is a great tool in implementing in the classroom in the content areas of English language arts, Science, and Social studies for 4^th grade up to 12^th grade to help empower learners to become fluent readers and keeps kids actively and independently engaged in a given task. At the same time, it helps develops learners’ communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills.