Reading & Technology

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Featured Presentation

Hashtags and Vocabulary

Haley McHugh demonstrates a vocabulary lesson she uses at the middle school level to help students with vocabulary.

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Reading & Technology Presentations

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Digital Storytelling

Lillian Loys discusses the process for creating a digital read aloud for your classroom.  She details the steps for using iMovie to incorporate music and images to create a lasting read aloud for your students.  

View Lillian's digital read aloud of The Day The Crayons Quit.  This video is used in her presentation demonstrating how to create a digital read aloud.  Follow Lillian on Twitter @shclilliancloys

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BookSource

Katherine Dixon, Ph.D. (Texas A&M - Commerce) - BookSource is a free online tool to organize your classroom library.

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Using iBooks in the Classroom

Presented by Marie Rooks

"IF we marry educational technology with quality enriching content, that's a circle of win."
                                                                    -Levar Burton

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Shakespeare in Bits

Presented by Freea Jackson

Endless Reader App

Presented by Taylor Moss

Using Storia

Presented by Shelby Boykin

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Can We Believe Everything We Read?

Kathryn Dixon, Ph.D. (Texas A&M University - Commerce): Web literacy, including the ability to critically evaluate online sources, is an increasingly important aspect of what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century for both adults and children.  The purpose of this presentation is to offer instructional strategies and activities for introducing the concept of web literacy to elementary school students. A variety of activities are included in this presentation for different age and grade levels that address reliable and unreliable information on the internet.  Follow Kathryn on Twitter @kvdixon


Click HERE to link to presentation

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