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Integrating Cool Technology Tools to Support All Learners in the 21st Century English Classroom **Guiding Questions**? How can technology be used to enhance 21st century literacy skills? What specific technology strategies and resources can teachers utilize to support relevancy, learning and global competencies?

Objectives: What will participants know and be able to do as a result of participation?
 * Participants will be able to use reading comprehension strategies and cool technology tools to support literacy.
 * Participants will be able to implement the use of technology such as Notefish, Trailfire, Voice Thread, and other cool technology tools effectively to teach literacy in the English 6-12 classroom.
 * Participants will be able to design a literacy unit using cool technology tools and reading strategies.

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- **TPACK: Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge** []
 * TPACK
 * TPACK and Lesson Planning
 * Pedagogical practices?
 * [|Samples & Information]

**The Odyssey & the Epic Hero Summative Assessment** NC English I—Ninth Grade www.newlitinstitute.wikispaces.com/

**TPACK Table for Summative Assessment on the Odyssey & the Epic Hero**
 * T echnology ||  P edagogy  ||  C ontent  ||
 * * Students will need computers to complete their final product. Students will have a choice between presenting their final project in a [|Glogster] ; a Webspiration or Inspiration; a video using Movie Maker; a PowerPoint; or a Wiki using PBWiki, WikiSpaces, or Google Sites.

* Students must incorporate a Voki, hyperlinks, and a moving video.

* The assignment will be delivered to students via the class webpage. || * Assignment assesses mastery over NCSCoS for English I.

* Assignments are scaffolded within the framework of a comprehensive unit on the Odyssey and the Epic Hero.

* Students are required to access prior knowledge on the characteristics of an epic hero and apply it to figures present in contemporary media.

* Students have to synthesize their findings to create a product that demonstrates their knowledge of this topic.

* Their products will also demonstrate mastery over several technologies. || * Teacher must have a comprehensive understanding of the Odyssey, the role Odysseus has as an epic hero, traditional defining characteristics of an epic hero.

* Teacher must be able to extrapolate these characteristics into a modern context that includes pop-culture heroes.

* Teacher must have an awareness of popular culture to help guide students in their selection of a contemporary fictional hero.

* Teacher must have mastered the use of all involved technologies. || **Nonfiction Secondary Lesson Plan using the TPACK model** . click here - **North Carolina Reading Association Mission Statement** media type="custom" key="5639173"media type="custom" key="5639243" **International Reading Association Mission Statement** media type="custom" key="5639093" media type="custom" key="5639131" [|Wordle.net] (free)

**Voice thread with wordle**

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- **Resources**? __**Informational and Pedagogical**__ (free) (free) [|New Literacies Institute]
 * ACRE: Accountability and Curriculum Revision Effort-Dr. Cindy Williamson, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Technology for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
 * Bloom's Planning Guide
 * __Technological__**
 * [|Edutopia]
 * [|Glogster] (free)
 * [|Mixbook] (free)
 * [|Newseum]
 * [|Ning]
 * [|North Carolina Business Committee for Education]
 * [|Notefish](free)
 * benefits of online notetaking
 * [|Penzu] (free) online journal
 * [|Prezi](free)
 * [|Polleverywhere]
 * [|Tagxedo] (free)
 * [|Thinkquest]
 * Trailfire (online notetaking)
 * [|Twitter] (free)
 * Voicethread
 * [|Voki] (free)
 * [|Write or Die] (free)
 * [|Wordle] (free)
 * Wikispaces (free)
 * North Carolina State University: "More Cool Tools"
 * provides additional links with explanations of each tool