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Leading 21st Century Learners Through Integrating Web 2.0 Tools for All Learners  www.webtoolsforliteracy.wikispaces.com Guiding Questions?
 * What specific technology strategies and resources can teacher educators utilize to support relevancy, __learning__ and global competencies?
 * ==Do you read a history book the same as a science textbook, a novel, or a math word problem?==

**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 across the curriculum.====
 * Participants will be able to implement the use of technology such as Wiki, EdPuzzle, Today's Meet, Voki, Voice Thread, and other cool technology tools effectively to teach literacy in __teacher education__.
 * 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** * 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
 * 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.

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