Internet Sites for Teachers and Students: (Some of my favorites)

Technology Integration - Huge site of resources on how to integrate technology into the classroom
Internet 4 Classrooms - Huge site with tutorials, lessons, interactive activities for grades K-12 and for any subject
Internet 4 Classrooms - Links for K-12 Teachers (skill building, classroom organization, differentiated instruction, integrating technology and more!)
Global Classrooms - Created by Patti Weeg it has tons of things for teachers and students
Interactive Quizzes - The site has interactive quizzes for grades 3-5, & 8 in Reading & Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, & Technology
Interactive Websites - tons of websites and links for all content areas
Interactive Games - many different games for Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies
Interactive Quizzes - Reading, Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies quizzes for grades 3-8
Online Basic Skill Games - Huge directory of Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, and Interactive Websites
Visual Learning - This site has ready made graphic organizers and technology resources to use in your daily instruction
Teacher Resources - huge site with many different resources for teachers
K12Station - Library of K-12 Educational links
Fact Monster- games and quizzes
K-3 SMART board sites- list of tons of activities for different subject areas

Technology Research and References:

Infusing Technology into Reading Instruction.ppt
This is my Professional Development presentation I made for the Regional Professional Development Schools Conference (RPDS) that addresses reasons to infuse technology, defines new literacies, and describes how to use Turingpoint in reading instruction

Technology References.doc - My references I used for research papers & other projects on how to infuse technology into your classroom
Teaching with the Internet - complete book that links to many great websites - written by Donald J. Leu & Deborah D. Leu
Connecting Curriculum with and Technology - National Educational Standards for Students - complete book with pdf files and links
New Literacies on the Internet - lessons, ideas, projects, research and tons of links on how to infuse new literacies in reading
Language Arts and Reading Research - huge website of research and resources to help improve reading and language arts.
Technology and Classroom Practices: An International Study - By Robert B. Kozma (research article)

Articles for Educators:
Searching for an answer: The critical role of new literacies while reading on the internet by Laurie A. Henry
Infusing Literacy and Technology - article from International Reading Association (2001) entitled, Integrating literacy and technology into the curriculum
Edutopia - Website that has articles and videos that show best practices of how to infuse technology into your classroom



Below are some reading skills and strategies that teachers can use with their students so they can use technology more proficiently when they are searching the internet.
6 strategies for searching the internet: Eagleton & Guinee (2002)
*Activating a student's prior knowledge will make their search more successful and meaningful

1. Be specific - try to narrow your focus	4. Be distinct - don't repeat your focus
2. Be exact - use only words/phrases you want to find	5. Be succinct - try to eliminate unnecessary words
3. Be direct - only search one focus at a time	6. Be concise - carefully & thoughtfully select keywords

• Locating information in your search is extremely important. All your other decisions and functions rely on the search process.
• Know what type of search engine you are using. Some search engines use text matching while others are organized by categories.
• Ways they search: text matching and frequency of a word appearing on a page and also search how the pages are linked together.
• The more a word appears and the more pages it is linked to then the higher ranked that website becomes.
• A lot of the times the sites that are ranked higher are the results of fees that are paid to the search engine to rank their site high (Sponsors).

Reading Strategies for Reading on the Internet: Laurie A. Henry (2006)

1. Analyze data - reading to find the most relevant information about your focus	4. Context clues - understanding key terms and meanings in the text
2. Skim and Scan - browsing the text for main ideas and key words/phrases	5. Text Structure - understanding text features and unfamiliar text structures of online texts is important for comprehension
3. Making inferences - deciding if this information suits your focus	6. Read Critically and Synthesize Information - being able to evaluate the information for its authenticity and relevancy