Hope Charter School

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Digital Media and 21st Century Literacy

H Songhai, Instructor

Tech Tools & Exploration Topics for Hope Charter School Students

Web 2.0, blogs, podcasting, skype, Open Office, Project Based Learning, Social Bookmarking,

Libri Vox, Project Gutenberg, del.icio.us, current, YouTube, wikis, Westwood School, mooter

Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts

Over the course of this school year, all students will create and maintain a

blog and a wiki. Students will use their blogs to showcase their finest work

including assorted writings, slideshows, audio, video and photography presentations.

Students will create and maintain a wiki to compile notes and lists, author

digital books and collaborate with other students on special assignments.

Many of the student projects that come out of this course will need to be

recorded as a podcast (an audio recording). Students, please purchase a microphone

or a USB headset to record your podcasts so that they sound clear and professional.

Parents are encouraged to check their child's blog and wiki regularly

and to listen to their podcasts.

Parents, please leave comments on your child's blog page as well as mine.

Assignments, notes and lists

LEARNING TOOLS

VoiceThread, Slideshare, Blogs, wikis, podcasts, Netvibes, PageFlakes, Jumpcut, Audacity, YouTube, Senduit,

ZOHO, iGoogle, RSS, cell phones, Flickr,

del.iciio.us, Diigo, Skype, iChat, Digital Archiving, Composition Writing, Poetry, Vocabulary,

Transcription/Keyboarding, Autobiographical Writing,

TENTATIVE FIELD TRIPS

Charles Blockson Library, African American Museum in Philadelphia, Library Company of Philadelphia, Mother Bethel AME Church, October Gallery Art Expo 2006

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