Technology: Resources

Browse Reading Online, IRA's freely available e-journal, with a special focus on technology and new literacies.

From recent issues of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy:

• "TECHnology and literacy for adolescents with disabilities."
• "'Rap Universal': Using multimodal media production to develop ICT literacies."
• "Take it out of class: Exploring virtual literature circles."
• "Blurring boundaries: Two groups of girls collaborate on a wiki."
• "Writing for the instant messaging and text messaging generation: Using new literacies to support writing instruction."
• "'Podcast Time': Negotiating digital literacies and communities of a learning in a middle years ELL classroom."

Selected articles from Reading Research Quarterly, the field’s leading research journal:

• "Young children's literacy practices in a virtual world: Establishing an online interaction order."
• "Enhancing adolescent literacy achievement through integration of technology in the classroom."
• "Using assistive technologies to ameliorate reading difficulties."
• "Books and computer response activities that support literacy development."
• "Reading literature, reading text, reading the Internet: The times they are a'changing."

From The Reading Teacher, which focuses on primary and elementary instruction:

• "eVoc strategies: 10 ways to use technology to build vocabulary."
• "Extending readers theater: A powerful and purposeful match with podcasting."
• "Wiki writers: Students and teachers making connections across communities."
• "Power in pictures: How a schoolwide photo library can build a community of readers and writers."
• "Visual literacy and the content classroom: A question of now, not when."
• "Making the most of a teaching partner."
• "Reader response meets new literacies: Empowering readers in online learning communities."
• "HOT blogging: A framework for blogging to promote higher order thinking."
• "Literacy instruction with digital and media technologies."

Technology in Literacy Education Special Interest Group (TILE-SIG) articles from Reading Today Online, IRA's online magazine featuring member and literacy news:

• 7/27/12 - TILE-SIG Feature on Common Core Connections: TextProject and the Teacher Development Series
• 7/20/12 - TILE-SIG Feature: Got TPACK?
• 7/13/12 - TILE-SIG Feature: Searching for Apps
• 7/6/12 - TILE-SIG Announces 2012 Reading Research Award Recipient
• 6/29/12 - TILE-SIG Feature on PD for Teacher Tech Geeks: Keeping Them on the Cutting Edge
• 6/22/12 - Featured Blog: Globicate–Global Education For a New Generation
• 6/15/12 - Create “Internet” Professional Development Journeys this Summer
• 6/8/12 - Featured Blog: DMLcentral collaborative blog
• 6/1/12 - Using Google Lit Trips in the Classroom
• 5/25/12 - Create a Multimedia Poster Using Glogster
• 5/18/12 - Surfing the Web with Students
• 5/11/12 - Exploring E-Readers in Literacy Acquisition and Instruction
• 4/27/12 - Students For Tomorrow: A Purposeful, Powerful Collaboration
• 4/20/12 - TILE-SIG Feature: Developing Comprehension Through a SmartBoard Lesson
• 4/16/12 - In Defense of Narrative Texts and Online Tools For Composing Them
• 3/23/12 - Multimedia Reading: Personal Learning Environments
• 3/16/12 - Research Brief: Millennials and Their “Hyperconnected” Lives
• 3/9/12 - Who’s Teaching, Who’s Learning? Professional Development Beyond the Digital Native/Digital Immigrant Divide
• 3/2/12 - Featured Website: Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
• 2/24/12 - QuadBlogging–The Next Big Thing To Inspire Classroom Writers