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Technology in Literacy
From Morning Message to Digital Morning Message: Moving From the Tried and True to the New

Linda D. Labbo

This regular column in The Reading Teacher offers support to educators who want to take an active stance when it comes to integrating technology with the literacy curriculum. Here, the author suggests practical ways that teachers can productively link classroom computer technologies to tried-and-true practices. She shares her rationale for recommending that teachers use computer-related literacy instruction, describes one tried-and-true practice (Morning Message) and explains how conducting it with computer technologies can enhance and amplify students' literacy-learning experiences, and closes by inviting educators to identify and try other computer-enhanced practices with which they are comfortable.

Abstract from Labbo, L.D. (2005, May). From Morning Message to Digital Morning Message: Moving From the Tried and True to the New. The Reading Teacher, 58(8), 782–785. doi: 10.1598/RT.58.8.9