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=Content Literacy =

Information and Overview/ Assignment:
You and your fellow content colleagues will collaborate to create a wikipage (see content link to the left). Each content page will contain the tabs you see above on the "Home" page. Additionally, you will see the categories listed below in teal on each page. Your task is to research, read, create, suggest, build a content specific literacy page. At the same time that you are gathering content specific knowledge, you will be utilizing a technology tool you might wish to use in your own classrooms in the future. Listed below are the categories and descriptions of content that I would like each page to contain. You may, however, add categories and even change the layout of your page. This assignment is not only about gathering content literacy information, it is also about exploring wikispaces.

Articles/Blogs on Literacy in your content:
Research articles or blogs that address literacy specifically for your content. Each week one of you will need to post an article and create a discussion question. Each week I will be checking the discussion tab to see who has posted and who has commented. I will take care of the first week. So check the home page this weekend for the article and the discussion question.

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Vocabulary Instruction:
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Read Alouds/Think Alouds:


Instructional Activities:
Either create activities, share links to activities, or share your ideas about instructional activities that would work well in your content classroom. These should be focused on literacy in your content.



Using technology in your classroom resources:
Find resources that connect technology to your content? Find resources that you think would connect to teaching your content? Add them in this category with a brief description.



Tradebooks and other resources:
a.) You and your colleagues should decide on a subject, concept, etc to build a text set around. You will research. read. and recommend text selections for this big idea. b.) You and your colleagues research, read, and recommend tradebooks. You should include a brief description of the text as well as how it might be used in the content classroom. c.) Create text setsHere is an article that provides more information and some examples of previously used text sets.

General Resources for Wiki
To get an introduction to how wikis work, view the Common Craft Show's Video. This four-minute video gives a simple, clear introduction to wikis, using the example of a group of people who use a wiki to plan a camping trip. [] See Discussion for a online question.

"Get me Rewrite" is an eight-minute interview with author and instructor Clay Shirky about Wikipedia, how it was developed, how the Wikipedia community handles problems such as bad information and vandalism, and questions of "expertise and authoritativeness". []

In "Wiki While You Work (Basics)", Mark Wagner offers his presentation and links to many other wiki sources. []

=Other Wiki Sites:= pbworks.com or [|www.wetpaint.com] offer other options besides the one we are working with www.wikispaces.com.