The most dynamic product of our technological society is creative involvement and integration. In our online teacher education graduate programs we encourage teachers to use creativity and technological integration in their standards-based classroom instruction.
Today in a article on Technology in the Classroom (ASCD SmartBrief www.ascd.org ), I found a link which bounced me to a new tool to encourage personal reflection on reading processes and introduce examples of media literacy. It could also be used to encourage students to write or use media tools to elaborate about their own personal experiences. The site is called Inanimate Alice and it uses different media forms to integrate media literacy into classroom instruction or it could be used by online instructors to assist students to collaborate and explore media literacy in their online activities. As explained on the Web site, Inanimate Alice uses multimodality (images, sounds, text, interaction) "to enable students to see storytelling in a new, multi-sensory light." I was delighted that I could download an Education Pack and Curriculum suggestions directly from the site.
In our online graduate education courses, I think this site could be used to further collaborative engagement for our online K12 teachers and to encourage them to write or use new media tools to create stories for their own classrooms. Their students could then redesign and/or add to the storyline their own dynamic stories and media applications.
This media-rich site is an excellent example of online resources and opportunities which can be used to integrate technologies into classroom curriculum to further engage students in their own learning.
As Dr. Seuss would say, "Oh the places you'll go..."
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