This document provides a summary of electronic literacy resources for elementary students. It discusses concepts like attention, depth of cognitive processing, and efficiency in learning. Several online tools are described that can be used for reading, writing, vocabulary, and across subject areas. Examples include Glogster, Prezi, Lit2Go and Padlet. Apps for creating books, comics and practicing vocabulary are also listed. The document concludes with recommendations for open educational resources and copyright-free images and sounds that can be incorporated into lessons.

1. BATHEDINBITSSINCEBIRTH:
ELECTRONICLITERACYRESOURCESFOR
ELEMENTARYSTUDENTSDr. Susan Wegmann
August 8, 2014

3. McCallum: Power=Attention X Depth X
Efficiency
Attention – time spent paying attention

4. Power=Attention X Depth X
Efficiency
Depth – Intensity of Cognitive
Processing Required
Bloom’s
Taxonomy -
HOTS
Vygotsky’s
notion of Zone
of Proximal
Development
(ZPD)

5. Power=Attention X Depth X
Efficiency
◦Efficiency – Cognitive Overhead –
“how many logical connections or jumps your brain has to
make in order to understand or contextualize the thing you’re
looking at.”
The less jumps, the better for children using digital resources.
“Reading to
Learn” Effect –
Drop off in 4th
Grade
standardized
test scores.

7. Resources
◦ Reading
◦ Glogster
◦ Prezi
◦ Lit 2 Go
◦ Writing
◦ The Trading Card
◦ Vocabulary Spelling City
◦ Padlet
◦ CNX – The Orange Grove
◦ Apps
◦ Bloggers to follow
◦ Misc Resources

8. Glogster: http://edu.glogster.com/
◦ The Letter F: http://cpapalekas.edu.glogster.com/the-letter-f/?=glogpedia-source

9. Prezi
◦Charlotte’s Web
◦Charlotte’s Web II

10. Lit 2 Go:
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
Five Little Piggies
Adventures of
Jerry Muskrat
Audio, text,
student
activities

11. Writing: The Trading Card
◦ The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative
way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and
skill when writing about popular culture texts or real
world examples. This interactive allows students to
create their own trading card about a real or
fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract
concept.
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/trading-card-creator-30056.html

13. Vocabulary Spelling City:
http://www.spellingcity.com/

14. Padlet: http://padlet.com/

15. The Orange Grove
◦ http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/home.do (FL resource, teachers share content they’ve
created)
◦ http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/items/b67a3847-9fef-1511-97f4-c9a3ad9e8207/1/
http://cnx.org/content/m35694/latest/
By: Dana Friley
COMPARE/CONTRAST the CITY and the COUNTRY (Charlotte's Web)
Content Target Objective: Compare and Contrast the City (Urban) and the Country (Rural)
Chapter 4 of Charlotte’s Web: Setting
Lesson Materials: Pictures of the city and pictures of the country
Two posters, pens, White board +pens, Compare and Contrast Venn diagram work-pages, tape,
timer
Anticipatory Set: Teacher posts a picture of the city and a picture of the country and labels
each. Students are asked to volunteer to come up to match pictures that they have been given.
Accommodation for Students with ADHD: moving from their seats.
Students are divided onto two groups. One group brainstorms words and drawings of what they
know about the city. One group brainstorms words and drawings of that they know about the

18. Apps
◦ Strip Designer - $2.99 Sub Text- Free

19. Apps
◦ News O-Matic- free! Book Creator - $4.99

20. Bloggers to follow:
◦ ELL - Larry Ferlazzo http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
◦ The Miss Rumphius Effect: http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/ (instruction on various text
features)
◦ Jen Robinson’s Book Page: http://jkrbooks.typepad.com/blog/ (features book reviews)
◦ Two Writing Teachers: http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/ (reflections on teaching)

21. Misc: Open Educational
Resources
◦ College Open Textbooks: http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
◦ Learning Pod: http://www.learningpod.com/ (free online practice questions)
◦ Lumen Learning: http://lumenlearning.com/ (open courses, no textbooks)
◦ Merlot II: http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm (CA State System collection, 3,000
open textbooks)
◦ MIT Opencourseware Online Textbooks: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/online-textbooks/
(various disciplines)
◦ OER Commons: https://www.oercommons.org/ (73,000 kinds of OER sites, tools,
etc.)
◦ Open Textbook Store: http://www.opentextbookstore.com/index.php (math resources)
◦ The Orange Grove: http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/home.do (FL resource,
teachers share content they’ve created)

22. Image Resources – Copyright-
free
1. flickr – http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons
2. Pics4Learning -- Pics4Learning.com
3. FreeFoto – www.freefoto.com
4. FreeStockPhotos – http://freestockphotos.com
5. OpenPhoto – openphoto.net
6. Stock Exchange – www.sxc.hu/index.phtml

23. Sound Resources
1. Audacity – audacity.sourceforge.net
2. Freeplay Music – www.freeplaymusic.com
3. Freesound Project – freesound.iua.upf.edu
4. ccMixer – ccmixter.org

24. Power = Attention X Depth X
Efficiency

25. BATHEDINBITSSINCEBIRTH:
ELECTRONICLITERACYRESOURCESFOR
ELEMENTARYSTUDENTSDr. Susan Wegmann
August 8, 2014
sjwegmann@baptistcollege.edu