1. Improving Adolescent Literacy with Technology:
Which Opportunities are Worth Seizing?
Douglas K. Hartman, Paul M. Morsink, Michelle Schira Hagermann,
Robin L. Harris & Kristen Kereluik
Michigan State University
MichiganPrincipals@gmail.com
Website Addresses
Session Website
http://sites.google.com/site/MSUprincipalsinstitute/
Presentation Slides
http://www.slideshare.net/dkhartman/summer‐instituteii071310finalversion
Literacy Achievement Research Center
http://www.msularc.org/
Office of K­12 Outreach
http://ed‐web3.educ.msu.edu/outreach/k12out/
Michigan Principals Fellowship & Coaches Institute
http://www.michiganprincipalsfellowship.org/
Handbook of Research on Literacy & Diversity
http://www.guilford.com/cgi‐
bin/cartscript.cgi?page=pr/morrow5.htm&dir=edu/lit&cart_id=428321.18292
The New Literacies: Multiple Perspectives on Research & Practice
http://www.guilford.com/cgi‐
bin/cartscript.cgi?page=pr/baker2.htm&dir=edu/lit&cart_id=428321.18292
Millennial Quiz
http://pewresearch.org/millennials/quiz/
Tech Savvy Quiz
http://www.edutopia.org/quiz‐tech‐savvy‐teaching
International Children’s Digital Library
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
PISA Reading Literacy Assessment
http://erasq.acer.edu.au/

2. The Brain from Top to Bottom
http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/index_a.html
The Secret Life of the Brain: 3­D Brain Anatomy
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/index.html
Who’s brain is this?
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2009/04/17‐01.html
MEAP Scientific American Article
http://www.nrdc.org/wildlife/marine/sonar.asp
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081006112057.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beached_whale
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/0402/p09s02‐coop.html
http://www.navy.mil/oceans/sonar.html
How a Bill Becomes a Law (Schoolhouse Rock)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv‐oQ
Online Dictionary
http://dictionary.reference.com/
Building Vocabulary Knowledge (Instructional Example)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4C0dis0OP0
‘Da Rock Cycle’ Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_FFBFcN7eY
Diigo Demo
http://sites.google.com/site/diigofordemo/
Screen Capture Software
http://www.screentoaster.com/
http://www.screencast‐o‐matic.com/
http://www.screenjelly.com/
http://www.jingproject.com/
Wizard of Oz: Pythagorean Theorem
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=15906
Learning to Rival
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780805835823/
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

3. First Male Pregnancy
http://www.malepregnancy.com/
“Martin Luther King, Jr.” Website
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
Scaffolded Text: Online Leveled Readers
http://www.readinga‐z.com/
Collaborative Wiki Webpages
http://asherrieb.pbworks.com/
http://te250globaled.pbworks.com/International‐Systems‐of‐Education
Collaborative Word Processing Programs
http://primarypad.com/
http://docs.google.com/demo/edit?id=scACY8dJXaRRL3TRnnIFowJGH#document
Annenberg Media Learning.org
http://www.learner.org/
Weebly in the Classroom
bubbl.us
http://www.bubbl.us/
Dog Island Website
http://www.thedogisland.com/
‘DAT­a­way’ Bogus Website
http://newliteracies.uconn.edu/projects/hoaxsites/dat%20a%20way/Site/Testim
onials.html
Genetically Engineered Babies
http://www.rythospital.com/2008/
MSU College of Education Hybrid PhD Program (face­to­face and online)
http://www.educ.msu.edu/cepse/EPET/overview‐hybrid.asp
MSU College of Educaiton PhD Specialization in Language & Literacy
http://ed‐web3.educ.msu.edu/phdliteracy/default.htm