What's New
PLANNING AHEAD - NEW WEBCT & FACILITATOR TRAINING 
In the fall 2009 semester, FOR-PD will begin using the Webcourses@UCF server and newest version of WebCT/Blackboard.
In preparation for the event the FOR-PD team is in the process of rebuilding the Facilitator Training and Certification Course to incorporate information on the new course management system.
During the summer 2009 semester (the month of July) this new course will open only for active and currently trained facilitators to learn how to facilitate and use the tools in the new environment. Facilitators will be asked to take only the lessons pertaining to the new system, but will be free to review the other lessons as a refresher if they so choose.
As you are planning ahead, please keep this training in mind. Only facilitators who have taken this training will be prepared to facilitate in the fall 2009 semester.
Stay tuned for further information!
Last month FOR-PD created a page on Facebook where facilitators and participants could become ‘fans’ and information on new events could be posted. Now we have created a group you can join as well! The difference is, it will allow us to send an email to the Facebook invoice of all group members when important events happen!
Have a look and join today!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56954647105
In a previous newsletter (July 08) we shared how the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) had created a list of skills in an attempt to define those necessary for 21st century literacy. Now NCTE, in partnership with the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, has created a 21st-century skills map.
This map offers concrete suggestions for how to incorporate 21st-century skills into a traditional English curriculum in the 4th, 8th, and 12th grades. The map breaks down the skill sets into specific outcomes with tips on how to reach those goals.
This English map is just part of a bigger plan by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills to create similar maps for other core subject areas.
Read more about it here in Ed Week’s Digital Directions.
A PDF of the map is available here.
LITERACY SYMPOSIUM PREPARATION UNDERWAY
UCF, College of Education 11th Annual Literacy Symposium
Multiliteracies: Students and Teachers Reading, Writing,
Communicating, & Learning in a Digital World
On April 3, 2009 (from 8 AM-3:30 PM), the UCF College of Education will be holding its 11th Annual College of Education Literacy Symposium! Location: The UCF College of Education (Gymnasium). This event attracts an average of 500 educators from across the state. We hope that you mark that date on your calendar and also share it with fellow educators. Admission is free but we require that attendees register. We welcome proposals from educators.
Our theme this year is on: Multiliteracies: Students and Teachers Reading, Writing, Communicating, & Learning in a Digital World. Join us as we address the following:
- How is literacy changing in the 21st century?
- How can we prepare students to meet the literacy demands of the 21st century?
- How can we motivate the "digital-natives" generation to read?
- How can we read, write, communicate, and learn using technology, multimedia, and a variety of texts?
- What does it look like in the classroom when you are working on 21st century skills?
- How can we help students critically evaluate learn from information they access on the Internet?
- How can we incorporate multiliteracies across the content areas?
- How (and what) do students read and comprehend when they read online texts or using the Internet?
- What are other teachers (K-12) doing to integrate new literacies in their classrooms?
- How about reading across the content areas and multiliteracies?
- Can multiliteracies help with my ELLs and students with exceptionalities?
This is a free professional day for all elementary and secondary educators, including literacy coaches, library media specialists, reading specialists, and administrators.
Our morning keynote speaker will be Douglas Hartman, Ph.D. Douglas K. Hartman, is Professor of Literacy & Technology in the College of Education at the Michigan State University, Senior Editor of the Journal of Literacy Research, Co-Director & Principal Investigator in the Literacy Achievement Research Center, and Research Fellow with the Center for Health Intervention & Prevention. His key research and teaching focus is on new literacies and adolescent literacy. The title of his keynote address is: “Preparing a New Generation of Teachers and Students for the New Literacies of the Internet”
Our afternoon keynote speaker will be Johanna Riddle. Johanna Riddle, a National Board Certified FL teacher, an art teacher, an arts administrator, a media specialist, and an author. Author of Engaging the Eye Generation: Visual Literacy Strategies for the K-5 Classrooms(2009, Stenhouse Publishers). The title of her keynote address is: "Engaging the Eye Generation”.
Enrique Puig, director of the FLaRE center, will speak on “Literacy Leadership Teams”. Other literacy symposium topics include: Reading and Writing for K-12 grades; Motivation; Reading Across the Content Areas; Engaging Students with Texts; Media, Technology, and Literacy; Vocabulary & Comprehension; Math/Science & Technology; Children’s and Young Adult Literature; Learning Exceptionalities; ESOL /ELLs; Leadership Literacy Teams.
For more information on the event, please see: http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/details.cfm
For an event flyer, please see: http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/docs/flyer.pdf
For agenda, please see: http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/agenda.cfm
For registration information, please see: http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/register.cfm
For proposal submission, please see: http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/proposal.cfm
* Deadline for proposal submission: March 16, 2009
We hope to see you on April 3rd, 2009 at UCF! For more information, please contact Devon Mattingly, Event Assistant
(ddmattin@mail.ucf.edu) or Vicky Zygouris-Coe, Ph.D. at vzygouri@mail.ucf.edu or at 407-823-0386.
Facilitators, please consider submitting a proposal! How are you addressing this in your classroom?
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Last Updated:
March 15, 2009
