Becoming Critical Consumers and Producers of Text: Teaching Literacy with Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.

The article discusses the online tools available to teachers which they can use to promote their students as text consumers and producers. The authors describe the use of two web tools in a fourth grade classroom which include Web 1.0 tool ReadWriteThink.org's Comic Creator, located at www.readwrite...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Reading Teacher Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 40 - 51
Main Authors:	Handsfield, Lara J., Dean, Tami R., Cielocha, Kristin M.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Sep2009
Subjects:	Internet in education Web 2.0 Literacy Reading teachers Websites Blogs
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

Description
Summary:	The article discusses the online tools available to teachers which they can use to promote their students as text consumers and producers. The authors describe the use of two web tools in a fourth grade classroom which include Web 1.0 tool ReadWriteThink.org's Comic Creator, located at www.readwritethink.org/MATERIALS/COMIC/, and the Web 2.0 tool Blogspot, now called Blogger, located at Blogger.com. The article presents the tools as examples to highlight the main differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 tools and to offer considerations for their use during literacy instruction and not solely for comparison.