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In this course, secondary educators will develop and demonstrate their own digital literacy skills connected to critical online reading in order to directly inform their own instruction with students. 

This course is inspired and informed by the work of Dr. Julie Coiro (URI) and the New Literacies Research Lab (UConn).

This course sample includes two modules: 

• Course Introduction

• Navigation & Selection

See Design Documents for more about this emerging course.

TOOL: Articulate Rise

Role: Lead Designer, Lead Developer

Designed for teachers to use with students during the Spring 2020 COVID-19 school shutdown period, this site hosts Think Like a Fact Checker, a student-centered, self-paced interactive module (for ES/MS/HS levels) that leads into the Fact Checker Challenge Digital Breakout.

The site includes a video tutorial of the site and a tour of its related resources for instructional adaptation.

TOOL: Google Sites/Slides, Screencastify, Genially, WeVideo, Wakelet

Role: SME, Lead Designer, Lead Developer

You can read more about the TSS approach to PBE here.

TOOL: Canvas, Canva

Role: Designer, Developer

Offered during a hybrid virtual/in-person school year, this interactive experience was designed for 8th-grade students to explore virtually for Holocaust Remembrance Week 2021. 

Established with the passage of Texas Senate Bill 1828, Holocaust Remembrance Week was created to educate Texas students about the history and lessons of the Holocaust. 

TOOL: Genially, Soundtrap

Role: SME, Lead Designer,  Lead Developer

This interactive experience and curation guide were developed in connection to the 8th-grade GT-ELAR study of Homer's Odyssey. 

Before reading Odyssey, students built background knowledge by exploring the Odyssey Experience Interactive. 

Students demonstrated evidence of their learning through digital curation and annotation of 'artifacts' from the Odyssey Experience menu ports.

TOOL: Genially, Wakelet, Screencastify

Role: Designer, Developer

• Part of an interactive Poetry Learning Menu collaboratively designed for virtual learning (MS/HS), Spring 2021

• Featured poets were asked to record analyses which were then developed into video tutorial segments 

TOOL: Google Slides/Docs, Zoom, WeVideo
Role: SME, Co-Designer, Co-Developer

Designed for self-paced online exploration of current topics and issues connected to Black History Month for middle school students, Spring 2021 & 2022

TOOL: Google Slides/Docs, Screencastify
Role: SME, Designer, Developer

• Designed for self-paced online exploration and background building for Women's History Month for middle school students

• Part of a site collaboratively designed by district library media specialists, Spring 2021

TOOL: Google Slides
Role: SME, Designer, Developer

• Designed for self-paced online exploration and background building for Women's History Month for middle school students

• Part of a site collaboratively designed by district library media specialists, Spring 2021

TOOL: Google Slides
Role: SME, Designer, Developer