Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Social literacy in the classroom

These are other ways students can help build a classroom community and converse with one another through using different technologies:

  • Wiki
  • Class discussion boards
  • Podcasting
  • Social tagging
  • Video Blogging

You can also promote social literacy by:

  • Creating classroom norms for the students at the beginning of the year
  • Have large and small group discussions
  • Use blogs or other interactive technology for the students to respond to one another
  • Allow enough time in the classroom for all students to share their ideas
  • Introduce different social settings to students, and then discuss how the students felt afterwards
  • Discuss the importance of social cues
  • Practice and model how to talk to one another –be active listeners and communicators

Here is also a short video clip for youtube.com, about a Life Skills program, which addresses the many benefits that social literacy is about -such as promoting confidence and responsibilities. I hope you like it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P75cfmuNYOg

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