Chapter 7

           The seventh chapter of the book, “Reading, Writing, and Literacy 2.0: Teaching with Online Texts, Tools, and Resources, K-8,” discusses writing online. There are many outlets and resources to access digital literacy tools and materials. It is important for teachers to provide models that support learning to write online. One of the digital mentor texts and media mentioned in the chapter include digital anchor texts, which are helpful for student learning. Digital anchor texts can be created in a digital environment and used as a guideline for students.

            Pinterest provides many pins and boards including anchor charts, reading comprehension strategies, and mentor texts, which can be very beneficial for students and teachers to use in the classroom. As a future teacher, Pinterest can provide visuals to help when creating an anchor charts, and also helpful for providing examples of lesson plan layouts and prompts. I love using Pinterest because it provides step-by-step instructions and ideas for any kind of lesson I might want to do. I can organize boards and pins that I like to look back on later, and will deinfitely utilize the resources and ideas this site offers for future lessons with my class.

            I also really like the idea of the SpiderScribe website. I am glad that I was able to explore this site further as part of the explorations for my online course. It provides a visual way for students to share their knowledge and follow concepts. A lot of the websites mentioned in the chapter I had never heard of before and I can’t wait to explore more sites to use in my own classroom. While a lot of the websites and digital media sites support student learning, not all of them will work well for your classroom. As a teacher you will have to decide which sites and digital media sources will be most beneficial and easy to use for your class.