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1. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Connecting with Intention
   Join Franki Sibberson and Bill Bass, authors of Digital Reading: What's Essential in Grades 3-8, to explore how these connections can change the way that students interact with their ideas and each other.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Copyright Law: From Digital Reprints to Downloads
   Students investigate how and why copyright law has changed over time, and apply this information to recent copyright issues, creating persuasive arguments based on the perspective of a particular group.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 2  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Five Internet Sites Too Good to Miss
   The author shares five developmentally appropriate websites for primary-grade readers to support their literacy development.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Girls Read: Online Literature Circles
   In this lesson designed especially for girls, students read a work of realistic fiction and get to know strong female protagonists through online literary circles and writing activities.
   
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Media Literacy: Examining the World of Television Teens
   Pop culture and the classroom collide in this lesson when students go behind the scenes to analyze a television series for characterization to use in an original television show proposal.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
   Students will whistle while they work on this lesson, creating a photomontage movie of their interpretation of a favorite song's lyrics that will end everyone's day on a high note.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service Announcements
   This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.
   
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Naming in a Digital World: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet
   Students explore naming conventions in digital and non-digital settings then choose and explain specific names and profiles to represent themselves online.
9. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   New Literacies and 21st-Century Technologies
   IRA's position on recognizing an expanded conception of literacy and supporting learners as they use and interact with information and communication technologies.
10. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Reader Response Meets New Literacies: Empowering Readers in Online Learning Communities
    New literacies are here to stay. This article explores the use of e-books and online literature circles.

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