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Hi Everyone, Here's a place to share more information about your action research project in whatever form you would like. You can edit your page and add text, you can add hyperlinks to webpages, you can insert images, you can upload a word document with information, etc. etc. Simply click on the link below for your group and you'll have your own wikispace to design as you choose. >> >> >> >
 * ** Group 1: Edgewood School : Paul Tomizawa, Anne Stokes, and JoAnn Mraz **
 * ** Group 2A: Greenacres School: Shoshana Cooper and Carole Phillips (with William Yang) **
 * Follow-up Resources: The issue of assessment is a challenging one. You may wish to explore some of the [|examples of assessments that our Uconn New Literacies Research Team created] to support Internet Reciprocal Teaching to see if anything here sparks an idea that may be useful for you.
 * ** Group 2B: Greenacres School: Zulmira Muzzio and William Yang **
 * Follow-up Resources: Working to support learning disabled students as they use the Internet is certainly a challenge, but there are some excellent resources being developed! One place to explore is some basic informational texts created with strategy supports and multimedia supports from [|CAST UDL Books] (click on the coyotes text to get you started). You may be interested in reading about some of the projects being created at [|The National Center for Supported E-Text] with Lynne Anderson Inman at the University of Oregon and Judy Zorfass at the Education Development Center. Most of their work is with middle school students, but a few examples are projects to [|enhance vocabulary and comprehension using Visual Thesaurus] (read more [|here]), research with [|developing supportive video resources], and a growing collection of [|supported e-text sites available from a Del.icio.us database].
 * Group 3: Heathcote School : Mary Ann Kingston and Jodi Giroux
 * Group 4: Quaker Ridge School : Kerri Kruck, Pat Marwell, Michael Pincus
 * Group 5: Middle School/High School: Sharon Waskow and Phyllis DiBianco
 * Group 6: Jerry Crisci
 * Jerry - the keynote support system you created was really cool - I'd love to find out how you made that!! You may be interested in others who have done similar work to support similar and different types of online reading strategies. First, there is the 21st Century Information Fluency site that provides [|micromodules and search challenges] around a number of strategies as well as a series of wizard tools for [|searching], [|evaluating], and [|citing online sources]. Another extremely comprehensive support tool is the newly released online [|Strategy Tutor] created by CAST, and funded by the Carnegie Corporation. You have to login the first time you use it, but then it leads you to a supported process for doing online research (framed in reciprocal teaching strategies).
 * Group 7: Fox Meadow School : There were four groups but they may end up combining. For now, you can all post on this linked page in your own section.

DIRECTIONS: 1. **To add text to your page**, just click the "Edit this page" tab, put your cursor where you want to start typing, type to your heart's content and then click the "Save" button on the editor tool bar to instantly publish your work for everyone else. 2. **To create a hyperlink,** just highlight the word(s) you want to link and click on the"globe with a chainlink" icon (the 9th icon on the toolbar). In the window that opens up - select the button for "external link", then copy/paste or type the web address into the bottom form bar in the white box next to the right of the http: box. 3. **To upload/insert a link to a document** or to insert a picture, put your cursor where you want the link to appear. Then, click on the tree icon (11th icon on the toolbar). In the window that opens up, click on the browse button next to "upload new file" - search for your file on your computer, click on it and select "open" in the window. Then click on the upload button. When the file pops up in the window, you can double click on it and it shows up in your wikisape where your cursor was. Then you can just X out of the window after.

When you are done, don't forget to click save to save your changes and make them public.