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=Hello Foxborough Teachers - Welcome to your wikispace!= Welcome to your own wikispace on the Internet. You might use this wiki for reflecting on ideas you have learned, for asking questions, and/or sharing new lessons with your colleagues! My name is **Julie Coiro** and I am an Assistant Professor of Reading at The University of Rhode Island. I am always interested in learning more about how best to teach reading comprehension strategies and how to support students as they use the Internet for learning. You can contact me at jcoiro@mail.uri.edu

**Contacts for other participants from Oct. 23, 2009 PD session:** > media type="custom" key="11060730" or call the high school.
 * You can contact Laura C. Isaksen at isaksenl@foxborough.k12.ma.us.
 * Kathleen Porter: porterk AT foxborough DOT k12 DOT ma DOT us; Twitter @KathleenPorter

Getting Started

 * Our session began on October 23, 2009 with an exploration of [|Instructional Strategies for Critically Evaluating Online Information]. This session covered strategy lessons for teaching students how to evaluate the relevancy, accuracy, reliability, and stance of information they might encounter on the Internet.
 * On November 3, you will meet back together to adapt some of the activities for use with your own students.
 * Once you try out your ideas, you can use the wikispace to share your files/lessons and reflections about how things went.
 * Here's an example of a "bogus website" that middle school students created for their school project on critically evaluating online information - [|Tikistar Island Pets] (explore the pages from the top menubar)

Files to Share

 * You can download a Microsoft Word version of the handouts and use/revise them as you wish with your students. [[file:Coirocritevalhandouts09.doc]]
 * You can download a copy of the Powerpoint sides from the October 23 session here as well. [[file:MA Oct09 Slides.pdf]]
 * Directions: To attach/upload a file to share your ideas with others, do the following:
 * Create your document in word, powerpoint, etc. and save it on your computer.
 * Click the Edit tab at the top of this wikipage and put your cursor where you want to insert your file.
 * Type in a short note to indicate what the file is and who created the file.
 * With your cursor where you want to insert the link to your file, click the "picture" icon (to the left of the apple" on the toolbar), click the "upload files" tab, click browse to find your file, and then click "upload".
 * Once the file icon appears in the upload window, DOUBLE CLICK the file icon and a "grey box" with the filename will appear on the page.
 * Click "save" on the toolbar and your file will appear like all the others - ready to upload.

Need Help?

 * Click on the edit button above to put your own content on this page.
 * Click on the discussion tab to start a new discussion with others on your wiki.
 * Click on the help link above to learn more about how to use your wiki.