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Use of Information and Ideas

- Efficient and Ethical Information -Seeking Behavior WebPals This was a plan that included blogging for use in a pen pal program. Pen pal programs are great ways to promote literacy and teach students how they can best use social networking, blogging and wikis. We know that these can be dangerous sites but we can use their popularity to our advantage with programs like these

.  -Literacy and Reading This was a school wide poetry journal created for and by the middle school students at IS 232. The program began in an after school program as a part of my fieldwork process. All work was collected over a period of 5 months from all students in the 6th,7th and 8th grades and was then edited by myself and a student crew. -  Access to Information 40 Annotations:  book reviews; genres include Picture Books, Books for Infants, Books for Toddlers, Beginning Readers, Folk/Fairy tale, Poetry, Realistic Fiction, Historical Ficiton, Modern Fantasy, Nonfiction, Biographies, Multicultural, Magazines,and Electronic Sources. -    Stimulating Learning Enviornment This was a series of book talks complete with stimulating cross curriculum extension activitie s