Oregon Educational Technology Standard

#3 Research and Information Fluency: Students select and apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, validate, and use information.

My school has recently put in computer labs right outside my classroom door. Last year the students were able to do IXL math and visit some reading web sites, but not much else. They did have some weekly instruction from the library aid, but that was mostly games. I am hoping to use my new social bookmarking tool to set up a research category that will be appropriate for primary students to use to locate information. I have tried to help students use the web for writing reports, but have found that much of it is to difficult for 2nd graders to read and understand. I have saved one site to my bookmarking tool, Enchanted Learning, that we often use when doing animal reports, but will continue to look for others that are at a primary reading level. I do quite a bit of instruction on how to read information and then summarize it into a graphic organizer. I would like to look at the webspiration tool to see if it will be a useful organizer for our ocean animal reports.