Chapter 6 introduced many different online elements I have never heard of before. Online sticky notes are a tool that I did not know existed. Now that I know about them I would love to try them out myself. Being able to highlight and take notes on any website is something I have always wanted to do. Secondly something that was discussed in this chapter was all of the different online dictionaries available. I have always thought that dictionary.com was the only online dictionary out there. I had no idea that there were tons of different dictionaries including ones for ELL’s and young children. Another part of this chapter that I thought was really cool was the idea of virtual authors visits. These can be anywhere from emails to Skype calls for a fee. Authors tell all about their thinking while creating stories. The next new thing I learned about in this chapter was GoogleLit trips. Theses are ways for children to be able to go on virtual road trips.  These road trips are designed to replicate the road trips in the stories they are reading to get a better idea of the setting. Book trailers were something I did not understand. I thought that the authors who wrote the stories would primarily make these. Once I read that it was the children who primarily made the trailers, I didn’t understand what the point was. This idea might be interesting if the children were recreating the trailers the authors themselves had previously made. Finally online eBooks are a great tool to use to help children with learning how to read. They contain many helpful elements such as links to definitions and more information. The hard part about implementing eBooks into the curriculum is teaching children when clicking on links offered is helpful and when it just leads to unhelpful and off topic information.

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