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How Can We Use Camtasia to Assess AND Teach
Strategic Comprehension on the Internet?
Julie Coiro, University of Connecticut jcoiro_at_snet
.net
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Research into Practice
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Questions of Interest

• 1. MEASURE What does online reading
  comprehension look like and how can we begin to
  measure this?
• 2. ANALYZE Are there ways to make use of
  research data to directly inform classroom
  instruction?
• 3. TEACH How might teachers use real-time data
  recordings to provide explicit strategy
  instruction?

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New ways of capturing process data with Camtasia
Recordings

• Full motion real-time screen recordings
• Record auditory think-alouds
• Cursor highlights
• Play back to analyze data
• Play back and review process and strategies with
  students.

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What are the elements of strategic online
reading comprehension?

• Skills, strategies, and dispositions required to
  use and adapt to rapidly changing information and
  communication technologies (ICT) while
• identifying important problems,
• locating information,
• critically evaluating the information,
• synthesizing information, and then
• communicating the solutions to others.
• Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, Cammack (2004). In
  Theoretical
• Models and Processes of Reading, Fifth Edition

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What does online reading comprehension look like?
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How have we begun to measure online reading
comprehension?
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Measuring Online Reading Comprehension with
Instant Messenger
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Performance Based Rubric
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Measuring Online Reading Comprehension with
Weblog Postings
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More Finetuned Rubric
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Measuring Online Reading Comprehension with an
Internet Treasure Hunt
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Rubrics that allow for multiple pathways through
information
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Observing Online Reading Comprehension with
Think-Alouds
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Are there ways to make use of research data to
directly inform classroom instruction?
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Note challenges (or strategies?), then back on
track
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On the Spot Assessment, Diagnosis, and Support
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Uncovering and addressing misconceptions

• How do you know its accurate and reliable?
• lots of details plenty of pictures a contact us
  button why would they lie to kids?
• Which site is the best?
• Relevant, readable, and interesting
• VERSUS
• Relevant, accurate, trustworthy objective

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Research Into Practice
What are the challenges?
What can I teach?

• Exploring the power of the Internet asking
  questions that interest you.
• Previewing websites
• Evaluating search results
• Evaluating validity, reliability,
  objectivity of information
• Sorting, organizing, and synthesizing (w/out
  plagiarizing)

• Asking Questions
• What would I like to know more about?
• Locating
• Where do I read first?
• Evaluating
• Which link is most useful?
• How do I know its true?
• Synthesizing and Communicating
• How do I come up with an original idea?

Coiro, J. (2005). Making Sense of Online Text.
Educational Leadership.
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How might teachers use real-time recordings to
provide explicit strategy instruction?
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1. Teacher-led strategy dialogue

• Teachers preview recordings to note strengths and
  challenges.
• Students revisit Camtasia recordings alongside a
  teacher and explain the strategies they used.
• After students locate a difficult event, the
  teacher can guide the student to explore an
  alternative strategy.
• Example 5145 - 5234 - 5354

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2. Student-led strategy dialogue

• Students revisit Camtasia recordings and reflect
  individually or in small groups.
• They play back videos for the group to hear and
  learn from or they provide small group
  reflections that can be saved as evidence of
  learning and strategy use.

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Student-led strategy dialogue

• Purpose of Think-aloud Two friends who have
  never used the Internet have asked you to teach
  them about the online reading strategies you use
  and why.
• Search Task Compare the homes of two different
  groups of Native Americans who lived in different
  regions of the United States.

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Student-led strategy lesson
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3. Online strategy portfolios
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4. Contexts that foster the use of
Internet meta-language

• How do we talk about the new online technologies
  and resources that continue to emerge?
• website, homepage, address bar, search bar,
  search engine, directories, author vs. webmaster
  vs. sponsor, pop-up menu, wikis, blogs, podcasts,
  tags
• Playing back the video provides a common context
  and encourages the use of these terms to describe
  what they are doing, where they are going, and
  how they are getting there.

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In summaryhow can we use Camtasia to assess
AND teach strategic reading comprehension on the
Internet?
Thank you! Julie Coiro jcoiro_at_snet.net
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How can we use Camtasia to assess AND teach
strategic reading comprehension on the Internet?
ANALYZE
MEASURE

• Measure strengths
• Note challenges
• Provide support
• Identify issues for instruction

• IM
• Email
• Weblogs
• Treasure Hunts
• Think-Alouds

Julie Coiro New Literacies Research Team,
University of Connecticut jcoiro_at_snet.net