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Exploring Literacy on the Internet

This section of the Electronic Classroom provides Reading Online readers with electronic versions of the Exploring Literacy on the Internet department from the International Reading Association’s print journal for elementary educators, The Reading Teacher. Columns published in this department explore ways to support teachers and their students in the use of Internet technologies. The department editor, Donald J. Leu, Jr., may be contacted at Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, 249 Glenbrook Road U-33, Storrs, CT 06269-2033, United States; e-mail

The following columns are now available in ROL:

* The CTELL Project: New Ways Technology Can Help Educate Tomorrow’s Reading Teachers
by William H. Teale, Donald J. Leu, Jr., Linda D. Labbo, and Chuck Kinzer (published and posted April 2002)

* Internet Workshop: Making Time for Literacy
by Donald J. Leu, Jr. (published and posted February 2002)

* Internet Project: Preparing Students for New Literacies in a Global Village
by Donald J. Leu, Jr. (published and posted March 2001)

* Using the Internet and Children’s Literature to Support Interdisciplinary Instruction
by Rachel A. Karchmer (published and posted September 2000)

* To See One Another More Clearly: A Pacific Children’s Literature Web Project
by Bridget Dalton (published May 2000; updated and posted December 2000)

* Our Children’s Future: Changing the Focus of Literacy and Literacy Instruction
by Donald J.Leu (published in February 2000; updated and posted in ROL March 2000)

* Electronic Collaboration: Children’s Literature in the Classroom
by Denise Johnson (published and posted September 1999)

* The Miss Rumphius Effect: Envisionments for Literacy and Learning That Transform the Internet
by Donald J. Leu, Jr., Rachel A. Karchmer, and Deborah Diadiun Leu (published and posted March 1999)

* Beyond Classroom Boundaries: Constructivist Teaching with the Internet
by Amelia E. El-Hindi (published RT May 1998; updated and posted ROL June 1999)

* Just Beyond the Horizon: Writing-Centered Literacy Activities for Traditional and Electronic Contexts
by Patrick V. Iannone (published RT February 1998; updated and posted ROL June 1999)

* Caity’s Question: Literacy as Deixis on the Internet
by Donald J. Leu, Jr. (published RT September 1997; updated and posted ROL July 1999)

* Sarah’s Secret: Social Aspects of Literacy and Learning in a Digital Information Age
by Donald J. Leu, Jr. (published RT October 1996; updated and posted ROL July 1999)