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What are you looking for? Resources to providing resources and training for K-12 Educators, Parents, and Students

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 * 2-24-16 **

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a few thoughts/resources with all of you as a follow-up to the Gale session at last Friday's waiver day.

**1. ****We need to expose our students to a variety of sources**, and many of the great ones are available only in databases! Click the link below to see Top Ten Reasons To Use Subscription Databases @https://magic.piktochart.com/output/4021098-top-reasons-to-use-databases

**2. Searching the web is just one layer in actual research. ** How many of us actually teach students how to search? Do we challenge our students to find information beyond the 1st result page of a Google search? We all assume students know how to search and we set them free to find information. The articles below shed light on this misconception.  
 * Do Your Students Know How to Search? <span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> by Holly Clark
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Teaching Search Skills by Robert Schoble

3. **Please** **Visit the IMSMC's Webpage page** to explore the many subscription databases we pay for as a school and/or as a district.

Edcite Common Core Questions Edcite


 * 9-23-15 **

New State Testing

=** 8-27-15 **= CONSTITUTION DAY RESOURCES

=**Links for Testing Practice / Info**=

Ohio's New State TestsTechnology Skills and Readiness Resources


 * LiveBinder: Preparing for PARCC**
 * Carrie Meeks**

Lori Slingerland

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">SPARCC: http://nextgen.apps.sparcc.org

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">NWOCA: http://nextgen.nwoca.org

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">To View a presentation very similar to what Lori presented today, visit this web site:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">View Webinar: @http://www.infohio.org/educators/pd/lwi/recordings/view/item/bc20140804-session1


 * Resources for additional Opposing Viewpoint**s

Opposing Viewpoints

SIRS

Create Your Own Parcc Like Tests Edulastic

edcite
 * Common Core Practice**

Social Studies Curriculum Beyond the Bubble


 * LEXILE / PARCC Passage Length Charts**

Find a Book Search either by lexile value, range or grade... and then by interest category!

Lexile Chart

PARCC Passage Length

Waiver Day Topic: INFOhio Dr. Derek Cabrera: How Thinking Works (Lego Analogy)
 * 2-14-14 **

Differentiated Instruction Resource IRIS Instruction Peabody Vanderbilt Roger Howard
 * 2-8-14 **

PARCC Presentation Char Shryock Technology Integration, Ohio's New Learning Standards, PARCC Assessments
 * 2-7-14 **

iPadapps4school written by Richard Byrne
 * 2-3-14 **


 * Downloading Youtube videos **


 * 11-20-13 **

Social Studies Resources <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Below is a link to some impressive Social Studies resources/lessons developed as a result of Summit County Grant. Grades 4, 5, 8, and 10 only. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The University of Akron and the Ohio Historical Society. This project provides a content-rich professional development experience for fourth, fifth, eighth and tenth grade social studies teachers.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Ohio as America **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, a Teaching American History grant funded by the US Department of Education, is a partnership of the Summit County Educational Service Center,

10-31-13
The Google Gooru

10-29-13
Transitioning to Open Educational Resources

7 Free Science Apps

Do Your Students Know How to Search

** 10-7-13 **



 * 5-27-13" **


 * iPad Usage in the Classroom Ideas **




 * 4-30-13: **


 * EBSCO MAGAZINE LINK **

F. Scott Fitzgerald's handwritten ledger online @http://shar.es/lbQaj
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald's Handwritten Ledger online**

The Ledger online @http://library.sc.edu/digital/collections/fitzledger.html

An intriguing peek into the daily scribbles and life of author F. Scott Fitzgerald is now available online, just weeks before the opening of the movie (Great Gatsby) -- Powered by ShareThis http://sharethis.com


 * 4-23-13: **

The benefits of virtual field trips are well known: They’re inexpensive—often free—and are less time-consuming than a real trip. But researching which virtual field trips are best can prove labor-intensive, and many resources are out-of-date.
 * 10 of the Best Virtual Field Trips **

To help educators save time, we’ve chosen these 10 virtual field trips based on their relevancy, depth and quality of resources, and potential for student excitement.


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 * Cool 2.0 Tools **


 * IPD **
 * (Plain Dealer Electronic Version) **
 * (nie.plaindealer.com) **


 * 3-12-13: **

Online Resources: @http://ilearnohio.org/


 * Open Source Content Resource**


 * 2-21-13: RECENTLY ADDED: **

Here are some free tools that you can use to increase cloud-based technology in your classroom.
 * 5 Ways Students Can Use Cloud Computing to Amp Up Their Learning**

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; text-decoration: initial;">Common Curriculum
 * 2-19-13: **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;"> __**Common Curriculum**__ is designed to help educators align their lesson plans with CC standards. Common Curriculum provides an online plan book, which enables you to keep track of your class schedules and write your lesson plans. Enter a lesson into your Common Curriculum planner, then click “search for standard” to find a match for your lesson plan.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">A free application, Common Curriculum also enables users to attach files and links to their lesson plans, which really makes it easy to organize those digital materials in one place. Common Curriculum also has a built-in blogging feature. Once activated, the blog option will automatically post your lesson plans for you.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;"> To read more about it read this.. [|http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/10/common-curriculum-helps-you-create.html#.USOCAFpT10E]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;"> Visit the website and create a free account: []

Quizlet


 * Spring 2013 Test Dates **



OHIONET Preview

ohionetuserk12 / infohio

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 * after initial login just go to......**

= ODE =

On the main page under “Educators,” select “Academic Content Standards,” then your respective subject area(s). Your content standards, model curriculum, comparative analysis document(s), and other useful resources can be easily accessed there.

PARCC

PARCC is the organization selected to write/implement the new state assessments for Math and English/LA in 2014-2015. Even if you do not teach these core subjects, ODE will be modeling all future state assessments (including Science and Social Studies) after the PARCC assessment format. __Sample questions, or “prototypes__,” are now available on the PARCC site.

Not only will the assessments be taken on-line, students will be asked to accomplish tasks at much higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Furthermore, there will be multiple state assessments each year. In addition to the usual spring summative assessment, there will be at least one “performance-based” assessment administered sometime during the winter. __Performance-based assessments will measure student’s process skills__ such as “speaking and listening” (in English/LA), and the “8 Mathematical Practices” outlined in the Common Core. Unlike current OAA assessments, students in grades 3-8 will also be given opportunities to re-take state assessments beginning in 2015!

Student Learning Objectives (SLO's)

Common Core INFO

Lexile INFO
 * Find a Book (get scores for books or look for books!)

Library of Congress
 * PRIMARY DOCUMENTS

Math and Science Curriculum Highlighted Cybrary Man's Educational Common Core

[|Science Videos: Mindshift] Tell why science is so amazing!

Star Assessment

Text Complexity

= FYI Articles =

Recently Added:

Authentic Writing Blogging Support

[|Literature vs. Nonfiction] See Miss Mac if you would like printed out copies of this...
 * sent by Mr. Howard 12/12/12

What Kids are Reading //The Book-Reading Habits of Students in American Schools// by Jeff Kinney

Op-ed:Old school job skills you won't find on Google The Seattle Times 12/8/12


 * App Info (Just a start...taking a look at...) **

Apps in Education (blogspot)

Presented using a **//Prezi//** Worth a look!
 * 60 Educational Apps in 60 Minutes **

Educational Apps by Mindshift //Lists 5 Categories: Math, Spanish, Growth of Apps,// //Science, Storytelling, Building, Reading//

Top 2o Must-Have Educational Apps Used by Real Teachers in the Classroom


 * Technology Initiative **

Launching an iPad 1-to-1 Program: A Primer