Digital Learning Day, March 13, 2015
Find complete lesson plans, digital tools, and resources.
Everything you need from theory to practice.
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Teachers at Scott County post their ideas for their own classrooms. Teachers at South Newton could do this too!!
And one more from a tech coach here.
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Standards-Based Teaching (Indiana + Common Core)
Ready-made CC aligned lessons for Math, English, and Social Studies.
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This site is amazing-- CC maps, standards alignment, detailed unit and lesson plans. Free!
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What types of thinking tasks will be on the new assessments? See samples here for grades 3-8.
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Standards, correlation guides, content-area communities, sample test items from the IDOE for the "new" standards.
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Passages and discussion questions for grades 6 - 12.
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Thousands of common core aligned lessons from master teachers. Why do all that work by yourself if someone else has already done it??!!
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"The Common Core America Achieves website features lesson videos in Common Core shifts, key teaching points, expanded high school resources, and editable lesson plans." (from the website)
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Nonfiction, high-interest passages on current topics to use for close reading instruction.
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Free Common-Core aligned test items.
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assessment
Instructions here for creating a rubric using Google Forms.
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Every interactive, online quiz maker you can possibly think of is linked from here. Includes brief annotations on features and uses for each.
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Create interactive quizzes students can take on any device. Questions may include videos and images.
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Want to check for understanding periodically? Try polling.
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This blog entry by geography teacher, Seth Dixon, lists several options for online quizzes in basic geography literacy.
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Timed writing? Lightning round game show? Use this online timer to show students how much time is left.
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Ready to try an alternative assessment? Ask them to create a comic strip to summarize content. Don't like this one? Try Pixton instead!
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Make sure everyone participates by choosing names randomly for answering questions.
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Take a full sample college and career ready assessment here.
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Use this to help students revise and check for originality. Check before grading too! Free.
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Teach students to revise their own writing for readability and correctness. Analyze for grade level as well. Free.
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Checking for plagiarism? Search any sentence with a semi-colon used correctly!
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A game-based classroom response system.
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Students create flashcards and the site creates games to play with the words.
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Building digital content (Create Your Own Search Engine HERE!!)
From Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. Free resources from Federal Agencies in multiple content areas.
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An extensive list of instructional strategies that may help build student engagement & learning. Check out these suggestions for tech tools from Indiana's eLearning coaches too.
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Create interactive lessons by locating materials on Youtube, Google, Educreations and adding them to your online lesson planner.
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This site's Web Wednesday column is a great resource for new apps, sites, and lesson ideas.
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Award winning games and simulations to engage students and encourage problem solving and critical thinking in the sciences.
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Create your own digital textbooks with flippable pages!
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More than a million games and videos aligned to the common core and searchable by grade, topic, and content area. Check out their Assessment Creation Tool to write standards-based tests.
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Games, videos, and simulations across the curriculum.
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Create interactive mind maps around a topic of study (adjustable by level of difficulty) and share with students, who will then have access to web links, videos, journals...on topic.
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From Annapolis, MD, arts integrated lesson plans and templates for creating your own.
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Formerly MentorMob EDU, this site has ready-made lessons/units for you to use or edit, or you can create your own.
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Lesson plans for teachers and practice activities (games!) for students on a variety of economics topics.
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Founded by George Lucas, multiple links here are helpful to educators. Check out the Blogs for constant updates on topics like Project Based Learning and Technology Integration.
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Device agnostic tools: apps or web tools that work on any device. If you want to encourage students to BYOD, these might help you get started.
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Search for the best of the web here. Sign up for their weekly email and stay informed about new online resources.
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Thousands of videos across the curriculum, searchable by age level and topic.
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Browse the already-created lessons to see what's possible, or to CURATE some of your own. Then, when you're confident, CREATE one!
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Embed a web page on your web page. Just copy and paste the URL into Embed.ly and get the code.
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According to the site "digital learning resources created and maintained by the federal government and public and private organizations." Check out Songs of a Movement too from the Library of Congress.
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The main audience for this site will be STEM teachers. There may be some other interesting videos at It's Okay to be Smart too!
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A Utah State University site, searchable by grade level and reported to be a "national library" of resources.
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A partnership between Verizon (promoting technology) and the Smithsonian (promoting resources), you can sign up here to receive regular updates on new tech or research what's already available.
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For upper-level high school students: Videos, audio lectures, science animations, lecture notes, online tests, presentations, and publications. From entire courses to brief articles or power points, learning can be as in-depth as you like.
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creating online books & magazines
Create online textbooks (or have students create their own.)
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Create online digital magazines.
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Create an eBook collaboratively.
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Best for younger students, this collaborative writing program lets teachers create story starters, students submit chapters, classes vote on best options, and "books" continue chapter by chapter.
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Open source materials for a wide range of courses -- includes downloadable powerpoints, reading assignments, online quizzes!
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Don't stress over building online content. Use what you know (PowerPoint) to create great eBooks.
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Assemble an ebook easily from documents in your Google drive.
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You might find other helpful Snack tools, but FlipSnack lets you make an online book with flippable pages.
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Step by step directions for assembling an ebook straight from Wikipedia. (They have nearly 20,000 already published that you can search also.)
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Create your own textbook here (from pdf files), or search for those already made.
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digital (text)books for free
An extension available through the Google Chrome store, Joliprint lets you create pdf versions of web pages that are annotatable and easier to read than the originals.
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Study guides and resources here include digital textbooks, animations, videos, for grades 5 - 12.
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Six free online science textbooks.
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Run by students seeking to combat the high cost of textbooks. Search here for free materials.
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A textbook alternative for middle school social studies teachers.
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TONS of open source textbooks, listed by subject area.
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Open Educational Resources (FREE) searchable by content area, grade level, format -- video, print -- etc.
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Thousands of free ebooks -- fiction and nonfiction -- along with author resources. Paid by the state of Indiana.
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Free, standards-aligned STEM activities (including free digital textbooks, videos, interactives, etc. (Logansport schools are using this for science textbooks in their 1:1 environment.)
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International Children's Digital Library includes books in multiple languages at multiple reading levels.
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Open source materials (free & available to everyone) searchable by subject and content area. Full, online textbooks.
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Looooooong list of eBook resources. Huge!
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Flipping
For blended learning...
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Add multiple choice questions to YouTube or Vimeo videos.
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Create your own video-based lessons, including assignments students must complete after watching. Or browse their collection of thousands of ready-made lessons.
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Primarily for math and science teachers, Glean points you to the best video lessons available online.
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"Create lessons containing instructions and content such as a video or video clips, sound recording, document, or link to a website." (from Teacher's First)
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Watch YouTube videos in bite-sized steps.
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Over 85,000 newsreel videos, dated from 1896 - 1976.
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Use the custom Google Search above to search for instructional videos across five different sites: TeacherTube, SchoolTube, Next Vista, National Geographic, and TeachersTV.
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Narrow your youtube searches to those suitable for the classroom.
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virtual field trips
According to Marzano, students gain as much knowledge from a virtual field trip as from an actual one. For a super-quick activity, create a Google Web Search Challenge.
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Go where the characters go. Check the list of featured novels or have students create their own.
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Not quite a field trip -- but an excellent timeline tool that allows students to view or make. Check their lesson plans for inspiration.
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Enter questions and answers; the site generates QR codes automatically.
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vocabulary
Find or create individualized vocabulary lists across the curriculum.
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Adaptive technology helps students build individualized word-learning activities. Lists are available too for test prep and novel study.
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Vocabulary-building games for SAT prep, Greek & Latin roots, and many more, organized by subject and grade-level.
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Copy and paste text here. See synonyms of difficult vocabulary by clicking on challenging words.
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Turn any webpage into a clickable dictionary by pasting the URL in here.
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screen casting & Whiteboards
A quick download for Mac or Windows allows you to create three minute videos and upload easily.
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Check out this blog post from Free Technology for Teachers for screen capture and screen casting tools.
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Recordable whiteboard projected from your iPad.
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Recordable (both audio and video) whiteboard. Super simple! Find seven more whiteboard tools at a blog post from Free Tech for Teachers.
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teacher Training Tools
Lessons approved by the American Federation of Teachers are listed here by grade and subject.
Five great sites for education webinars on a wide variety of topics.
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Multiple resources, including professional development, lesson plans, and sample test items.
What do you want to learn? Find a MOOC here and learn it!
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Monitor student understanding and activity in the "background" of your lesson. Some useful tools explained here.
Search for free online courses on any topic.
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Be sure to check out the Teacher's Guides for great resources on learning and the Tools section under For Teachers.
Self-paced learning modules in a wide variety of topics. Plus, blended learning lessons for students across content areas.
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Tips and directions for building a Personal Learning Network. Additional tools and resources from Eric Sheninger are available here.
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Feel a little overwhelmed at times? Tammy will send a weekly tip to your email, or let you search her site for more detailed explanations (including lots on Google tools).
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One New Jersey school has expanded its program offerings by allowing students to take Open Course classes from major universities for HS credit. Check out their options here.
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literacy across the curriculum
A nice selection to use with reading across the curriculum.
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Try one of these blogging platforms and give students an opportunity to reflect on their learning. Read this article for tips on why and how to help students be successful bloggers. Even more possible platforms are discussed by Teacher'sFirst too!
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Nonfiction reading selections, searchable by topic, and organized by content area. For a similar option (standards-based reading passages with comprehension questions) try ReadWorks. Or visit News in Levels for differentiated passages.
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A great collection of digital student interactives to support literacy across the curriculum. Check out their timeline creator for a preview of all that's possible. Or, tired of language literacy always being at the forefront? Try Would You Rather? to support some mathematical literacy.
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Resources for teachers and students on copyright and other media literacy topics.
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A great source for nonfiction resources on a wide variety of topics and in a wide variety of formats. Try an editorial for analyzing argument.
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A companion site to FactCheck.org, this site aims to help students recognize flaws in arguments -- especially in political advertising. |
Problem solving and research skills can be practiced here regularly!
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National Geographic combines maps, text, and images to tell their stories. Might be a good model for a student project too. Even more resources from National Geographic here.
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Lesson planning ideas from the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Look here for more cartoons from the Library of Congress. And here for the Cagle Post (editorial cartoons on current events). Finally, a blog post here details some other options and offers a rationale.
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A monthly calendar of daily writing projects that could be used in multiple learning journals or classroom activities.
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Tired of robot-voiced text reading programs? Try this one instead! (Will read .pdf docs too.)
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Designed as a learning game, students practice CCSS Skills here.
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Create digital storybooks on a variety of topics.
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Hundreds of annotatable literary texts in pdf format.
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Vocabmonk.com lets each student learn the words s/he needs to know. You can create an account and track progress if you need to assign grades.
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Common Core aligned units in history. Complete lesson plans & activities.
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Real time collaboration
Fast and easy way to create a private chat room where students can share thoughts and exchange files.
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Use a back-channel to allow your students to post questions, add comments, and provide feedback on your presentation. For a similar experience, try Chatzy instead!!
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Students can participate in a virtual study session, complete with editable whiteboard . Try Stoodle for another collaborative whiteboard option
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Group video chat and screen sharing -- as easy as opening a link.
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Collection of options gathered by edutopia, includes resources from the Institute of Play.
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Online collaborative drawing. Just create an online whiteboard, share the URL, and start drawing.
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You designate the tasks or responsibilities; they sign up.
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classroom management & Differentiation
Need music to create a particular classroom atmosphere for relaxation, creativity, or role play? Try one of these.
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Use apps & extensions to make it easier for students to read web-based material. Some include read-aloud options.
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Gamified behavior management.
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Manage IEP's collaboratively.
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If you post a daily quote, aphorism, learning target, etc., you might find a poster-maker site helpful. (Another good option for this is Quozio.)
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Classroom Grants
Search for grants among more than 2,000 possibilities.
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A crowd funding site designed specifically for educators. Got a great idea but lack funds? See who might be out there with deeper pockets!
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DonorsChoose plus eight more options for raising money for classroom projects.
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TED ED: How to Build a Fictional World (Flippable lesson from TED for student writers.)
TedEd Lesson with "Dig Deeper" and "Discussion" questions already written. Check out Ted's "Lessons Worth Sharing" channel on YouTube for other great ready-made content.
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Six Ted Talks on education topics.
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