LEARNING IS MESSY - SO ARE MY NOTES! Come back in Mid-May 2012 and this page will be organized. I hope.
Key Phrases from Common Core Standards
- research to build knowledge
- research to present knowledge
- take notes and categorize information
- summarize and paraphrase information
- vocabulary acquisition
- comprehension of text and speakers
Background Reading
- Communicate
- Collaborate
- Reflect
- Research
Storify
- What is it: Curation tool for gathering articles, photos, videos, tweets, and other web content. Students can add their own comments and reflections on the content they've selected.
- What can it be used for: Curation, Research, Reflection
- Examples:
Zopler - collaborative storytelling. start a story, others can contribute. Add photos. Make story private and invite class to join and collaborate. mentioned by Free Tech for Teachers
READING
- Tagxedo - upload their photo, use words that have meaning to them, create a custom tag cloud. Or upload photo of artist, author, etc. and add words that describe the character or person.
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WRITING
- EDU180ATL http://edu180atl.org/ - Great idea for a collaborative writing project. 250 word posts answering "what did you learn today" Could be done across a grade level, a school, region, or broader. Use free Blogger or WordPress blogging platform. http://www.psdblogs.ca/184/ similar project.
- storyboard for all ages
- Google docs
- Primary pad
- Write board
- Grammarly
PRESENTING
WORD GAMES,
ORGANIZING & NOTETAKING
ACCESS
- Search tools for better access to good informational texts
- -sweet search and kids sweet search
- - what tools did the cooltools folks recommend?
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- Access to databases . Inc,using search boxes on your web pages
- Building custom glove search boxes
Organizing brainstorming
- Popplet
- Wallwisher
- Dabble board
- Other note tools ?
CONVERSATIONS AROUND TEXTS
- Celly chat w polling
- back channel with todaysmeet
- Questions etc w google moderator
- Edmodo
- Wikispaces conversations. Eg that 23 things k12 project
- Can you build in a discussion feature into a google sites site?
- Google docs has chat function
COMMUNITY
VOCABULARY
- Free rice
- Create flash cards drills crosswords games
- Testmoz
- Quizlet
- http://www.cramberry.net/ Create, study, and share flash cards with Cramberry. (Has app for iThings) Free version is limited.
- Sharendipity
- Forvo pronouncing dictionary?
Lists of Tools
Check http://pinterest.com/sarah_ludwig/teen-tech-week-2012/ for ideas
EXAMPLE LESSON PLANS
Lesson Planning and the Common Core: A Unit Based on TED.com
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/common-core-lesson-plans-speeches-heather-wolpert-gawron
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