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Preparing for Our Digital Citizens

Communication/Collaboration

Today's Meet

Big Questions Survey

     Big Questions Responses

The First 5 Days

     Example

Standards/Resources

The Bridge Tool

        Activity:  Pick a standard you will be addressing in your classroom in the next few weeks.

1. Use the filters in the Common Core Bridge to search for the standard by grade, strand, cluster, or ID.
2. Try searching the text of the standards for a keyword.
3. Try finding connected resources by searching for keywords in resources
4. Pick one of the resources you find. Enter it in the Resource Form.

ed1stop

     Activity:  Pick a topic your students will be learning about in the next few weeks.

1. Search for articles, images, videos audio files, or other resources on the topic. You may use ed1stop subscription resources, or free resources.
2. Enter your resources in the Resource form.
   

Text Resources

Readability-Score.com: Paste text in this site to find out the readability grade level score

ReWordify: Paste a difficult sentence, paragraph, or URL in this site, click the button and you'll  see an easier version.

NEWSELA: Newsela is an innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction daily news. You can change the lexile of any article by clicking on a button.

Image Resources

In many student projects, we encourage the use of media. It is important students learn to use copyright friendly resources and learn to cite where these resources were found. Here are some image resources that covered under creative commons licensing and available for student use.

     Activity: Using a keyword, select one resource and conduct an image search. Explore the

     resources found. Answer the following:

     1. How easy is it to download an image?

     2. Can you select different sizes of the image?

     3. What do the attributions look like?

     Share your findings with your table group. Be prepared to share out with the whole group.

PhotosforClass

Flikr Search and Stamp

Pics 4 Learning

Padlet

Searching Tips and Tricks

Google Image Search

Advanced Google Search

     Power Searching Handout

Google Research Tool

Closing Quiz

Organizations that Support Educational Technology

LeadingEdge Certification

CUE

    East Bay CUE

ISTE