Resources


 * It is recommended that you use the terminology of the @Technology Toolkit when discussing projects and assignments with your students. Do not use product specific terms - such as PowerPoint, or Word - because those terms will not be on the assessments.**

Arkansas Department of Education Common Core Resources - also has contact information of people at the state department.

Arkansas Department of Ed Wiki on Common Core

Arkansas Digital Sandbox - designed to support the exchange of digital media in a safe and secure social networking environment. In this closed network, educators can create custom classroom groups, invite students to share multimedia files, and post private comments to students about their work

Common Core State Standards Initiative

Common Core Standards with Common Sense - From the site: Let’s get one thing straight, this site is not sanctioned by any department of education, political group, higher education institute, school system or committee. This site does contain links to official sites.

Common Core Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

Lexile Information

PARCC - Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers Assessment Consortium facilitated by Achieve - States in PARCC share one fundamental goal: building collective capacity to dramatically increase the rates at which students graduate from high school prepared for success in college and the workplace. Arkansas has joined PARCC.

E-mail - achieve@achieve.ccsend.com and parcc@achieve.org

Presentation on Arkansas' Implementation of Common Core

AASL Crosswalk

NETS - National Educational Technology Standards for students and teachers

Books:

Common Core Curriculum Maps: English Language Arts Grades 6-8 ISBN: 9781118108215 Publisher: Jossey-Bass www.josseybass.com or order through Amazon

Common Core Curriculum Maps: English Language Arts Grades 9-12 ISBN: 9781118108208 Publisher: Jossey-Bass www.josseybass.com or order through Amazon

**Here are some Common Core Resources: (sent through a listserv - I just copied and pasted onto this page)**
CommonCore.org has moved it’s First Edition curriculum maps to a new location, in favor of the Second Edition, for which they now charge. You can still find the original maps for free here: [] Download the ATOS-2000 scale converter here. [] [] []
 * 1) Links to Free First Edition Curriculum Maps from CommonCore.org
 * 1) Both Lexile and ATOS (Renaissance Learning’s or Accelerated Reader’s measure of readability) protest that you can’t compare the two reading levels because they are designed to measure slightly different things. Yet, ATOS provided me with this pdf that converts their scores to a 2000-based score which they say “roughly” translates to Lexile. In other words, if you know an ATOS rating, you can estimate the Lexile from this. Still, in practical terms, an internet search on the book’s title is likely to turn up both scores.
 * 1) The Common Core standards emphasize three criteria for evaluating a text: Quantitative (Lexile score), Qualitative and Reader/Task. Here is a one-page summary of the criteria that makes it easy to justify to administrators/teachers why a book is appropriate for a certain lesson. Download the Evaluating Texts for Common Core tool here.
 * 1) FAQ: List of Common Core Required Texts:

Mastery Education - all the CCSS in one easy to use widget!! (Click below if it doesn't appear right away.)
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 * You can also download an app on most smartphones...do a search for common core standards...Mastery Education app has been recommended to download. **

** MISC. TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES **
Arkansas' Traveler Databases - use these for research instead of Google....much more reliable!! Oretha Ferguson is a HS English Teacher from Fort Smith who is awesome. Her stuff can be found on the following three sites:

Schools Without Walls Wiki Ferguson's Classroom Wiki Ferguson's Protopage

Free Resources for Teachers Wiki- wiki broken down into all areas of curriculum and teaching....check it out!!

7 Tools for Creating Mind Maps and Online Outlines

100+ Free Internet Resources for Teachers

American Association of School Librarians - Top 25 Websites

Appitic - if you don't have enough to overwhelm you....here is 1800+ educational apps!!

Animoto - For Education - digital storytelling

Arch Ford Homepage - links to a lot of great resources here!!

Big Huge Labs- Create a trading card from your own pictures

Blogger- Use for facilitating student discussion and share information with parents and students

[|Build Your Wild Self] - Students create an avatar for themselves then add different animal features. Great for descriptive writing or science.

Class Tools.net - Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds. No signup, no passwords, no charge!! You can also access items already there.

Common Craft - videos from a variety of topics: technology, green, money and society. These videos are simple, yet easy for studentsj (and adults) to understand.

CQ Press - Covering today's most important issues and controversial subjects, // CQ Researcher // has been the choice of students and librarians for over 80 years. Each weekly issue—written by an experienced CQ Press reporter—is an in-depth, single topic report featuring more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies.(This requires a paid subscription)

Drop Box- drop files and pictures into drop box, download free smartphone app!!

e-Learning for Kids - Basic literacy/math practice. Great for young students to get used to online testing formats

Fake Facebook profiles - sources - Good for student creation of historical figures or biographies.

FreeTech4Teachers - great blog that you can subscribe to through RSS Feed More about RSS Feeds

4Teachers.org - Incorporate technology into your lessons....great resource (one resources is to create customizable rubrics for any subject)

Glogster - create posters - can be interactive, but the interactive ones use more bandwith. Make sure you always use the edu version of Glogster - the other version may not always have appropriate content on it.

Google Lit Trips - Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth.

Ways to use Google+ In Education

Historical Photo Archive

iTunesU - has lessons specific to Arkansas. Great resource!!

Mindmeister- Online mapping and webbing tool

Newseum- front pages of newspapers from all over the world, updated daily (in column on right hand side of page)

Penzu - Online Journal

Political - Editorial Cartoons - Online political cartoons from a variety of topics.

Popplet - Simple online webbing tool

The Power of Words - You Tube video - can be added to your ADE Sandbox for viewing at school's with filters.

Prezi - Online Presentation Tool

Read-Write-Think- a collection of literacy lesson plans, online tools,professional development and so much more! Has online organizers and student publishing resources

Screenr - web based screen recorder. Click the record button, capture the screen and voice, then share!! Free and super easy!!

Scholastic Flashlight Reader's Book Club - Fun activities to do with a few well know books.

ShowMe - use presentations already created or create your own

Storybird - Students can use preloaded pictures to write their own story

Tagxedo - word clouds with style - similar to Wordle - but you can create shapes!!

TeachersFirst - requires free membership to access resources. Great resources!!

Thinkfinity- lesson plans and games on thousands of topics

Tildee - create, share or locate tutorials. Easy to use...

Tony Vincent - has a lot of tech ideas!!

Tumble Books -click on the green Tumble Books icon in the middle of the page.

Voki

Wikispaces - use to facilitate discussion, share projects and classroom information

Wall Wisher - Students can write on *sticky notes* and post on wall. Say more with less. Check understanding. Authentic display of information learned.
Xtranormal

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More Web 2.0 Resources

Information on Wikispaces Wikis
Wordle- From the Wordle website: Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. Hints: 1. Copy and paste from a word document. 2. A ~ between two words will keep those words together. 3. In the advanced mode putting a **:** and then a number behind the word will increase the size of the word in your Wordle word cloud.

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Xtranormal - Create avatar videos. Here's an example: Parent Teacher Conference

BLOGS

Blogs - or Weblogs -

Examples of sites to create a blog:

Blogger

Edublogs

Wordpress

Examples of some blogs:

Top 100 Educational Blogs - this should keep you busy for a little while....

Free Tech 4 Teachers - free technology - more than you would ever want to know about!! Great resource!!

TechChef4U

Mister Teach

Marc and Angel Hack Life - Love...love this site!!

Search ReSearch - a blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging.

Resources to help you with your blog:

All of My Blogging Advice in One Place - Richard Byrne of Free Tech 4 Teachers

What I've Learned from 5000 Blog Posts - Richard Byrne of Free Tech 4 Teachers