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Dozens of Online Resources for Assessment

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While multiple choice, short answer, and essays are still proven methods, there are many alternatives teachers can use for their particular student group.

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10 Reasons to Screencast in Your Class and 7 Best-in-class Tools

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With Common Core’s emphasis on understanding and explaining tasks, screencasts are a great way for both students and teachers to share the required steps in completing a math problem, collaborate on close reading, or pursue any other literacy activity. Provide video evidence of class activities in a flipped classroom.

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Autonomy Breeds Change

A Principal's Reflections

Below is a sample from some of the portfolios: Math teacher Kanchan Chellani has been using her PGP time to create engaging learning activities with Adobe Captivate to flip her classroom. Throughout the year they met to develop extensive binders to compile resources related to text complexity as outlined by the Common Core Standards.

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Close Read Complex Text, and Annotate with Tech--Part 1

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Introduction to close reading Here''s an overview of close reading: What does close reading look like in the classroom? Educreations is a favorite because you can add pages and annotate on the pages with the tools. Educreations is an iPad app that can also be accessed from your browser. collaboration Common Core iPad'

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Close Read Complex Text, and Annotate with iPads--Part 2

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App Tutorial Links Learnability Cost PaperPort Notes PaperPort Notes Tutorial Tips listed below Easy Free Educreations Educreations Tutorial Tips listed below Easy Free Notability Notability YouTube Tutorial Medium $1.99 If the purpose is to capture their thought process real time, then Educreations is perfect as a screen cast.

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It's ALL ABOUT TIME! Mobile Projects in Minutes

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I am going to share some ideas I got from attending his session, as well as some of my own, to give you some practical ideas for integrating NET-S & Common Core, as well as SAVE TIME! Pictures- Snap pictures of specific objects in the classroom Record directions for completing a task, or for showing understanding of a concept.

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Design Thinking + STEM = Student Engagement!

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Read on to see how students used design thinking to solve a real-world challenge, and how you can start planning a design thinking project in your classroom! To start, I asked students to pull out their Kendama (an unheard of event in the classroom) and immediately there was excitement in the air.