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Dozens of Online Resources for Assessment

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Assessment of student work is a crucial aspect of learning. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding.

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Autonomy Breeds Change

A Principal's Reflections

They desperately sought time during the school day to engage in professional growth opportunities, learn how to integrate Web 2.0 tools, and develop their own Personal Learning Networks (PLN’s). The only catch was that each staff member had to create and present a learning portfolio at his/ her end of year evaluation conference.

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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. Educreations is best suited for any age group and is designed for iPads.

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

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One of the strategies for learning how is close reading. Students learn to annotate their thoughts as part of the process. 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. So what makes a text complex ?

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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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Prime example: You have this great idea for your students to create a video project to show their learning of a science lesson they just completed, but you don''t have a week to spend doing it with iMovie, so you just X the whole project. This happens all the time, and who does it hurt?

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Design Thinking + STEM = Student Engagement!

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By capitalizing on the excitement students had for this toy, and by using design thinking, my students learned traditional math concepts and STEM skills. Then, ask them to brainstorm what they might need to learn to accomplish the task. Challenge students with extension activities that reinforce and expand learning.