Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Reading Levels

Did you know you can find news articles that meet your students' reading levels?

www.google.com

     Through google, you can narrow your searches to meet the needs of readers.




  1. Go to www.google.com
  2. Type in your search topic
  3. Click on the "Search Tools" option (You might have to click search for this to show up!)

4.  Click "All Results"
5.  Click "Reading Level"


6.  Choose the reading level of the article you would like.


https://newsela.com/

  This site is partially free.  Students can locate news articles and change the reading level to one that suits their needs.  There is also comprehension quizzes available for the pro version. 



Monday, October 20, 2014

Comprehension Websites

Looking for new ways to teach and monitor comprehension...look no further!

easycbm.com   

Curriculum-Based Measurement
Solutions for Every Tier

easyCBM™ is an enhanced district assessment system designed by researchers at the University of Oregon as an integral part of an RTI (Response to Intervention) model. Distributed exclusively by Riverside, it provides school districts, administrators, and teachers with a full suite of assessment and reporting options, offering a complete solution at every tier of the RTI process.

Enchanced features include:
  • Full set of Benchmarking and Progress Monitoring assessments, Reading and Math, Grades K through 8.
  • Sync teachers accounts, student records, and class lists from your Student Information System. Easily maintain student records from year to year.
  • Multiple levels of account access for teachers, principals, district personnel, and administrators.
  • Various forms of data entry including online student tests, streamlined total score entry of paper-pencil tests, and other options.
  • Reports by teacher, building, grade-level, or district with customizable percentiles and color-codings, including exports for your Data Warehouse.
  • Admin panel with various system-level settings and configurations, user account management, and student record maintenance.
  • Secure SSL website connections with 256-bit data encryption (same level used by banks), and optional password-protection of online student tests.


readtheory.org

Read Theory is a powerful educational tool that offers online reading activities for all ages and ability levels. Using custom web application software and carefully crafted and tested content created by our team, we provide students with a dynamic reading experience that adapts to their individual ability levels and presents them with a seemingly endless array of skill building exercises. What is more, as students continue to use the site and see their scores gradually improve, the system adapts to match their progress, and the materials presented get incrementally more advanced. Our quizzes span the full range, beginning with elementary school reading and ending with the most demanding SAT, ACT, and GRE level reading comprehension and verbal reasoning questions.

http://reading.ecb.org/

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. 

Friday, October 10, 2014

Fall Neta 2014 Session 7 - Kearney's Path to 1:1 by Jay Dostal

To learn the Kearney Public School's Path to Chromebooks 1:1 click the link below!

goo.gl/2Dtpc5




Communication
Class websites, LMS, Gmail, Google Classroom
Collaboration
Padlet, Google Docs, Discussion Boards
Critical Thinking
Real-time data analysis (Science), having Google “at the ready”
Creativity
Drive Apps, YouTube creation tools
Engagement
Graphic Organizers, guided notes, shared presentations 
Instructional Input
Khan Academy, online textbooks, GeoGebra, Desmos, web tools
Formative Assessment
Socrative, Infuse Learning, Google Forms, Padlet
Assessment
Google Forms (Flubaroo), Moodle, Quizstar, Voice Thread
Special Education
Keyboarding, computer skills, Quizlet, Compass Learning






Insurance - $30
     Fee for all, including free/reduced - payment plan
     No insurance - full price for any damage
     First incident - $0
     Second Incident - $50
     Third Incident - $100
     Fourth Incident - Full price

Fall Neta 2014 Session 6 - Google Meets School Improvement by Steph Buzek and Marci Ostmeyer


  • Create 1 email for SIP
    • Our SIP team did this for our 2014 visitation
    • oescip@ordps.org
  • Multiple people can view the information
  • Create a Google Site
  • Use the email login:
    • Agendas
    • Minutes
    • Notes
    • Ideas

Fall Neta 2014 Session 5 - Give Paper and Pencil Assessments the Boot...Use Infuse Learning and Kahoot by Chris Good and Patty Finney


  • Formative assessment
    • student focused
    • institutionally information
    • outcome based
  • Methods of Formative Assessments (Quick Assessments)
    • Poll Everywhere
      • Poll Everywhere lets you engage your audience or class anywhere in real time. Create your first poll. Takes 30 seconds. No sign up required
    • Google Forms
    • Socrative
    • Infuse Learning  http://www.infuselearning.com/
      • Wasn't Working....
    • Kahoot
      • Set up your own
        • getkahoot.com
      • Play
        • kahoot.it

Fall Neta 2014 Session 4- Student Engagement with Historical Thinking and Technology by Caitlin Leuenberger

tinyurl.com/historicalthinkingtechnology


  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/
    • Games to teach primary students to be history detectives
    • The interactives each model a specific skill or set of skills, such as analyzing historical artifacts or using primary sources to develop a thesis. The first five interactives conclude with "Classroom Extensions," which give teachers hints on how they can teach using these skills in their classrooms. The final interactive, Balancing Sources, includes input from our advisory board of teachers, modeling how they might use the primary sources within the interactive.
  • http://pursued.nemesys.hu/ - Chrome App
    • You must escape, but you must figure out where you are before they can pick you up! It's a race against time as your being pursued by your captors!
  • https://geoguessr.com/
    • Game using StreetView images that drops the player in a random location and challenges them to work out where they are
  • www.timemaps.com
    • World history: maps, timelines, articles, history teaching resources on all world history.
  • www.dipity.com
    • Create an interactive, visually engaging timeline in minutes. Use dynamic visualization tools to display photos, videos, news and blogs in chronological order.
  • www.myhistro.com
    • Using myHistro, you can combine maps and timelines seamlessly into one great presentation
  • www.meograph.com
    • Place events on a timeline and map, plays like a video with narration.
  • marker.to
    • Highlight website
    • share highlighted notes
  • internote
    • add sticky notes to a webpage
  • wordhippo.com
    • Great tool for challenging text
  • Rewordify
    • document modification
  • thinglink.com
    • Use an image as the foundation for a multimedia lesson
    • puts links to audio, videos, documents, websites, quizzes, etc on a picture

Fall Neta 2014 Session 3- Ten Resources to Electrify Your Classroom by Jackie Ediger

Ten Resources to Electrify your Classroom




Videos  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXDTlJ3j9eo

  • ****videonot.es
    • Take Notes synchronized with videos
  • Downloading youtube videos
    • Firefox is the best
      • Tools
      • add-ons
      • Youtube video downloader
      • download as a wmb           
    • Video Downloader Professional for Chrome
      • Cannot download youtube videos but can do others
    • Youtube
      • channel
      • Playlist
      • video manager
    • EDpuzzle.com
      • crop a video
      • add your voice
      • embed quizzes
    • quietube.com
      • Video without the distractions. To watch web videos without the comments and crap, just drag the button below to your browser's bookmarks bar
    • Turnoff the lights
      • Chrome extension
      • darkens everything around the videos

Productivity


  • Adblock 
    • Block ads prior to youtube videos
    • Adblock plus for chrome - extension
Favorite Extensions


  • Clearly
  • url shortener
  • Google Calendar 
    • Google Labs

    • Year View
      -Jump to Date
      -Next Meeting
      -Attachments
      -5 Ways to add a calendar entry
      -Appointment Slots (School Domain only- DAY View)
      -Find a Time
      -Resource Calendar
    • -Keyboard shortcuts:
      • t = go to today
      • d = day
      • w = week
      • m = month
      • a = agenda
      • j/k forward back
  • Google Calendar Checker
  • Onetab
  • Ginger
    • Improve your English communication with Ginger's #1 spelling and grammar checker.
Must Haves


  • Google Searches
    • More
    • Search Tools
    • Reading level
  • Padlet 
    • Use to be wallwisher
    • Online Brainstorming wall

Fall Neta 2014 Session 2 - Managing Student Workflow With Google Apps by Aaron Svoboda

How to powerfully manage student's digital work. https://sites.google.com/site/svobodagct/istestuff
  • Students pastes the URL to their document into a Google Form
  • Teacher has one spreadsheet with all assignments

  • Process
    • Teacher creates a form (Turn It In Form)
      • First Name
      • Last Name
      • Email Address
      • Class
      • Assignment Name
      • Document Link
        • Remind to change to "anyone with link can edit"
    • Provide Access to Form
    • Student completes the form
      • Student - Change sharing to "Anyone with link" "Can Edit"
      • Copy & Past Document URL Into Form
  • Benefits
    • Sortable Spreadsheet
    • Turn the form off and on
    • ONE spreadsheet
    • No worries of a shared folder
    • No additional stuff


Google Classroom
http://youtu.be/K26iyyQMp_g

Great resource for creating a paperless environment














Fall Neta 2014 Session 1 - 20 Project Ideas for the 1:1/BYOD Classroom by Jason Schmidt

20 Project Ideas for the 1:1/BYOD Classroom

http://goo.gl/QwxUyr

Language Arts

  • Blogging in the Classroom
    • Blogger
    • Edublog
    • Kidblog
    • Safest for kids
    • Google Sites
  •    "All About Me" poster
    • ***LucidPress.com
      • Web based   FREE
      • Publisher but awesome!
      • Collaborative
        • real time like google
      • Pretty
        • Clean
        • easy layout
      • Print and Electronic Documents
      • Linked to google account market place
    • Pixlr
  • Graphic Organizers and Mind Maps
    • Lucidchart.com
      • Web
      • Google apps market place
  • Write a Book
    • Lulu.com
      • Web based 
      • can be sold 
    • Kindle Kids' Book Creator
      • WIndows (application for download)
STEM

  • 3D Model
    • Sketchup
      • Free for Nebraska Public Schools with a request
      • Sold to Trimble from Google
    • Build with Chrome
      • Legos platform
      • Can be published with Mac
    • Tinkercad
      • Web
      • A lot of features
      • Created online then Downloadable
      • 3D printable
  • Computer Program Writing
    • Scratch
      • Web/Windows
    • ScratchJr. 
      • Ipad
    • Computercraft
      • Windows
    • Code Studio 
      • learn.code.org
      • Web
  • Build a Space Program
    • Kerbal Space Program 
      • www.kerbaledu.com
    • Start with nothing and build
    • Windows
  • Rube Goldberg Machine
    • Complicated chain reaction
    • Record their process
    • Explain
Multidisciplinary Projects

  • NEbooks Projects
  • Mine Craft
    • Research landmarks
    • Recreate digitally
    • MinecraftEDU
  • Record an explanation of a complicated problem
    • Screencast of matic
    • explain everything
Classroom Tools
  • Image Annotation
    • Awesome Screenshot
      • Chrome
    • Snagit
      • Chrome
    • Skitch
      • Windows/Ios
    • Thinglink
  • Student Response
    • Socrative
      • Web
    • Polleverywhere
    • Google Forms
Classroom Behaviors
  • Classdojo
  • Remind
  • Classdojo messenger
ETC....WEBSITES
alternativeto.net
appcrawlr.com