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Voki Home. The Visual Way to Explore and Understand Data. Students use InspireData® to investigate, analyze, and represent data and information in dynamic graphs and charts. InspireData tools make it easy to change variables and plot types so students can explore data in multiple, meaningful ways. This encourages them to investigate data analytically, ask more questions, and apply their understanding of the data to form better conclusions and continue exploration. Download a free 30-day trial of InspireData today! InspireData helps students to successfully: Build data literacy Develop analytical skills Strengthen critical thinking Students and teachers collect data from multiple sources including experiments, library and Internet research, user-created e-Surveys or one of the 100+ subject-specific databases that are part of InspireData. Students’ analysis and investigation includes finding the best representation for their data using multiple plot types such as Venn, bar, stack, pie, axis and time series.

Develop Data Literacy More plot options. Digital Learning Resources. Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders. Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders. PowerPoint Video Narration Trick. PowerPoint Video Narration Trick. Convert A Narrated PowerPoint to a Video. Convert A Narrated PowerPoint to a Video. 20 Great Websites For Elementary Educators. The Internet is overflowing with information for teachers. Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start searching for great lesson ideas. Who has time to sift through all of the mediocre material in order to find the truly inspirational ideas? We’ve done the sifting for you. Though we’ve divided the sites by subject, most cover the education spectrum and will be useful to every teacher.

Even better, they show you how to integrate subjects, whether that’s using a writing lesson to learn about thunderstorms or finding a musical beat during physical education. Read on for some fantastic lesson ideas. Language Arts ReadWriteThink Use this site when you have a very specific amount of time to fill. Reading Rockets Have a question about teaching reading and writing?

Scholastic Browse thousands of lesson plans by grade level and subject. School Library Journal This is a good resource when you have readers who are difficult to reach. Math Illuminations Inside Mathematics K-5 Math Teaching Resources Arts. Digital creation tools. Weebly: Create a Free Website, Online Store, or Blog. Glogster EDU: A complete educational solution for digital and mobile teaching and learning. PD In Focus. Atomic Learning – Education: Professional Development, Technology Integration and Software Training and Support Solutions - Atomic Learning. Welcome to Discovery Education | BrainPOP Jr. - K-3 Educational Movies, Quizzes, Lessons, and More! Reading A-Z: The online leveled reading program with downloadable books to print and assemble.

Storybird - Artful storytelling. Youtube. ePals. WeVideo. WIDA. Google Drive. 10 Interactive Lessons By Google On Digital Citizenship. YouTube has a firm place in the current classroom. From Khan Academy’s videos to YouTube EDU and beyond, there’s a reason all these videos are finding a home in schools. In an effort to help keep the ball rolling, Google just launched a set of 10 interactive lessons designed to support teachers in educating students on digital citizenship. A topic obviously quite close to Google’s heart. Google (which owns YouTube) built the lessons to educate students about YouTube’s policies, how to flag content, how to be a safer online citizen, and protect their identities.

Below is a list of lessons, and the recommended flow for delivery. Or you can download the Full Teacher’s Guide or the Full Set of Slides in PDF. The killer feature for this curriculum is the extra features that come with each video. Popplet. Webinars. 10 Interactive Lessons By Google On Digital Citizenship. Digital Citizenship. DIGCI2-excerpt. 7 Pillars Of Digital Leadership In Education. 7 Pillars Of Digital Leadership In Education by Eric Sheninger, Principal at New Milford High School in New Jersey As schools change leadership must as well. With society becoming more and more reliant on technology it is incumbent upon leaders to harness the power of digital technologies in order to create school cultures that are transparent, relevant, meaningful, engaging, and inspiring. In order to set the stage for increasing achievement and to establish a greater sense of community pride for the work being done in our schools, we must begin to change the way we lead.

To do this, leaders must understand the origins of fear and misconceptions that often surround the use of technology such as social media and mobile devices. Once the fears and misconceptions are placed on the table, leaders can begin to establish a vision for the effective use of technology to improve numerous facets of leadership. From my work I have identified what I call the Pillars of Digital Leadership. 1. 2. 3. DigitalLearning - home. CMS Learns —