Common Core Tech Tools

Dee Thomas
Instructional Technology Specialist

2013

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Common Core Tech Tools is a list of web resources for teachers that wish to integrate technology into the learning environments. Each of these tools met the following requirements: 1. Free 2. Internet Explorer compatible 3. Requires no install or download This project has been somewhat of a moving target since websites make changes on a regular basis. In an attempt to keep this a living and working document, all feedback on these websites are welcome! The goal of this project is to provide teachers with some guidance in the tools that are available for use in the digital learning environment. The most recent copy to this document can be found at http://ccsstechnology.weebly.com/

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Table of Contents
Audio Tools for Common Core .................................................................................................................... 3 Author Tools for Common Core ................................................................................................................... 5 Collaboration Tools for Common Core ........................................................................................................ 6 Comic Tools for Common Core.................................................................................................................... 8 Digital Storytelling Tools for Common Core ............................................................................................. 10 Flash Card Tools for Common Core ........................................................................................................... 12 Graphic Organizers for Common Core ....................................................................................................... 13 Graphics and Image Editing Tools for Common Core ............................................................................... 15 Keyboarding Tools for Common Core ....................................................................................................... 17 Kid Friendly Search Engines ...................................................................................................................... 18 Math Tools for Common Core .................................................................................................................... 19 Nonfiction Resources for Common Core.................................................................................................... 22 Presentation Tools for Common Core ........................................................................................................ 26 Publishing Tools for Common Core ........................................................................................................... 29 Reference Tools for Common Core ............................................................................................................ 35 Teacher Resources for Common Core ........................................................................................................ 41 Timeline Tools for Common Core .............................................................................................................. 46 Video Tools for Common Core .................................................................................................................. 48 Vocabulary/Grammar Tools for Common Core ......................................................................................... 52 Standards Requiring Technology in Common Core State Standards ......................................................... 54 Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects ........................................................ 63

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Audio Tools for Common Core

Vocaroo Website, iOS app Description- Simple audio recorder, no uploading required. Can embed into any webpage.

BrainShark

Website

BrainShark makes podcasting easy using microphone or telephone. Other features include adding voice to PowerPoint, narrate a document, make a talking photo album, or upload video. Free

Audacity

Software Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and install found in multilingual audio editor. Use Audacity to: kace Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together. Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Windows 7 Sound Recorder

Standard on all Use Sound Recorder to record a sound and Windows 7 save it as an audio file on your computer. district CPUs. You can record sound from different audio devices, such as a microphone that's plugged into the sound card on your computer. Website This site offers free sound effects that are searchable by categories and allows downloads.

SoundGator

AudioBoo

Website and Apps

This website (and an application for Android, iPhone OS and Symbian) allows users to post and share sound files instantly with the world.
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Present. me

Website, Android & Chrome app

Upload your PowerPoint files and easily give your students a voice by adding their narrative to the presentation! The final presentation then appears with a video (webcam) recording on the right side. Really cool tool! Specialized in the creation of tools that enable users to easily find, create, distribute, promote and listen to both audio and video podcasts. Users can add photos and music to create an awesome show using Minicast Maker.

Podamatic

Website

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Author Tools for Common Core

Childrens Literature Web Guide Teachers@Random: Authors & Illustrators Scholatic.com Librarians: Author and Illustrator Index Kidsread.com: Authors An extensive guide to authors and illustrators. Features an alphabetized listing of author and illustrator biographies. Enrich your author studies with this collection of biographies and interviews with the bestloved authors in children's literature. Browse a list of authors by clicking the letters that corresponds to the first letter of the last name of the author. Learning about authors/illustrators helps students see possible connections between a creator's life and the works created and encourage them to consider different techniques and approaches. Use this resource page to learn more about your favorite authors and books.

Learning About Authors & Illustrators

IPL: Books & Authors

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Collaboration Tools for Common Core

Todays Meet Website Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs. Vialogues (video dialogues) is a discussion platform that proves that videos are both powerful teaching resources and the ultimate conversation starters. Vialogues provides a space for users to hold meaningful and dynamic timestamped discussions about videos. Pen.io is an online publishing tool, designed to be as simple and as easy to use as possible. With no registration or setup needed, it takes just seconds to start writing. Your writing gets published on a beautifully designed page, which you can share with your friends, family, fans and followers.

Vialogues

Website

Pen.io

Website

Popplet

Website, Make your own views of video, images, text and invite App others to help you design it. Super easy, super-fast, super (free) smart! Website Collaborate in ways that are simple and friendly. See changes instantly. Use your space to work together, brainstorm, give presentations and share information with your team in real-time, in the same room or across the world. Integrated chat makes communication quick and easy. Usable by five year olds (many K-8 teachers are using this!). PrimaryPad is a web-based word processor designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time.

Corkboard

PrimaryPad

Website

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WuFoo

Website

WuFoo is a web application that helps anybody build amazing online forms. When you design a form with WuFoo, it automatically builds the database, backend and scripts needed to make collecting and understanding your data easy, fast and fun. Create & collaborate. In Google Drive, you can create new documents, spreadsheets and presentations instantly. Work together at the same time, on the same doc, and see changes as they appear.

Google Drive

Website

BlendSpace (Formerly EdCanvas)

Website, A really great site that makes it easy for teachers to organize and share educational materials in a visually Droid pleasing format. Arrange videos, links, images, and files app around any topic. Blendspace has built-in search tools so that you do not have to leave your Blendspace account in order to locate resources.
Website

Padlet

(Formerly WallWisher) Padlet gives you a blank wall to put anything on it to express thoughts on a common topic easily. Works like an online sheet of paper and allows collaboration!

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Comic Tools for Common Core

ToonDoo You can now just drag-drop or click to create comic strips that express your views, opinions, angst or to just have fun, loads of it! A cool, comic-creating site for kids. (Website, iOS) Drag-and-drop comic creation tool. Artistic talent is not needed with this tool, and customization of graphics and text is easy. The free individual accounts are easy to set up, and Pixton also offers paid teacher accounts that allow for easy grading and student privacy. A very simplistic three-panel comic creator. With limited background and character customization options, the majority of the creative process occurs with developing text and conversation in this tool. This websites allow you to create your own Comic strip without even registering an account. But if you sign up, you do get some extra facilities like you can create your own gallery. You can use the pre-made characters or you can also create your own, and it too has a drag-n-drop interface just like Pixton. You can also print your generated comic.

Pixton

WittyComics

Strip Generator

Make Beliefs Comix

Make Beliefs Comix allows you to create amazing and diverse Comic Strips, using pre-set cartoons, clip arts and views. Add text to these characters to bring your Comic to life. A fun and powerful tool for making comics in the classroom. This site allows users to move characters and lots of great features that other comic strip sites do not have! This is a great site!

X-treme Comics

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PowToon

PowToon is the best free animated presentation online software tool and PowerPoint alternative that supercharges your presentations and animated video! Students can use this site to create awesome animated presentations for the wow factor! This is only an app but it is free and amazing! Lights, Camera, Play! Toontastic is a Creative Learning tool that empowers kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons through imaginative play.

Toontastic iOS app

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Digital Storytelling Tools for Common Core

StoryBird Toontastic Website, Create, read, and share visual stories from this iOS app easy to use site. iOS app This app is designed to walk students through the storytelling process of choosing a scene, climax, setting, conflict, and characters. Students even choose music to match the characters emotions and create a digital storytelling video that is shared on their global digital storytelling online channel.

Little Bird Tales

Website, Little Bird Tales allows students to create iOS digital storytelling projects. This tool is perfect ($2.99) for young students! Kids can draw their own art or upload images to create a book where they add their voice and text to narrate their story. They can then embed, create PDF and MP4s of their work. Website allows for the creation of free stories. Website Create a story with a template by choosing the kind of plot line and a variety of characters. Other options include creating movies, drawings, or making ecards. Website Create a digital story with photos, video, voice, music and words. Website Students choose from an art collection by artists and then create the text to make a beautiful story. This site makes telling stories easy. Write a story in just 7 steps. Website This site allows you pick a painting, write a short story about it, record it with your computer microphone, and email the url address for posting on a student website or blog. Its extraordinarily simple!
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Kerpoof

UTellStory StoryJumper

The Art of Storytelling

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Story MakerSeussville

Website Choose music, text, backgrounds and feature some of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters. Website Students read interactive story adventure then can change the story to be their own adventure. Website Children pick what kind of story to create then they fill in gaps in a story that has characters and a plot line. Website This is an article that gives links to three different digital storytelling evaluation rubrics for teachers to use. (Education Technology and Mobile Learning blog) Website StoryMath! is an innovative new approach that uses storytelling to present math in a fresh, fun and exciting light. Reading and listening to our stories will stimulate students' imagination and help them learn useful vocabulary. (Singapore Math) Website Stories displayed on maps! Watch and read thousands of fascinating timelines, or create your own. Complete with text, video and pictures to create a dynamic timeline mash up.

Where Did the River Go Pinky Dinky Doo

Digital Storytelling Rubrics StoryMath!

MyHistro

See also Comic Tools for Common Core

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Flash Card Tools for Common Core

Quizlet Website, iOS & Android app Website Quizlet provides learning tools for students, including flashcards, study and game modes. User material is user generated with over 15 million user-generated flashcard sets ready to use. No more boring study sessions, play games instead! Create flashcards and play games to help you memorize them.

Braineos

Brainflips

Website, Provides great tools for creating, sharing and iOS app studying flashcards! Make flashcards on any subject and share them with your friends and classmates. Brainflips flashcards can incorporate text, images, audio and video to learn any subject. Website, iOS and Android app Make online digital flashcards with video and audio elements, taking notes, and preparing for exams. Empowers a generation of ambitious digital natives who expect and deserve high quality digital study tools.

Study Blue

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Graphic Organizers for Common Core

Popplet Website, Popplet is a tool that allows users to visualize iOS app ideas. Teachers and students can create graphic organizers, timelines, and many other forms of visual organization. Popplet's strength as a collaborative brainstorming tool, however, should not lead teachers to overlook its usefulness as an effective presentation tool. Website Free to educators and students. Many tools, including iPad mock up. Several can collaborate on the same diagram at once. Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too. It provides a series of ready-made interactive 'thinking guides' or 'frameworks' which can support students' projects and research. Creately is web-based software for creating interactive graphic organizers like Venn Diagram, Storyboard, Mind Map, Cycle Diagram, Fishbone Diagram, KWL Chart, T Chart, Y Chart and more. Easy to use colorful K12 Graphic Organizer Templates are included.

Lucidchart

Exploratree

Website

Creately

Website

Bubbl.us

Website

Brainstorm online with bubbl.us. Easily create colorful mind maps to print or share with others. Almost no learning curve.

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Google Docs: Drawing

Website

With Google drawings, you can create and collaborate on flow charts, design diagrams, and other types of drawings. You can also chat with other editors from within Google drawings, publish drawings as images, or download drawings to your computer. To get started, just go to your Docs list, click Create new and select Drawings.

MindMeister

Website, Create, share and collaboratively work on mind iOS and maps with MindMeister. Exclusive features like Android real-time collaboration and easy sharing. apps

Hitachi Starboard District Open the Hitachi Starboard software and in the Graphic software Gallery there is a wealth of graphic organizers, Organizers lined paper, math tools, and graphics. Microsoft Word 2010 Templates District Templates are a great way to save time and software create consistent Office 2010 documents. They are especially valuable for types of documents that you use frequently, such as weekly presentations, application forms, and expense reports. Find templates by clicking New on the File tab in the Office 2010 versions of programs such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Website Website Website Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Great site for making Infographics and presenting data! Classify ideas to communicate more effectively with these graphic organizers that are structured to aid in writing projects and planning research.

Class Tools Infogr.am Education PlaceGraphic Organizers

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Graphics and Image Editing Tools for Common Core

Creative Commons Search Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use creative work on conditions of your choice. Flickr is the one way to store, sort, search, and share your photos online. Flickr helps you organize that huge mass of photos you have and offers a way for you and your friends and family to tell stories about them. A superb photo editing service that everyone should know about. We just created collages for geometric shapes and have them featured on our website. FotoFlexer is one of the world's most advanced online digital photo editor. It performs advanced effects previously only available to professionals using expensive software.

Flickr

Pixlr

FotoFlexer

Sumo Paint

Powerful graphics editor for web browser or iOS app. This site features incredibly simple to use tools for versatile editing.

ImageChef

This website was mostly meant for people who like to add cool things to their image and to make the image more interesting. Available in different languages and it is very simple to use.

Pics4Learning

Includes both photographs and clip art, organized into topics, free to use in an educational setting.

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Snapfish

Snapfish is a web-based photo sharing and photo printing service. Members can upload files for free, and are given unlimited photo storage. Snapfish members can personalize their products in several ways such as adding their photos and, in some cases, adding captions or designed templates. PicCollage is a Top 10 Photo Apps for iPad and iPhone in the US, Japan and many other countries. Quick, fun and easy! Rotate, resize, edit and delete photos using simple, intuitive gestures. Add text, stickers and backgrounds or clip your images without effort. (iOS, $4.99) Organize, edit, and view photos fullscreen, email and share them, and easily create photo books and letterpress cards. Free clipart, coloring pages, fonts & worksheets.

PicCollage

iPhoto app

Awesome ClipArt for Educators Paint.net

Powerful editor with support for layers, blending, transparency, and plugins. Found in Kace on BPS Help Desk. Infogr.am is an easy to use online service that lets you create, share, and discover Infographics and online charts. PhotoPin uses the Flickr API and searches creative commons photos to use for your blog. Just search for any topic using the search box (e.g. "Kittens", "Flowers", etc.), preview the photo, and click "get photo" to download the photo as well as the proper attribution link. Staggering great photo editing tool! Super awesome effects that can be added to your pics.

infogr.am

PhotoPin

PicMonkey

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Keyboarding Tools for Common Core

W.3.6. With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others. W.6.6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting. W.4.6. and W.5.6. are similar - one page (4th) , and two pages (5th) in a single sitting. Typing Web Learn to type for free at this website! Online typing tutor and keyboard tutorials for all skill levels. Entertaining games, typing tests, and typing certification. No log on required but you CAN register to keep track of progress. Open this website and begin typing! Two timed keyboarding tests to choose from on this site. The original Timed Typing Test allows users to submit typing speed to scoreboard. The Typing Certificate Test contains a print out certificate with name and typing speed. Good for all ages! This is one of the most 'fun' for students ages 7-11 years. Four levels are divided into 3 stages to gradually build skill levels. e-Learning for kids site allows children to play keyboarding games to build skills. Fun! Great games for learning key location from ABCya.com. This keyboarding challenge has several practice games for grades K-5 that are fun.
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Key Hero Typing Test

Typing tests

Dance Mat Typing e-Learning for kids Fix the Keyboard

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Kid Friendly Search Engines

KidRex KidRex is a fun and safe search for kids, by kids! This site searches emphasize kid-related webpages from across the entire web and are powered by Google Custom Search and use Google SafeSearch technology.

Sweet Search

A search engine for students. SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources.

QuinturaKids

QuinturaKids is the first visual and intuitive search engine for children with content filter and safe browsing.

KidsClick

It's the Safe Little Kids Search Engine to help keep kids safe online. Kid Clicks has Google working hard in the background to streamline safe clicks for every search term entered.

Kigose

Kigose is a multiple search engine specifically designed for students (kids aged 10-15) in primary and secondary schools. It can search the web, images, videos, dictionary, games, and many other categories from other websites.

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Math Tools for Common Core

National Library of Virtual Manipulative This site is a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulates or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K12 emphasis). Utah State University NSDL's Browse by Standard enables users to browse by specific sets of national educational standards, finding NSDL resources that are aligned with key learning goals. MyScript Calculator (iOS & Android) is a free app for both iOS and Android that lets you perform mathematical operations with freehand writing of expressions on your touch screen. This app won the Mobile App Showdown award at CES 2013 and after some time spent using it, it's easy to see why. Wolfram Alpha is a computational database for computing answers and providing knowledge. It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to automatically answer questions, do analysis, and generate reports. (There is also a $2.99 iOS app.) Beautiful Math in all browsers. Provides teachers and students with mathematics relevant to the everyday life. It covers areas such as: Algebra, Geometry, Probability, Science and many more. An online mathematics tutoring service, offers a free program for teachers. Ten Marks for educators is designed to be a supplement to classroom instruction, not a replacement for it.

National Science Digital Library

MyScript Calculator

Wolfram Alpha

MathJax Yummy Math

TenMarks

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Microsoft Excel 2010

Create and format common charts and graphs in Excel, how to convert bar graphs to pictographs, and free flowcharts, timelines and other Excel templates. Provide Standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students. Research-based, flexible tools used by teachers across all 50 states in a wide variety of ways. Gizmos are ideal for small group work, individual exploration, and whole class instruction using an LCD projector or interactive whiteboard. (Subscription) Library of videos that covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer. A variety of classroom math tools and online learning centers. Wonderful site for K-2 Math student interactives! Everything from addition to mazes to color patterns.

Illuminations

ExploreLearning Gizmos

Khan Academy

Glencoe Math Utah Education Network /Math K-2

Utah Education Network/ Math 7-12

Wonderful site for 7-12 Math student interactives! Everything from Geometry to Probability.

Utah Education Network/ Math 3-6

Wonderful site for 3-6 Math student interactives! Everything from Fractions to Integers.

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BrightStorm

Thousands of video lessons in Math, Science, English, SAT, ACT and Advanced Placements. Browse or search this video library or use our textbook video locator to find the video that corresponds to textbooks. With a subscription, you can enjoy videos, instant math answers, and comprehensive test prep programs.

Online Calculators
Middleschool.net Calculators Coolmath's Graphing Calculator Online Graphing Calculator Middleschool.net provides links to a wide assortment of calculators for middle school students and beyond. The Coolmath's Graphing Calculator offers most of the features found on handheld graphing calculators. This graphing calculator provides functionality similar to handheld graphing calculators like the TI-83/TI-84 in a convenient web-based format. The Calculators Online Center has links to calculators for many branches of mathematics, science, and engineering.

Martindale's The Reference Desk: Calculators Online

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Nonfiction Resources for Common Core

New York Public Library NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

National Archives

Internet Archive (Archive.org) includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in this a free collection. This site also includes the WayBack Machine to look up previous history of websites- a great tool for researching historical events!

The Avalon Project

A digital library of documents relating to law, history and diplomacy. The project contains online electronic copies of documents dating back to the beginning of history, making it possible to study the original text of not only very famous documents such as the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the United States Bill of Rights, but also the text of less well known but significant documents which mark turning points in the history of law and rights.

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Facts on File

Facts On File is an award-winning publisher of print, eBooks, and online reference materials for the school and library market. Specializes in core subject areas, such as history, science, literature, geography, health, and more. Contact your school librarian information on accessing this subscription based database.

Newseum- Front Page

Through a special agreement with more than 800 newspapers worldwide, the Newseum displays these front pages each day on its website.

Books.Google.com

Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide using Google Book Search. Discover a new favorite or unearth an old classic.

World Factbook

The World Factbook provides up-to-date data on background, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational information on 250 countries and territories. (Website, iOS app) A great digital collection of the worlds most comprehensive record of human creativity and knowledge. Open to those 16 and older without charge or special permission, it is the world's largest library and a great resource to scholars and researchers.

Library of Congress

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Smithsonian Institute Archives

The Archives holds records that document the Smithsonians people, events, buildings, and research. The history of the Smithsonian is a vital part of the history of American experience, scientific exploration, and international cultural understanding. Very powerful resource! Explore 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to "form a more perfect union."

OurDocuments

Wikipedia

Free encyclopedia that anyone can edit that was built on a Wiki. This site contains a free media repository, free knowledge base, free library content, a dictionary/thesaurus, and much more.

Arkansas State Library

The Arkansas State Library serves as a resource for state government, for public libraries and for all Arkansas citizens. We offer a wide range of services with an overall mission to provide all Arkansans with access to information.

Britannica School Edition

Britannica Online School Edition gives teachers and students instant access to four complete encyclopedias that ensure consistency with classroom topics. This database offers highquality online learning materials developed by teachers and curriculum experts.

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EBSCO

This full-text database provides a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniquesincluding contemporary content from the finest publishers. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas is a free, authoritative source of information about the rich history, geography, and culture of Arkansas. It is updated regularly to ensure the people of Arkansas have an accurate and accessible resource to explore our heritage. It will also benefit people outside the state who are seeking information about Arkansas.

The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture

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Presentation Tools for Common Core Website, Cloud-based presentation software and storytelling tool for Prezi iOS app exploring and sharing ideas on a virtual canvas. Prezi is
distinguished by its Zooming User Interface, which enables users to zoom in and out of their presentation media.

Popplet

Website, Popplet is a tool that allows users to visualize ideas. iOS app Teachers and students can create graphic organizers, timelines, and many other forms of visual organization. Popplet's strength as a collaborative brainstorming tool, however, should not lead teachers to overlook its usefulness as an effective presentation tool. Website
Blendspace makes it easy for teachers to organize and share educational materials in a visually pleasing format. The "canvas" part is where you arrange videos, links, images, and files around any topic of you choose.

BlendSpace

SlideRocket

Website, This tool will make you a Rock Star! Slide Rocket is a iOS app web-based presentation creation and sharing. With Slide Rocket, teachers can embed amazing pictures from Slide Rocket's vast library of free photos and/or add video and audio to the presentation. Website, A popular web-based tool for creating and collaborating on iOS app multimedia presentations. Voicethread allows you to create a presentation combining images and video with text and audio commentary.

Voicethread

Animoto (Edu)

Website, Produce beautifully orchestrated and unique videos from iOS app, your photos, video clips, and music. Easily share and Droid download presentations to focus on content and narratives of these videos. iOS app Create dynamic presentations on your iPad. Many different backgrounds, themes, creative common pictures, and fonts. Helps students learn visual design as each slide is meant for a few words. Try this for your next presentation. Teachers will love making interactive, multimedia lessons that students can access and answer all from the teachers device. Students view on their devices what the teacher is presenting from her device. AMAZING APP! FREE!

Haiku Deck NearPod

iOS app

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SlideShare

Website

Users can upload files privately or publicly in the following file formats: PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote, or OpenOffice presentations. Slide decks can then be viewed on the site itself, on hand held devices or embedded on other sites. Meograph helps easily create, watch, and share interactive stories. Our first product combines maps, timeline, links, and multimedia to tell stories in context of where and when. (Works in Chrome.) If you enjoy playing with sock puppets, youll love this app that allows students to create a sock puppet show. Choose the sock puppet characters, personalize the characters by adding your voice, select the scene and props, and record a video. Send this by email or upload to YouTube. Watch this great example. Snap a photo of written work, capture video of presentations, or record audio of student discussions. You can also upload digital files from your computer. Who doesnt love talking avatars? Use them throughout lessons to peak interest and motivate participation in students. Introduce technology in a fun way by adding voice to your avatars.

Meograph

Website

Sock Puppets

iOS app

ThreeRing Voki

Android, iOS app

Website

Cacoo

Website

Cacoo is a very simple tool for creating diagrams, charts, and sequences for any graphic organizer. It is also allows users to collaborate during the creation process. Once products are finalized, Cacoo enables users to easily insert the resulting diagrams into online documents.

ZooBurst

Website

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that uses the idea of "pop-up" books to allow students to mix images and text to tell a story.

Web Poster Wizard

Website

Web Poster Wizard is an all-purpose web publication tool used for both project and classroom management and for projects and presentations.

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PowerPoint 2010 Padlet

District Create Microsoft presentations and share offline or use a Software variety of websites (SlideShare, AuthorStream) to share online. Website Previously known as WallWisher, this site is paper for the web! Get a blank wall and put anything on it, anywhere. Very simple yet very powerful!

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Publishing Tools for Common Core

Educreations
Website, iOS app Educreations is a recordable interactive whiteboard that captures voice and handwriting to produce amazing video lessons that can be shared online. Students can replay lessons in any web browser, or from within an app on their iPad. Vialogues (video dialogues) is a discussion platform that proves that videos are both powerful teaching resources and the ultimate conversation starters. Vialogues provides a space for users to hold meaningful and dynamic timestamped discussions about videos. StoryBird is a visual storytelling site that is perhaps the easiest storybook creation tool. StoryBird lets anyone make gorgeous, artinspired stories in seconds. Penzu is an online diary and personal journal that is focused on privacy. With a unique and compelling user experience, it makes writing online as easy and intuitive as writing on real paper. Smore is a website that allows one to build quick, easy online digital flyers within minutes! It is a great alternative for Word or Publisher. Design a flyer from a basic template or choose to create one from scratch and add your own content.

Vialogues

Website

StoryBird

Website

Penzu

Website

Smore

Website

MySimpleBooklet Website

Easy tool for creating online interactive brochures and booklets. Add your own art, text, music, and photos. Simplebooklet is the simplest way to create and publish flipbooklets, sliders, flyers, and brochures.

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Glogster EDU

Website Glogster EDU empowers educators and students (subscription with the technology to create GLOGS - online fee) multimedia posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more. (No longer any free accounts) Website Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best. Create bookshelves and embed them on websites, which provides a very pleasing format for users to access. Give your writers a voice with this online flipping software that allows one to convert pdf documents into Flash page flip digital publications that is fully compatible with mobile devices.

Issuu

FlipSnack

Website

Prezi

Website

Prezi is a virtual whiteboard that transforms presentations from monologues into conversations: enabling people to see, understand, and remember ideas.

Essay Map

Website

Use this graphic organizer (from ReadWriteThink) to develop an outline for an essay that includes an introductory statement, main ideas, supporting details, and a conclusion. The finished map can be saved, e-mailed, or printed. SnapGuide is for those that want to create and share step-by-step "how to guides." The service provides easy to understand instructions for a wide array of instructional knowledge. Users are invited to create their own guides using the iPhone or iPad app. Snap pictures and videos of your project, add captions, and share your guide with the SnapGuide community.

SnapGuide

Website, iOS app

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ThingLink

Website

Amazing site that helps create and discover rich images. Be creative! Make your images come alive with music, video, text, images, shops and more! Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories. Your ThingLink interactive images form a channel that other users can follow. Touch and discover. Multimedia post-it note canvas. Great way to engage students in brainstorming online. Provide a topic and allow students to generate ideas and/or ask questions before prewriting. Students can post comments, images, and video. Teachers can create groups and make canvases private or public. Safe and simple blogs for students that was designed for K12 teachers! Create classroom discussions, practice writing skills, create an eportfolio and many other motivational multimedia options. Post student projects on a KidBlog site! Allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs. No student email addresses required. Every picture has a story. Add voice, sketch and zoom to your photos. Share your ideas and stories with the world through this amazing web tool. Fotobabble Ideas for classroom use Fotobabble allows you create and share Talking Photos in three simple steps: 1) Upload a photo, 2) Record your voice, and 3) Share with friends and family. View & Share PowerPoint on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch the way it was meant to be seen! From your computer or iOS device, upload a PowerPoint file to your account and use the SlideShark app to download and view the presentation on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Share the presentation for on-demand viewing.

Lino.it

Website, iOS and Droid app

KidBlog

Website

Skqueak

Website, iOS Website, iOS

Fotobabble

SlideShark

Website, iOS

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BoomWriter

Website

A story start is the first chapter of the book. The rest of the story is up to you. BoomWriter gives a starting point to write from and then students take it from there. Use this innovative, web-based literacy tool for collaborative writing projects. It is a great platform that, with collaborative and competitive approaches, develops writing, critical thinking, and digital literacy. Little Bird Tales allows students to create digital storytelling projects. This tool is perfect for young students! Kids can draw their own art or upload images to create a book where they add their voice and text to narrate their story. They can then embed, create PDF and MP4s of their work. Website allows for the creation of free stories. Create a story with a template by choosing the kind of plot line and a variety of characters. Other options on this site include creating movies, drawings, or making ecards. You can create eBooks, publish your own book, and read eBooks - All for FREE! The one place to organize, present, and share knowledge. Really cool way to publish with your students! This site helps writers tell interactive tales with the minimum of fuss. Inklewriter keeps your branching story organized, so you can concentrate on whats important the writing. Easy way to create and share extraordinary videos of your life. Our online video maker turns your photos, video clips and music into video in minutes. SlideShare is one of the world's largest communities for sharing presentations. It allows users to upload presentations for private or public sharing. Besides presentations, SlideShare also supports documents, PDFs, videos and webinars. Powerful tool!

Little Bird Tales

Website, iOS ($2.99)

Kerpoof

Website

BookRix BlendSpace

Website Website

Inklewriter

Website

Animoto

Website, iOS app

SlideShare

Website, iOS

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Screenr

Website

Instant screencasts- just click and record! EASY! Great for creating tutorials for the flipped classroom or having students demonstrate concepts! Publish work immediately. Create a personal URL, copy and paste written work onto their page, upload images, tag and change the page themes. One-click screen capture recording on Windows or Mac computers with no install for FREE! Great ways to create tutorials or have students conduct reports about a research project! Have fun telling your story! This is an app that is a quick and easy way to create and share a short story. Create quizzes for your YouTube videos! Look at the examples on this site and get some really great ideas! Presentation software that helps you create & share presentations; gain powerful insights with high security. Allows students to create a digital drawing of what they think a character from a book looks like and then complete a list of ten things that they know about the character, ten words to describe the character, ten details about the character, ten challenges facing the character, etc. Create interactive Infographics in just a few minutes. No design skills needed. This is a great tool to display data! Meograph is the easiest way to create multimedia stories. With no training you can quickly create stories about the news, history, travels, life events, and more by combining video, audio, pictures, text, links, maps, and timelines. Then share by embedding anywhere on the web.

Pen.io

Website

Screencastomatic Website

Tellagami

iOS app

Blubbr

Website

SlideRocket

Website

Scholastic Character Scrapbook

Website

Infogr.am

Website

Meograph

Website

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Weebly

Website

Named one of TIME's 50 Best Websites, Weebly has an easy, drag & drop interface to create your own website. It's free, powerful, and professional. Weebly for Education has free class websites that also allows teachers set up student sites that can easily be created. (Works best in Firefox.) Edublog allows users to easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize designs and include videos, photos & podcasts it's safe, easy and secure. Writing workspaces you will love! Incredibly easy to create a classroom workspace where you and your students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams. Rich assessment tools give you the power to measure student contribution and engagement in realtime. WikiSpaces Classroom works great on modern browsers, tablets, and phones.

Edublog

Website

WikiSpaces

Website

TagMyDoc

Website

Tag My Doc is a service that allows you to assign and print a QR code on your documents. The process is very simple. Just upload your document and let Tag My Doc generate a QR code for it. You can then print out your document with a QR code on it. The free version of the service allows you to store up to 1GB of documents on your Tag My Doc account, password protect your documents, and choose the placement of the QR code on your document. Use Tag My Doc to put QR codes on the paper documents you distribute in your classroom. Then students can scan them to save them to their phones and tablets thereby eliminating the need for you to give out extra copies when if your students lose the paper documents you gave them. Video

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Reference Tools for Common Core

VisuWords Website This site is an online graphical dictionary Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

Microsoft Word 2010 Dictionary, Thesaurus, Reference Tab

District Microsoft Word 2010 offers a built in software dictionary, thesaurus, and many reference tools at your fingertips. Easily manage sources while constructing research and have Word 2010 build your table of contents and bibliography. Website, One of the worlds largest and most iOS app authoritative online dictionary and mobile reference resource. This site has a large selection of interactive and reliable sources for word meaning and usage along with many other features. Website This is a premier dictionary and thesaurus site that also offers search tools, puzzle solvers, glossary maker, and quiz makers.

Dictionary.com

Word Smyth

instaGrok

Website, InstaGrok presents each topic as an iOS app interactive visual interface, allowing the user to quickly grasp important concepts, key facts and relationships. Key Facts show important facts about the topic (with links to the original content page) Difficulty Slider adjusts the difficulty of the material Quizzes offer fun challenges that reinforce learning and encourage exploration Glossary defines important terms

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YourDictionary

Website

One of the easiest to use on-line dictionary and thesaurus. To create the dictionary you can understand this site features simple, straightforward definitions that actually make sense along with example use cases for the most popular words. Online visual semantic network with dictionary and thesaurus reference functionality. Lexipedia presents words with their semantic relationships displayed in an animated visual word web. Citation machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources, that there is virtually no reason not to do it. An intuitive information literacy platform that provides citation, note taking, and research tools that are easy-to-use and educational. EasyBib is not only accurate, fast, and comprehensive, but helps educators teach and students learn how to become effective and organized researchers. Automatic citation creator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting. BibMe leverages external databases to quickly fill citation information. BibMe will then format the citation information and compile a bibliography according to the guidelines of the style manuals.

Lexipedia

Website

Son of Citation Machine Website

EasyBib

Website

BibMe

Website

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Bartleby.com

Website

Access a wide variety of novels, plays, poetry, and nonfiction essays. Find the ninth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and other reference books, such as The American Heritage Book of English Usage, Strunk's The Elements of Style, and Oxford Shakespeare. This is an invaluable site for internet research. Through this site, you can access the entire Encyclopedia Britannica, read articles selected from more than seventy of the world's top magazines as well as daily news postings from the Washington Post, and link to thousands of the Web's best sites.

Britannica.com

Website

Infoplease.com Kids' Almanac

Website

The almanacs, dictionary, encyclopedia, and atlas available at this site provide access to thousands of facts sorted into easy-tonavigate categories. If you have trouble finding the information you need, the Homework Helpers in the Homework Center may be able to help. With an extensive selection of reference tools, online exhibits, and online texts, this site is a great starting point for any research or writing project. Through this site, you can access newspapers from every state and many countries as well. Browse the stacks of the world's libraries at this Web site. In addition, you'll find links to school libraries, presidential libraries, and specialized libraries, as well as a nicely stocked Reference Desk.

The Internet Public Library

Website

Library Spot

Website

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Addictomatic

Website

Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It's the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what's up, what's now or what other people are feeding on. Through a special agreement with more than 800 newspapers worldwide, the Newseum displays front pages each day on this website.

Newseum- Todays Front Pages

Website

Google Scholar

Website

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way.

Visual Thesaurus

Website

TumbleBooks

Website

An online collection animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.

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CommonSenseMedia

Website

Teach and test the basics of digital citizenship to your students through this free online program for educators. This site is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in a world of media and technology. This Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in their collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities. If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given us permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.

WayBack Machine

Website

Books.Google.com

Website

Arkansas State Library

Website

The Arkansas State Library serves as a resource for state government, for public libraries and for all Arkansas citizens. We offer a wide range of services with an overall mission to provide all Arkansans with access to information. Britannica Online School Edition gives teachers and students instant access to four complete encyclopedias that ensure consistency with classroom topics. This database offers high-quality online learning materials developed by teachers and curriculum experts.

Britannica School Edition

Website

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EBSCO

Website

This full-text database provides a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniquesincluding contemporary content from the finest publishers. Paid subscription (BHS) Infobase Learning has databases and streaming video collections for every school, college, and library. (See your school Librarian for log in information.) The Encyclopedia of Arkansas is a free, authoritative source of information about the rich history, geography, and culture of Arkansas. It is updated regularly to ensure the people of Arkansas have an accurate and accessible resource to explore our heritage. It will also benefit people outside the state who are seeking information about Arkansas.

Facts on File

Website

The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture

Website

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Teacher Resources for Common Core

Learn Zillion LearnZillion puts teacher power at your fingertips. Featuring 2000+ high quality lessons by top teachers - all aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Looking for something specific? Conduct a search on this site to find lesson plans, websites, and teacher tools already grouped in digital three ring binders! Check out this site for a list of Richard Byrnes favorite technology resources, guides, tutorials, and much more! Open Educational Resources - Free Learning Resources for the World. EduHound Site Sets are collections of topicbased online education resources. So many resources to look at!

LiveBinders

FreeTech4Teachers

Curriki

EduHound

CommonCoreClassrooms Blog featuring K-5 Common Core Lesson Plans. Twitter Search- #ccchat MoreOfIt.com TWITTER---Resources, discussions, and ideas shared 24/7. Excellent source for PD! If you like a website and you want more websites that are similar, go to More Of It to find at least 20 more sites that are very similar! A super communication tool for teachers. Register your class (their parents) to receive text messages you send out via your computer. No numbers are visible to users. A fantastic way to keep everyone up to date.

Remind101

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Edudemic

What is the best way to improve education using social media? That's the big question that Edudemic hopes to answer. You'll find regular doses of helpful ideas, Infographics, news, video, and more when you visit Edudemic. A fantastic resource of tech tools for how teachers and students can incorporate technology into their daily lives. Looking for great technology tools? This is the treasure trove of all sites! These tools are in categories that will help guide teachers to find the best tools for each project. A URL shortener where you can share and track your links. It automatically creates a QR Code for links also. (Formerly bit.ly) Kids learn best by seeing and doing. This site is packed full of free online educational videos, lessons, quizzes, games and puzzles. Tons of free educational videos organized by subject and age for educators. High quality and kid safe! No more sign-up sheets! Use this website for parents to sign up for conferences, coaches schedule practices, coordinate fundraisers, and organize many other school events. So easy to use!

Educational Technology & Mobile Learning

CoolTools4Schools

Bitly

NEO K12

WatchKnowLearn

Sign Up Genius

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Doodle

This site simplifies scheduling! Need to schedule a meeting and having trouble coordinating everyones calendar? Try this site to schedule meetings with others! Thinkfinity is the Verizon Foundations free online professional learning community, providing access to over 60,000 educators and experts in curriculum enhancement, along with thousands of award-winning digital resources for K-12 aligned to state standards and the common core. This site is full of videos that help the world understand how things work. They provide explanation tools and resources to enliven your presentations or help students/teachers better understand! Free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials.

Thinkfinity

Common Craft

Internet 4 Classrooms

Cool Tools for Schools

Plethora of resources for the classroom for tech tools that are broken down by specific categories. If you need a presentation tool, video converter, research tools, and may other resources, check out this site. Be prepared to be there a while! It is really extensive!

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Symbaloo

Quickly set up a visual browser home page for your students to easily access the websites that you wish for them to use! Teachers can also use this site to search for Symbaloos that have already been set up in the gallery!

Socrative

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets. Teachers login through their device and select an activity which controls the flow of questions and games. Students simply login with their device and interact real time with the content.

Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue.

Cel.ly

Cel.ly is an easy way for teachers, coaches and administrators to communicate with students and parents to send school wide alerts and updates to parents about classroom events, schedule reminders about parents and friends or use polls and surveys.

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Lit2Go

Need classic books? Find many of them on Lit2Go- a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material. Listen to the classics for free. LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening.

LibriVox

ck-12

This Foundation provides a library of free online textbooks, videos, exercises, flashcards, and real world applications for over 5000 concepts from arithmetic to engineering! Teacher websites are BPS district standard for posting teacher contact information, course content, and calendar events for each of the students/parents at Bentonville Public Schools.

Edline (Teacher Websites)

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Timeline Tools for Common Core

Meograph Website This site is amazing! It has four dimensional storytelling which enables users to produce a multimedia presentation by plotting stories on a map/ timeline AND tell a story with video, images and narration.
Only works in Chrome browser, which can be downloaded at the Help Desk (Software Library) Bentonville Schools site. Do this! It is worth it!

Time Toast

Website TimeToast is a great way to share the past, or even the future... Creating a timeline takes minutes; it's as simple as can be. View either the Timeline or Text view. Really great site! Website Great application for multimedia timelines. It allows its users to create stunning animated timelines. TikiToki is very easy to use and above all its basic version is free. Website This is a web tool that lets you create, collaborate on, and publish zooming/planning interactive timelines for free. It is like Google Maps but for time Website, It lets you create rich media experiences with iOS app videos, photos, music, blogs and documents.

TikiToki

Time Glider

Capzles

Read Write Think Website A beautiful timeline tool that allows users to add project labels and easily create timelines. Dipity Website A free digital timeline website. Users can create, share embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.

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MyHistro

Website, Combine maps and timelines seamlessly into iOS App one great presentation of information! Website Your maps are your stories! Make amazing animated maps for past, present and future adventures for free. Create Movies from customized Google Maps.

TripLine

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Video Tools for Common Core Video Sources

YouTube Video hosting and sharing on websites. YouTube also contains a video editor.
TipsIf you want to loop a YouTube video, place the word repeat between www. and YouTube in the URL. If you want to take out the ads and comments on a YouTube video, place the word quiet between the www. and YouTube in the URL.

SchoolTube Teacher Tube Safari Montage

Both of these sites are alternatives to YouTube and provide videos produced and/or uploaded by educators or school children for the purpose of education. Leading publisher of educational video to schools in the U.S. See the full suite of integrated products that gives educators a single interface for accessing all visual resources from inside the school district intranet or from home.
BPS has a paid subscription to this site. Type safari.bentonvillek12.org in the browser URL and log in with your district credentials.

WatchKnowLearn

50,000 educational videos that are placed into a directory of over 5,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom, as well as parents and students at home 24/7. A website to share, collaborate and watch video made by others. Tools that allow users to present videos to others and enhancer features to create high quality videos. (This is similar to
YouTube in that it is NOT an educational video exclusive site. Some content may not be appropriate!)

Vimeo

BrainPop

Animated, curricular content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. Multimedia resources & Professional Development for America's PreK-12 educators.

PBS

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Video Editors
WeVideo This site is the ultimate online video editor! It even offers video collaboration! The free version offers easy video editing tools, access from any browser, collaborative video editing, 400 licensed music titles, royalty-free graphics & effects.

ViewPure

Videos without CLUTTER! Watch YouTube videos without comments, suggestions, or the 'other' things. Simply drag the button below into your bookmarks toolbar to use it. Next time you see a video you want to purify, click the button when on the YouTube page.

TubeChop

TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it. Find the video you want to chop. Select & cut interesting part of the video. Share it with friends.

SafeShareTV KeepVid

Watch YouTube videos without ads, links and comments! This website enables you to download any video from a website which you normally would not be able and is particularly useful when an internet connection is not available. This is helpful when embedding videos in PowerPoint or other presentation software.
(Abide by all copyright policies when downloading video from sites such as YouTube.)

YouTube Editor

YouTube Editor is a tool within YouTube that allows users to edit and enhance videos in the web browser.

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Video Creators
ProShow Web Instant + Online for creating quick, polished videos on PC or Mac. Its fun, fast and easy. Stream full HD videos online or download them to your computer.

TripLine

Your maps are your stories! Make amazing animated maps for past, present and future adventures for free. Create Movies from customized Google Maps. Make amazing videos by mixing your photos and video with their effects, text and music for up to 30 seconds for free. A website to share, collaborate and watch video made by others. Tools and features provided to present videos to others. Upload you photos and video clips to create a professional looking video set to their copyright free music and beautiful transitions! Apply for an Educator account for special privileges. This site lets you easily create a video by mixing together video clips, music tracks, and photos! Easy to share to your other social networks or email when your video is ready! Popcorn Maker makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video. Use your web browser to combine video and audio with content from the rest of the web from text, links and maps to pictures and live feeds. (Works best in Firefox browser) Create one of a kind creation with this site. Choose your design, add photos, videos, words, music. Easily email, post to a blog or print. Create great looking HD videos in just seconds. Video made easy with up to 1 minute length limit, 10 shots per video, and 20 video storage with the free version.

One True Media

Vimeo

Animoto

Masher

Popcorn Maker

SmileBox

Videolicious

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PhotoStory

Available on BPS Help Desk website in Software Library. Microsofts program that lets you create audiovisual presentations out of your photos and images to bring them to life. Available on BPS Help Desk website in Software Library. Create presentations the easy way with this simple, easy to use video editor that helps you put together short videos from your own videos and photos.

Windows Movie Maker

Video Converters
Zamzar Online Convert Free online file conversion. Convert media files online from one format into another without a log in or downloading software. Free online video converter.

OnlineVideo Converter

Screen Capture Tools

Screencast-OMatic One-click screen capture recording on Windows or Mac computers with no install for FREE! 15 minute max recording time, free hosting, records screen and webcam, and can publish to most places with the free version.

Educreations

Create and share amazing video lessons with your iPad or browser! Educreations is a global community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. They are on a mission to democratize learning by extending the reach of great teaching.

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Vocabulary/Grammar Tools for Common Core

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.

Tagxedo

Website

Tagxedo is a free internet based program that generates word clouds. The neat feature about Tagxedo is you can control the shape of your cloud by simply uploading your own pictures or choosing from a library of their shapes. Tagul is a free word cloud generator that offers one clear difference compared to other word cloud generators like Wordle. The difference between Wordle and Tagul is when you create a word cloud with Tagul; every word in your word cloud is linked to a Google search. Click on any word in your word cloud to be taken directly to a Google search results page for that word.

Tagul

Website

VisuWords

Website

A fantastic visual dictionary! This site shows a graphical representation of words and word relationships. Students can view word meanings and associations. Search for any word and immediately get word connections, find out which words are similar, an instance of, a substance of, a part of, a member of, a verb group, an opposite, a causes, entails, and offers suggestions for other words to see.

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WordSift

Website

Word Sift is a fascinating website that, like Wordle, will allow teachers to insert text and play with the results. Word Sift takes the most used 50 words of the passage you insert and brings up Google images that correspond to any word that you then click on. Premier educational dictionary/thesaurus that also contains puzzle solvers, glossary maker, quiz maker, and search tools.

WordSmyth

Website

Quizlet

Website, Quizlet is a free website providing learning tools for iOS & students, including flashcards, study and game Android modes. App Website (Formerly WallWisher) Padlet gives you a blank wall to put anything on it to express thoughts on a common topic easily. Works like an online sheet of paper and allows collaboration!

Padlet

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Standards Requiring Technology in Common Core State Standards

Standards for English/Language Arts

Kindergarten
Writing Standards K-5: Production and Distribution of Writing Writing Standards K-5: Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Speaking and Listening Standards K-5: Comprehension and Collaboration Speaking and Listening Standards K-5: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas 6. With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. 7. Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about them). 2. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. 5. Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.

First Grade
Reading Standards for Literature K-5: Craft and Structure Reading Standard for Informational Text K-5: Craft and Structure Writing Standards K-5: Production and Distribution of Writing Writing Standards K-5: Research to Build and Present Knowledge Speaking and Listening Standards K-5: Comprehension and Collaboration Speaking and Listening Standards K-5: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
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5. Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text. 5. Know and use various text features (e.g. captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in text efficiently. 6. With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. 7. Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of how-to books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions). 2. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. 5. Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

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Second Grade
Writing Standards K-5: Production and Distribution of Writing Writing Standards K-5: Research to Build and Present Knowledge Speaking and Listening Standards K-5: Comprehension and Collaboration Speaking and Listening Standards K-5: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas Language Standards K-5: Knowledge of Language 6. With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. 7. Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations). 2. Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. 5. Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. 4. e. Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases.

Third Grade
Writing Standards K-5: Production and Distribution of Writing Writing Standards K-5: Research to Build and Present Knowledge Speaking and Listening Standards K-5: Comprehension and Collaboration Speaking and Listening Standards K-5: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas Language Standards K-5: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use 6. With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others. 8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories. 2. Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. 5. Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details. 4. d. Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.

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Fourth Grade
Reading Standards for Literature K-5: Integration of Knowledge & Ideas 7. Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text. 7. Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears. 2. a. Introduce a topic clearly and group related information in paragraphs and sections; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. 8. Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources. 4.6. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting. 2. Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. 5. Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes. 4. c. Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.

Reading Standard for Informational Text K-5: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Writing Standards K-5: Text Types and Purposes

Writing Standards K-5: Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Writing Standards K-5: Production and Distribution of Writing

Speaking and Listening Standards K-5: Comprehension and Collaboration Speaking and Listening Standards K-5: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas Language Standards K-5: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

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Fifth Grade
Reading Standards for Literature K-5: Integration of Knowledge & Ideas Reading Standard for Informational Text K-5: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Writing Standards K-5: Text Types and Purposes 7. Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, or poem). 7. Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently. 2. a. Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. 8. Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources. 6. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting. 2. Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. 5. Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes. 4. c. Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.

Writing Standards K-5: Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Writing Standards K-5: Production and Distribution of Writing

Speaking and Listening Standards K-5: Comprehension and Collaboration Speaking and Listening Standards K-5: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas Language Standards K-5: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

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7. Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or Reading Standards for Literature 6-12: live version of the text, including contrasting what they see Integration of Knowledge and Ideas and hear when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch. 7. Integrate information presented in different media or Reading Standards for Informational Text 6-12: formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to Integration of Knowledge and Ideas develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue. 2. a. Introduce a topic; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, Writing Standards 6-12: Text Types and comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting Purposes (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with Writing Standards 6-12: Production and Distribution of Writing others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting. 8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or Writing Standards 6-12: Research to Build and paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding Present Knowledge plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources. 2. Interpret information presented in diverse media and Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how Comprehension and Collaboration it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study. 5. Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas information. c. Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation Language Standards 6-12: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.

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Reading Standards for Literature 6-12: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 7. Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film). 7. Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each mediums portrayal of the subject (e.g., how the delivery of a speech affects the impact of the words). 2. a. Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/ effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others, including linking to and citing sources. 8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. 2. Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, and orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study. 5. Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points. c. Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.

Reading Standards for Informational Text 6-12: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Writing Standards 6-12: Text Types and Purposes

Writing Standards 6-12: Production and Distribution of Writing

Writing Standards 6-12: Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Comprehension and Collaboration Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas Language Standards 6-12: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

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Reading Standards for Literature 6-12: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Reading Standards for Informational Text 612: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 7. Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors. 7. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea. 2.a. Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others. 8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. 2. Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind its presentation. 5. Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest. c. Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.

Writing Standards 6-12: Text Types and Purposes

Writing Standards 6-12: Production and Distribution of Writing

Writing Standards 6-12: Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Comprehension and Collaboration Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas Language Standards 6-12: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

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Reading Standards for Informational Text 6-12: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 7. Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a persons life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account. 2. a. Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technologys capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically. 8. Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. 2. Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source. 5. Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. c. Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning, its part of speech, or its etymology.

Writing Standards 6-12: Text Types and Purposes

Writing Standards 6-12: Production and Distribution of Writing

Writing Standards 6-12: Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Comprehension and Collaboration Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

Language Standards 6-12: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

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Reading Standards for Literature 6-12: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 7. Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text. (Include at least one play by Shakespeare and one play by an American dramatist.) 7. Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem. 2. a. Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information so that each new element builds on that which precedes it to create a unified whole; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information. 8. Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation. 2. Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data. 5. Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. c. Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning, its part of speech, its etymology, or its standard usage.

Reading Standards for Informational Text 6-12: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Writing Standards 6-12: Text Types and Purposes

Writing Standards 6-12: Production and Distribution of Writing

Writing Standards 6-12: Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Comprehension and Collaboration

Speaking and Listening Standards 6-12: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

Language Standards 6-12: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

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Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

Sixth-Eighth Grade
Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 6-12: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Reading Standards for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects 6-12: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Reading Standards for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects 6-12: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, and Technical Subjects 6-12: Text Types and Purposes Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, and Technical Subjects 6-12: Production and Distribution of Writing Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, and Technical Subjects 6-12: Research to Build and Present Knowledge 7. Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts. 7. Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table). 9. Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic. 2.a. Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories as appropriate to achieving purpose; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently. 8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

Ninth-Tenth Grade
Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 6-12: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Reading Standards for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects 6-12: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, and Technical Subjects 6-12: Text Types and Purposes 7. Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text. 7. Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words. 2. a. Introduce a topic and organize ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
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6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technologys capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically. 8. Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, and Technical Subjects 6-12: Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Eleventh-Twelfth Grade
Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 6-12: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Reading Standards for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects 6-12: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, and Technical Subjects 6-12: Text Types and Purposes Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, and Technical Subjects 6-12: Production and Distribution of Writing Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, and Technical Subjects 6-12: Research to Build and Present Knowledge 7. Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem. 7. Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., quantitative data, video, multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem. 2. a. Introduce a topic and organize complex ideas, concepts, and information so that each new element builds on that which precedes it to create a unified whole; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information. 8. Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the specific task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation.

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