Tech For Teachers

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The following list is in alphabetical order to hopefully make just what you’re looking for easy to find.

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Please click the desired icons or links and be sure to let us know if you experience any broken links or are having other difficulties.

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Quick Links

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AIMSweb Atlas Curriculum Mapping Blackboard / Course Sites Curriculum Links Digital Media

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Interesting Reading Internet Safety SchoolTool Scratch Teacher Tools

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AIMSweb is a benchmark and progress monitoring system based on direct, frequent and continuous student assessment.
The results are reported to students, parents, teachers and administrators
via a web-based data management and reporting system to determine response to intervention.

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The highly customizable curriculum management tool supported by your partners at Rubicon

and an education centre dedicated exclusively for your professional development.

Curriculum Mapping

Atlas Curriculum Mapping

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Welcome to the Rubicon International Podcast Channel,
where you can keep up on the latest developments in education, technology and curriculum mapping.
From here you can watch the latest podcasts, check-up on previous episodes
and receive future Rubicon podcast episodes via iTunes.

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Atlas Help Sheets

Quick Start Guide

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Advanced Guide for Analytical Tools

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Blackboard Service will be deactivated on June 30, 2016!!

They are recommending that teachers migrate existing course content to CourseSites – the free online version of Blackboard.

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Coursesites allows teachers to create up to 5 courses for free. Click the icon above to setup an account.

If you want to try to export your course to Coursesites, you should be able to do so.

Here is a YouTube tutorial showing the export process.

If you need assistance with exporting your courses and migrating into Coursesites, please call Chris Guenther at 581-3735.

Chris can either walk you through the process or setup your account for you and migrate up to 5 of your existing courses.

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Jump to: General Resources Search Tools Art Music Reading – ELA Math Science Social Studies Technology

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General Resources

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Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings,
lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.

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KidSpace @ the Internet Public Library

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Art

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San Francisco Symphony for Kids

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Math

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Fun and challenging for all ages!!

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Multiplication / Division Practice

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The Periodic Table of Elements

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Social Studies

Civic Education Links

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Inauguration Resources

From US Senate site maintained by the Rules Committee

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Facts and Firsts
Inaugural History
Platforms Past Slideshow

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From other sources:

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Lesson Plan from the Virginia Center of Politics
PowerPoint to accompany “Presidential Inaugurations”

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The Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents from the Avalon Project of the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University

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Other Social Studies Resources

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The Avalon Project from the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University –
“digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government”

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Technology

Web Design

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WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app and is one option available here at Greenwich.

GCSD hosts its own WordPress server and can even create custom themes for your site.

If you’re interested in having your own site or blog or combination please give Bill or DJ a call or email them.

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Another option since the district’s transition to Google is Google Sites.

Create sites as simply as writing a doc through an intuitive editor.

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Or if you’re interested in learning to CODE websites…

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Other Technology

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Typing Test

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Parts of A Computer
Basic Computer Systems
Computer Basics
Formatting Icons Quiz

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A wealth of information on the effective use of mobile technology in the classroom

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This section contains several helpful items related to digital media…

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Working with USB Drives

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Definition: a podcast is a type of digital media consisting of single or an episodic series of files (either audio or video)
subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication.
The word is a neologism derived from “broadcast” and “pod” from the success of the iPod,
as podcasts are often listened to on portable media players.

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Grammar Girl has quick and dirty tips for better writing and includes many podcasts!!

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Here are a few podcasts to check out:

Top 10 Grammar Myths
Citing Podcasts and Websites
Graduated vs. Graduated From
Subject-Verb Agreement

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—Definition: to use the Internet to broadcast live or delayed audio and/or video transmissions,
much like traditional television and radio broadcasts.
Users typically must have the appropriate multimedia application in order to view a Webcast.

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The Wild Classroom – now videos, originally done as webcasts (subscription available thru iTunes)

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Schooltool is the 100% web-based, student management system used throughout GCSD.

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Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own
interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.

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About Scratch

For Educators

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ThinkCentral K-6 is the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) Web site
that allows you to access digital materials associated with one or more HMH programs.

A single user name and password provides you access
to digital resources in all subject areas that your school has purchased,
including teacherguides, student eBooks, assessments, and reports.

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visual thesaurus

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.

Say you have a meaning in mind, like “happy.”
The VT helps you find related words, from “cheerful” to “euphoric.”
The best part is the VT works like your brain, not a paper-bound book.
You’ll want to explore just to see what might happen.
You’ll discover — and learn — naturally and intuitively.
You’ll find the right word, write more descriptively, free associate —
and gain a more precise understanding of the English language.

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