Content Literacy

Great new site for creating flipbooks. Students can create their own or teachers can create them for students to read and take notes. 

Jeb Bush, Melinda Gates, Sal Khan and the Coming Digital Learning Battle

We are offering partners the opportunity to guest blog on the Alliance's blog, High School Soup, about promising practices, ideas, and a message supporting the efforts and intent of Digital Learning Day.  Our blog is the most-visited section of the Alliance website and has already received over 750,000 hits this year to date, making it a great way to reach out to a wide K-12 audience. If you are interested in getting on the blog schedule, contact us.

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Interesting way to generate different looking QR codes, easy to use. 

In keeping with the natural math movement, inclusion, and hands-on Maria Droujkova does her usual thorough job of developing a wonderful learning event/opportunity.  I encourage you to check out the discussions and add your perspective to the mix. 

Palomar College has identified for its students College Success Skills and offers them different resources to help them understand how to be successful. Some schools go a step further and offer a College Success course that encompasses these skills, but again we don't explicitly support these skills in coursework. How is it that teachers continue to think it is not their role to support students in being successful in their courses with explicit support of these kinds of routines!  It is also valuable to look at this list of skills for other skills to actively and intentionally support in schools. A great example is Active Listening. It's not a complex skill, and with an intentional effort by an entire faculty a system like SLANT from Kansas University could become the expectation in a school. 

Great one page synopsis of the Cornell Note-taking System right from the Cornell University web site.

Walter Pauk's book in which he outlines the cornell Note-taking system as well as other skills for being successful in studying. He indicates these are essential skills for success in college yet, I don't see high school intentionally supporting these kinds of curricula and skills. 

o provide states with additional Common Core State Standards implementation support, the Council of Chief State School Officers hosted a one-hour webinar on Thursday, January 26th at 2 p.m. EST to share tools and resources to support teachers and districts on text complexity, which is the linchpin of the ELA standards. The webinar featured Sue Pimentel, a member of the Common Core State Standards English language arts writing committee, as well as representatives from the Kansas and Louisiana Departments of Education.

Google continues to support educators in developing student capacity to use the internet for academic search. Great resource to help teachers take an intentional developmental approach to student research skills. 

Very cool opportunity for exploring different cultural sites around the world using Google maps/iimages. 

Screencasting tool. It's free and relatively easy to use. 

Another screencasting tool. Jing is by TechSmith who makes Camtasia (the best tool but $300). Unfortunately/fortunately Jing limits screencasts to 5 minutes. Really forces focused video production which is actually a good thing. 

Good cheap tool. It's web based and you really need the Pro account for editing purposes. 

Web based screencasting tool. Easy to use.

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