ISTE Standards (formerly the NETS) for Students (ISTE Standards•S) are the standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge students need to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly global and digital world.
Simply being able to use technology is no longer enough. Today's students need to be able to use technology to analyze, learn and explore. Digital age skills are vital for preparing students to work, live and contribute to the social and civic fabric of their communities.
Digital Citizenship Learning Center from CyberWise (7):
CyberWise produced an extensive list of digital citizenship resources, including videos, games and toolkits from a variety of sources.
Cable in the Classroom’s Digital Citizenship Resources (11):
Cable in the Classroom (CIC) is a one-stop-shop for digital citizenship resources for teachers.
BrainPop Jr. Spotlight -- Free Digital Citizenship Resources (13):
BrainPop's Digital Citizenship resource page is perfect for younger students, and there are two sections on bullying and Internet safety.
Digital Citizenship Teaching Channel Video Overviews (14):
ABCya Animate from ABCya (disclosure, an advertiser here)allows students to create animated GIFs containing up to 100 frames.
Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street is
a neat tool for creating animated stop motion movies.
Draw Island is a free online tool for creating drawings and simple GIF animations. Draw Island
offers you your choice of four canvas sizes on which you can draw.
Wideo is a service that allows anyone to create animated videos and Common Craft-style
videos online. You can create an animated video on Wideo by dragging
and dropping elements into place in the Wideo editor
5 Online Tools That Help You Align Lessons to Common Core Standards
Teaching Objects is an online lesson planner that enables you to pull materials from your Google Drive and YouTube accounts into your lesson plans.
Alchemy SmartBinder is a free service for creating, organizing, and sharing lessons. With an Alchemy SmartBinder account teachers can create lessons that include text, images, videos, audio files, and web links.
Common Curriculum is an online lesson planning resource that aims to help you align your lessons to Common Core standards.
OpenEd is a site that claims to be the world's largest educational resource catalog.
MasteryConnect
they offer a good system for tracking your students' mastery of Common Core standards. Second, they provide a great community of educators who are connecting and sharing lesson ideas. And third, MasteryConnect now offers a curriculum mapping tool that allows you to easily connect your current lessons and curriculum to Common Core and or state standards.
Classtools.net provides free, customisable flash templates to embed into blogs, wikis and websites. There is no signup, no passwords, no charges...This is very cool for anyone who teaches online or has a class website.
The class blog widget provides a handy link to all student blogs attached to My Class. Students just need to click on the link to easily go to a class mates blog.