"Experience a Story: Listen to stories, read and view pictures inspired by our collections created by visitors like you.
Tell a Story: Become a storyteller as you write and record a story inspired by works in the museum's collection.
Picture a Story: Create your own work of art using objects and characters found in some of the museum's most noteworthy paintings.
Enjoy, and let your creativity flow through pictures and words!"
You can use WordArt to make display text (e.g., the heading of your document) more eye-catching. WordArt can be resized, moved, and edited to fit your needs. Documentation is also available for Using Word Art in Excel and PowerPoint.
Users click and hold as they move the cursor around the screen to create works of art. Select from a variety of tools to change the way the cursor interacts with the canvas. Students can practice mouse skills, create abstract art, and more! Perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard.
Colorful, Cool, Collaborative
Ten-year-old Augie Webster creates vivid, action-filled paintings using his wheelchair, communication device, imagination, and the help of his family.
Inspired by skateboard artist Sean Greene at the Arlington Artisphere and his school's PTA art contest theme, "Together We Can," Augie told his mom, "I could make wheelchair art. I need help."
PODCAST
D&D IN THE CLASSROOM
D&D Podcasts
- 02/10/2015
Learn how a Texas high school teacher is changing education through the power of D&D!
Kade Wells is a teacher in the Houston, TX area and he uses Dungeons & Dragons in his 9th grade classroom to teach writing, reading and critical thinking skills in his language arts classes. He presented his technique at the World Literacy Conference this summer in Austria, reporting on how using D&D improved his student's scores across the board. Listen to learn how Kade is changing education through the power of D&D!
Newspapers expand the curriculum with an unlimited amount of
information to use as background for learning activities. Discover new ways to use the newspaper in your language arts studies, with these activities from the Newspaper Association of America.
"The National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) is a project led by five centers and 24 states, building an alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The shared goal of the NCSC partners is to ensure that students with the most significant cognitive disabilities achieve increasingly higher academic outcomes and leave high school ready for post-secondary options. The wiki and the materials hosted here help educators accomplish the NCSC goals by supporting instruction aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The materials on the wiki can also be used in states that are not using the CCSS. Much of the content that is covered on the wiki will also appear in other Mathematics and English Language Arts state standards.
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"There are many tools for creating and using graphic organizers, but one great option is Google Drawings. Some benefits include:
Loads of ways to add images, shapes, connectors, text, and more
Easy to collaborate with partners or for a whole class brainstorming activity
Final product can be shared as is, or can be exported in several formats
It's free!"
Internet for Classrooms - Helping Teachers Use the Internet Effectively website has links to academic resources, instructional supports, software tutorials, and other classroom technology resources.
I4C OVERVIEW
Whether you are a newcomer or an old pro, it's easy to get "lost" in everything I4C has to offer. We have subject help by grade level on almost all school topics. Don't forget to click and explore when you are looking for teacher resources. Here are a few main topics to get you started.
Early Childhood
Elementary Math
Elementary Language Arts
Elementary Science
Elementary Social Studies
Middle/High School Language Arts
Middle/High School Math
Middle/High School Science
Middle/High School Social Studies/History
Middle/High School Foreign Languages
SkillBuilders provide online interactives per subject and grade.
Tech Tutorials provide online support as well as printables.
Assessment Assistance offers online and printable tests.
Flockdraw is a free to use online whiteboard based painting & drawing tool. It makes it easy to draw online free with multiple people for fun or business. You can have unlimited people in a room and the drawing updates in real time. Uses different colors, shapes and text.Start drawing now!
Districts seek ways to implement universal design
By ALEXANDER RUSSO
Bringing UDL into the Mainstream, continued
Bringing UDL into the Mainstream: Districts seek ways to implement universal design
Bringing UDL into the Mainstream
For the past several years, new teachers joining the Bartholomew (Ind.) Consolidated School Corporation have been encouraged to watch a video introducing the preferred method of teaching in the district. Rather than highlighting a single approach, however, the video is all about encouraging teachers to use varied ways and materials to present new information and to assess learning, be it aurally through talking iPads, visually through doodles on whiteboards, creatively through art projects and games, or by using old-fashioned pen and paper. That's because the preferred method of teaching in Bartholomew County is UDL, or Universal Design for Learning.
Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright - all rights reserved - and the public domain - no rights reserved. Our licenses help you keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of your work - a "some rights
"The goal is to create as many words as you can
using the ten letters that are generated in the box below.
Just scribble down the words on a piece of paper as fast as you can think of them."