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Patti Porto

Learn Me Good: 20 great online sites for kids' education - 0 views

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    "Her list is titled, "20 Online Tools and Sites to Engage Students in Learning," and without any further ado, here it is! The Internet is loaded with tools and websites that teachers can use to engage their students in math lessons, language arts, history, art, music, and other subjects. Here are 20 online tools and sites to try throughout the school year:"
Patti Porto

Effective Classroom Practice | Engaging Boys: Powerful Possibilities for All Learners - 1 views

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    videos on engaging learning. Haven't watched them, so not sure about quality
Patti Porto

SlideTalk - turn your presentations into engaging talking videos - 1 views

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    "Share your powerpoint presentations, eLearning content, business presentations and tutorials as engaging talking videos, by using high-quality and multilingual text-to-speech technology, with no need for expensive and time-consuming voice recordings. How? Just import your presentation and type a comment for each slide. You immediately get a high-quality talking video, ready to be shared."
Patti Porto

Kansas Technical Assistance Network (TASN) Autism and Tertiary Behavior Supports Resour... - 3 views

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    "Visual tasks are useful activities designed to stimulate and engage. Click an image below to view the task, or view our entire collection of visual tasks."
Patti Porto

Bookry - Education | Bookry in Education - 2 views

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    "Bookry is free for education and this includes use of all Bookry widgets and associated services. When used with Apple's iBooks Author, you have the perfect tool for creating engaging and informative multi-touch books for students of all ages."
Patti Porto

Jennifer Katz, PhD - Home - 1 views

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    The Three Block Model of Universal Design for Learning is an effective approach to classroom management, planning, instruction, and assessment that creates a compassionate learning community from K-12. Developed by Dr. Jennifer Katz, The Three Block Model of UDL has been implemented in elementary and high schools across three provinces, and has been shown to increase student engagement, self-concept, respect for diverse others, prosocial behavior, and teacher satisfaction and self-efficacy.
Patti Porto

Subtext - 0 views

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    Subtext is a free iPad app that allows classroom groups to exchange ideas in the pages of digital texts. You can also layer in enrichment materials, assignments and quizzes-opening up almost limitless opportunities to engage students and foster analysis and writing skills. Watch video »
Patti Porto

Common Core and Educational Technology - 0 views

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    "Welcome! This is the place to find 'best of class' ed tech to integrate in Common Core curriculum. We'll identify web resources and tablet apps that students can use to demonstrate deep knowledge in creative and engaging ways. We'll also highlight information from other ed tech blogs, and provide a way to communicate about "Common Core ed tech.""
Patti Porto

iTunes - Books - Reference Guide for Students in a 1:1 iPad Program by Melissa Herring - 1 views

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    "This book is intended to provide reference for students engaged in a 1:1 iPad program. The reference materials include gallery photos, interactive content, and movies that will enable students to use the iPad to its maximum potential. Information regarding basic iPad functions, care and digital citizenship is included."
Patti Porto

iTunes - Books - Changing Student Engagement with the iPad by Melissa Herring & SBS Tec... - 0 views

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    "This book will prepare you for a 1:1 iPad program. It will highlight basic functions of the iPad, care for the iPad, pedagogy and lessons to challenge students. Use this book as a diving board. Our hope is that it will spring you into action, and plunge your students into deep thought and a sea of learning. "
Patti Porto

UDL: A framework for good teaching, a model for student success - The ACCESS Project - ... - 1 views

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    "This workshop will focus on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a model of instruction that can help faculty reach and engage today's diverse range of learners. UDL also guides the creation of course materials that are accessible to all students, particularly students with disabilities using assistive technologies."
Patti Porto

Corwin: Mobile Learning for All: Supporting Accessibility With the iPad: Luis Perez: 97... - 1 views

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    "All students-including those with special needs-can benefit from having options in how they access curricular information. The good news is that help is readily available on your tablets and Apple devices! With this unique and engaging all-in-one resource, you will gain a practical toolkit to empower all your students. Learn how to get the most from your iPad by using its built-in accessibility features in conjunction with Universal Design for Learning guidelines"
Patti Porto

20+ Fun Free Apps that Promote Student Centered Learning & Literacy : Teacher Reboot Camp - 1 views

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    "Lately, I have discovered many cool free apps that are incredible for creating digital stories, reading stories, and interacting with stories. These apps are incredibly engaging and meet the needs of our diverse learners. They allow learners to interact with the plot, characters, and even design of the story. They also support multiple learning styles because they are visual, have sound, and animation. Students can even begin to craft their own stories using their voices, drawings, images, videos, and so much more"
Patti Porto

Differentiation Meets Digital Technology « literacy beat - 4 views

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    Differentiating instruction is a time-tested way of thinking about meeting students' needs as they make progress toward achievement or learning targets.  Differentiation is an elegant mindset that suggests to teachers a framework that permits them to engage students while focusing on learning results, and digital technologies offer many opportunities to differentiate instruction in meaningful ways.  However, differentiating instruction takes a concerted planning effort on our parts as teachers and teacher educators
Patti Porto

Universal Design for Learning - The ACCESS Project - Colorado State University - 0 views

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    "Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a set of principles and techniques for creating inclusive classroom instruction and accessible course materials. At its core is the assertion that all students benefit when they are given multiples ways to take in new information, express their comprehension, and become engaged in learning."
Patti Porto

Wonderopolis - 1 views

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    Wonderopolis, a program brought to life by the National Center for Family Literacy, engages and inspires families in the pursuit of education and learning together. We help families create a new force - transforming the parent/child relationship into an engine for progress and upward mobility.
Nick Weiland

Snowflake Workshop | Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione - 1 views

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    Allows you to virually draw, cut and save a snowflake. Very engaging.
Patti Porto

Choice in Action.mp4 - YouTube - 0 views

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    Great video of kids engaged in a ton of different ways, some tech, some not
Patti Porto

State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) - Out of Print Report Releas... - 0 views

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    "Out of Print highlights the sea change underway in the multi-billion dollar U.S. K-12 instructional materials market enabled by recent technology and intellectual property rights innovations. With a focus on the ultimate impact on student learning, the report provides examples of lessons learned from recent digital and open (OER) content initiatives by leading states and school districts and offers comprehensive recommendations for government, industry, and educators to ensure that the inevitable shift to digital instructional materials improves student achievement and engagement and efficiently uses scarce resources."
Patti Porto

Center on Online Learning and Students with Disabilities - 0 views

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    Our Mission To research how online learning can be made more accessible, engaging, and effective for K-12 learners with disabilities by investigating approaches that address learner variability within the range of conditions under which online learning occurs.
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