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Two schools TMS has worked with were profiled by the Teaching Channel in this video that unpacks the Common Core Standards for elementary schools. Funny that they mention "technology" being integrated throughout the standards, but their example is of teachers watching videos of each other. I happen to know that both schools are doing much more sophisticated work that blends digital media into students' ELA and Math units, but it's not yet on the radar of CCSS evaluators (at least at the time this video was made).

Educational examples of Meographs. Meograph allows sequencing of content but not editing of content. You can layer content in a formatted way (location, time, annotations, and narration). You can record narration. It plays through like a movie with interactive live links and features.

"Mozilla has released Popcorn Maker 1.0, a free-to-use, web-based video editor. The Internet application enables non-programmers to enhance and annotate videos with supplementary content, such as Google Maps, Twitter hashtags and Wikipedia entries. For example, a real-time map can be embedded into the actual video. "

Educational examples of Meographs. Meograph allows sequencing of content but not editing of content. You can layer content in a formatted way (location, time, annotations, and narration). You can record narration. It plays through like a movie with interactive live links and features.

"Popcorn.js is an HTML5 media framework written in JavaScript for filmmakers, web developers, and anyone who wants to create time-based interactive media on the web. Popcorn.js is part of Mozilla's Popcorn project."

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