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Khan Academy would be a great resource for teachers and administrators looking for help with RTI needs. There are sections for every content area where students can test their skills via an online assessment. After several questions, content is adjusted to the specific learning level of the individual student.

This is great for auditory and visual learners taking different steps with them. The site begins various practices or content knowledge with an interactive assessment of what you know, what you need review, and what it recommends to build upon the knowledge that the student indicates they have yet to learn or are unfamiliar with. In a sense, it differentiates and it assesses as you interact. Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

This is great for auditory and visual learners taking different steps with them. The site begins various practices or content knowledge with an interactive assessment of what you know, what you need review, and what it recommends to build upon the knowledge that the student indicates they have yet to learn or are unfamiliar with. In a sense, it differentiates and it assesses as you interact. Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

CrashCourse videos are openly available on YouTube. This links to the Intellectual Property playlist with 7 videos. I plan to use these with the High School English Department and also in sections with professional development to set the stage with appropriate copyright usage for the upcoming school year.

Stories for Students from past issues of "Beyond Penguins & Polar Bears" to print and use with students in K-1, 2-3, 4-5 in text only, illustrated book, and electronic book formats

Stories for Students from past issues of "Beyond Penguins & Polar Bears" to print and use with students in K-1, 2-3, 4-5 in text only, illustrated book, and electronic book formats

Stories for Students from past issues of "Beyond Penguins & Polar Bears" to print and use with students in K-1, 2-3, 4-5 in text only, illustrated book, and electronic book formats. Share with 2nd grade teachers for use with their Antarctica/polar animals unit!!!

I would use this site to work with the math and science teachers. For this bookmark, I am focusing on math because I find this group to be the hardest to get to work with the library. I would meet with the teachers, discuss concepts they are teaching and then show them this array of simulations they can assign students for any of the following reasons: *Formative Assessment *Further practice on a concept a student is struggling with mastering *A learning extension for accelerated learners - this could be a part of a personalized learning path.

This is being used by some of our 5th grade teachers for their students. I plan to use it myself when working on getting makerspaces in my library including spheros, dot and dash, etc...

This could be used in conjunction with the Hour of Code implemented with students in December.

This could be used in conjunction with the Hour of Code implemented with students in December.

I was looking through the resources and also stumbled upon this one, since I enjoy music, I decided to include it. Well, that and the fact that one of the last inquiry units I worked on with some elementary students last year focused on the Depression and one group looked at its culture in California with migrant workers, etc. This would have been a great resource for them! The resource comes from the LOC and allows students to explore the culture and ethnicities of folk music during the 30s. There are audio clips to explore, sketches for instrument design and a lot of other cool things here.  I could see students easily using this resource for a history unit or a music class to better understand what life was like during the 30s. In a history class, students might investigate the outlook on life through the lyrics in some of the songs. In a music class, students might trace the development of the music and its instruments. With other resources, students could look at the way the music here has had an influence on what we listen to today. Just some thoughts.

This story maker would be great to use with elementary students who are learning about how words come together to create sentences and stories. The tool would be an excellent resource for students who struggle with writing and need a visual to help them see the relationship between text and pictures. It works kind of like a game, allowing students to select characters, backgrounds, plots, and items so that they can create their own stories. Students are allowed to see the images they create and, as they create these images, the story maker builds the text to tell the story so that students can see how writing comes together. Students are also given the ability to change the text and incorporate animations. Finally, students are given a code that lets them share the story they created with others.

I've used this many times in my classroom. The students love it!

TED videos would be a great video source to share with the 2nd grade teachers who teach insects. It has current videos, with fascinating facts and real pictures. The days of the Magic School Bus on VHS need to be transformed to show teachers new sources of videos to show to students, so students can be aware of the current issues with the insect world and learn new facts about insects that they may have never known!

WTAMU Math Tutorials and Help I like how it "showcases exciting" math terms and then how the user can "click on . . . (a term) . . . to Google." At the same time there are Physics forums that can be accessed along with (among other resources) a virtual on-line Math lab ( West Texas A & M University) for GRE Math study sessions, Math for sciences, beginning, intermediate, and college Algebra. A student can go in and seek extra guidance or training (i.e. for a high school class) or it can serve as an extra challenge to tests the student's content knowledge before an exam. This part of the site is geared toward high school students (and college) while the initial page is also appropriate for elementary and middle school students. A great starter to click on a math term that an elementary student may begin to explore. I can see 4-7 grade students really liking this portion to review what they know and experiment with what the are/will be learning.

WTAMU Math Tutorials and Help I like how it "showcases exciting" math terms and then how the user can "click on . . . (a term) . . . to Google." At the same time there are Physics forums that can be accessed along with (among other resources) a virtual on-line Math lab ( West Texas A & M University) for GRE Math study sessions, Math for sciences, beginning, intermediate, and college Algebra. A student can go in and seek extra guidance or training (i.e. for a high school class) or it can serve as an extra challenge to tests the student's content knowledge before an exam. This part of the site is geared toward high school students (and college) while the initial page is also appropriate for elementary and middle school students. A great starter to click on a math term that an elementary student may begin to explore. I can see 4-7 grade students really liking this portion to review what they know and experiment with what the are/will be learning.

A great resource to share with teachers as the library media specialist supporting professional development.

A great resource to share with teachers as the library media specialist supporting professional development.

With Soundtrap you make music or podcasts online. You can plug in your own instrument, use the software instruments and loops available in Soundtrap or just record a song directly with your computer microphone. It's super-easy!

What should you look at when you evaluate websites? A simple, to the point Prezi, with fun images, on how to evaluate websites. I would use this when teaching information literacy with upper elementary to high school students. After viewing, students could create a checklist to use when evaluating websites.

Practicaledtech is a great source for teachers to stay up to date on great online resources. Richard Byrne is an awesome tech integrator and his site used to be called free tech for teachers. I would assign teachers to use this guide to pick one blogging tool to try out with their classes. Before they got to work with their classes I would pair of teachers who chose the same blogging tool and have them work together on the platform.

Lesson/activity from Common Sense Media dealing with cyberbullying. Useful for promoting an activist approach to dealing with bullying issues and supporting targets of bullying. oer jg

Contained in this source are a variety of tools to use when wanting to implement digital storytelling into your library/classroom. I like the variety. Aside from this source, I have used Mystorymaker with students. I also like the animation factor associated with this source.

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I think that this OER is interesting. In a collaborative effort with the Chemistry department, these idea could be put into place. Often times, students are only able to read about dangerous chemicals to their danger factor of having them in schools. By sharing this reality app with the teachers in the Chemistry department, we could bring new experiences to the students. I'm excited to try this one out!

"A selection of resources to help teachers learn more about and get started with Google Expeditions." This resource will help teachers learn how Google Expeditions works and see which Expeditions are available. This is a resource that many teachers may know very little about. If devices for VR are a difficulty to obtain, there are also free resources for them. Cellcom in our area allows classroom kits to be shipped out to a teacher for a short amount of time.

This a web page with an abundance of resources about relating to weather. The severe weather challenge piqued my interest the most. I would share this with my third grade teachers to aide in the teaching of the weather unit. For our bilingual students they do the weather unit twice, the more resources the better!