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This site is hosted by CISD and is equivalent to Blackboard. Use it for organizing and housing all your tech applications, creating safe student web experiences, and web-based collaboration and evaluation. |
CISD Google Docs |
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Full featured word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation tool available to any CISD teacher or student from any computer with Internet access. Forget transferring, uploading, downloading and sharing files using USB drives or email. Username: same as FirstClass, password emplast5ofsocial, example: emp56789 |
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Blogging, displaying student web-projects, linking various websites for student use, student writing publication in a protected space. |
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Presentations; high level analysis of concepts and vocabulary. Great for Marzano vocabulary study technique. |
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Text analsysis tool. Makes high frequency words larger. Great for seeing what writing is really about. Makes "Beautiful Word Clouds." Encourages students to write more and better! |
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Blank slate with video, music, and image capabilities; an electronic posterboard with multimedia capabilities. (EDU.glogster.com) |
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Students can narrate with a microphone and explain with images or video. |
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Characterization, explanation of ideas from another perspective. |
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Explanation of understanding; students can demonstrate with a virtual whiteboard while explaining on the microphone. |
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Create comic strips to demonstrate understanding of concepts. (Science? Explain a weather phenomenon. Language Arts? Show you understand your vocabulary.) Now allows the creation of books. |
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Virtual white board; similar to a webinar; free and PRIVATE; simultaneous student/teacher interaction. This tool is great for small grouping and collaboration. |
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Visual ranking tool allows students to place concepts and words in order (you decide the order: greatest to least, kindom to phylum; first step to last step, etc).
Supporting with Evidence tool (self-explanatory) |
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Free online resources available as well as opportunity to post/host your students products. Can be protected. |
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Free access to documentaries. Remember to preview first! |
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Free and highly visual thesaurus; word relationships displayed with color and line patterns.
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Students can keep daily journals, write about events, conduct interviews, etc. Gmail account needed.
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Free alternative to expensive graphic and image editors. (Similar to Photoshop.) Powerful AND simple.
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Capture quick 5 minute screen casts or take snapshots of your screen to display images or to share what you see on your screen. (Must be installed on computer to create, but screencasts can be viewed on any computer with Flash and Internet.)
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An easy way to create and share interactive floor plans. You design in 2D and view in 3D. |
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Create astonishing presentations live on the web with this zooming interactive presentation tool. Instead of slides, you create a large map, and zoom around to show your ideas. |
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Use the designer content on this site with your own photos to make scrapbooks, slideshows, greeting cards, and everything in-between. You can share and print to results. |
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