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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.

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Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Save documents, workbooks, and presentations online, in OneDrive. Share them with others and work together at the same time.

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Adobe Creative Cloud | Details and products | Adobe

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Enjoy the collection of creative desktop and mobile tools in Adobe Creative Cloud including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and more.

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The Free & Open Source Image Editor

This is the official website of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).

GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.

Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization options and 3rd party plugins.

High Quality Photo Manipulation

GIMP provides the tools needed for high quality image manipulation. From retouching to restoring to creative composites, the only limit is your imagination.

Original Artwork Creation

GIMP gives artists the power and flexibility to transform images into truly unique creations.

Graphic Design Elements

GIMP is used for producing icons, graphical design elements, and art for user interface components and mockups.

Programming Algorithms

GIMP is a high quality framework for scripted image manipulation, with multi-language support such as C, C++, Perl, Python, Scheme, and more!

Key Component in a Desktop Publishing Workflow

GIMP provides top-notch color management features to ensure high-fidelity color reproduction across digital and printed media. It is best used in workflows involving other free software such as Scribus, Inkscape, and SwatchBooker.

Extensibility & Flexibility

GIMP provides extensibility through integration with many programming languages including Scheme, Python, Perl, and more.

The result is a high level of customization as demonstrated by the large number of scripts and plug-ins created by the community.

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This is the official website of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.

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Professional productivity suite including Microsoft Word (word processor), PowerPoint presentation software, Excel Spreadsheets, Microsoft Access database software, OneDrive cloud storage, Outlook email, OneNote for note taking.

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Some tools K-12, all tools 6-12

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Digital flashcards and study guides, interactive classroom game for content review, digital notes, AI integration to generate summaries, flashcards, and other tools like the Essay Starter.

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7-12

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Open-source, free, photo and image editing/creating software. It is available for MacOS, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.

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As a study tool for facts, vocabulary building including domain-specific terminology. The AI powered Essay Starter can help students write an essay and walk them through the first steps without generating the essay for the student. The student enters their topic, then the tool generates questions to generate a basic outline and then offers a list of next steps. This tool could help reluctant writers to get started on essay writing.

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This tool can support and reinforce vocabulary and facts through drill and practice. A teacher could develop personalized flashcard sets to meet the needs of specific students. For example, additional cards could be used for vocabulary for English Learners and if possible for the teacher a translation could be included in the students’ L1 for Emergent ELL students. It would be easy to provide multiple sets of study flashcards that could be used by students as needed.

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Easy to use, fun classroom game for review, achievement badges to encourage studying, multiple tools. Teachers and students can generate content or use content generated by others for study sets.

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Easy for students to use to find answers to traditional quizzes, best for drill and practice type exercises. There isn’t much content for higher order thinking.

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It is important for teachers to go over the Quizlet Honor Policy, and be mindful of the possibility of students using Quizlet to find answers to assessments which could lead to academic dishonesty. Students can use Quizlet to explore and learn a wide range of topics.

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We will use this activity to practice determining tone. Tone is an important element in writing and in analyzing texts. Tone is a rhetorical device we will use throughout this class in analyzing and writing texts.

1. Click on this link to join our class Quizlet: https://quizlet.com/join/EMf4UWJt5?i=5syyq8&x=1bqt

2. Click on the assigned study set.

3. For each flash card read side 1 and try to determine the tone.

4. Click on the flashcard to navigate to the back of the flashcard to check your answer.

5. Then click on the arrow to advance to the next flash card. Continue until all flashcards have been practiced 2 times.

6. In the last 10 minutes of class, enter the link and code to the Quizlet game, or scan the QR code with your phone to join the class game. All questions in the game will be based on the flashcards.

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A website with content at the student’s level in ELA, Math, and other topics. Students can go through content at their own pace. There are video lessons and short answer and multiple choice questions to check understanding. There is also a new AI component Khanmigo designed to be AI for education with different options for teachers, parents, and students.

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K-9 in ELA, could be useful for K-12 (Khan Academy Kids is for younger grades)

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Word can be used for essays, one-pagers, poems, and narrative writing. PowerPoint can be used to create presentations, class digital interactive notebooks, or portfolios as slides. Excel could be used to track books read or data for projects. OneNote can be used to create notes or plan and organize projects or papers. Access could be used to track information about student learning, create a database of class library resources, or for students to create and record information.

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Khan Academy can be used to practice and learn foundational skills. There is a section on grammar, for example. Students can take tests to see where their knowledge gaps are and they can use Khan Academy to fill in those gaps. It’s also good for practice. Their content has steadily expanded over time.

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9-12

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The video content has embedded text and there are also transcripts of videos to assist with comprehension.

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Free to use, web-based, teachers can assign content, learners can use it independently to learn or practice content, content is aligned to standards. Khan Academy has continued to expand content and may add more ELA content in the future. It is intuitive and easy to navigate. Learning can be personalized and differentiated.

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Not much ELA content. Only a few readings per grade level. ELA content is only through 9th grade.

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Students should be instructed on how to use the tool to learn and how to avoid using the tool inappropriately. Khan Academy has added an AI tool, Khanmigo intended as an AI tutor. Use of this tool should be modeled and teachers should advise students how to use the tool ethically and how to check responses given to them by Khanmigo as the tool can generate incorrect answers to questions.

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This activity will introduce the literary device tone. Tone is an important element of a text. We will learn to determine tone in a text to aid in analyzing texts. To complete this activity:

1. Click this link to join our Khan Academy class: https://www.khanacademy.org/join/E5MXJ5BY

2. You will see a window that says, "You are joining Ms. Gough's Sample Class." There are two options in that window: create a new account or log in. If you already have an account you can log in to your Khan Academy account and our class will be added to your account. If you do not have an account, you can create one.

3. In your account, go to Learner Dashboard.

4. Then click on "My Assignments"

5. There is 1 assignment called, "Analyzing Tone Through Word Choice."

6. Click on the blue "start" button next to the assignment.

7. Play the video. Watch it all the way through. You may also use the transcript of the video.

8. When you've finished the video, click on "Next Up: Exercise." This will take you to a passage to read and questions about the tone of the passage. Answer each question. Khan Academy will notify you if your answer is correct or incorrect.

9. When you are finished reading the text and answering the questions click, "done."

10. Then do our Quizlet activity, Activity 2.

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Use to create professional looking graphic elements, publications like a school or class newspaper, or edit photos or graphics.

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Create visual products like graphics and infographics, edit photos for presentations, create multimodal instructional products with visual and textual elements.

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Microsoft office has powerful, built-in accessibility tools such as speech-to-text and text-to-speech to support English Learners and exceptional learners. Student projects and papers can be differentiated through teacher provided templates and graphic organizers. There are spelling and grammar tools built-in. There is an available add-in to translate text into other languages. There’s a built-in accessibility checker to check content for accessibility. Icons are graphic in nature and organized by type to support usability.

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6-12

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Available for MacOS, Microsoft Windows, and online.Used extensively in educational and professional settings. File formats are accessible by multiple applications and files can be saved in more universal formats such as .rtf (Rich Text Format) in Microsoft Word.  Excellent help functions and support. Office365 online version allows access to files from any device. Powerpoint has more features and is more intuitive than some other presentation software.

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This tool is more expensive than the comparable Google Suite. Collaboration is limited. Files saved to a local computer are not accessible from any device unless also saved to cloud storage.  Microsoft Word is best for traditional word processing. Microsoft Word allows image and table insertion but does not work well with very large files with lots of images.

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Microsoft Office is a tool that is used both professionally and in education. Many workplaces use Microsoft products so familiarity with these tools could provide opportunities for employment after high school. Teachers should model appropriate use and provide expectations and guidelines for avoiding plagiarism and using proper citations. There is a new AI tool incorporated into Office365. If students use this tool, they should disclose the use and cite it appropriately.

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Professional Photo editing, graphic design, digital visual art creation and editing software. This product is now Adobe Creative Cloud and includes over 20 apps.

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Documentation available in multiple languages

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Used by professionals. Available on Mac and PC, Can use for complex graphic elements, and can be used professionally after high school. Many tutorials and how-to guides exist for these tools.

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Cost (student and teacher pricing is $19.99/month currently, regular price is $59.99/month), learning curve: With some of the Adobe tools, there is so much functionality that they can be overwhelming and a challenge to learn to use so it is best to begin with tutorials.

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How teachers can advocate, model and teach responsible and ethical use of tech to extend possibilities for learning locally and globally

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How teachers can advocate, model and teach responsible and ethical use of tech to extend possibilities for learning locally and globally

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Teach learners about copyright and fair use laws. Explain and model using software ethically and not pirating software.Model and teach proper citations for graphical elements from other sources.

This tool is great in that students learn to use a tool that’s used beyond education and learning these tools can help students in the workplace in many jobs. The file formats are used globally.

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This tool can allow students to create visual products to display mastery of content visually. There are tutorials and documentation in multiple languages which could support English Learners.

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Free to use, modify and distribute through the GNU Public License. Available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux. Frequent updates.

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Much more limited than Adobe Photoshop. Not available for Chromebooks.

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GIMP is a great software tool to introduce students to open-source software and the GNU Public License. Teachers can use GIMP and other open-source and free to use software to help students find alternatives to software that may be cost-prohibitive without pirating software. GIMP is a tool that is developed by independent developers globally and could serve as the basis for a lesson on working collaboratively and cooperatively both locally and globally.