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Grade 5-6: Unit plan includes multiple lessons, videos, activities, tools & quizzes to help students become global collaborators.

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21t4s Teacher Guide 20. Global Collaboration

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Using Dreamdo Schools to collaborate with classrooms around the Globe

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Using Dreamdo Schools to collaborate with classrooms around the Globe

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Dreamdo Schools Teacher Materials help you to easily arrange brainstorming and planning workshops to kick-of your students' dream project.

Start by downloading our free Teacher Handbook, which explains everything you need to know about Dreamdo Schools.

Then download the Dream board and cards, which are needed for the brainstorming session where your students decide what project they'd like to do. Finally, get the free Do board and cards to plan the project and visualise your progress.

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Dreamdo Schools Teacher Materials help you to easily arrange brainstorming and planning workshops to kick-of your students' dream project. Start by downloading our free Teacher Handbook, which explains everything you need to know about Dreamdo Schools. Then download the Dream board and cards, which are needed for the brainstorming session where your students decide what project they'd like to do.

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Creative Communications & Applications Unit Plan

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Creative Communications & Applications Unit Plan

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Grade 5-6: Includes lessons & activities about different software applications for creating digital objects or artifacts to communicate ideas in new and creative ways.

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Grades 4-6: In this unit students will explore their unique learning styles, various technology tools to support their learning, and techniques for organizing and using resources, tools & information

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Grade 4-6: Includes a series of lessons for teaching students how to independently & collaboratively use Google and/or Microsoft presentation tools

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Google Sites Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Google Sites Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Google Sites helps anyone create clean, functional, responsive websites on any topic. The drag-and-drop editor is easy to use, but there's little design inspiration built in. To start using Google Sites, students log in, click on the rainbow "+" button, and dive right into the design. There's a very brief tour of the interface, and then students are given a mostly blank page with a place to add their site's name and the main page's name. The site's name will become students' default URL once they publish unless they change it.

Options for what to add to the website include additional pages, text boxes, images, documents, and embedded elements, such as videos, maps, calendars, documents, other websites, and more. Students can use one of six section layout templates for images and text. They can create collapsible text areas, automatically create a table of contents from page headers, make clickable buttons, and create image galleries. They can organize, reorganize, and edit most elements, making minor modifications in font, color, background, and other basic traits. There are six built-in themes to choose from that help students create a look-and-feel for their site, and minor modifications can be made to those as well. Additional pages can be created and placed in hierarchies, which are accessible in a menu from the main page. The interface allows for previewing the site at any time; students can see what it will look like on a computer, tablet, or phone.

This new Google Sites incarnation brings a lot of changes from the classic Sites, which is slowly being phased out. Many features, such as sophisticated templates, haven't (yet) been brought over from classic, but Google keeps adding new features as it works to phase out the old version.

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Google Sites Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Google Sites helps anyone create clean, functional, responsive websites on any topic. The drag-and-drop editor is easy to use, but there's little design inspiration built in. To start using Google Sites, students log in, click on the rainbow "+" button, and dive right into the design.

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Artsonia Kids Art Museum Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Artsonia Kids Art Museum Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Displaying student-created artwork is a great way to extend learning beyond the classroom. Encourage students to curate their own online portfolios with any mobile device, and send site-created letters home to parents to inform them that they can also add their kids' artwork to the site, moderate comments, and maintain each kid's fan club. The description option in galleries helps teachers show parents the assignment objectives.

Teachers can view the art online and assess assignments via the Artsonia platform, or they can connect it with their preferred learning management system to provide feedback and assign grades. The progress report feature allows teachers to quickly assess student work, especially if teachers input their favorite, commonly used phrases. Parents can access the progress reports online. Teachers can also give students a published artist award certificate for publishing their creations. Looking for inspiration? Check out thousands of lesson plans from other teachers, which are searchable by grade level, media type, cross-subject area, and keyword.

Continue reading

Artsonia Kids Art Museum is an art sharing site where teachers, students, and parents can upload original works of art and then give and receive feedback or purchase items featuring the artwork. Students can join classes by scanning a teacher-generated QR code and begin uploading their work immediately. Teachers can view individual works or see multiple projects at a glance. Parents can use the app or website to easily upload their kids' artwork as well, with options to crop, adjust, or edit the photo as well as blur areas of the image, such as personal information. If teachers need any help using Artsonia, there are videos, webinars, and other help options; however, it's fairly intuitive.

From within the teacher section of Artsonia, teachers can download high-resolution images of their students' work for use on a class website or in a slideshow. Adding an artist statement to each piece offers cross-curricular connections, by inviting students to explain their art and talk a bit about their artistic process. This can be fairly short and simple for young students, but older students can take advantage of this as an ELA or research-driven exercise. Family members can order reasonably priced memorabilia with the students' artwork on them; the school gets 20% of each sale to put toward art supplies.

To see how this tool works, watch our video overview of .

The platform has many purposes: media creation, publishing, presenting, and creating portfolios, to name a few. Teachers can create a school page on Artsonia and use it to share what their students have created via galleries, which include a description of the project, materials used, and national standards addressed. Projects may include drawings, paintings, ceramics, photographs, writings, yarn art, 3D paper crafts, and other media. This unique approach encourages students to create not only for themselves, but for an audience as well, and because the platform is cumulative, kids can use it to track their progress and see their work mature over time. Having students complete artist statements helps them develop metacognitive and analytical skills, especially if they're encouraged to reflect on their inspiration for a particular piece.

Using Artsonia can validate students of all ages by helping them see their own potential as artists and showcasing their creations. Positive experiences with the arts can not only build confidence and self-esteem, but also help kids develop social and emotional skills like perseverance and self-awareness. And, hopefully, these experiences will inspire them to keep creating.

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Artsonia Kids Art Museum Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Is Artsonia Kids Art Museum good for learning? Use Common Sense Education's reviews and learning ratings to find the best media and edtech resources for your classroom.

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Grade 5-6: Lessons to teach students about the latest and greatest ways to share and present information with animation, podcasts, and video creation.

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Grades 4-6 (45 min): Includes: Lesson plan, video, activity & quiz

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Grade 4-6 (60 min) Includes: Lesson plan, multiple videos & quiz

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Grade 4-6: Includes multiple lessons on creating & using digital visual organizers, as well as developing QR codes

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DELETE 21t4s Teacher Guide 2.Visual Learning

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Grade 4-6: Includes 6 lessons to teach students the basics of word processing with Google docs, as well as about sharing & collaborating with Google

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21t4s Teacher Guide 4. Suite Tools & Google

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Grade 6: teach students about the kinds of social networks that are available, how they are used, and how to safely and effectively use social networks for a variety of purposes with these 4 lesson plans & activities.

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Grade 4-6 (60 min) Includes: Lesson plan, video, activity & quiz

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Grade 5/6: Includes: lesson plan & activity guide

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Grade 5-6 (45 min) Includes: lesson plan, video, activity

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Tools for Organizing Digital Content Lesson

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Tools for Organizing Digital Content Lesson

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Grades 4-6 (60-90 min) Includes: Lesson plans, activities & quiz

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Grades 5-6: Teach students how to analyze and organize data through 10 quick activities

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Grade 4-6 (60 min): Includes: Lesson plan, video, activity & quiz

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Infographics - Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything

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Infographics - Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything

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Google Drawings, part of the Google Apps suite, can also be used to create an infographic. It does layer-based image editing very well, as you can see by this infographic I created. And students can use the Google Research tool to locate CC-licensed images to use in the infographic. ( Key commands for Google Drawings)

Kathy Poe at The Fletcher School had her students create an infographic as part of a larger research project. She graciously shared the work!

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Google Drawings, part of the Google Apps suite, can also be used to create an infographic. It does layer-based image editing very well, as you can see by this infographic I created. And students can use the Google Research tool to locate CC-licensed images to use in the infographic.

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Artsonia Kids Art Museum Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Artsonia Kids Art Museum Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Displaying student-created artwork is a great way to extend learning beyond the classroom. Encourage students to curate their own online portfolios with any mobile device, and send site-created letters home to parents to inform them that they can also add their kids' artwork to the site, moderate comments, and maintain each kid's fan club. The description option in galleries helps teachers show parents the assignment objectives.

Teachers can view the art online and assess assignments via the Artsonia platform, or they can connect it with their preferred learning management system to provide feedback and assign grades. The progress report feature allows teachers to quickly assess student work, especially if teachers input their favorite, commonly used phrases. Parents can access the progress reports online. Teachers can also give students a published artist award certificate for publishing their creations. Looking for inspiration? Check out thousands of lesson plans from other teachers, which are searchable by grade level, media type, cross-subject area, and keyword.

Continue reading

Artsonia Kids Art Museum is an art sharing site where teachers, students, and parents can upload original works of art and then give and receive feedback or purchase items featuring the artwork. Students can join classes by scanning a teacher-generated QR code and begin uploading their work immediately. Teachers can view individual works or see multiple projects at a glance. Parents can use the app or website to easily upload their kids' artwork as well, with options to crop, adjust, or edit the photo as well as blur areas of the image, such as personal information. If teachers need any help using Artsonia, there are videos, webinars, and other help options; however, it's fairly intuitive.

From within the teacher section of Artsonia, teachers can download high-resolution images of their students' work for use on a class website or in a slideshow. Adding an artist statement to each piece offers cross-curricular connections, by inviting students to explain their art and talk a bit about their artistic process. This can be fairly short and simple for young students, but older students can take advantage of this as an ELA or research-driven exercise. Family members can order reasonably priced memorabilia with the students' artwork on them; the school gets 20% of each sale to put toward art supplies.

To see how this tool works, watch our video overview of .

The platform has many purposes: media creation, publishing, presenting, and creating portfolios, to name a few. Teachers can create a school page on Artsonia and use it to share what their students have created via galleries, which include a description of the project, materials used, and national standards addressed. Projects may include drawings, paintings, ceramics, photographs, writings, yarn art, 3D paper crafts, and other media. This unique approach encourages students to create not only for themselves, but for an audience as well, and because the platform is cumulative, kids can use it to track their progress and see their work mature over time. Having students complete artist statements helps them develop metacognitive and analytical skills, especially if they're encouraged to reflect on their inspiration for a particular piece.

Using Artsonia can validate students of all ages by helping them see their own potential as artists and showcasing their creations. Positive experiences with the arts can not only build confidence and self-esteem, but also help kids develop social and emotional skills like perseverance and self-awareness. And, hopefully, these experiences will inspire them to keep creating.

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Artsonia Kids Art Museum Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Is Artsonia Kids Art Museum good for learning? Use Common Sense Education's reviews and learning ratings to find the best media and edtech resources for your classroom.

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Google Sites Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Google Sites Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Google Sites helps anyone create clean, functional, responsive websites on any topic. The drag-and-drop editor is easy to use, but there's little design inspiration built in. To start using Google Sites, students log in, click on the rainbow "+" button, and dive right into the design. There's a very brief tour of the interface, and then students are given a mostly blank page with a place to add their site's name and the main page's name. The site's name will become students' default URL once they publish unless they change it.

Options for what to add to the website include additional pages, text boxes, images, documents, and embedded elements, such as videos, maps, calendars, documents, other websites, and more. Students can use one of six section layout templates for images and text. They can create collapsible text areas, automatically create a table of contents from page headers, make clickable buttons, and create image galleries. They can organize, reorganize, and edit most elements, making minor modifications in font, color, background, and other basic traits. There are six built-in themes to choose from that help students create a look-and-feel for their site, and minor modifications can be made to those as well. Additional pages can be created and placed in hierarchies, which are accessible in a menu from the main page. The interface allows for previewing the site at any time; students can see what it will look like on a computer, tablet, or phone.

This new Google Sites incarnation brings a lot of changes from the classic Sites, which is slowly being phased out. Many features, such as sophisticated templates, haven't (yet) been brought over from classic, but Google keeps adding new features as it works to phase out the old version.

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Google Sites Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Google Sites helps anyone create clean, functional, responsive websites on any topic. The drag-and-drop editor is easy to use, but there's little design inspiration built in. To start using Google Sites, students log in, click on the rainbow "+" button, and dive right into the design.