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Students are able to take notes in a variety of ways: handwriting PDF annotation, typing, recording.--Apple App

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Welcome to Notability: powerful, yet wonderfully simple note-taking and PDF annotation.

Apple Editors' Choice and top ranked app worldwide on App Store, regularly #1.

Students, teachers, artists, and professionals use Notability daily to enrich their lives. Notes are just the beginning; find inspiration, capture ideas, and unleash your creativity with Notability.

CREATE MEMORABLE MULTI-MEDIA NOTES
* Work with a variety of note-taking, journaling, and drawing tools like ink, highlighter, text, and audio.
* Mark up imported textbooks, documents, lecture slides, class assignments, and images.
* Instantly create notes from a selection of templates with customizable spacing and backgrounds.
* Explore endless ideas with continuous page scroll.
* Add photos, GIFs, web pages, and more.

STAY ORGANIZED, PAPER-FREE
* Always keep your notes with you, without the weight, the hassle or the paper waste.
* Group notes with customizable subjects and dividers.

HANDWRITE AND SKETCH NATURALLY
* Ink is fine-tuned for the Apple Pencil for the most responsive, precise writing experience yet, including double-tap gesture for switching tools, erasing, and more.
* Precisely erase freehand ink or shapes with varied brush sizes.
* Quickly switch between ink or eraser styles with the Favorites Toolbar.

RECORD AND PLAYBACK AUDIO
* Get more out of your lectures and meetings when you record them.
* Replay audio recordings and tap anywhere on your note to hear what was said at that moment.

SHARE IDEAS IN PRESENTATION MODE
* Present ideas in full screen without distracting toolbars when connected to an external display.
* Engage an audience with all of Notability's tools including a Laser Pointer.

DO MORE WITH MULTI-NOTE
* Work with two notes side-by-side.
* Quickly switch between notes and Drag & Drop handwriting, typed text, images, etc.

TYPE ANYWHERE
* Full-featured, left-aligned typing with word count and a wide range of fonts, custom fonts, sizes, and colors.
* Create outlines, interactive checklists, and text boxes.

IMPORT AND SHARE
* Import PDFs, DOCs, PPTs, images, GIFs, and more.
* Easily create searchable multi-page PDFs using the built-in Document Scanner.

FIND AND SHARE INSPIRATION
* Publish your notes for the world to see in the Notability Gallery.
* Browse notes from the community, search topics/tags, save your favorites for later, and download notes!

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Download Notability for free on iPad, Mac, and iPhone and enjoy the Notability experience with limited editing and features.

Unlock unlimited note taking and premium content with a Notability annual subscription. Subscribers have access to:

* Unlimited edits, Auto Backup support, and iCloud sync.
* MyScript Handwriting Recognition and Math Conversion technology.
* Premium content like academic planners, journals, stickers, and much more!

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Subscription auto-renews unless cancelled, and will be charged via Apple iTunes account on an annual basis. Prices may vary by location. You can manage your subscription in account settings after purchase. Family Sharing is not supported.

For technical assistance reach out to our team at support@gingerlabs.com

Visit notability.com to learn more, or connect with us @notabilityapp on Instagram and Twitter.

Privacy policy: https://notability.com/privacy
Terms of Service: https://notability.com/terms

Notability is a registered trademark of Ginger Labs, Inc.

*** What's New in 11.4 ***
- You can now make a template the default for your notes directly from the template menu
- We now support dragging and dropping ink from Apple Notes into Notability

Editors' Choice

We rely on this sleek, powerful notetaker to annotate documents, record lectures, sketch illustrations, and more. With built-in iCloud support, it's perfect for keeping notes, documents, and doodles up to date across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Overall, A Really great app

Something that I really liked about notability was the simple and intuitive layout. This made it really easy for me to organize my notes and help me maintain order with my notes. Another thing that I really liked was all of the new updates that really helped with making things run more smoothly (i.e. the favorites bar, being able to search for key words within the notes themselves instead of just the title, and the magnifying glass).

Some areas of improvement would be being able to adjust the shape of the magnifying box because there are sometimes when I'm trying to edit a specific place and the magnifying box just doesn't fit right. Another thing would be to be able to open more than two notes at once. This would come in handy for those to do notes simultaneously on multiple sections. It would also be cool if when your in portrait mode for the notes you have the option to be able to stack the notes top of one another instead of seeing them side. Then one last area of adjustment would be to be able to have a bookmarked notes bar like how there is a bookmarked pages (within each notes) bar. It would make jumping between two desired note documents a little bit easier.

Anyways, that's it from me. Thank you for making a really great app. Totally looking foreword to what's in store for the future of this app.

I'm using it! ☝🏾

I love the app it is almost everything I've ever wanted. I'm very happy with the usability of it in comparison to other note taking apps. I'm not a fan of the subscription model I would rather pay an obscene price one time instead of having an app potentially affect me in the future. My advice is to throw in a lifetime deal for like $50. People could complain but at least they'd have the option. Two features that I would love to see come to the app is to be able to pin audio to a page visually, with a play button and a slider. I use this app for creating story boards and if I can have audio cue in correlation to my my scene breakdowns; I would make more practical use of the audio player. The second feature that I would like to see, is a lasso tool for images. Or an eraser for images. when I create a scene I want to be able to take a picture of my scenes and props and arrange them within the app. The Apple Pencil support is BEAUTIFUL! It would be nice to get some smudging features and paint for it. I would like the option to highlight over pictures as well so I'm able to simulate lighting on my subjects. GIF's. This is definitely more than two things 😅 but currently AS IS Notability is a complete product is worthy of its asking price. However I feel that if those few tweaks were added it would be worth even more and it wouldn't be debated.

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Students build their knowledge by creating a diagram, maps, and organizers that help them brain storm, plan, organize and build thinking skills.--Apple App

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Free online mind mapping and brainstorming editor to create, share, and present mind maps right inside your web browser.​

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Getting Started with MindMeister: Create Your First Mind Map

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Students are able to click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once downloaded an organizer, students can type in comments and print it out.

Each graphic organizer includes Teaching Notes with lessons and tips on how to use graphic organizers in the classroom.

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Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers
"Graphic organizers are tools that help your brain think." - Kylene Beers
Graphic organizers are an illustration of your thoughts on paper. They can help you brainstorm, organize, and visualize your ideas.

Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once you've downloaded an organizer, type in your comments and print it out.

Each graphic organizer below includes Teaching Notes with lessons and tips on how to use graphic organizers in the classroom.

Help with PDF Files
Generating, Identifying, and Organizing Details

Determining Main Idea and Drawing Conclusions

Order and Sequence

Graphic Organizer Teaching Notes

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Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers "Graphic organizers are tools that help your brain think." - Kylene Beers Graphic organizers are an illustration of your thoughts on paper. They can help you brainstorm, organize, and visualize your ideas. Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it.

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Students can create engaging presentations, create How-To movies, create video reports, digital storytelling, provide out of school experiences, and create book trailers/reports.--Apple App

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Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about iMovie. Download iMovie for macOS @@minimumOSVersion@@ or later and enjoy it on your Mac.

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Pages is the "most beautiful" word processor. This powerful tool helps students create documents in minutes. Pages has been exclusively designed for iPad, iPhne, and ipod Touch.--Apple App

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Students can create stunning and memorable presentations, add themes, charts, photos, videos. Keynote documents can be saved as Powerpoint files.--Apple App

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Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device.

Start with an Apple-designed theme and add text, images, charts, tables, and shapes with just a few taps. Draw and write with Apple Pencil on iPad, or use your finger. Bring it all to life with cinematic animations and transitions that look as though they were created by your own special effects team. Add live video to your slideshow and appear right on your slides in remote presentations, how-to videos, and lectures. Confidently present to your audience from anywhere, in person or virtually, and take turns controlling a presentation in multi-presenter slideshows.

Collaborate with others at the same time
* With real-time collaboration, your whole team can work together on a presentation at the same time on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and even on a PC
* Share your document publicly or with specific people, see who's currently in the presentation with you, and view other people's cursors to follow their edits
* See a list of recent changes in collaborative presentations, including when people join, comment, and make edits
* Available for presentations stored in iCloud or in Box

Get started quickly
* Choose from over 40 Apple-designed themes to give your presentations a beautiful start or create a quick draft by starting with a text outline
* Use the slide navigator to quickly skim through your presentation, add new slides, and reorder slides
* Get quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts, and sharing options
* Import and edit Microsoft PowerPoint presentations
* Quickly open password-protected presentations using Touch ID or Face ID on supported devices

Create stunning presentations
* Easily change slide layouts and backgrounds
* Use the built-in camera to add live video right on your slides
* Engage your audience with interactive charts and chart animations
* Enhance your presentations with a library of over 700 editable shapes
* Quickly add your photos and videos from the Photos app using the Media Browser
* Add an interactive image gallery to view a collection of photos
* Easily remove image backgrounds
* Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes, and images look beautiful
* Edit down to the pixel with rulers and alignment guides

Cinema-quality animations
* Beautiful cinematic slide transitions and impressive text and object animations
* Magic Move effect effortlessly animates and morphs graphics
* Emphasis builds let you add impact with one click
* See live on-canvas previews as you animate your slides

Present to your audience
* Customizable presenter display
* Rehearse a presentation with current slide, presenter notes, and timer all in one view
* Present on an external display or projector, or stream wirelessly using AirPlay and Apple TV
* Use multi-presenter slideshows to let participants take turns controlling a shared presentation from their own device
* Easily access the slide navigator, keyboard shortcuts, live video sources, or multi-presenter slideshow controls while presenting
* Highlight with Apple Pencil or with your finger while presenting on iPad
* Control your slideshow from iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch
* Create self-running, interactive shows for kiosks and displays

iCloud
* Turn on iCloud so you can access and edit your presentations from your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and from a Mac or PC browser at iCloud.com
* Keynote automatically saves your presentations as you make changes

Share a copy of your work
* Export presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint, PDF, HTML, movies, and image files
* Use AirDrop to send your presentation to anyone nearby
* Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail or Messages

Some features may require Internet access; additional fees and terms may apply.

* Insert and play ProRes videos in your presentation, now on iPhone and iPad
* Add scalable vector graphics (SVGs) to your presentations and preserve visual quality at any size
* Break apart imported SVG images and save them to your shapes library for future use
* Show subtotal summary labels in stacked bar, column, and area charts

Free the inspector from its popover shackles

Lifelong fan of Keynote here, all the way back to 1.0. It's clearly still the ultimate piece of software of its kind, but the iPad UI needs to grow up. Limiting the inspector to popovers on everything except the 12.9" iPad Pro is, at this point in time, lazy. The area a slide would be afforded on an 11" iPad Pro if the persistent inspector panel were to its right is more than sufficient already. Compound this with the navigator's ability to hide dynamically as well as the fact that zooming is so much easier on iPadOS than Mac, and you realize that even smaller iPads might be ok with this approach. Additionally, more advanced and adaptive ways of surfacing inspector-like UIs have evolved in both third and first party apps. A lot of screen real estate would be available to a horizontal version of the inspector, given that slides gravitate heavily toward 16:9 dimensions, while iPads display them on a 4:3 screen and move that ratio even further away from 16:9 due to the space needed for the navigator.

So cool

When I got my iPad, I saw this app all the time and I thought, " Why do they put this app on here, I don't think we would need it." ZThen, it was getting closer to my dads sisters birthday. She took care of us when my mom was in the hospital and spent nearly all her money on us. I thought she really did something really special for everything she did so I decided I would look through the apps that I've never been on and I came up to the Keynote app.I tried it out and I saw that you could use by and I decided that I would you know just kinda like put some nice birthday stuff on there. Put a nice happy birthday song and have some nice note her husband had some things I wanted to say to her you know romance, so we decided that he could pick some poems on there. Then there can my uncle/my aunt which is the birthday girls brother. And he said what are you doing for the a lot of my iPad when I was on keto and I told him that I was really making a surprise for my aunt. Let's call her candy. My uncle also wanted to do something so he said let's go get some balloons and cake. Then in the evening of her birthday we got the cake from Maya and the balloons from a party place and the things you like the most was the presentation on keynote. It made her super happy.

Math lectures

This is a fantastic app! I now use it for all of my math lectures. Some requested features: Please animate Bézier curves with magic move in the same way that lines and boxes are animated. Please allow the ability to save custom shapes. I have a set of shapes with specific style settings for borders, shadows, etc that I use repeatedly. I know there is a My Shapes area but it does not save style settings for the objects. When in presentation mode I would like to hide the annotation color palette over the hdmi signal so I can see it but my audience cannot. I tend to use every square inch of the screen and this will cover it up. I love that there is now the ability to customize the menu bar! Thanks for that! I often need to go into settings to toggle the snapping "center", "edge" or "spacing" alignments. It would be amazing if I could have a toggle for each of these in the menu bar.

Also it would be great if I could add a live app view or web view in my slides.

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‎Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. Start with an Apple-designed theme and add text, images, charts, tables, and shapes with just a few taps. Draw and write with Apple Pencil on iPad, or use your finger. Bring it all to life with cinematic animations and...

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Dictate works with the language you have set up as your editing language in Office. Currently, supported languages are English as spoken in the United States and Canada, Chinese as spoken in the Peoples Republic of China, and Spanish as spoken in Spain and Mexico.

We are working to have Dictate available in more locales and languages: English in more locales, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.

Operating system requirement: Dictate works in Windows 8.1 and later.

Dictate requires an Internet connection.

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Directions for using Speech to Text on Google Docs

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Read Aloud uses text-to-speech (TTS) technology to convert webpage text to audio.  It works on a variety of websites, including news sites, blogs, fan fiction, publications, textbooks, school and class websites, and online university course materials.

Read Aloud allows you to select from a variety of text-to-speech voices, including those provided natively by the browser, as well as by text-to-speech cloud service providers such as Google Wavenet, Amazon Polly, IBM Watson, and Microsoft.  Some of the cloud-based voices may require additional in-app purchase to enable.

Read Aloud can read PDF, Google Docs, Google Play books, Amazon Kindle, and EPUB (via the excellent EPUBReader extension from epubread.com).

Read Aloud is intended for users who prefer to listen to content instead of reading, those with dyslexia or other learning disabilities, and children learning to read.

To use Read Aloud, navigate to the web page you want to read, then click the Read Aloud icon on the Chrome menu.  In addition, the shortcut keys ALT-P, ALT-O, ALT-Comma, and ALT-Period can be used to Play/Pause, Stop, Rewind, and Forward.  You may also select the text you want to read before activating the extension.  Right clicking on the selected text will provide you with yet another option to activate Read Aloud via the context menu.

To change the voice, reading speed, pitch, or enable text highlighting, go to the Options page either by right clicking on the Read Aloud icon and choose Options, or by clicking the Gear button on the extension popup (you'll need to stop playback to see the Gear button).

Read Aloud is an open-source project.  If you wish to contribute bug fixes or translations, please visit the GitHub page at https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud.

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Read aloud the current web-page article with one click, using text to speech (TTS). Supports 40+ languages.

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Sentence Frames similar to cloze activity- is a method of scaffolding that teachers can use with all students. They are especially helpful for students who struggle with writing and for English Language Learners. Students shouldn’t simply be given a worksheet with sentence frames on it. The sentence frames should be modeled, with guided practice before students are expected to use it independently. All in all,  these frames help student's focus their attention on a topic and stimulate their thinking/ideas. They are especially useful for those students that don't know what to say or begin a writing task.​

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Research-based approaches to Differentiated Instruction.

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This module discusses the importance of differentiating three aspects of instruction: content, process (instructional methods), and product (assessment). It explores the student traits-readiness level, interest, and learning preferences-that influence learning (est. completion time: 3 hours).

Work through the sections of this module in the order presented in the STAR graphic above.

Related to this module

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Differentiated Instruction: Maximizing the Learning of All Students

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This module discusses the importance of differentiating three aspects of instruction: content, process (instructional methods), and product (assessment). It explores the student traits-readiness level, interest, and learning preferences-that influence learning (est. completion time: 3 hours). Work through the sections of this module in the order presented in the STAR graphic above.

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Create stunning and memorable presentations. Add themes, charts, photos, and videos to slides. Can save key note documents as Powerpoint files.--Apple Product

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Present your story. Your way.

Keynote sets the stage for an impressive presentation. A simple, intuitive interface puts important tools front and center, so everyone on your team can easily add beautiful charts, edit photos, and incorporate cinematic effects. And Rehearse Mode lets you practice on the go, with the current or next slide, notes, and clock - all in one view.

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Keynote lets you make dazzling presentations on a Mac, iPad, or iPhone - or on a PC using iWork for iCloud. And it's compatible with Apple Pencil.

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Bring paper flashcards to digital format. Share flashcards with students or have students create their own flashcards. Great way to increase student engagement.

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Engage the whole class with educational exercises and games while capturing student results in real-time. Quickly assess students with prepared activities, create questions on the fly. Populate results to determine data driven decisions.

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Login or sign up for free on Socrative - your assessment partner for real-time assessments and instant insights.

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Plickers is a solution to more-low-tech classrooms. Students respond to short questions to check for understanding. The teacher uses his or her phone or iPad to scan students responses across the room. Plickers registers the results and feeds it into a database. Can be used on both iPhones and Android devices. It is a free Web based tool.

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Provides learning tools, including flashcards, notes, and study guides. Create easy to use study materials. Also creates practice quizzes.

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Learn faster with Chegg. Search millions of Flashcards or create your own online Flashcards for Free. Quiz yourself online or through our mobile app.

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The evidence is in the practice

ESSA Level 3 correlation evidence in math and ELA, earned by teachers running frequent formative assessments.

When teachers run 30+ formative questions a week, the research is clear: they get more data-driven, their students get more engaged. Wayground is built to make that practice enjoyable ot run, attainable to fit a class period, and habitual enough to last past September.

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Find standards-aligned resources that engage every student. Wayground (formerly Quizizz) helps teachers differentiate instruction with AI and track student progress.

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Kahoot! is a tool for using technology to administer quizzes, discussions or surveys. It is a game based classroom response system played by the whole class in real time. Multiple-choice questions are projected on the screen. Students answer the questions with their smartphone, tablet or computer.

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Wheel Decide is a free online spinner tool that allows you to create your own digital wheels for decision making, prize giveaways, raffles, games, and more.

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What To Do Under Quarantine?

You'll have to take our word for it that the wheel landed on Phone an old friend. Your browser cannot display the wheel of choices. Please upgrade to a newer browser that supports HTML5 (most new ones do). Wheel Decide would normally show a wheel right here with choices that you can set (lunch, games, dinner, anything!). You can spin it to get a random decision. Make your own wheel of dinner, wheel of fortune, wheel of lunch, wheel of whatever you want now!

What's Wheel Decide?

Wheel Decide is a free online spinner tool that allows you to create your own digital wheels for decision making, prize giveaways, raffles, games, and more. Browse through our wheels and spin to randomize your life and make the decisions that have no wrong answers.

Decision Making

Let the wheel decide. Save your energy for the big decisions

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Can't decide? Wheel Decide for you! Set your own custom choices and then spin the wheel to make the random decision of lunch, movie, or anything! Make your own wheel of dinner or whatever now!

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Students use a combination of video and photo recapping unique and creative work. Students can pick a style and song to add compilation. Students can also produce and share. Animoto can be used for in class assignments, homework assignments, and explaining content.

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Create videos that engage and impress. Animoto's drag-and-drop editing tools and visual effects make it easy. No training or experience necessary.

Create and share videos for free. Upgrade anytime for more customization.

As you get started making videos, we're here to help along the way! Join other businesses just like yours in the Animoto Social Video Marketing Community on Facebook. Our team of video experts is ready to help you grow with tips, ideas, inspiration, and feedback on your videos. You can also reach our dedicated Customer team directly at help@animoto.com .

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Free Video Maker | Create & Edit Your Videos Easily

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Create, edit, and share videos with our free video maker. Combine your photos, video clips, and music to make quality videos in minutes. Get started free!

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This tool is fun and easy way to keep track of student behavior. Allows teachers to take attendance quickly and give positive or negative reinforcement. Each student gets a critter. Parents/guardians can get real time updates.

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ClassDojo helps teachers, parents, and students build amazing classroom communities.

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Book creator to create and publish books. Students can pick images, place text, and choose background colors to assemble books.

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Book Creator - Love Learning - Book Creator app

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Teachers love it. Students love it. Book Creator is the simplest, most inclusive way to create content in the classroom.

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It is a video creation tool, cartoon style video. Allows for project-based, student-owned theme TV show. Gives background scene, face detecting costumes, cue cards and special effects.

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‎*App Store - Best of 2014* Write, direct, and star in your own TV show with TeleStory! From the creators of Toontastic (iTunes Hall of Fame, NY Times "Top 10 iPad Apps"), TeleStory takes you behind the scenes to create and broadcast your own TV show!

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The Unexpected Connection Between Handwriting and Learning to Read.

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When I was a kid, writing meant one of two things: You either wrote by hand with a pen or pencil, or you punched keys on a typewriter. That was it. Mistakes were tough to fix and revisions hard to make. If you needed to change something, you had to carefully erase (while trying not to smudge or tear the paper) or use correction fluid or tape. And it never looked quite right.

For students with language-based learning issues like dyslexia, this caused lots of frustration. The mechanics of writing got in the way of expression. It became a big source of anxiety for kids.

Then assistive technology for writing arrived. We now have computers with autocorrect, dictation, word prediction and so much more. Kids can revise papers without an eraser or correction tape. It's easier for them to express themselves.

All this technology has led to something else, too: Less focus on handwriting. And that has an unexpected impact on language and literacy. Less handwriting practice can make it harder for kids to learn to read.

Everyone learns best when information is presented in multiple ways. That's especially true for kids with learning and attention issues. We call this multisensory learning.

Handwriting is a multisensory activity. As you form each letter, your hand shares information with language processing areas in your brain. As your eyes track what you're writing, you engage these areas. The same goes if you say letter sounds and words when you write.

Research shows there's something special about language development and the act of handwriting. In studies, kids who practice handwriting do better at reading and spelling. The reason? Some experts believe that forming letters by hand while learning sounds activates reading circuits in the brain that promote literacy.

Keyboarding on a computer, by contrast, hasn't been shown to improve reading. Yes, keyboarding can be a lifeline and a relief for kids with writing issues. It allows them to express themselves and have more success in school. But it's not a substitute for handwriting instruction and practice, especially in the early grades.

I don't think the challenge for teachers and parents is to decide "does handwriting matter?" It does and always will. The challenge is finding the right approach for children who struggle with writing.

Lots of kids experience real physical discomfort when holding a pencil. They complain of their fingers or arm hurting, or their hand getting tired. The sensation of gripping may be distracting. And there's the emotional toll when kids are asked over and over "What does that say?" about the letters and words they've drawn. With all this, it's tempting to ditch the pens and pencils and only use keyboards or dictation.

In Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World, Maryanne Wolf talks about how technology has led to more skimming rather than reading slowly and carefully. She talks about the benefits of "cognitive patience." And she reminds us that reading quickly isn't what makes someone a good reader.

I think something similar holds true for handwriting.

Just because keyboarding is faster doesn't mean it's better. Yes, students with dyslexia and other learning issues may be able to write more easily on a computer than by hand. But that doesn't mean we should abandon handwriting.

My view: Let's give our kids every opportunity to thrive as readers and writers. They can use screens and devices and all sorts of technology. But let's also keep pens and pencils handy. Doing the slow, often difficult work of practicing handwriting can help kids become better readers and writers.

Check out six multisensory techniques to teach handwriting. Download free handwriting tools, like bold line paper and mazes for tracing. And learn how a student used assistive technology to help handle college writing.

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10.25.18 Differentiated Writing Instruction Face 2 Face Course

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This is a PDF copy of the Powerpoint presentation for the 10/25/28 DI Writing PD.

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