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"Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything" is the one-stop-shop for online tools and apps to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Why shop anywhere else when it is all free?

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This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place.I have

Each image has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Android, Google and online tools and applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.

created a page to allow you to share your favorite online tool, iOS, or Android app with others.

I began to think about the triangular shape of Bloom's Taxonomy and realized I thought of it a bit differently.

Since the cognitive processes are meant to be used when necessary, and any learner goes in and out of the each level as they acquire new content and turn it into knowledge, I created a different type of image that showcased my thoughts about Bloom's more meaningfully.

Here is my visual which showcases the interlocking nature of the cognitive processes or, simply, the "Cogs of the Cognitive Processes".

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Includes all the Bloomin' versions in one place!

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I padded (my created verb form of Padlet) this from Jaymi Evans. Google Docs editor is an online word processor included as part of the free, web-based editors to create, and collaborate on online documents. Users can edit together with secure sharing in real-time and from any device.

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Wakelet is the free alternative to Padlet for curation. It is just as easy, collaborative and has similar tools offered by Padlet.

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Wakelet | The All In One Content Platform

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Wakelet allows you to bookmark, organize, collaborate and present on content all in one platform. Harness your content to build remarkable things.

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I have borrowed this from Kayla Kelly's padlet as it is a great alternative to Blogger or WordPress (free and student friendly). Blogs are wonderful tools for the English classroom as they are collaborative, allow creation and teachers can measure a student's performance easily. Thank you for the resource Kayla.

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Edublogs is more than just WordPress

Edublogs enhances WordPress with education-specific features, themes, and plugins. We offer tailored tools for classroom management, student privacy, and collaborative learning.

Our platform is designed to meet the unique needs of educators and students, with dedicated support and an active educational community.

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Edublogs is more than just WordPress Edublogs enhances WordPress with education-specific features, themes, and plugins. We offer tailored tools for classroom management, student privacy, and collaborative learning. Our platform is designed to meet the unique needs of educators and students, with dedicated support and an active educational community.

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Maddi Samuel posted this resource link on her Padlet. I like the structure of the plan and the idea of students collaboratively working together to create a digital magazine that is purposeful, engaging and measurable.

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Students will design and create an eZine based on a topic they are studying in the classroom, such as genetics, viruses, or women's suffrage.

Task

While many print magazines have online counterparts, other magazines, called eZines, exist only online. Print and online magazines share similarities in content but differ greatly in layout.

In this project, you will look at both print and electronic magazines and use what you learn to create an e-magazine that will educate your classmates and community about a topic you are studying. Articles are the most obvious form of content, but you may also choose to include a letter from the editor, letters to the editor, interviews, and/or advertisements in the form of written promotions, images, or even video.

Engage

Engage students in a conversation about the magazines they read or have seen at home or in the store. Bring in samples of different types of printed magazines and/or ask students to bring in their own samples. Talk about the various topics the magazines address. Why are there so many different topics? What is the benefit of a magazine?

Work together to list common features you find in magazines, such as a table of contents, a letter from the editor, letters to the editor, columns, etc.

Next, ask students if they have read articles online. Give students time to explore examples of eZines and work together to compare traditional magazines to eZines. How does, or can, electronic delivery make an eZine different?

Have students examine and analyze the benefits of including mixed media, links to other sources, and a variety of articles. Evaluate the design of eZines, including layout, graphics, colors, and fonts and how these items can add to or even detract from the subject.

Let the students know they will be creating an eZine around a topic they are studying. You may choose to work as a class to develop a comprehensive single edition eZine, create an eZine that shares classroom learning with family and community, or divide students into groups to create a variety of focused eZines in one area of study.

Before beginning research, students need to determine and clearly define the audience and purpose for the magazine, asking questions like:

Is the eZine presenting just one view of a topic, or does it present both sides?

What fresh insight can the editors and writers bring to the topic?

What elements are needed to create an eZine that compels readers to start (or keep) reading?

Create

As a class or small group, develop a vision and organizational structure for the magazine. Determine which articles, letters, advertisements, and/or interviews need to be created and assign them based on interest and ability.

Have each student research information, and/or opinions, relevant to the piece they are creating. If your goal is to build skills in informative and/or persuasive writing, be sure each student contributes a written article. Check in with students as they take notes to check for understanding. Have students peer-review each other's rough drafts before submitting or adding a final version of the article for the eZine.

Discuss design ideas as a team. Have each team member create a design sketch for the team to choose from or assign the task of design to a visually gifted student. If you are using Share, adjust the Master Pages to include color and imagery that will be automatically applied to each page in the magazine or select a template from Share's library.

To build visual communication skills, have each student develop appropriate graphics to support their text or design advertisements. You could also assign the role of Media Director or Art Director to one student to serve as the consultant for the multimedia elements of the project.

Students should share their content with an "editor" before adding to the project. The editor(s) can be tasked with checking for typos and incorrect grammar in written articles. When the eZine is complete, publish it as a PDF or as HTML for sharing. Be sure to verify navigational links and accuracy of the Table of Contents or home page.

Share

All eZines should be shared online. If the eZine is a periodical about classroom learning, post it to your teacher site and/or email it to parents and family members. If small teams have created focused eZines that summarize classroom content, add them to your teacher web site as a review resource.

If the eZine is a comprehensive collection of articles and informational pieces, share it through social media (or Edmodo) for other students and educators to use as an informational resource.

Your librarian/Media Specialist may also be interested in posting student eZines to a station in the school's media center or as part of the library's electronic text collection.

Assessment

What you assess in the project will depend on your learning goals for student work. Their analysis and comparisons of print and electronic magazines provides a window into their media literacy and ability to think critically. Effective organization and design also demonstrate proficiency with modern communication and media literacy.

You can evaluate the students' informative and persuasive writing in the text of articles included in the eZines (see ELA writing standards below). Use student research notes, outlines, and article drafts for formative assessment during the writing process.

Evaluate teamwork through behaviors centered around cooperation, planning, task assignments, and problem-solving.

Resources

Baker, Frank W. Media Literacy. Eugene: ISTE, January, 2012.

Pettinato, Minot. " Advantages & Disadvantages of Online Magazines" eHow. 3 April, 2013.

My-Say www.my-say.org

The Voice - from Kingswood Oxford School thekingswoodoxfordmiddleschool.com

Standards

Common Core Anchor Standards for English Language Arts - Grade 6-8
Writing Theme Text Types and Purposes
1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Production and Distribution of Writing
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.

ISTE NETS for Students 2016:

3. Knowledge Constructor
Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others. Students:

a. plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.

b. evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information, media, data or other resources.

c. curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.

d. build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.

6. Creative Communicator
Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals. Students:

a. choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.

b. create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.

c. communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

d. publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences.

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While many print magazines have online counterparts, other magazines, called eZines, exist only online. Print and online magazines share similarities in content but differ greatly in layout. In this project, you will look at both print and electronic magazines and use what you learn to create an e-magazine that will educate your classmates and community about a topic you are studying.

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Make your round table discussions go digital with Parlay. Teachers can upload content and materials (written, photos and videos) that students respond to, while allowing students to read each other’s responses and provide feedback. It is easy for teachers to facilitate, measure, and assess student-driven discussions.

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Parlay is an AI-powered instructional platform that helps teachers facilitate meaningful, measurable, and inclusive class discussions. Join over a million teachers and students. Start using Parlay for free in your class today.

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eSafety provides a wide range of online safety support, advice, programs and resources to help safeguard all Australians from online harms, and to promote safer, more positive online experiences.

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Classroom resources | eSafety Commissioner

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Discover resources designed to help schools and other educators teach online safety lessons.

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The Official Guide To Copyright Issues for Australian Schools And TAFE

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Scootle is a national digital learning repository that gives Australian educators access to digital learning elements so that they may develop individualised "learning pathways" with digital curricular resources.

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Scootle provides Australian teachers with access to quality-assured digital learning resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum.

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Got that H.G Wells radio broadcast idea for your English class? Well, look no further than Audacity. Audacity is a free tool that students and teachers can use for recording, editing, and mixing audio that can foster active student participation and deeper learning through the creation of podcasts.

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Audacity ® | Free Audio editor, recorder, music making and more!

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Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?

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Celtx is a simple, yet advanced tool for students to collaboratively write scripts and storyboards that creates a very polished look to their work.

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Co-write, create, and collaborate

We built Celtx for creative collaboration. Invite others to read, edit, or approve your script using text-anchored comments. See co-writers work on your script with presence awareness. As your script takes shape, Celtx keeps your project organized with a complete history of script revisions, feedback, and approvals.

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Script Writing Software for Storytellers

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Celtx is a scriptwriting and pre-production management software for film, TV, ads, short-format video, commercial video, documentaries, games, VR, and more.

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Understanding DT

Engage with the Digital Technologies curriculum to plan, implement and assess effective lessons.

Plan and prepare

Guidance and support to develop and implement a whole-school plan.

Teach and assess

Students can learn to code and create using digital technologies, and find out about relevant careers.

For families

Find out about Digital Technologies to support your child to learn skills, create digital solutions and find a related career.

Programming

This series of three infographics provide an explanation of 'Programming' with relevant examples for each Year band and 'I can' statements

Algorithms

This series of three infographics provide an explanation of 'Algorithms' with relevant examples for each Year band and 'I can' statements.

Data representation

This series of three infographics provide an explanation of 'Data representation' with relevant examples for each Year band and 'I can' statements.

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Support for the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies with lesson plans, case studies, advice for school leaders, activities for students and for families. See links to the digital technologies industry events and programs. Get support with the development of computational thinking and coding skills in Australian students.