1. Multimedia
Tools
That Support The Common Core
By: Sarah Jones

2. Finding Information
• Teach students to sift through the overwhelming
abundance of web content.
• Research is an essential life skill
• Research in embedded throughout the Common
Core
• Students should engage in research on a regular
basis
• The Common Core calls for seamless integration of
technology.

3. • Search Engine for Students
• Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated
by research experts.

4. • Visual search engine that displays results as images.
• Students can instantly recognize familiar webpages
and rule out unreliable sources.
• Scroll over web preview to get a closer look

5. • Internet Public Library
• Choose level of difficulty
• “Ask a Librarian” option

6. TagGalaxy
• Search through a visual Flickr universe
• View words and relationships.

7. Understanding
Information
• Help learners understand all information they
acquire
• Introduce them to tool that support a variety of
learning styles

8. InstaGrok
• Research a topic with an interactive map
• Customize it with facts, links, and videos
• Adjust the difficulty of facts displayed

9. Lingro
• Turn any website into a clickable dictionary
• Supported by 12 languages
• Remembers all the words you look up, so you can
easily review and study them.
• Create flashcards instantly

10. • Turns any web page into a clean view for reading
• Install the Bookmarklet
• Create a less distractible reading experience.

11. Wikipedia Simple English

12. Resources
• Cool tools blog- http://d97cooltools.blogspot.com/
-by Susan Oxnevad