This document discusses how teachers can apply digital tools to help students meet Common Core standards. It provides lists of specific digital tools for finding, creating, using, and understanding information online. These tools include websites, apps, and platforms for conducting research, writing and publishing content, collaborating with others, and building vocabulary. The document emphasizes that strategic use of digital media can enhance student presentations and demonstrate sufficient keyboarding skills, as required by the Common Core.

1. Applying Digital Tools to
Common Core Standards
by Desireé Caskey
caskeyd@billingsschools.org
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2. Creating Information Finding Information
Writing
Using Information
Understanding
Information
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3. Learning More - My Contact Information
• Follow Me (caskeyd)
• Twitter
• Google +
• LinkedIn
• Classroom 2.0
• YouTube
• Websites
• Digital Portfolio - bpstis.weebly.com
• Blog - emergingt.blogspot.com
• Social Network - emergingt.blogspot.com
• Presentations - slideshare.net/caskeyd
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4. Summary of Concepts & Tools
• Finding Information • Using Information
• Library of Congress • YouTube
• Gooru • SlideRocket
• Wolfram-Alpha • Edmodo
• KidRex • Animoto
• Quintura • Prezi
• InstaGrok • Empressr
• Boolify • Bookr
• Qwiki • SoundCloud
• Voki
• Creating Information • Understanding Information
• Story Starter • Vocabgrabber
• Google Docs • Linoit
• Storybird • Texalyser
• Typewith.me • Bubbl.us
• Blogger • Crocodoc
• Weebly • Vocabulary
• Kerpoof • Read.Write.Think
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5. Make strategic use of digital media in presentations
to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning,
Digital
Tools
and evidence and to add interest.
Collaboration forces students to plan, adopt, adapt, rethink, and revise, all higher-
level practices. Whether through apps, social media platforms, or in person,
collaboration is not new for most K-12 learners in modern settings. But collaborating
in pursuit of publishing and sharing thinking online is.
Publishing requires deep consideration of audience, purpose, structure, text
features, and format. Whether text blogging via WordPress, photo blogging via
tumblr or Instagram, or video blogging through Vimeo or YouTube, the demand
for students to actually publish their writing is a significant leap.
...use technology, including the Internet, to produce and
CCSS
publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with
others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding
skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting.
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6. Lib of Congress Quintura
Gooru InstaGrok
Finding Information
Wolfram-Alpha Boolify
KidRex Qwiki
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7. Story Glogster Writing
Starter Prompts
Google
Toondoo
Docs
Creating Information
Storybird Kerpoof
typewith.me Blogger Weebly
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8. YouTube Smilebox Voki
SlideRocket SoundCloud
Using Information
Edmodo Bookr
Little Bird
Animoto Prezi
Tales
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9. Linoit
Vocabgrabber Texalyser
Bubbl.us
Understanding Information
Mind42
Mark-Up Read.Write.Think
Vocabulary
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