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- 1. Building Success with NEW ! Professional Development Day October 16, 2013 1
- 2. Manage Learning Customize Instruction Increase Achievement! 2
- 3. Training Objectives In our time together, we will… • Identify the features and functionalities of Interactive Whiteboard Resources and Talking E-Books in the New Benchmark Universe; • Understand how to use the Teacher Wall and Student Wall to access and manage the online tools for teaching and learning; • Create bookshelves, select and assign resources to meet the instructional needs of ALL students in our diverse classrooms. 3
- 6. Welcome - My Profile Change your avatar. Select areas of interest. Look for updates on this page in the spring. 6
- 7. Message Center Sharing information: Teacher to Teacher Teacher to Student Student to Teacher BUT NOT Student to Student ! 7
- 8. Share Space Students can share book reviews from their libraries with others! 8
- 9. Benchmark Blog Not available at this time. 9
- 10. Support Teacher Tutorials,User Guides, Help 10
- 11. Your Turn! • • • • Change your avatar. Add your interests. Check your computer systems. Review a tutorial.
- 12. My Library 12
- 14. Title Details 14
- 15. Model and Share Book Reviews 15
- 16. Writer’s Workshop Tab • This tab worked for me the other day, but not now. Would be nice to have a screen shot or two.
- 17. Word Study • Add screen shot of Word Study pages for 3rd grade and 4th grade (it works) • Grade 5 DOESN’T WORK
- 18. Phonics Tab • Add screen shot of Show pic of instruction card, frieze card and Take Home Activity -Information ready for K,1, and 2 -Note the Program Implementation & Management Guide located under this tab
- 20. Benchmark Literacy Teacher Common Core 20
- 21. v Your Turn! • Do a library search using the different selection tabs • Open up a title • Peruse through a different literacy tab • Check out the Benchmark Common Core tab Complete the Benchmark Universe, Test Drive: Teacher Wall, Part 1 21
- 23. Your Turn! • Create a bookshelf or two!
- 24. Posters • I don’t’ know if the next slide should be here. Running on empty so will look at this section with fresh eyes tomorrow.
- 25. Assign Students / Groups Your Turn! to an Assignment Complete the Test Drive Activities Talking E-Books
- 26. Search Interactive Whiteboards for Bookshelf 26
- 28. Your Turn! Complete the Test Drive Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Resources 28
- 31. Assignments 31
- 33. Add Materials to an Assignment 33
- 36. v Your Turn! Complete the Benchmark Universe, Test Drive: Teacher Wall, Part 2 36
- 38. Student Wall 38
- 39. Welcome – My Profile 39
- 41. Assignments 41
- 42. Share Space 42
- 43. My Library 43
- 44. Write and Share Book Reviews 44
- 45. My Progress 45
- 47. Your Turn! Complete the Test Drive, Parts 2 and 3: Student Wall 47 47
- 48. Integrating Technology Managing Learning / Customizing Instruction… Teacher Wall and Resources Student Wall and Resources Whole Group Small Group Independent Reading and Learning 48
- 49. Implementing Benchmark Universe What supports do you have to implement Benchmark Universe with your students? • Video Clip Tutorials / Show Me How • Teacher and Student User Guide • Training Test Drives • User Guide pages • Customer Support 49
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- techsupport@benchmarkeducation.com. Refer to your Consultant Request Form (CRF), where you will find their subscription information.
- This learning management system contains all instructional planning resources, interactive instruction (interactive whiteboard resources/talking ebooks) and student resources, and assessments.The goal is to make it easy and efficient to manage learning, customize instruction and increase achievement in our 21st Century classrooms. S & S TO DO!!!Profile: Select preferences in your account; log in as one-two of your students and select areas of interest for them.Messages: Sample emails to-from colleagues and students.Share Space: Write at least one Book Review that you have created and modeled for your students. Write several Book Reviews that your students have submitted for your approval, some of which you have approved. My Library: BookshelvesCreate bookshelves that show a variety of instructional purposes. Create at least one bookshelf that includes an Interactive Whiteboard poster with your customizations. In one bookshelf, save a Talking Ebook with customizations. If you are conducting a training in a district that uses Benchmark Literacy, you’ll want to create several bookshelves that correspond to the BL Unit whole group resources, comprehension posters, big books at grades K-2, genre posters, at grades 3-6 and small group leveled text titles. Manage Groups: Create several groups of students from the students listed in your class. You will want to include groups to show a variety of instructional purposes: at several different reading levels, for project work, reading in content areas or comprehension strategy groups.Assignments: Create assignments for your students. Some of these will be ebook assignments that show different purposes for reading. Completed Assignments will generate data to show in the Reports section of your account, as well as information to show in the My Progress section of student accounts.
- You have access to a complete library of digital resources at new.benchmarkuniverse.com.
- Teacher Wall provides access to all literacy resources; assigning and monitoring of student work; safe, private student-teacher messaging; and a space for sharing teacher-approved student book reviews with classmates.
- You will also receive notifications in your Message Center when students have completed an assignment, shared a book review or are added to one of their classes.Trainer Note: The Message Center is not tied in any way to district email accounts and will not add to the number of email messages that users already receive in their regular district accounts. Trainer action: Click the Message Center space to expand it. Click Compose, then the down arrow next to recipients. Click students to show the students in their class. Click Classes to show their classes. Click Teachers to show other teachers in the district. Move the mouse over System Notification messages in the inbox.
- The NEW Benchmark Universe is a collaborative learning space. To support digital collaboration, we built the Share Space area so students are able to write book reviews about the books in their libraries. Then, they submit their reviews for you to approve. You use the Share Space area to read students’ book reviews;approve them to be shared with other students in their class or not share (delete) them if written inappropriately. Using the Message Center email, you can copy and paste the student’s review with coaching points to re-submit for approval. Later, we’ll look at how students use Share Space to read comments about books that other students have written. Trainer action: Click Share Space to expand the area. Click the Read Reviews icon to read a book review. Then, click Share.
- You may join our instructional community network with seamless integration of professional development tips and resources on the Benchmark Blog. You can read blog posts, comment, and share posts to their own professional networks using the “Share This” feature.Trainer Action: Click Benchmark Blog to expand the area.
- You will find On-Demand Video Tutorials for every function on the site. Also, on every page of the site, you will see a “Show Me How” link. That link will takes you directly to the video for that screen. In-depth User Guides are available and may be downloaded as PDFs. Opening the PDF and going to the Table of Contents will allow teachers to quickly get to each section of the guide. All users have a System Check feature. When a user clicks System Check, the site will check the users’ hardware and software to confirm that they are running exactly what is required to optimally use our website. If questions still exist, and a user needs Technical Support, you can the online form which will come to our Tech Support team along with a snapshot of the System Check report so we may quickly troubleshoot and respond to the issue. Trainer Action: Mouseover the videos to show all of the Video Tutorials available. Click the Show Me How link to launch one of the videos. Click the User Guides link to show the guides that are downloadable. Click the System Check link and click the Tech Support Request button at the bottom of the page to open the form.
- Sandra:Can you do a few print screen shots with our screen? We have the Benchmark Common Core, which isn’t shown here. In My Library, teachers have access to all of the E-Books, Interactive Whiteboard Resources, Assessments and related teacher resources they are using in the classroom.
- Check to make sure have searches that work. There are many ways to find materials on the NEW Benchmark Universe. I am looking for e-books that I can read in Small-Group reading for my Level H/13, 14 readers. My results display 55 books that match my selections. I can narrow this down further by also selecting the Content Area, Social Studies. Now I have 17 books that match my selections. To reset My Library, I simply click “reset”.I can also use specific fields for Benchmark Literacy to sort my Library by Grade, Unit and Week of instruction. We will come back to this in a little while when we create our small group reading groups and assign books to students.Trainer Action: Expand the Benchmark Literacy search area and click over BL Grade, Unit and Week to show the options available.
- The View icon (blue circle) opens to details about each title. The Title Details will tell you important information, such as content area, reading levels and will also give a brief description about the book. You can also read book reviews that students have shared. Teachers can assign a book directly from here, but we will learn more about assignments shortly. If you press “Read” it will open to the book. If you press “Review & Share” you can complete the information. If you click on the actual book title, it will open the book immediately. Titles that have multiple levels are reader’s theater texts.
- Students collaborate with their peers by sharing reviews of books they have read. You can write reviews as models for your students directly from your account. This is especially helpful at the beginning of the year or when you are first establishing the routines you’d like your students to follow. When you write a review, you can rate the book from 1 to 5 stars and add a short note about it.
- The NEW Benchmark Universe puts every piece of instruction right at teachers’ fingertips. For each title, related teacher resources such as the Teacher’s Guide and Comprehension Card is accessible. The Teacher’s Guide, downloadable as a PDF, provides teachers with a lesson guide for each title. Comprehension Cards, available for every book, provide teacher prompts to save preparation time and help students respond to 4 levels of text-dependent questions aligned to Common Core and state assessments.In My Library Product Type: They don’t have the assessments loaded yet. Where are these materials located???????Trainer Action: Click the Teachers Guide and Comprehension Card links to display the PDFs.
- Again, the NEW Benchmark Universe puts everything you have in print directly at their fingertips, digitally. All of the Teacher Resources for Benchmark Literacy, Writer’s Workshop, Phonics and Word Study are available all in one place. These resources are easy to navigate to locate PDFs of all toolkit resources, instructional mini-lessonsfor whole group, black line masters, reproducibles, teachers guides, comprehension cards, oral reading records and more. All resources are organized according to the print program organization. For example, in Benchmark Literacy, you can find your resources by Grade, Unit and Week of instruction.Trainer Action: (Be sure to hit Reset if you are coming from the previous screen and have made selections.) Expand the Benchmark Literacy search area. Click Teacher Resources. Click Grade 1 and hit Submit. Click through the teacher resources to show the PDFs available as downloads.
- Your Turn! Benchmark Universe Test Drive: Teacher WallProvide a time for participants to complete the Benchmark Universe Test Drive: Teacher Wall, Part 1. This will give them a chance to explore what you have just modeled.Debrief with the whole group and answer any questions they may have.
- On NEW Benchmark Universe, you can plan and customize lessons. To support planning, you can create Bookshelves and pre-populate them with materials and lessons, like customized playlists to use in class. Benchmark Literacy Example Lesson: To do this, create a new Bookshelf and name it Unit6 Wk1 Day3. In this lesson of Benchmark Literacy, we are teaching the Comprehension Strategy, “Summarize”. In this lesson, I need to use Comprehension Anchor Poster #3. Let’s add that poster to our bookshelf.Trainer Action: In advance of your presentation, create the bookshelf. Click the bookshelf name from the drop-down menu to open it. Now that you have built a virtual “bookshelf” on your “wall”, you need to add materials to it.There are many ways to search your library on the NEW Benchmark Universe. First, if you know the title of the book you are looking for, simply type the name of the book in the Search box. You may also type in partial titles and key words or use the Search Criteria.Trainer Action: Search for Talking E-Books. Select those that match the instructional purpose. Use the box in front of the title link. Next, click Add to Bookshelf. Trainer Note: Be sure to explain to participants that they need to save a book to a bookshelf or student assignment (which you will show shortly) in order for customizations to save. This applies to Talking E-Books and IWBs.
- Your Turn! E-Books Test Drive ActivitiesYou have already modeledfor your participants the variety of ways to search for a ebooks. Direct your participants to search for a title and click on the link to launch the E-Book. Provide time for them to complete the handout for Test Drive Activities: Talking E-Books. They will be able to experience all the key features of the Talking E-Books. During this time, circulate around the computer lab or training room to troubleshoot any difficulties that arise in launching the Talking E-Books or working with the features. Debrief with participants as a whole group and answer any questions they may have.
- The fastest way to search for a poster is to type “comprehension poster” in the search box. Immediately, I see them in my library results. Choose the appropriate grade and add them to the bookshelf. Remember, the bookshelves you have created are accessed through the drop-down menu.
- Creating Customized Interactive Whiteboard Lessons in BookshelvesNow that my comprehension posters are in my bookshelf, let’s see how we can plan ahead and prepare a lesson. Click the poster to open it. I have already customized this poster for our lesson. In my Teaching Tips, I can see the instruction for this lesson. I have used the Notes feature to add Common Core Standards I am addressing; this is a space where I can include the any information about the lesson. These notes print out like the Notes View in Powerpoint. In my Whole Group lesson, I can use the Play button to hear the passage read aloud. I have used the Window Shade feature to hide words so students are prompted to say key words as the passage is read aloud, based on their comprehension during a second or third read of the text. As it is read aloud, I will reveal the hidden words. Students can come to the whiteboard and share their Big Ideas and Summaries. You can build your own interactive activities with games such as Hangman and Quiz Show. Students can create these activities as well – not only addressing content, but also 21st Century Skills.Trainer Action: Prior to the presentation, customize a poster, for example: Grade 1, Unit 6, Week 1, Day 3 poster “Water”. Add the annotations noted above. As you present, show each feature. Click Teaching Tips to show the instruction. Add Window Shades in the passage over the words “play”, “drink”, “hands”, “cook”, and “garden”. As the passage is read, reveal the hidden words. Add the Big Idea and Summary samples that are in the TRS (pg. 8). Show the add screen feature in blue preview pane, click on the “+” sign to open the menu. Show adding a YouTube screen, search a YouTube and insert.
- Your Turn! Interactive Whiteboard Resources Test Drive ActivitiesProvide time for participants to complete the User Test Drive Activities, for Interactive Whiteboard Resources. This will give them a chance to explore the features and save a customized lesson. Debrief with the whole group and answer any questions they may have.
- It’s easy to create and manage student groups. When you login to the site for the first time, your classes will have already been created by the tech admin at the district or school. Let’s go Manage Students. When I select the Class dropdown, I will see class rosters for classes that are assigned to me. I can select a class and view all of the students in my class. If I click the “i” icon next the student’s name, I will see his or her profile along with any demographics and special populations, assigned at the district level. I can also see the student’s username in this profile. In case a student has forgotten his or her username, this is where I can find it.Trainer Note: Click Manage Students. Click the Select a Class dropdown and select a class. Click the “i” icon next to a student’s name to open their profile.Teachers who have purchased a Classroom Subscription to the Benchmark Universe will have the Add Student and Delete Student options available to them so they may add and delete students directly from their interface.
- Now let’s create a group. I’m going to name this group my Yellow Birds and add all Early Level students to this group. I can continue to do this to set up all of my leveled guided reading groups for my class. I can use these groups when making assignments of e-books and assessments and when viewing reports of student progress.Trainer Note: Click Create Group. Name the group Yellow Birds. From the list of students, select 5 students and click Add to This Group.
- Now that I have groups set up, let’s start assigning materials to our students. With the NEW Benchmark Universe, you can differentiate instruction by using all of the categories in their library to find texts that meet student needs and for practice applying metacognitive and text-dependent strategies.Trainer Action: Click Assignments to go to that screen.
- Since I created my Unit 6, Week 1, Day 3 whole group lesson earlier, I am now going to assign the e-books to my students for small-group and independent reading. For Grade 1, Unit 6, there are 6 leveled texts recommended. First, let’s name the assignment and add a start and end date. Students won’t see the assignment until the start date. I can also add any special instructions that I want my students to see when they begin the assignment.Trainer Action: Click the “+” icon and name the assignment “Unit 6 Reading”. Select a start date of today and a due date of 3 weeks from today. Add special instructions.
- Now I am going to add e-books to my assignment. I am taken back to My Library. I will use the Benchmark Literacy search to find leveled texts for Grade 6, Unit 6. Now I can easily add them to the assignment.Trainer Action: Click Assign Materials. In My Library, expand the Benchmark Literacy search. Select Leveled Reading, Grade 1, Unit 6. Select the books for levels F through I and click Add to Assignment.
- The NEW Benchmark Universe allows you to customize Talking Ebooks, based on what I want to model for my students. I can click Customize to use the ebook features, so students can read with on-screen prompts, highlighted text, notes and bookmarks. We can guide and direct students on close reading, based on our instructional focus and to meet their individual needs. When my students open the books in their assignment, they will see all of my pre-created annotations.Trainer Note: Click the Customize button to open a book. Add a few notes and bookmarks in the book; demonstrate the navigational tools, as well as highlighter, pen, and zoom tools. Close the book to return to the Teacher Dashboard.
- I am able to view all of my existing assignments and my students’ progress towards completing them. There are 3 status flags. The red flag means that no students have started the assignment. The yellow flag means that at least one student that was assigned is in progress. The green flag means that all students have completed the assignment. If it was an assignment with e-books, students will mark the assignment complete. Trainer Action: Click Assignments. Click one assignment and show the assignment status.
- Your Turn! Benchmark Universe Test Drive: Teacher Wall Provide a time for participants to complete the Benchmark Universe Test Drive: Teacher Wall, numbers 5-9. This will give them a chance to create bookshelves and assignments for groups of students.Debrief with the whole group and answer any questions they may have.
- The NEW Benchmark Universe integratestechnology intentionally so that our students routinely engage in the 4 C’s: creativity, collaboration, communication and critical-thinking/problem solving. All students have logins to their personal digital learning space on the Benchmark Universe.Student login information is: Trainer action: Go to new.benchmarkuniverse.com. Click the screen shot of the login page. The link is embedded and will launch the site in your browser. Note: Set your default web browser to Firefox for optimal performance.
- Login in as fake student.Ournew Single Sign-On Student Wall supports access to a complete library of interactive e-books, assignments and monitoring of students’ own progress.
- Like the Teacher Wall, students have a profile where they may change their avatar using one of the many images available on the site. They may also choose topics of books that they are interested in reading. Trainer Action: Click My Profile to expand that area.
- Using the moderated, protected Message Center, students can receive feedback from their teachers and send messages to their teachers when they need support. Note that students are only allowed to send messages to teachers to whom they are assigned. They are not allowed to privately message other students.Trainer Action: Click Message Center to expand that area. (Note: Be sure to have some message from teachers already created to show.)
- In My Assignments, students can access e-books and assessments assigned to them and mark them complete when they are ready for teacher review. Trainer Action: Click My Assignments to expand that area. Show the assignments assigned to the student. Click an assignment. Click one of the books in that assignment. Show an assignment with an assessment. Click the assessment to launch it and take the test. Click submit when the test is complete.
- The NEW Benchmark Universe encourages digital sharing amongst students. In the Share Space, students can read book reviews written by other students and approved to be shared by their teachers.Trainer Action: Click Share Space to expand that area. Click Read Reviews next to a title to see the reviews by other students.
- The NEW Benchmark Universe provides students with a full library of interactive e-books to support independent reading and at-home connections. Students may also search their library by age, grade, content levels and themes. They may also create Bookshelves, add e-books of high interest and save books by topics for research and homework. Parents may also login at home with their children and read e-books along with them.Trainer Action: Click My Library. Show the different categories available to search by. Expand Bookshelves. (Note: create a few bookshelves prior to the training to show this.)
- Students collaborate with their peers by sharing reviews of books they have read. When I write a review, I can rate the book from 1 to 5 stars and add a short note about it.Trainer Note: Click the “i” icon. Click Review It. Write a review.
- Students are able to track their own progress toward their reading goals on the NEW Benchmark Universe. When completed, assignments are automatically archived to the My Progress space, which is a digital portfolio of student work. Students are able to see all of the books they have read over the course of the school year and can see how they have progressed through various reading levels.Trainer Action: Click My Progress. Show the report while speaking.
- You have seen how easy it is to use the NEW Benchmark Universe. To support students learning to use the site, we have provided On-Demand Video Tutorials for every function on the site. Also, on every page of the site, you will see a Show Me How link. That link will take Students directly to the Video for that screen. Student video tutorials are student-friendly!Trainer Action: Mouseover the videos to show all of the Video Tutorials available. Click the Show Me How link to launch one of the videos.
- Your Turn! The Student Wall and Online Interaction between Students and TeachersAsk participants to Complete the Test Drive, Part 2 for the Student WallIf participants completed Part 1 for the Teacher Wall, they should see at least one Message in the Message Center, Assignments in My Assignments. They will have an opportunity to read a book, review and submit a review for the Share Space.
- Instructional Planning—Integrating Technology into InstructionTake a few minutes to reflect on what has been covered in the training to this point. Your participants have experienced the Teacher and Student walls, and have had the chance to create bookshelves, make assignments and complete the Test Drive Activities.Now, it is important for participants to consider how they will incorporate bookshelves, a new and important learning management feature, as well as Interactive Whiteboards and Talking Ebooks into their lessons and to extend the classroom, expand student learning. Provide time for your group to have instructional planning to create activities and to incorporate them into their literacy plan. Have participants work in pairs, by grade level teams or another grouping that you think will be effective. Ask participants to consider how the resources will support students as they acquire and build: vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension skills and strategies.To help them focus and process, ask them to consider the type of activity (Whole Group, Partner or Independent Work) and when they would incorporate this activity into their Literacy Block (Shared Reading, Workstation, Independent) or as Home-School Connection (homework). Challenge your participants to use as many of the functionalities and features as they can! Trainer Note: Participants can use their Teacher’s Resource System and /or Teacher’s Guide for this activity to assist with their instructional planning. They can review activities for Before, During and After reading lessons for further ideas. They will want to connect the Talking E-Book Activities they create to this instruction.
- Supports for implementing Benchmark Universe following our trainingGive a few minutes for participants to turn and talk, then show each support; if time is short, remind them of the built in supports:Video Clip library (home page)Teacher and Student User Guide (home page)Training Test Drives (handouts) with User Guide pagesShow Me How video clips (point of use support on each page)Customer Support with FAQs, Email, Phone and Fax Number to assistance (link at top of page) Trainer Note: This slide sets the stage for the instructional planning activity that follows.
- Sandra,I still need to look through the handouts provided by Benchmark to see if there is anything we should add in to the teacher ppt slide handout. Will get to that tomorrow.