EduCanon

What is eduCanon? eduCanon is a free service for creating, assigning, and tracking your students' progress on flipped lessons. eduCanon allows you to build flipped lessons using videos from a variety of  sources including YouTube, Vimeo, and TeacherTube. You can create questions to appear while
your students are watching videos that you have assigned to them in your eduCanon online classroom. In the video embedded below I provide a demonstration of how to create a lesson in eduCanon.

How can I use eduCanon in my classroom?

● Turn YouTube and other video sources into a classroom.
● Embed questions at specific points
● Monitor student results
● Add explanations that pop up when students answer
● Allows for retakes
● Students can type a reason why the answer is correct after retakes
● Embed your finished videos into your Learning Hub course for easy access

Show me some examples of eduCanon!
● Here’s eduCanon’s Library! Take a look; there’s something for every subject!

I need this! How do I use eduCanon?
● Here’s a quick video tutorial you can share with our students.

How to Build Flipped Lessons on eduCanon
● You can also check out this eduCanon User Guide. Want even more information and to talk about integrating

Text Compactor

Here's a cool little tool to use with your struggling readers.  You could also just use it to save some time when you need to quickly read something.  Copy and paste some text into the compactor and adjust the percentage of text to keep for a shorter read.  This could help you and your students focus in on what's important.  Give it a shot and see what you think!

TextCompactor
http://textcompactor.com/

Rubistar - Easiest way to make rubrics

RubiStar does away with the tedium of creating rubrics from scratch by allowing you to customize one of our many template rubrics. You can use the rubrics as is, or modify the templates to better serve your particular students' needs. You can choose from six skill categories: Multimedia, Products, Experiments, Oral Projects, Research and Writing, and Work Skills. You can see these topics and the available rubrics below.

Choosing a customizable rubric

To begin making your rubric, select one of the projects under the six main headings. In the image below, the topic Research and Writing,Research Report is selected.

Checkout PBS Learning Media!

This could be a fabulous resource for all subject areas!

PBS LearningMedia announced that it now offers more than 100,000 digital resources available to PreK-12 educators nationwide. Since its launch in 2011, PBS LearningMedia has continued to actively expand its offerings of education content that appeals to digital native students. Resources are available in English and Spanish, and are aligned to National and Common Core State Standards.

Find out more here!

Go check it out here!
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/