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Internet2 and Videoconferencing Resources
Internet2 Videoconferencing
Audience: Grades K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
PMSD benefits from a high speed connection to Internet2. Set aside specifically for education, Internet2 provides high speed videoconferencing (and other) opportunities which allow for the development of collaborations between research, industry, government and educational communities.
MAGPI
http://www.magpi.net/
Audience: Grades K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
MAGPI is a content provider for Interent2. It is also the source of our connection to Internet2. MAGPI is a great resource when looking for Internet2 events to integrate into your classroom. Along with student events, MAGPI offers programs for teacher collaboration and professional development.
CILC
http://www.cilc.org/
Audience: Grades K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) has extensive distance learning and virtual field trip program offerings. If you’re looking for projects or if you’re looking to find partner schools, be sure to post your project in the CILC's "Collaboration Center." It is free to register and you’ll receive a weekly program offering update via email.
CAPE
http://www.acape.org/
Audience: Grades K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
CAPE is a consortium of colleges, intermediate units, and school districts. They support the efforts of member institutions to integrate online learning, videoconferencing, and Web conferencing into the classroom. CAPE provides staff development on current and emerging technologies.
Web-based Tools and Resources
netTrekker d.i.
http://school.nettrekker.com/
Audience: Grades K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
This Web-based search tool supports teachers and librarians as they differentiate their instruction to help every child achieve by matching educator-selected, standards-based online resources to individual students’ learning needs. Safer and more educationally appropriate than commercial search engines, netTrekker offers the student and teacher much more in terms of application to learning.
K-12 Teaching and Learning Center
http://www.k12tlc.org/
Audience: Grades K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
Accessible by all teachers, students, and parents, the K-12 Teaching & Learning Center is an outstanding tool for the development of student research skills using the Internet. It promotes students as effective researchers and provides them with tools and activities to develop the ability to self-select resources they can read and understand. Students may select from a more difficult resource that information which does make sense and is usable by them.
UnitedStreaming
http://www.unitedstreaming.com
Audience: Grades K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
Discovery Education’s UnitedStreaming is a digital video and content on-demand service that provides teachers with supplemental resources to improve and enhance the curriculum. UnitedStreaming provides teachers with access to over 50,000 standards-based pieces of dynamic content including specific full length educational videos, images, clipart, and a wealth of additional resources.
eSchool Builder
http://elearning.ciu20.org/courses
Audience: Grades K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
eSchool Builder makes it possible for anyone to create, edit, and maintain course or content Web sites without the need for programming experience. eSchool Builder can be used to develop and deliver a full online course or provide a supplementary resource for your classroom. Either way, it is an ideal resource/tool to warehouse all of the Web links, electronic documents, and UnitedStreaming clips that you implement in your classroom throughout the year.
Study Island
http://www.studyisland.com
Audience: Grades 2-8 and 11
Content Area(s): Math, Reading/Writing, and Science
Location: Districtwide
This application provides Web-based PSSA preparation and standards-based learning support. The program is available for grades 2 through 8 and 11th grade. Each grade may have access to math, reading, writing and science resources.
Earobics
http://www.earobics.com/
Audience: Grades K-2
Content Area(s): Reading
Location: BEC, CEC, CLC, CREC, PEC, SEC, TEC
This Internet-based software is a multi-sensory reading program available for the elementary. It is designed to provide reading intervention in order to raise academic achievement and empower school districts, principals, and teachers to strengthen and rejuvenate their reading curriculums to meet the needs of diverse student populations.
Power Library
Audience: Grades K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
The POWER library provides access to thousands of full text periodical articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, and reference materials for teachers and students of all ages. Power Library is accessible within the schools, at the public libraries or at home via your library card and Internet connection.
Follett Library
Audience: Grades K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
Pocono Mountain’s Library system allows users to search for PMSD library resources from anywhere within or outside the district.
District Software Resources
Microsoft PhotoStory 3
Audience: K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
Students and teachers can promote digital storytelling and literacy by creating electronic slideshows with stunning special effects and music using your digital photos and audio.
Microsoft MovieMaker
Audience: K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
Students and teachers can create a movie with a few simple drag-and-drops; and edit the movie to include only the best scenes and share the movie with others.
Microsoft Word
Audience: K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
Create and share great-looking documents by combining a comprehensive set of writing tools with an easy-to-use interface. It is a word processor that can be used for many things in the classroom.
Microsoft Excel
Audience: K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
Analyze, share, and manage information to make more informed decisions. Excel is a great tool to use not only as a spreadsheet, but for other things as well.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Audience: K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
Utilize PowerPoint to create dynamic and high-impact content presentations for instruction or student projects.
Microsoft Publisher
Audience: K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Districtwide
Publisher is a desktop publishing program designed to help students create professional quality publications. Students can easily get started on their publication by choosing from more than 2,000 templates.
Kidspiration and Inspiration
Audience: Grades K-12
Content Area(s): All
Location: Computer labs at BEC, CEC, PEC, CREC, SEC
Created for K-5 learners, Kidspiration® provides an easy way to apply the proven principles of visual learning. Students build graphic organizers by combining pictures, text and spoken words to represent thoughts and information. Younger learners develop early literacy skills, and more advanced students improve comprehension skills and better organize ideas for writing.
Inspiration® is an essential tool to plan, research and complete projects visually and successfully for students in grades 6-12. Teachers and/or students create graphic organizers quickly and easily to display understanding. This powerful tool encourages learning in multiple modes. As a result, students gain and retain a better understanding of concepts and demonstrate knowledge, improving their performance across the curriculum.
ArcGIS (Geographic Information System)
Audience: Grades 6-12
Content Area(s): History, Geography, Math, and Science
Location: SIS and CRIS
ArcGIS is an integrated collection of GIS software products for integrating GIS into your classroom. ArcGIS enables users to deploy GIS functionality wherever it is needed and allows for students to dig deeper into a visual understanding of the environment and geographical spacing. It is ideal for science, mathematics, geography, and environmental classes.
Classworks
Audience: Grades 1-6
Content Area(s): Language Arts and Math
Location: BEC, CEC, CLC, CREC, PEC, SEC, TEC
Classworks offers instructional units and interactive standards-based activities for language arts and mathematics. Each unit provides instruction, practice, assessment, remediation and real-world applications. This is a good elementary resource for differentiated instruction.
Plato
Audience: Grades 9-12
Content Area(s): Math
Location: CRIS, SIS, WJHS, WHS, EHS, and Pocono Academy
Plato provides a standards-based mathematics curriculum to guide classroom instruction. It is available for secondary mathematics classrooms as well after school tutoring.
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