Supporting Your Tech Initiatives: Technology in Your Standards
By Jonathan LeMaster on July 13, 2015Beyond using technology to engage students and enhance our curriculum, students need to learn very specific skills that require the use of digital tools and presentation software. Specifically, the College and Career Readiness standards ask students to use modern presentation tools to enhance ideas (CCR SL.5) and to collaborate on projects and publish information online (CCR W.6).
This eCoach will connect you to tools and resources that you can use to get your students practicing CCR standards that identify technology.
When delivering a formal presentation, we want to emulate best practices from the professional world. In most professional presentations, the speaker will use PowerPoint, Google Presentation, Prezi or another modern presentation tool to present information. LiteracyTA's High 5 Presentation details the features of effective visual elements used in successful presentations.
The Online Portfolio is a project based activity that engages students in a number of skills. Like traditional portfolios, the Online Portfolio asks students to reflect on their year and showcase their best work. But unlike the big, bulky binder, the Online Portfolio allows students to be creative and imaginative as they design and organize their web pages. Students can also link or embed other digital projects they have done right to their websites.
Analyzing Advertisements will teach students how to breakdown persuasive techniques used in ads and help students evaluate the effectiveness of those techniques.
There are a number of programs available today that allow people to collaborate online in real time. Companies like Google have created ways for groups to share documents and develop ideas together no matter where they are in the world.
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