CurTech93

Discovery Education ~ not just videos! This year all teachers and students in CCSD93 have access to the Discovery Education website. There are SO many resources accessible through this site! Here are just a few ways it can be used to support instruction and learning: Streaming Plus - a library of thousands of videos that can be used to enhance instruction, available for grades K-8. On your home page, click on My DE and then click on Streaming Plus. You can choose to search by grade level span or by common core standard. Also, if you click on the index view you will see the list of topics available. Science TechBook - this is a digital, interactive textbook organized by the new NGSS standards, available for grades K-8.  On your home page, click on My DE and then click on Science TechBook. You can then click on the drop down in the middle of the page and choose your grade level “for use with NGSS.” Explore to learn more about the upcoming NGSS topics your grade level will...

Attention all K-2 teachers, students, LLC Directors and anyone else who uses Book Creator on the iPad - they have added comic strip options to the choices!! The new choices include speech bubbles, thinking bubbles, stickers, new backgrounds, sound effects, formatting for a comic book look, and many more! Using the comic book format with speech bubbles is a great way to write using dialogue. What are some other ways your students could make use of the comic book feature in Book Creator? Email Becky or Karen with your ideas and examples and we will share them on this blog and on CurTech! An example using a number of features from the new comic book options in Book Creator