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Rubric for Part 1 Term Project

This is the rubric that I would use for my Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste Testing Project

Presentation Rubric for Cookie Taste Testing
By: Lori Lalama

Student: _______________________ Period: ________

Categories	Exemplary 4	Accomplished 3	Developing 2	Beginning 1	Score
Content:	All work was completed and reasons for the answers were clearly stated.	All work was completed, but reasons for all the answers were not clearly stated.	Not all work was completed, and the reasons were not clearly stated.	All work was not completed.
Originality	The ideas expressed by the body of work demonstrate a high degree of originality.	The ideas expressed by the body of work are mostly original. The group may have improved upon a previous idea.	The ideas expressed by the body of work demonstrate a low degree of originality.	There were no original ideas expressed in this project.
Grammar, Format, and Spelling	The final body of work was free of grammar, spelling, and formatting errors.	The final body of work had 1 error related to grammar, spelling, or formatting errors.	The final body of work had 3-5 grammar, spelling, and formatting errors.	The final body of work had major grammar, spelling, and formatting errors.
Organization	Information is very well organized and is easy to understand	Information appears to be organized, but at times the ideas are confusing or unclear.	Information is somewhat organized, but is confusing and difficult to understand.	There appears to be little organization of the material. It is very confusing and distracting to others
Amount of Information	All written assignments are completed.	2/3 of the written assignments are completed.	1/3 of the written assignments are completed.	None of the assignments were completed.
Internet Use	Easily accesses Internet sites; consistently locates pictures.	Accesses Internet sites with minimal assistance; frequently locates pictures.	Accesses Internet sites with occasional assistance; occasionally locates pictures.	Needs frequent assistance to access Internet sites and locate meaningful information.
Use of Web 2.0	Accessed and used tool to make project dynamic.	Accessed and used tool with help to make project dynamic.	Accessed and did not use tool to make project dynamic.	Did not access or use tool for project.
Presentation to the class	Spoke clearly on the results	Spoke intermittently about the results	Report was given in an unorganized manner.	No report given
Total Points	Total Points	= A 32- 28 = B 27- 23 = C 22- 18 = D 17- 15 = F < 14

Moodle Pictures for Part 1 of Term Paper

This is me!!!

This is my Moodle for 7th Grade

Part II: Social Media Resources

Social Media Resources: Part II

I have attended the Florida Education Technology Conference since 2009. The resources I am sharing with everyone comes from the phenomenal presenters at the conference like: 

Michelle Olah, Mary Risner, Hall Davidson, Adam Bellow, Dr. Sandy Melillo, Dr. Kathleen King, Kathy Schrock, John Kuglin, Jerry Swiatek, Dr. Jared Bloom, Leslie Fisher, Eric Sheninger, Ms. Edie Orazi, Sylvia Hernandez, Margaret Allsopp, Larry Magid, Lynnette Owens, Susan Bearden, Howie DiBlasi, Jackie Gerstein, Cheryl Lemke, Gail Lovely and many more. This conference is inspiring and motivating to those who attend. I highly recommend this conference to all subjects and levels because we are already 13 years into the 21st Century skills. 
Many of these sites are shared through my Twitter feed within my professional learning network, as well as searching online, reading the online magazines and attending other conferences in the NJ/NYC area. I have also learned many wonderful ideas from other instructors and colleagues in school and through online classes over the past year.

I want to preface this before you begin reading and clicking, the Internet is meant to be shared. If you see anything here on my blog, you are welcomed to use it.

I will start with tutorials to explain the most popular tools are that are used now.

Video Tutorials from Common Craft

Apps: http://www.commoncraft.com/video/apps

Augmented Reality http://www.commoncraft.com/video/augmented-reality

Cloud Computing: http://www.commoncraft.com/video/cloud-computing

Creative Commons and Copyright: http://www.commoncraft.com/video/copyright-and-creative-commons

Project Based Learning: http://www.commoncraft.com/video/project-based-learning

QR Codes: http://www.commoncraft.com/video/qr-codes

Twitter: http://www.commoncraft.com/video/twitter

Important YouTube Videos for Presentations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhpmEZWuRQ Joe’s Non-Netbook

This video is from Chris Lehmann and the Science Leadership Academy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kra_z9vMnHo No Future Left Behind

When kids at the Suffern Middle School were asked to talk about education and their future, they gave Peggy Sheehy, the SMS media specialist, an earful. Listen and learn the bits of wisdom that can be gleaned from the students, if we only dare to ask them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxHb5QVD7fo  I need my teachers to learn

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18bDUFQoIpU Digital Natives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zKdPOHhNfY

Social Media in Education - Teaching Digital Natives in 2011

It is time to look at how some of our outdated teaching practices can be changed to help students learn more effectively. Social Media can help us engage digital natives and revolutionize teaching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vevGmzmWnI Adam Bellow's Educational Tech Commandments

Mobile Technology

http://www.youtube.com/user/eduTecher?feature=watch    Adam Bellow eduTecher YouTube

 

Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom

Word Clouds

http://www.wordle.net

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm

ABCya.com word clouds for kids! A word cloud is a graphical representation of word frequency. Type or paste text into the box below and press the arrow button to view the word cloud generated. The appearance of a word cloud can be altered using the graphical buttons above the cloud. It is also easy to save and/or print the cloud by simply pressing a button.

http://www.tagxedo.com/

Turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

http://worditout.com/

An attractive arrangement of randomly positioned words, where the most important words are bigger than the others.

http://tagul.com/

Tagul is a web service that enables you to create gorgeous tag clouds.

http://tagul.com/blog/2011/06/support-of-non-flash-devices-ipad-iphone-etc

Timelines

http://www.xtimeline.com/index.aspx

Xtimeline is a free web-based timeline. Easily create and share timelines with pictures and videos.

http://www.dipity.com/

Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and time stamp.

http://www.tiki-toki.com/

Tiki-Toki is web-based software for creating beautiful interactive timelines that you can share on the Internet.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline/

Read Write Think Interactive timeline K-12

http://www.timetoast.com/

Timetoast is a great way to share the past, or even the future...
Creating a timeline takes minutes; it's as simple as can be.

QR codes

Quick response is a two-dimensional barcode, which has encoded any kind of data. A QR scanner smartphone application or any computer that has the free software and web camera can read it.

QR Stuff: http://www.qrstuff.com EXCELLENT site.

http://qrvoice.net/faq_en-US.html QR voice encodes a given text message into QR code that once scanned by a QR scanner smartphone application reproduces the message with a synthesized voice.

www.Mobile-barcodes.com Use our very own online QR-Code generator tool to create and share your very own mobile barcode.

www.Qrarts.com Business influence but great educational ideas!

43 interesting ways to use QR codes in the classroom: https://sites.google.com/site/alicekeelerqrcodes/qr-codes-in-the-classroom

Video Filming, Creation, Editing and Producing

http://goanimate.com/  Use our Video Maker to create videos for free. Make a viral video.

Create an animated lesson for your class.

http://www.befunky.com/

We believe that you should have as much fun editing your pictures as you do taking them. That’s why our photo editor puts everything you could possibly dream up at your fingertips without any of the hassle. We’re also convinced that there’s no reason to limit a person’s creativity, which is why we leave control completely with you each step of the way. The best part? Wherever your photos are you can find a BeFunky photo editor: it doesn’t matter if you’re on Android or Apple, your tablet, your smartphone, or sitting at home, BeFunky is there for you whenever inspiration strikes.

http://qik.com/ Share Life as it Happens

Capture life moments wherever they happen using your mobile phone.

Videos are instantly uploaded to the web for sharing or safekeeping. No cords! No waiting!

http://www.vuvox.com/

VUVOX is an easy to use production and instant sharing service that allows you to mix, create and blend your personal media – video, photos and music into rich personal expressions. VUVOX reflects your life.

 

Interesting Blogs/Sites about Mobile Learning

http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/ From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning.

It's a list of web 2.0 tools that support each of Marzano's strategies.  What a wonderful resource.

http://web2thatworks.com/index.php?title=Web_2.0_Tools

Thinking Skills Frameworks

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/k12/project-design/thinking-skills/thinking-frameworks.html?wapkw=marzano

 Lenva Shearing has compiled this site EXCELLENT

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ Online Tools for Schools

http://coolappsforschools.wikispaces.com/home Apps for all Smartphones

Cross-curricular Image Resources for all Subjects

http://www.archives.gov/nae/education/ http://www.digitalvaults.org/

This is the National Archives Experience Digital Vault. This has so many images and unlimited possibilities. Your students can create posters and movies right on the website to show to the class. Great projects!!! The student and teacher section is very comprehensive.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

These are images that were scanned in from the Library of Congress. The images can be used as picture prompts, movies, PowerPoint presentations, movie podcasts…etc.

http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/ America's Story

This Web site is brought to you from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the world and the nation's library.

http://www.googlelittrips.org/

This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way.  Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place...and so much more! 

http://www.gapminder.org/

Multi dimensional graph and animated: for a fact-based world view.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/

The Exploratorium is the global leader in informal education, igniting curiosity and inspiring creativity in people of all ages. Our mission is to change the way the world learns, creating innovative learning environments, enthusiastic leaders, and new knowledge for teacher professional development.

School District Communication to Parents

Remind101 http://remind101.com instantly message a class of students or their parents from your computer. Teachers never see students' phone numbers. Students never see theirs. Students and parents join by sending a text message. No computer needed.

Truant Today http://truanttoday.com/ Truant Today texts parents the minute the student cuts class and let's parents know, so they can be found and returned to school.

Online Magazines

Think Teachers http://www.thinkteachers.com

This is a monthly publication dedicated to teachers, administrators and all other educators in the state of New Jersey.

T|h|e Journal Transforming Education through Technology

http://www.thejournal.com If you can get the January 2013 FETC Field Guide, it is excellent!

Edutopia by the George Lucas Educational Foundation.  Excellent for K-12 http://www.edutopia.org/

More Great Tools

Weebly http://education.weebly.com/ is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects. Our drag & drop website editor is stunningly simple to use, and appropriate for use with students of all ages. Weebly enables your students to express themselves creatively using a variety of multimedia features, all within a protected environment that you control. Weebly was named one of TIME's 50 Best Websites of the year.

Lino-it http://en.linoit.com is a free sticky & canvas service that requires nothing but a Web browser. Easy to post it, see it and peel it off.

Livebinders http://www.livebinders.com/ you can create, share, and present as many LiveBinders as you want for free.

http://transl8it.com/

transl8it! (trans-late-it) is simple to use. Just type in your SMS, text, emoticon, smiley, slang or chat room lingo and let transL8it! Convert it to plain English -- OR -- type in your phrase in English and convert it to SMS TXT lingo slang! (OR.transl8it! iz simpl 2 uz! jst typ n yor SMS, TXT o ch@ lNgo & Lt transL8it! cvert it 2 pln eng --o-- typ n a frAze n eng & cvert it 2 SMS TXT lingo! bcum a mmbr 4 frE )

www.visual.ly

The world's largest community for sharing infographics and data visualizations

http://visual.ly/about Data visualizations http://visual.ly/how-much-fuel-does-it-take-power-lightbulb 

This last section is from my notes from the App Shootout at the end of FETC. This was a great ending to the presentation because the group discussed so many wonderful web 2.0 tools and how to use them successfully in your class.

Jenna Linskens:

Notability - for taking notes, recording audio, and annotating PDFs
Evernote - create, share and store notes
Paper Helper - split screen document creation and web browsing
Dropbox - access and share files - connects to Dropbox.com 
Voice Thread - create and share conversations - connects to VoiceThread.com
Flashcards* - create, store and study flashcards - connects to Quizlet.com
Educreations - drawing, voice over recording
Join Me - screen sharing with texting feature 
Smarty Pants School - tests Pre-K through early primary students on early reading skills and provides supporting activities Science Fair - PBS Kids videos with Sid the Science Kid 
Science 360 - videos, images and information on all science topics imaginable 
Tour Wrist - virtual tour of locations around the world

Gail Lovely:

SlingNote - sharing notes, annotations and research
Neu.Annotate PDF - annotate your PDFs
Explain Everything - screen annotation with audio - exports & imports files
Zapd - instant websites

Strange and Wonderful World of Ants - ebook with multiple reading levels 
Toontastic - creative story writing with images & audio files
Book Creator - Create books with images, text, voice, etc. 
Sock Puppets - create conversations, stories and projects

Hall Davidson:

Kindle Reader free Kindle apps
Wiki Offline - access to Wikipedia Solar System iPad app.
Rover - flash reading browsers for your iOS device 
LogMeIn - remote desktop software
Comic Touch Lite - identify graphics
Leaf Snap - upload images of leaves to identify plants, provides information as well
Puppet Pals - create live, animated stories
Reel Director - mobile editor for video
Green Screen Movie FX - live chromakey into mobile video
Coach's Eye - video annotation
Mad Pad - create interactive, video "Concentration" style games
Action Movie

Others:

Disk Aid 5 iPhone, iPad & iPod Transfer Tool for PC & Mac

http://www.digidna.net/products/diskaid

ShowMe is an open learning community where you can teach or learn anything. Watch great lessons for free, or create your own with the iPad app. http://www.showme.com/ http://www.showme.com/learn

Internet Safety

This last part of my project is from my notes during a workshop about Internet Safety. I am leaving you with many great resources and I do hope this has been a help. Thank you!

Internet Safety Awareness and Education: Best Practice Guidelines for Making the World Safe for Digital Exchange

Presenters: Larry Magid with Lynette Owens

(Director Community Outreach for Micro Trend) and Anne Collier

The Internet continues to be a growing force in people’s lives, and risks associated with its use continue to escalate, most recently with the “sexting” phenomenon added to the potential threats along with cyber bullying, social networking, age-inappropriate content, and identity theft. The public is becoming increasingly concerned over the risks associated with the Internet’s ubiquitous use, creating a positive role for educators to play in educating and raising awareness among the public.

 http://us.trendmicro.com/us/about/internet-safety-for-kids/index.html

 The Internet should be a place where families can communicate, learn, shop, and share without having to worry about the safety or security of their personal information or themselves.

Safety Guide Library

http://us.trendmicro.com/us/about/internet-safety-for-kids/safety-guide-library/index.html

http://www.connectsafely.org/

ConnectSafely is for parents, teens, educators, advocates - everyone engaged in and interested in the impact of the social Web. The user-driven, all-media, multi-platform, fixed and mobile social Web is a big part of young people's lives, and this is the central space – linked to from social networks across the Web - for learning about safe, civil use of Web 2.0 together. Our forum is also designed to give teens and parents a voice in the public discussion about youth online safety begun back in the '90s. ConnectSafely also has all kinds of social-media safety tips for teens and parents, the latest youth-tech news, and many other resources.

ConnectSafely.org is a project of Tech Parenting Group, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization based in Palo Alto, Calif., and Salt Lake City, Utah. The forum is co-directed by Larry Magid of SafeKids.com and Anne Collier of NetFamilyNews.org, co-authors of MySpace Unraveled: What It Is and How to Use It Safely. (Peachpit Press, Berkeley, Calif., July 2006).

According to the presenters:

Security is the most important factor right now.

Cyberbullying is #1.

Predators are a small issue.

Child Identity theft is on the rise. 

http://www.idtheftcenter.org/ Identity Theft Resource Center

Social Engineering: Construct invisible crime, phishing. High interest content used, child lured into it and then fooled. Then it is too late; the computer and all of the information have been compromised.

Economic crimes are huge problems. Ex.: Aggressive Commercialization

Students and parents need to understand Media and Digital Literacy.

What are their rights and responsibilities?

How can you embrace Social Media? You can through critical thinking and ethical choices.

This group offers Free Educational Training!!!

They also have Free Safety Guides!

Acceptable Use Policies have too many inconsistencies. They need to be updated to include elements of security.

Educators need to bridge the gap between parents and students.

It is important to have Internet Safety Awareness and Education meetings/forums/assemblies.

Teach the students in a positive context to become Digital Citizens.

Global collaborations are important but do it securely. Do not post too much personal information.

If students do not follow AUP, react immediately and hold students accountable!!!

SafeKids.com One of the Net's oldest and most comprehensive Internet safety sites, operated by ConnectSafely co-director Larry Magid

NetFamilyNews.org As a public service for parents, educators, and everyone interested in young people's use of technology, NetFamilyNews is the "community newspaper" of a vital interest community. Founded in 1999 by ConnectSafely.org co-director Anne Collier as a nonprofit.

CyberTipline.com The Congressionally mandated CyberTipline is a reporting mechanism for cases of child sexual exploitation including child pornography, online enticement of children for sex acts, molestation of children outside the family, sex tourism of children, child violence.

Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use Operated by Internet educator and author Nancy Willard, CSRIU provides excellent advice and analysis about cyberbullying and other aspects of online safety.

Childnet International A UK-based nonprofit organization, Childnet provides online safety education to youth, parents, educators, and policymakers with a great deal of input from young people themselves. 

Its long list of resources include a powerful short film on cyberbullying.

Enough is Enough A non-profit organization dedicated to protecting kids from pornography as well as sexual predators. They tend to take a bit more of a rules-based approach than we do, but we respect their commitment and passion for keeping kids safe.

Family Online Safety Institute The Family Online Safety Institute is an international non-profit organization that facilitates the meeting of thought leaders in technology and policy in order to find innovative solutions for children's online safety.

GetNetWise.org Run by the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Internet Education Foundation, GetNetWise is one of the Web's most comprehensive collections of information about children's Internet safety and family computer security. Includes a searchable database of parent.

NetSmartz.org Online-safety education for kids, parents, educators, and law enforcement from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (which also operates CyberTipline.com)

SafeTeens.com The sister site to SafeKids.com with Net safety advice for teens and parents of teens from Larry Magid, co-director of ConnnectSafely.org

StaySafe.org A comprehensive site with Net-safety and computer-security information and tech news for teens, parents, educators, and people "50+" operated with support from Microsoft.

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