Digital Resources
Tech Support for Common Core
Featured Apps
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Spring 2014
Book Creator for iPad
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- Choose from portrait, landscape or square book sizes.
- Quickly add pictures from the Photos app, or grab them from the web, then move, resize and rotate them with your fingers.
- Choose from all of the iPad's fonts - over 50 to use.
- Import video and music, and record speech within the app.
- Draw and write in your books with the freehand pen tools.
- Send your books to your friends over email, to iTunes on your computer, iBooks, over Dropbox.
- Print using AirPrint or other printer apps, or export as PDF.
Explain Everything
- Explain everything is a screen casting and interactive whiteboard app that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.
- Use for students to explain their learning.
Phraseology
- Unique Arrange feature edits documents or text selections via drag and drop reordering of paragraphs or sentences.
- Live syntax highlighting of parts of speech (English only) helps identify trouble areas in your text.
- Syntax highlighting for possible misspellings.
- Inspect view provides Flesh Kincaid (Reading Ease & Grade Level), Gunning Fog and SMOG index readability scores, as well as statistics such as average words per sentence, average syllables per word, etc.
- Inspect view breaks down down all parts of speech and root word occurrences to identify overused words.
Common Core Resources for Teachers
Check out these great resources to support teaching Common Core Standards.
CCSS Explorer
Find technology to support a particular standard.
Learn Zillion
A place where educators can locate lessons and videos on Math and ELA CCSS.
Thinkcerca
Free close reading lessons with informational text. Students learn how to make claims, support with evidence and support their argument. Watch the tour.
TuVa Labs
Data Literacy Skills
Empower your students to think critically about data, ask meaningful questions, and communicate their conclusions.
Empower your students to think critically about data, ask meaningful questions, and communicate their conclusions.