Performance Indicators:
a. Demonstrate organized and purposeful communication.
b. Use evidence and logic appropriately in communication.
c. Integrate information gathered from active speaking and listening.
d. Adjust communication based on the audience, context, and purpose.
e. Demonstrate effective, expressive, and receptive communication, including oral, written, multi-media, and performance.
f. Use technology to further enhance and disseminate communication.
g. Collaborate effectively and respectfully.
Learning Opportunities
Description
Specific Resources
Word Processing
Word Processing tools enable students to compose, edit, and collaborate any place they have internet access.
Blogs enable students to communicate with a large audience.
Forums enable students to communicate with peers and experts in almost any field.
Spreadsheets, graphs, and infographics enable students to organize, analyze, and communicate data in a variety of ways.
Presentations enable students to tailor communication to different audiences.
Painting, drawing, and image-editing tools enable students to express ideas visually.
Music and sound editing tools enable students to express ideas with sound.
Video production tools enable students to express ideas with multi-media movies.
Videoconferencing enables students to communicate with experts and peers around the world.
Digital storytelling tools enable students to use multimedia to communicate stories.
Google Docs (K-12)
(including Voice typing)
Read & Write for Google Chrome (K-12)
Kidblog (K-8)
Edublogs (3-8)
Blogger (9-12)
Weebly (8-12)
Google Groups (6-12)
VoiceThread (K-12)
Google Sheets (3-12)
Google Drawings (K-12)
Piktochart (7-12)
Canva (6-12)
VoiceThread (K-12)
Tagul (3-8)
Google Slides (3-12)
Adobe Spark (3-12)
ScreenCastify (6-12)
Google Drawings (3-12)
Phixr (3-12)
Audacity (3-12)
MixCraft (6-12)
Soundtrap (6-12)
WeVideo (3-12)
MovieMaker (3-12)
Skype (K with teacher-12)
Google Hangout (K with teacher - 12)
Appear.in (K with teacher - 12)
CILC (K-12)
Flipgrid (6-12)
Blogging
Discussing (In Forums)
Analyzing and Presenting Data
Presenting
Painting, Drawing, & Image-Editing
Music & Sound Editing
Video Editing
Videoconferencing
Web Authoring
Web authoring tools enable students to communicate information in an easy-to-navigate form to worldwide audiences.
Google Sites (5-12)
Weebly (6-12)
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