2023-2024
Collaborative Teaching
2023-24 LIRBERN Consortium Orientation Meeting
Shared Resources in Google Drive
Title III Subscriptions
The following is a list of subscriptions and online resources that the Consortium uses as part of our digital learning ecosystem. These resources are available to all our Consortium members.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Heather Rubin or your educational technology coach.
Students create their own interactive stories, science journals, digital portfolios, and more. Combine text, images, audio, and video to create ebooks.
Lunch and Learn Recorded Session 1 (BookCreator updates)
Lunch and Learn Recorded Session 2 (How to create books, assign students to collaborate, and copy a template)
12-1-23 NEW! Lunch and Learn Recorded Session 3 (How to find templates, Language Learners book, Using Comic versions (to access stickers) and modifying PDFs (WOW) to make content accessible!)
BrainPop is a resource that supports core and supplement content areas through video, quizzes and activities.
BrainPop Jr. is a resource that supports core and supplement content areas through video, quizzes and activities, specifically for grades K-3.
BrainPop ELL is a resource for ELL students with 90 scaffolded lessons to build vocabulary and grammar skills through videos, quizzes and activities.
BrainPop Español is a resource specifically created in Spanish that supports core and supplement content areas through video, quizzes and activities.
BrainPop Français is a resource specifically created in French that supports core and supplement content areas through video, quizzes and activities.
Fathom Reads is a multilingual, interactive, read-along platform with over 1200 English titles from 11 US publishers, including 1100 translations in 11 languages. Coloring pages and quizzes can be added to assignments. Languages available across books: English, Spanish, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Haitian, Hmong, Indonesian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Thai.
Paid Subscription included with Nearpod
Flocabulary is a multimedia platform that uses hip-hop songs and videos to teach academic content.
The Nearpod platform enables teachers to present interactive content on students' devices. Tools include surveys, draw-it, quiz, weblinks, slideshow and more. The ELL Library is a section of Nearpod specifically designed for ELL learners with scaffolded instruction. Flocabulary is a multimedia platform that uses hip-hop songs and videos to teach academic content.
March 23, 2023 Nearpod Lunch and Learn Session 1
NEW! 2024 Flocabulary Lunch and Learn Session 2
Pixton is a storytelling tool. Create graphic novels, storyboards, and comic strips with avatars that can be personalized to represent every student in the classroom. Work can be printed, downloaded or shared digitally.
***Webinar May 31st - Creating Comics and Viewing Lessons
Previous Webinars at our Youtube Channel
Virtual reality technology platform that makes it easy to augment images, videos, and virtual tours with additional information and links.
Webinar - Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Immersive and Interactive Content
Lunch and Learn Recorded Session 1 - Creating Interactive images and using Skybox to generate images.
Tumblebooks and TeenBookCloud are a curated database of books for elementary through high school.
AudioBook Cloud is a curated database of streaming audio books. Their collection features over 1200 titles, including dozens of genres and interest levels like popular literature, classics, children’s and teen books, mystery, sci-fi, history, biography, and more.
TumbleMath is a collection of digital picture book math stories with animation, narration along with lesson plans and quizzes.
The video was created for a library in North Carolina but has a great demo of the TumbleMath platform.
Free Resources that We Can Access:
Free upgrade to pro for Title III Consortium teachers.
K12 Teacher Guide (your ultimate guide on how to use Canva for Education) - http://canva.me/teacherguide
Introduction to Canva for Education with George Lee (a free weekly webinar with our master educator) - https://bit.ly/IntroToCanvaEduWebinar
Tutorials on how to use Canva for Education - https://designschool.canva.com/tutorials/education/
CommonLit is a comprehensive literacy program with thousands of reading lessons, full-year ELA curriculum, benchmark assessments, and standards-based data for teachers. It includes multimedia resources, translation, and other accessibility features.
Edpuzzle allows teachers to create classroom viewing assignments by adding audio notes, comprehension questions to video clips.
Flip allows teachers and students to record and share short video responses. Users can collaborate on assignments within your own class, and interact globally.
New features:
FlipGrid Lens (camera features)
FlipGrid Music (how to add music to your videos)
Padlet can be used by students and teachers to post notes on a digital message board. The notes posted by teachers and students can contain links, videos, images and document files.
Screencastify allows teachers to record, edit, and share videos of their computer screen. Recordings can easily be shared via email, embedding code, YouTube, Google Classroom, and more.
The free Screencastify plan allows you to record as many videos (up to 10 minutes in length each) as you’d like, and store up to 10 of those videos in your Screencastify library.