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Before you get started, please review the teacher's guide to Swank. The Help page can answer just about any question!
Please see or email Hazen's librarian, Jennifer Luck Hill, for information or help.
All students, faculty and staff have free access to a vast catalog of audio-books and e-books via Sora. You can also get the app on your phone.
Use this link to sign in to the Overdrive Marketplace and access the Hazen account.
Learn more about how you and your students can take advantage of Sora with this collection of teacher resources. Dig even deeper with training kits for how to use Sora for remote learning and more.
Excellent for differentiation. Easy to add audio, video, and images. Watch a quick intro video here.
Make great-looking books that are easy to share! Students can customize books of all sizes - and even make comics. Publish the book online to create a shareable link, or print the entire book as a PDF.
Sign up for WeVideo here. This link is FOR TEACHERS, NOT STUDENTS.
'Join with an Existing Account' if you've ever created a WeVideo account with your OSSU email. 'Join with a New Account' if you don't have an active WeVideo account with your school account.
To learn how to get started with your students, watch this brief how-to video.
Here is a comprehensive WeVideo Guide for Educators.
Email helpdesk@ossu.org if you are having trouble logging in to WeVideo.
Top-rated middle school apps and websites can help you and your students address some key writing skills. More importantly, many of the selections offer students an authentic community that can get them to write about high-interest topics and share their writing with others. From academic skills such as argumentative writing and writing research papers to more interest-driven writing activities and online social networks for creative writing, you'll find it all here.
Fun interactive writing games to get your creative juices flowing...
Go to Soundtrap.com and login using your OSSU Google account to create your account.
Here are some basic resources to get you started with Soundtrap and basic audio recording/editing.
This website is one teachers across the curriculum should bookmark if they are hunting for inspiring place-based resources. It contains top-quality imagery, solid facts, engaging activities, and useful interactives for teachers and students of all grades, connecting the outside world to the classroom. Some pros of this website are:
- Subjects & Skills: Critical Thinking, Science, Social Studies
- Great website for Instructional Design & Lesson Planning
- World-class materials including a great map creation tool.
Website Design Accessibility Guide
Website Design Accessibility Guide
A blog with a checklist for making your website ADA compliant: https://www.3mediaweb.com/blog/7-steps-to-make-sure-your-website-is-ada-compliant/
An article on ADA Website Compliance: https://medium.com/@krisrivenburgh/the-ada-checklist-website-compliance-guidelines-for-2019-in-plain-english-123c1d58fad9
Google-Specific:
You can make a page ADA accessible within Google Sites, but you just have to be mindful when you format your site. Here's a straightforward list of ways to make a site more accessible, from Google Sites support: https://support.google.com/sites/answer/7529116?hl=en
A more comprehensive guide to accessibility, from Google: https://www.google.com/accessibility/customers-partners/
A review of Google Sites - mentions some specific issues and links to more info about ADA compliance: https://oit.colorado.edu/services/messaging-collaboration/gsuite/accessibility/sites
Each weekday, TTribune searches the Internet for grade-appropriate stories from reputable news organizations. TTribune selects interesting stories on current events, history, art, culture, and science, and tailors them for different reading level audiences. You can select from four different Lexile levels and some are also available in Spanish.
Articles with accompanying lesson plans and activities from The New York Times.
ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled nonfiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly. Free registration allows you to search the database of articles based on grade, lexile, skill/strategy, and subject. ReadWorks Digital has the same content with a more interactive format.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop critical thinking skills by exploring topics in history, literature, and culture through primary sources. Drawing online materials from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States, the sets use letters, photographs, posters, oral histories, video clips, sheet music, and more. Each set includes a topic overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
A free collection of fiction and nonfiction for 3rd-12th grade classrooms. Search and filter the collection by lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device, or common core standard. Articles include text-dependent questions that are aligned to common core standards. Each article has supplemental material including paired texts based on similar themes, literary devices, topics, or writing style as well as related media videos, audio clips, and other multimedia that provide context or dimension for this text.
Thousands of high-quality nonfiction and literary texts that include text-dependent questions and clarifying annotations to provide scaffolding for struggling readers. Questions are aligned with common core standards and are also labeled by DOK (depth of knowledge).
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