The Rearview Mirror 5-18-2013

For those of you who may have missed an EDge21 featured post or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.

Monday

TheWorld Digital Library makes significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world available on the Internet, free and in multiple languages.

Tuesday

Curriculum Corner is a site where teachers can go to find current, relevant, meaningful, and ready-to-use lessons and activities that fit their classroom structure and meet Common Core standards.

Wednesday

CoachMyVideo Mobile is a coaching tool that is powerful, portable, and easy-to-use Coaches and teachers can provide clear, effective instruction with greater ease and efficiency.

Thursday

Kikutext allows teachers to easily and effectively communicate with all of their students' parents, with the goal of helping students learn better.

Featured: 5-16-2013 Kikutext [Tools]

 

Kikutext allows teachers to easily and effectively communicate with all of their students' parents, with the goal of helping students learn better.

Using the Kikutext system, teachers are able to send quick individualized status updates directly to parents' cell phones as a text message. Parents can respond to these updates by simply replying to the messages from their phones. It's fast, easy, and free.

Kikutext works like this: Teachers add their class and create a "class code" which is shared with parents; parents text message the "class code" to the provided Kikutext phone number to start receiving their student's status updates on their cell phones; teachers can now send out quick, individualized status updates to parents, and parents can reply to the messages to communicate with teachers. And, with flexible recipient selection, teachers can message a single parent, a group of parents, or all parents.

Kikutext Features:

• Two-Way Communication
• Full Conversation History
• Email-Style Inbox
• Safe, Private, Professional
• Versatile Messaging
• Message Templates
• Message Scheduling
• Simple Parent Enrollment

 Watch a slideshow about Kikutext

Teachers only see names of parents, their numbers are hidden. Parents can only see the Kikutext phone number. No personal contact information is disclosed to either party.

 See earlier posts about three similar tools

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Featured: 5-15-2013 Coach My Video [Physical Education]

 

 

 

CoachMyVideo Mobile is a coaching tool that is powerful, portable, and easy-to-use Coaches and teachers can provide clear, effective instruction with greater ease and efficiency.

Coach My Video Mobile is designed to take advantage of the technology of the latest Apple devices and operating systems.

Athletes can receive clear, understandable, visual guidance for improved skill development. Video analysis can promote helpful interactions by focusing on visual and objectively understandable information.

Key features of Coach My Video Mobile:

• Slow-motion, frame-by-frame video playback, with zoom.
• Forward, reverse, pause, and 3-second instant-replay.
• Access videos & images directly from your camera roll.
• Capture and save full-resolution still image from any video frame.
• Email your video clips.

Coach My Video was founded in 2009, with a team of athletes, coaches, and technology specialists to help coaches, athletes, trainers, and instructors take advantage of of next-generation mobile devices for easier video-instruction.

 Watch an example of how Coach My Video has been used.

Coach My Video Mobile is a free app available on the iTunes App Store. It is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 5.0 or later.

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Featured: 5-14-2013 Curriculum Corner [Elementary]

 

Curriculum Corner is a site where teachers can go to find current, relevant, meaningful, and ready-to-use lessons and activities that fit their classroom structure and meet Common Core standards.

The ambition of Curriculum Corner is to provide a convenient place where teachers can go to find what they need for planning and day-to-day instruction, integrating the national Common Core standards and the identification of best practice. Content is categorized as reading, math, writing, classroom management, seasonal, and science/social studies.

The focus of Curriculum Corner is the primary grades with an emphasis on first and second grade. The introduction of an intermediate grades site is planned for the summer of this year.

Indiana classroom teachers, Jill McEldowney and Cathy Henry, are the founders of Curriculum Corner.

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Featured: 5-13-2013 World Digital Library [Reference]

The World Digital Library makes significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world available on the Internet, free and in multiple languages.

From this single site, the World Digital Library makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy unique cultural items from all over the world, in a variety of ways. Here can be found such diverse items as manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.

Many languages are represented in the books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and other primary materials, which are provided in their original languages.

The principal objectives of the World Digital Library are to:

• Promote international and intercultural understanding.
• Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet.
• Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences.
• Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide.

One of the most useful features of the World Digital Library is the description of each item. Written by curators and other experts, this information provides vital context for users and is designed to spark the curiosity of students and the general public to learn more.

Browse the World Digital Library by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or search in several languages. Navigation tools and content descriptions are provided in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a timeline, and advanced image-viewing.

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