Tech Play 4: Content Objects

Tech Play 4: Content Objects

I enjoy discovering new technologies that engage my students while learning. Choosing the topic of "Content Objects" over "Information Literacy," presented me with the opportunity to do what I love. I am very excited about using the technological tools listed below and feel that they will each benefit my students learning experience tremendously.

Book Retriever

Book Retriever  is an application that allows you to scan, level and inventory your entire classroom library. Leveling choices include Guided Reading Levels, Lexile, Accelerated Reader, Reading Counts, DRA and Reading Recovery. This is a great tool for organizing your class library! 

Think Port

http://www.thinkport.org/technology/template.tp

ThinkPort is a great hosting site for teacher websites. Its for educational services, providing a website featuring digital educational resources in the nature of online fieldtrips, lesson plans, and training in the field of technology integration in curriculum. They offer a collection of pre-formatted graphic organizers that you can integrate into activities and lesson plans or use by themselves. In addition to that, they offer blogs for educators, educational videos, how to-s, interactive tools, learning with games, podcasting, social media tools, spotlight on educators, and video/image editing tools.

Running Record Toolbox App

The Running Record Toolbox has all the tools you need to take reading instruction to the next level. It is available on android, iphone, and ipad devices!

Description	Educational Uses	Content Standards & Assessment
This assessment tool allows you to measure students reading capability and comprehension without doing the math yourself. It provides you with a words per minute counter, symbol cheat sheet, accuracy table, and a running record calculator all to ensure the appropriate reading text for your students.	Keep tracks of students errors and self-corrections Find students accuracy percent, error ratio and self-correction Symbol cheat sheet ensures you are correctly recording students reading Accuracy percent table informs you if the students book is just right, too easy, or too difficult	Common Core Reading standards states students must have and know appropriate phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. They must also read with accuracy and fluency to aid in their comprehension. This tool is used to aid in the assessment and process of keeping running records with students readings.

Teacher Tipster App (Running Record Toolbox). (2013, July 11). Retrieved May 4, 2015, from https://youtu.be/LNOBAXA5Jik