New Additions to the Assessment Builder
The Assessment Builder houses a collection of questions from previous New York State assessments. Registered users can search this question bank using different criteria such as subject/course, grade level, year, question type, and standards alignment, and then create customized worksheets for their classes. In addition, teachers can reorder questions, generate answer keys and scoring guides, and post assessments on their webpages.
Student Accounts: Helping Kids Create Their Own Webpages
Web-based projects are becoming an increasingly popular way to engage children and adolescents in learning. Whether conducting research online, contributing personal essays to a class blog, or taking a virtual tour of a distant place, the internet expands students' worlds and provides opportunities that motivate and challenge them in new ways.
District's Publishing Initiative Benefits Education in New York State
As part of their Enhancing Education Through Technology (E2T2) Grant, the Enlarged City School District of Middletown (ECSDM) identified teachers within their district to receive SMART Boards, laptops, and other technologies to integrate into their classroom instruction. In return for this hardware, teachers were required to produce three pieces of exemplary instructional content that utilize this new equipment. These lessons not only required participating teachers to become familiar with the new technologies, they also served as a model for others on the seamless integration of new classroom tools with standards-based instruction.
As part of their Enhancing Education Through Technology (E2T2) Grant, the Enlarged City School District of Middletown (ECSDM) identified teachers within their district to receive SMART Boards, laptops, and other technologies to integrate into their classroom instruction. In return for this hardware, teachers were required to produce three pieces of exemplary instructional content that utilize this new equipment. These lessons not only required participating teachers to become familiar with the new technologies, they also served as a model for others on the seamless integration of new classroom tools with standards-based instruction.
Niagara Falls Curriculum Matrix Workshop a Success!
The NYLearns.org Curriculum Matrix is a tool that allows educational organizations to outline the scope and sequence of their curriculum, align curriculum to the New York State Learning Standards, and publish the matrices online for district personnel.
Summer Learning Opportunities
Just because it's summer, it doesn't mean it is time to stop learning! Take advantage of these opportunities to enrich your technology skills and to get a head start on preparing for the new school year.
Training Materials Available Online
Are you an NYLearns.org turn-key trainer in need of manuals? Did you attend a professional development session months ago and lose the materials from the workshop? Are you looking for the most up-to-date information about NYLearns.org's tools and features? Our training materials are now available online!
