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Career Technical Conference 2007
Alabama’s Alabama’s
Web Portal Web Portal
Setting the Setting the Standard for Standard for Teaching, Teaching, Leading, & Leading, & LearningLearning
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Classroom Resources Classroom Resources
Quality for every facet of learning…..
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Quality for every facet of learning…..
Who are you?Who are you?
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Thinkfinity Content Partners
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ALEX Lesson Plans
Curriculum Core
Standard 1: Explain the impact of technological advancement on a variety of areas.
Technology and Health Care – A Healthy Partnership
Charlotte Heatherly, Cullman County
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Lesson Examples Using ALEX Website Resources
Curriculum Core
Standard 4: Demonstrate skills for managing finances.
Thinkfinity – EconEdLink
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Lesson Examples Using ALEX Website Resources
Career Technologies
Standard 1: Compare a variety of careers available in the technology area being studied.
Thinkfinity – EconEdLink – Wages and Me
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ALEX Website Resources
Thinkfinity – ScienceNet Links
The Fish Trade
Agriscience
Education/Aquaculture
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ALEX Website Resources
Thinkfinity – ScienceNet Links
The Fish Trade
Who Eats Fish?
Agriscience
Education/Aquaculture
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ALEX Website Resources
Standard 13:
Relate the uses of computer applications to business and marketing.
Business/Marketing
RED: ExpeditingGREEN: CommunicatingBLUE: PlanningYELLOW: Administrating
www.princetonreview.com
What Will I Do With My Life?
Joan Greene, Shelby County
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ALEX Website Resources
Standard 27:
Recognize factors that influence buying.
Family and Consumer Sciences Education
Thinkfinity – EconEdLink
Believe It or Not?
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ALEX Website Resources
Health Science
Thinkfinity – Science NetLinks
Systems of the Human Body
Grades 3 – 5
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ALEX Website Resources
Technical Education
Introduction to Carpentry
Thinkfinity – EDSITEment
Skyscraper
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ALEX Website Resources
Career/Technical Cooperative Education Program
Thinkfinity – Illumination
Jobs for Kids Who Like Math
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ALEX Website Resources
Thinkfinity – ScienceNet Links
4H Virtual Farm
Agriscience Education/ Pre-Agriscience
Standard 5:
Describe the results of an abundant, inexpensive, and safe food supply produced by United States' farmers for the American population.
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Quality for every facet of learning…..
ALL NEW!!!ALL NEW!!!
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ALEX Features• Free • Searchable Courses of Study & New “Search All” Feature
• Lesson Plans Aligned to Courses of Study
• New Listservs• Student and Teacher Activities
• Web Links• Personal Workspace• More…
Lesson Plan/Activity Lesson Plan/Activity SourcesSources
•ThinkfinityThinkfinity
•Alabama TeachersAlabama Teachers
•NASANASA
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ALEX New Features• New Design• Webpage for Every Teacher• New, Free ALEX and Thinkfinity Training
Program for Each District• Training meets most of the newly required
Teacher Technology Professional Development Standards
• Over 38,000 state Course of Study alignments to award-winning Thinkfinity and Alabama teacher-developed resources
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ALEX New Features• Digitized, Printable Alabama Courses of Study &
New “Search All” feature for ALEX• Coming…Flagged Courses of Study indicating
when standards are introduced, reinforced, and mastered, etc.
• Coming…More Interactives all aligned to Alabama Courses of Study for: Hard to Teach/Learn Standards, & Typical Achievement Gap Areas
• Coming…Specially Designed Resources for: ELL, Special Education, Leadership Development, Schools/Districts in School Improvement
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A Webpage for Every Teacher
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Through Courses of Study, teachers access digitized, printable Alabama Courses of Study with over 38,000 aligned
Thinkfinity and Alabama Teacher-developed resources for all K-12 subject areas.
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Web Links quickly connect students, teachers, parents, and administrators to exemplary, high-quality resources that ignite learning at all levels.
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Visit the Lesson Plan section to find panel-reviewed, “best practices” new ideas and inspirations!
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Teachers Search all of ALEX to find Course of Study Standards that are Frequently Tested, Hard to Teach/ Learn, and typical Achievement Gap Areas—aligned to exciting learning resources selected by a panel of National Board Certified Teachers.
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Teachers create teacher web pages*, create, find and save lesson plans in their Personal Workspace.
*For districts selecting this option.
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In Professional Learning, educators can visit new Alabama Department of Education section web sites for rich instructional tools and professional development opportunities.
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Learn all about Alabama’s ACCESS Distance Learning program.
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Digitized, Printable Alabama Courses Study Flagged for
Highly Tested Items, Hard to Teach/Learn Standards, & Typical Achievement Gap
Areas
1. ARMT, AHSGE, Direct Assessment of Writing
2. Hard to Teach/Learn3. Typical Achievement
Gaps4. When standards are
Introduced, Reinforced, and Mastered…
coming.
Graphics Depict the Tagging of Critical COS Standards
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• Teachers – 10
• Administrators – 7
• Based on ISTE standards
• Statewide implementation: September 2006
• Consolidated Review
Technology Professional Development Standards
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Using ALEX to Meet Student Technology Standards
• Technology Course of Study (New…coming)• Links to lesson plans & web resources listed
beside each objective for Technology Course of Study (and other areas, too)
• All are national standards based - not just "Joe's School of Thought" located down the street
• Teachers like the ease of use of these lessons & resources - easy to locate
• All curriculum areas are available
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Using ALEX to Meet Administrator Technology
Standards
• New Standards Implementation began this fall for Technology
• Excellent resources already available on Leadership Development page
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Using ALEX to Meet Teacher Technology Standards
•Tutorials and Tech Tips are excellent resources for teachers using technology
•PEDOGAGY COUNTS, Teaching Activities and Curriculum Resources--good beginning sites to help teachers incorporate technology into curriculum
more…
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Using ALEX to Meet Teacher Technology Standards
•Links to professional organizations, AVL, Thinkfinity, and APTPlus are great for teachers to find nationally standards based resources that will correlate with the technology standards & COS
•Format for ALEX is similar to Thinkfinity and teachers are already using Thinkfinity
more…
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ALEX/Thinkfinity Training
Teacher Technology Professional Development Standards
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New, Free ALEX and Thinkfinity Training Program for Each
District: Fall 2007
Trainers Now:http://www.technologyinmotion.state.al.us
Contact: [email protected]
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Quality for every facet of learning…..
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Thank You!
ALEX wants… Career Technical Content Experts