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Virginia Society for Technology in Education

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Featured Resources from #GoOpenVA, October 13, 2020

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Swirl with word Go Open VASince its debut in January 2020, #GoOpenVA has been building its collections with the help of Virginia educators. This collaborative initiative enables educators and others throughout Virginia to create, share, and access openly-licensed educational resources (OER, also known as open education resources). OER are free digital materials that can be used or modified to adjust to student needs; they are openly-licensed unhampered by many traditional copyright limitations.

Jean Weller, VSTE Board Member and VDOE Technology Integration Specialist, leads this effort. We asked her to periodically curate a few of the resources to give a sense of what is available. Start with these but stay for so much more! And be sure to follow Jean on Twitter.

Virginia K-12 Computer Science Pipeline: This new Collection in #GoOpenVA has just been started, and includes lessons developed in a partnership between Chesapeake and Loudoun. Over time, new lessons will be added to help teachers at all grade levels integrate Computer Science. This is an example of how school divisions can share their burden of developing new resources with each other!

https://goopenva.org/curated-collections/30

Poetic Forms 9-10th Grade English: April Hobson of Giles added a lesson plan in which she shares her love of poetry with her students.  She notes how poetry can help address not just academic goals, but provide social-emotional outlets for students struggling with big emotions.

https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/2061/overview

Equitable Teaching Resources: this Google Doc, created by Kim Wilkens, is a starting point for teachers who want to know more about equitable teaching, whether they want to address CRT or gender equity (or both!).  Add the resources you have found to be helpful and share your knowledge and experience.  With all of us mentoring each other, the journey will be much more beneficial!

https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/1320/overview

Featured Resources from #GoOpenVA, October 5, 2020

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Swirl with word Go Open VASince its debut in January 2020, #GoOpenVA has been building its collections with the help of Virginia educators. This collaborative initiative enables educators and others throughout Virginia to create, share, and access openly-licensed educational resources (OER, also known as open education resources). OER are free digital materials that can be used or modified to adjust to student needs; they are openly-licensed unhampered by many traditional copyright limitations.

Jean Weller, VSTE Board Member and VDOE Technology Integration Specialist, leads this effort. We asked her to periodically curate a few of the resources to give a sense of what is available. Start with these but stay for so much more! And be sure to follow Jean on Twitter.

 

Water Scarcity – Change the Course:  Sandy Chalke of Loudoun

https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/1575/overview

This lesson emphasizes the importance of renewable resources (like water) and encourages students to be reflective writers. It uses one of Dan Myers 3 Act Math videos as a starting point, plus a variety of other resources to provide students information on which to reflect.

Experimental Design Process Skills:  Jane Brown of Hanover

https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/1498/overview

This activity is designed to be a self-paced activity to review students on the parts of Experimental Design while at home or in the classroom. There is a simple experiment for the students to complete to generate and collect data and a second example in which they design their own experiment and collect data. They are then led through the process of analyzing their data and writing a conclusion.

Grade 1 & 2 Roll and Sort Difference: Elizabeth Silva of Virginia Beach

https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/1503/overview

As a teacher, one of your goals is to provide practice using carefully selected strategies. Here are some strategies to develop the basic addition and subtraction facts. By providing experiences to learn these strategies, students will develop number sense and understand how to compose and decompose numbers.  This in turn will help students to develop basic fact fluency and learn while having fun playing a game.

Featured Resources from #GoOpenVA, September 21, 2020

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Swirl with word Go Open VASince its debut in January 2020, #GoOpenVA has been building its collections with the help of Virginia educators. This collaborative initiative enables educators and others throughout Virginia to create, share, and access openly-licensed educational resources (OER, also known as open education resources). OER are free digital materials that can be used or modified to adjust to student needs; they are openly-licensed unhampered by many traditional copyright limitations.

Jean Weller, VSTE Board Member and VDOE Technology Integration Specialist, leads this effort. We asked her to periodically curate a few of the resources to give a sense of what is available. Start with these but stay for so much more! And be sure to follow Jean on Twitter.

Virtual Book Passes: Kristen Corcoran from Hanover developed an activity using resources available in Hanover County Public Schools.  This is a great idea you can replicate for your own division, using her ideas as a starting point. Create a remix to share with your fellow educators!

https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/1659/overview

La ropa que llevo: Maria Nuzzo, a Spanish language teacher from Virginia Beach, published this hyperdoc for self-paced learning about items of clothing, including a self-evaluation for students.

https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/1608/overview

Introduction to Biology and the Characteristics of Life Socrative Discussion (Remix): Liz Ashby of Henry County loved this lesson but wanted to add a way to introduce the characteristics of life before starting the discussion on viruses.

https://goopenva.org/authoring/443-introduction-to-biology-and-the-characteristics-of/1/view

Featured Resources from #GoOpenVA, September 14, 2020

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Swirl with word Go Open VASince its debut in January 2020, #GoOpenVA has been building its collections with the help of Virginia educators. This collaborative initiative enables educators and others throughout Virginia to create, share, and access openly-licensed educational resources (OER, also known as open education resources). OER are free digital materials that can be used or modified to adjust to student needs; they are openly-licensed unhampered by many traditional copyright limitations.

Jean Weller, VSTE Board Member and VDOE Technology Integration Specialist, leads this effort. We asked her to periodically curate a few of the resources to give a sense of what is available. Start with these but stay for so much more! And be sure to follow Jean on Twitter.

 

Featured Resources:

CS/CT Elementary

Rebecca Gratz of Loudoun has added two hyperdocs to use with integrated computer science at the elementary school level:

Digital Communication: https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/1188/overview

Eating Healthy: https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/1178/overview

Pre-K Internet Safety

Jennifer Sheppard of Giles has a quick way to incorporate internet safety into your morning meeting circle time with 3 and 4 year olds.

https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/2031/overview

Dan Meyer’s Three-Act Mathematics Problems

If you’re familiar with Dan Meyer and his approach to teaching mathematics, you’ll be happy to know you can find them quickly and easily on #GoOpenVA:  https://goopenva.org/browse?f.provider=dan-meyer-three-act-mathematics

Don't forget that most resources be saved and remixed so if they don't match your needs perfectly, you can change them. Then, be sure to reshare them so others can see the various versions of the resources.

Featured Resources from #GoOpenVA, August 31, 2020

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Swirl with word Go Open VASince its debut in January 2020, #GoOpenVA has been building its collections with the help of Virginia educators. This collaborative initiative enables educators and others throughout Virginia to create, share, and access openly-licensed educational resources (OER, also known as open education resources). OER are free digital materials that can be used or modified to adjust to student needs; they are openly-licensed unhampered by many traditional copyright limitations.

Jean Weller, VSTE Board Member and VDOE Technology Integration Specialist, leads this effort. We asked her to periodically curate a few of the resources to give a sense of what is available. Start with these but stay for so much more! And be sure to follow Jean on Twitter.

 

Featured Resources

Pratiquez les numéros

Aliya Headley from Hanover has been adding several lessons for World Language teachers.  This one is an idea for practicing numbers using student-owned technology and can be used in any language class!

https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/1550/overview

Virtual Field Trip in Scratch

Kim Wilkens provides a full story-based computer science lesson using Scratch, with lots of great helpful resources for teachers.

https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/1393/overview

AND THEN, Leslie James of Albemarle did a REMIX of the lesson, Virtual Field Trip in Scratch Remix (Regions of Virginia)

https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/2102/overview

You can choose which version works best for your students!