Multimedia Tools

That Support The Common Core

By: Sarah Jones

Finding Information• Teach students to sift through the overwhelming

abundance of web content.

• Research is an essential life skill

• Research in embedded throughout the Common

Core

• Students should engage in research on a regular

basis

• The Common Core calls for seamless integration of

technology.

• Search Engine for Students

• Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated

by research experts.

• Visual search engine that displays results as images.

• Students can instantly recognize familiar webpages

and rule out unreliable sources.

• Scroll over web preview to get a closer look

• Internet Public Library

• Choose level of difficulty

• “Ask a Librarian” option

TagGalaxy

• Search through a visual Flickr universe

• View words and relationships.

Understanding Information

• Help learners understand all information they

acquire

• Introduce them to tool that support a variety of

learning styles

InstaGrok• Research a topic with an interactive map

• Customize it with facts, links, and videos

• Adjust the difficulty of facts displayed

Lingro

• Turn any website into a clickable dictionary

• Supported by 12 languages

• Remembers all the words you look up, so you can

easily review and study them.

• Create flashcards instantly

• Turns any web page into a clean view for reading

• Install the Bookmarklet

• Create a less distractible reading experience.

Wikipedia Simple English

Resources

• Cool tools blog- http://d97cooltools.blogspot.com/-by Susan Oxnevad