Building Success with

NEW

Professional Development Day

October 16, 2013

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Manage Learning Customize Instruction

Increase Achievement!

Training Objectives

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In our time together, we will…

• Create bookshelves, select and assign

resources to meet the instructional needs of ALL

students in our diverse classrooms.

• Understand how to use the Teacher Wall and Student Wall to access and manage the online tools for teaching and learning;

• Identify the features and functionalities of

Interactive Whiteboard Resources and Talking

E-Books in the New Benchmark Universe;

The Teacher Interface

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Teacher Wall

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Welcome - My Profile

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Change your avatar.

Select areas of

interest. Look for

updates on this page

in the spring.

Message Center

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Sharing information:

Teacher to Teacher

Teacher to Student

Student to Teacher

BUT NOT

Student to Student !

Share Space

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Students can

share book

reviews from

their libraries

with others!

Benchmark Blog

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Not

available at

this time.

Support

Teacher Tutorials,User Guides, Help

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Your Turn!

• Change your avatar.

• Add your interests.

• Check your computer systems.

• Review a tutorial.

My Library

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Library Search

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Title Details

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Model and Share Book Reviews

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Writer’s Workshop Tab

• This tab worked for me the other day, but

not now. Would be nice to have a screen

shot or two.

Word Study

• Add screen shot of Word Study pages for

3rd grade and 4th grade (it works)

• Grade 5 DOESN’T WORK

Phonics Tab

• Add screen shot of

Show pic of instruction card, frieze card and

Take Home Activity

-Information ready for K,1, and 2

-Note the Program Implementation &

Management Guide located under this tab

Related Teacher Resources

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Benchmark Literacy Teacher

Common Core

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• Do a library search using the different

selection tabs

• Open up a title

• Peruse through a different literacy tab

• Check out the Benchmark Common Core

tab

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Your Turn!

Complete the Benchmark Universe, Test Drive: Teacher Wall, Part 1

Bookshelves

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Like

creating

playlists for

your

literacy

instruction!

• Create a bookshelf or two!

Your Turn!

Posters

• I don’t’ know if the next slide should be

here. Running on empty so will look at

this section with fresh eyes tomorrow.

Assign Students / Groups

to an Assignment

Complete the Test Drive Activities Talking E-Books

Your Turn!

Search Interactive Whiteboards

for Bookshelf

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Customized Interactive

Whiteboard Lessons

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Your Turn!

Complete the Test Drive Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

Resources

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Manage Students

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Create Student Groups

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Assignments

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Create an Assignment

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Add Materials to an Assignment

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Customize Talking Ebooks

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View Existing Assignments

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Your Turn!

Complete the Benchmark Universe, Test Drive: Teacher Wall, Part 2

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The Student Interface

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Student Wall

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Welcome – My Profile

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Message Center

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Assignments

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Share Space

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My Library

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Write and Share Book Reviews

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My Progress

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Student

Tutorials, User

Guides, Help

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Your Turn!

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Complete the Test Drive, Parts 2 and 3: Student Wall

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Managing Learning / Customizing Instruction…

Teacher Wall and

Resources

Student Wall and

Resources

Whole Group

Small Group

Independent

Reading and

Learning

Integrating Technology

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Implementing Benchmark

Universe

What supports do you have to

implement Benchmark Universe with

your students?

•Video Clip Tutorials / Show Me How

•Teacher and Student User Guide

•Training Test Drives

•User Guide pages

•Customer Support