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Educational Technology Collaborative Team Information
At this location you will find the goals and ongoing minutes of the ET Collaboration team.

Diigo for Tech Users
All staff and students should have a Diigo account so that you can share your bookmarked resources with others. You can access Diigo here.

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YCSTech Online Resources This Diigo social bookmarking group is supportive of the curricula at York County School of Technology. If you get a Diigo account and become a member of the YOR group, you can modify the amount of emails indicating additions to the Diigo account. As a member, you may also choose to add your sites to the group list and share your technology gems with the staff.

NETS

 * ISTE's National Educational Technology Standards**

[|NETS for Administrators (PDF format)] [|NETS for Teachers (PDF format)] [|NETS for Students (PDF format)]

Technology Tutorials
Think that you would like to know more about some resources. Take a look at one of the short videos some are from Common Craft.
 * Twitter in Plain English
 * Photosharing in Plain English
 * Bookmarking in Plain English
 * Social Networking In Plain English
 * Wikis in Plain English
 * RSS in Plain English
 * Podcasting in Plain English
 * Blogging in Plain English
 * Google Docs in Plain English
 * Protecting Reputations Online in Plain English
 * Cloud Computing in Plain English
 * Glogster from SchoolTube

LFS
[|Learning Focused Schools Online Home] LFS-at-Tech
 * Learning Focused Schools**

PDE
Pennsylvania Department of Education Get a User ID and Password for this State educational resource [|Chapter 4: Academic Standards and Assessments] At this location you will be able to access the standards as they are listed in the State Code. Standards Aligned System [|PA State Codes and Regulations] [|Assessment Anchors for Math, Reading, and Science]
 * The Pennsylvania Department of Education**

Bloom's Taxonomy

 * [[image:media-center-at-tech/bloomwheel3.gif caption="Bloom's Taxonomy Wheel"]] ||
 * Bloom's Taxonomy Wheel ||

Blooms Digital Taxonomy Bloom's and ICT tools Visual Bloom's Bloom's Taxonomy Tutorial Flash

SAS Training (Overview)
Account Information

SAS (Standards Aligned System) Clear Standards describe what students should know and be able to do; they increase in complexity and sophistication as students progress through school

Fair Assessments a process used by teachers and students before, during, and after instruction to provide feedback and adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve student achievement

Curriculum Framework specifies what is to be taught for each subject in the curriculum. In Pennsylvania, Curriculum Frameworks include Big Ideas, Concepts, Competencies, and Essential Questions aligned to Standards and Assessment Anchors and, where appropriate, Eligible Content

Instruction comprises the following activities:
 * Teaching topics that are aligned with the standards.
 * Ensuring the right level of challenge.
 * Focusing teaching based on the learning needs of each student.
 * Implementing instructional strategies to increase student achievement.

Materials and Resources include Voluntary Model Curriculum (VMC), incorporating learning progressions, units, lesson plans, and content resources aligned to the Pennsylvania standards in curriculum frameworks for the four major content areas (mathematics, science, social studies, reading-writing-speaking-listening)

Interventions to ensure students are provided with the standards based supports they need to meet/exceed grade level standards