Let’s Build Something Together!

1. What’s in Your Toolbox? Presented by: Victoria Schmitt and Irma Sandercock ASTA – October 8, 2011 Learning Resource Manager Curriculum Resources Professional Development ADE tools & more Let’s Build Something Together!

2. www.ideal.azed.gov

3. Using IDEAL’s left side menu Let’s Build Something Together!

4. To access a catalog of “tools”, the courses for your personal professional development have their own menu Let’s Build Something Together!

5. To access that “top drawer”, the index to IDEAL’s plethora of tools • Choose our Learning Resource Manager (LRM) Let’s Build Something Together!

6. Beginning with a “keyword” search – • statistics show the most traffic here Let’s Build Something Together!

7. No search results for “Lindsay Lohan”, but “Sting” works because of his musical style related to “Dorian” and “Celtic songs” in this video citation Let’s Build Something Together!

8. Searching by keyword? • Limit number of words in search string • Use terms & common synonyms from a standard • (How many results will keyword “lunar” return versus “moon”?) • Yes, spelling matters. We don’t have the feature “did you mean…?” Our #1 no hits search is “persausive writing”, but a search for persuasive will return 63 results! Let’s Build Something Together!

9. Below is a keyword search with no hits (red ink)– but view a returned results list from a standard search on the next slide … Let’s Build Something Together!

10. Begin with “Browse by Standards” – AZ Academic • Note the change from “browse” to “filter” • Follow the standard coding • Grade 1 • Science • Strand 4 • Concept 1 – because Science POs are clustered, we don’t often teach to a single PO – stop here and see nine results • or P.O. 1 Let’s Build Something Together!

11. SC01-S4C1 -01 has seven entries at the PO level, but we could have stopped at the Concept level Let’s Build Something Together!

12. Next most popular search type is the “ALL” located under keyword box • User applies filter in any order Let’s Build Something Together!

13. Using the Resource Type filter – each category expands • Professional Resource expands – see courses • Media expands – see video Tip: you may apply many filters in any order Let’s Build Something Together!

14. Begin with a “Browse by Subject” and choose Science • These science resources are not necessarily aligned (as if you had chosen a standard search) • Many of the resources are integrated with other subject areas Let’s Build Something Together!

15. With Science as a starting subject, you may add filters in any order Looking at “resource type” again, note lesson plans, media, and ADE materials Let’s Build Something Together!

16. Clicking on a link in the LRM result will take you directly to the resource Let’s Build Something Together!

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19. Expand the “ + “ for foldering and tagging options, re-order by title or date Let’s Build Something Together!

20. Would you like to share a resource? • Tell a friend, tell us Let’s Build Something Together!

21. Contact us – your friendly and knowledgeable IDEAL mechanics Victoria Schmitt vicki.schmitt@asu.edu LRM Curriculum Coordinator Irma Sandercock irma.sandercock@asu.edu Assistant Director for Professional Learning www.ideal.azed.gov Learning Resource Manager Curriculum Resources Professional Development ADE tools & more Let’s Build Something Together!