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Project
Share
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Purpose
Project Share is the
portal through which
teachers and students
will communicate,
collaborate, and access
21st century digital
content.
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Project Share in Phases: Phase I
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
• Discussions, collaboration, and sharing among educators
• Ongoing learning opportunities for PD participants
Professional Development
• Science, Math, English Language Arts, and CTE TEKS
• English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)
• College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS)
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Phase I
Access to Digital Content
• To provide access to a variety of repositories for use in
professional development and classroom instruction
Planning for ePortfolio Pilots
• To explore student portfolios of coursework (essays,
research papers, audio and video files of academic
presentations and artistic performances) and other
examples of academic and extra-curricular activities
Planning for ePortfolio Assessment
• To explore new forms of evaluation of student work
©Texas Education Agency 2010. All rights reserved.
©Texas Education Agency 2010. All rights reserved.
©Texas Education Agency 2010. All rights reserved.
ELA PD Summer 2010
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ELAR/SLAR Revised TEKS (K-12)
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ELA ELPS (K-12)
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TALA (6-8 ELA and Content Area)
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Eng I and II End-of-Course Success
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Epsilen
The next generation of
eLearning and networking
Web 2.0 tools and resources
All centrally hosted
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ePortfolios
Professional and academic portfolios
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Professional Networking
Other members with similar teaching, research, and career interests
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Work Groups
Collaboration tools, workgroups, document sharing, wikis, web sites, email and
messaging functionality
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Peer Review
Share documents, research, rating system
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Learning Matrix
Automated outcome assessment for institutions, or departments
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Global Learning System
Web 2.0 course delivery, across the region, the state, the globe
Times Templates
Articles from 1851, as well as commentary, analysis, video,
and multimedia
We have been in discussions with leading K-12 educational content providers about integrating
their materials into the Repository. Most have expressed interest, including the following:
Smithsonian Education
Contains approx. 500 lesson plans plus multimedia resources based on the museum
collections
NASA Education
Contains thousands of teaching resources and student activities related to space
exploration and scientific discovery
EDSITEment
Website sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities that contains
hundreds of lesson plans in the liberal arts
Institute of Texan
Cultures (ITC)
Cultural museum in San Antonio that has the largest library of digital images (in the
millions) in Texas
Flat World Knowledge
Open source textbook publisher with a focus on Business and Economics
ThirteenEd Online
Contains 150 lesson plans plus multimedia student activities authored by PBS “Master
Teachers” in all major subjects
ArtsEdge
Program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts that contains over 300
lesson plans and other educational resources for arts-based instruction and assessment
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