1. The Wonderful World of Technology
Brentwood East Middle
8th Grade

2. Online Resources to help you and your child…
Glencoe Online Textbook
Requires a personalized ID and Password
Castle Learning
Requires a personalized ID and Password
Brain Pop
User Name: bufsd
Password: bufsd
ALEKS
Requires a personalized ID and Password

3. Glencoe Online Textbook

4. Each student has been given a unique id and password to access the online textbook and its resources

5. You can access the entire textbook by clicking on eBook.

6. Lesson Resources can be accessed from the MENU or by icon
Each Chapter is broken out into specific lessons
The vocabulary section includes definitions, translations, and visual vocabulary cards for the entire book, as well as by chapter.

7. Within each chapter there are several resources to provide additional guidance. The icons available for each lesson will appear under resources with the number of resources available for that lesson in parenthesis.
Provides a resource to check your progress
Shows worked-out solutions to problems
Additional guidance for English Learners
Additional examples to re-teach the topic
An interactive graphing program
Virtual Manipulatives
Whiteboard Lessons
Vocabulary associated with the lesson
Video Lessons
Worksheets for additional practice
Note: Icons may differ per chapter

8. Castle Learning

9. Benefits of Castle Learning
It is a web-based tool that is available 24/7/365
Access from any internet-connected device
It allows you to stay involved in the educational world and makes it easy to get involved in the educational process.

10. Mentoring as a parent continues from elementary years through high school and beyond. You have the ability to:
See what assignments are incomplete
Review completed assignments with your child(ren)
Track achievements and encourage positive results
Staying involved can be challenging, but Castle Learning makes it as easy as possible. You can:
Collaborate with teachers on assignments
Send messages to teachers from your child’s/children’s accounts
Utilize online technology and resources from home

11. With Castle Learning, you can reinforce instruction even if you aren’t well-versed on a subject.
Hints provide clues to help students reach the correct answers
Reasons explain why a correct answer is correct
Related vocabulary makes a great study aid and reinforces key terms for comprehension

12. Students who utilize Castle Learning for self-generated practice in addition to teacher-provided assignments have greater results.
Complete homework, quizzes, tests, and common assessments with ease
Practice foundational skills with unlimited Math Skills questions
Hints and explanations point students in the direction of the right answer
Related vocabulary provides definitions of key terms and concepts, and makes a great study sheet

13. Benefits for BOTH Parents and Students
We live in an “on-the-go” world. Castle Learning can help your child(ren) whenever and wherever they are connected to the internet.
No software download required
Access 24/7/365 from computer, tablet, or handheld device
Mobile site optimized for Smartphone interfaces

14. Once logged in, a student can create their own practice / review assignments

15. Students can create question sets by Standard…

16. … Or by Topic

17. Brain Pop www.brainpop.com
In classrooms, on mobile devices, and at home, BrainPOP engages students through animated movies, learning games, interactive quizzes, primary source activities, and more. Their content is carefully mapped to the Common Core, aligned to academic standards, and is searchable with the online Standards Tool.
BrainPOP can be used in various learning settings, supporting individual, team and whole-class learning. At school and in more informal learning environments, the characters help introduce new topics and illustrate complex concepts.

18. Math Topics are broken out into categories

19. Question and Answer Section
Each Topic has a movie
Related Topics
Question and Answer Section
Each Topic has a Quiz
Game Page
Activities Page
Real World Application Information

20. Students can watch an animated movie

21. Read Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

22. Read about Real Life Applications

23. Complete an Activity Page for the Topic

24. Then complete a Quiz

25. Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces
ALEKS is a Web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system.
ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn't know in a course then instructs the student on the topics he/she is most ready to learn.
As a student works through a course, ALEKS periodically reassesses the student to ensure that topics learned are also retained.
A student who shows a high level of mastery of an ALEKS course will be successful in the actual course he/she is taking.

26. ALEKS provides the advantages of one-on-one instruction, 24/7, from virtually any Web-based computer for a fraction of the cost of a human tutor.
Many topics are available in both English and Spanish. Simply click next to "English" in the main menu and pull down to "Espanol.“
Whenever the student reenters the system after a break, he/she automatically returns to the place he/she was last working. This is true even if the departure was caused by unexpected loss of connectivity on the Internet or a PC crash.
ALEKS offers a comprehensive message center that allows the student to communicate with his/her instructor about the content using subject-appropriate notation.

27. LOGIN SCREEN
Each student has a unique LOGIN and password to access their path on ALEKS

29. Each student gets a personalized PIE CHART that is broken down by topic
Information
is provided
by topic
and by #
of topics
mastered

30. The student gets to pick the order of the topics he/she works on until each topic is mastered

31. A Learning Path is created based on each individual’s needs

32. How many correct answers needed to move on
Learning Page
How many correct answers needed to move on
If guidance is needed, the student can
click EXPLANATION

33. These are just a few resources available to our students
These are just a few resources available to our students. With the world of internet, there is so much information at our fingertips…