What's Here for Me?
Resources
catalystOhio Resources (COR) is a collection of teacher preparation
modules, technology integrated lessons, online applications, videos, articles,
and structured activities that can be used by teacher educators and
professional development providers to effectively integrate electronic
technologies into classroom instruction. These resources have been aligned to
the Ohio Baseline Standards Framework.
The resources have been organized into five different components: Technology
Use, Standards Connection, Instructional Strategies, Assessment Strategies, and
Content Acquisition. Each component includes these sections: Engaging Teachers
with Technology, Related Resources, and Highlighted COR Lessons. Additional
elements specific to each component are also included.
The Engaging Teachers with Technology sections include Online Applications,
Structured Activities, and Online Modules.
- Online Applications are web-based, interactive tools that can be easily
integrated into teacher preparation programs. These tools provide teacher
educators and professional development providers a vehicle for modeling
effective technology integration.
- Structured Activities are detailed activities that can be incorporated as
written or modified to meet the needs of the program.
- Online Modules are fully developed programs that can be used as is or bits and
pieces of the modules can be incorporated into teacher education courses or
professional development programs.
The Related Resources sections include online articles, videos, online tools,
and research findings. These resources can be used in a variety of ways. They
may be incorporated into teacher preparation programs or used as information
sources for teacher educators and professional development providers.
The Highlighted COR Lessons are technology-integrated lessons that are part of
the larger ORC collection. They have been highlighted within the component in
which they appear because they demonstrate some aspect of that component.
Technology Use
The Technology Use section includes materials that cover several important
aspects of technology integration. The activities help preservice and
practicing teachers begin to look at the integration of technology critically
and to differentiate between the incidental use of technology and effective
integration of technology. Several examples of innovative classroom use of
technology are included. Also included is information for building basic
technology literacy, assistive technologies, a look at ethical issues
associated with technology use, and samples of online tools for teachers.
Standards Connection
In this section of COR, you'll find links to academic content standards and
technology standards for students and teachers, as well as resources that
explore the development of standards-based technology-integrated lessons.
You'll also find a tool to browse COR resources aligned and linked to the text
of the Ohio Baseline Standards Framework and Performance Indicators.
Instructional Strategies
This section of COR offers resources that address the growing challenge of
meeting the needs of today's students.
Assessment
In this section of COR, you'll find materials that explore assessment as it
relates to technology integration in three ways: electronic tools for formative
and summative assessment, strategies for assessing student learning when it is
demonstrated in an electronic format, and assessment of the effectiveness of
the technology integration.
Student Learning
This section includes resources related to research on learning and the impact
of technology on learning, online video examples of effective use of
technology, and instructional strategies that play an important role in
technology integration.
COR Tools
In addition to the resources, a search feature and an interactive bookmarking
tool (My ORC Collection) are provided for user convenience.
Using the ORC Bookmarking Tool
My ORC Collection is an online organizer for bookmarking resources from the ORC
and COR Collections. You can save and annotate your favorite resources in
folders that you create and name. Folders can then be shared with colleagues,
parents, or students by distributing the unique web address assigned to each
folder.
To try out this feature, you must be a registered member of ORC (click
here for free registration). Once registered, you will see 
Add to My ORC Collection with
every ORC and COR resource. When you find a resource that you want to add to
your collection, simply click the icon
Add to My ORC Collection.
You will then be asked to create a folder by typing in a folder name and
description. Then you can annotate the resource with your own notes, ORC's
professional commentary, or a combination of both.
Once you have added resources to your collection, you can find them at any time
by clicking on the My ORC Collection icon in the upper-right hand corner of any
ORC web page. You can always edit your collection by adding or deleting
resources from your folders or updating the comments attached to your saved
resources.
The COR team has created a sample folder called "Introduction to Technology."
Check out the folder at. We've also created a teacher preparation module using
this tool. You can see the module at. Feel free to share these folders with
your students and colleagues by sending them the web address.