The Unabridged List of Paid Digital Resources

[Pages:14]The Unabridged List of Paid Digital Resources

AccelerateU

Access: Web access assigned on an individual basis Audience: Open to 9th-12th grade students Contact Person: Students' Counselor at the P.S.O. Office Description: Accelerate U offers online learning opportunities for high school students. Midlakes has partnered with the Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES through the Learning Technologies Grant to offer STEM focused courses to students.

Adobe Creative Suite

Access: Installed on a compatible district owned device Audience: Students and staff upon request Contact Person: Tech Support at techsupport@ Description: The Adobe Creative Suite has much to offer our staff and students. Due to a limited number of licenses please contact Tech Support if you need any of the following Adobe components to enhance classroom instruction: Acrobat Pro DC, Addition CC, Adobe XD, Behance, Dream Weaver, Illustrator Draw, In-Design, Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop Express (mobile), Portfolio, Premier Clip, Premier Pro, Spark, Spark Page, or Spark Video.

Albert

Access: Through Clever Audience: AP students and teachers Contact Person: Lydia Schadler at lschadler@ Description: An interactive learning website for students to practice for AP assessments and receive immediate feedback. Albert's analytics inform students of their progress and assist teachers in planning for instruction.

Apex

Access: Web access assigned on an individual basis Audience: 6th ? 12th grade students for credit recovery and/or summer school Contact Person: Bill Gowan at bgowan@ Description: An interactive learning website for students that we use for credit recovery during the school year and the summer. Apex also offers tutorials that allow our sixth grade students the opportunity for summer acceleration.

Better Lessons

Access: Web access assigned on an individual basis Audience: 7th-12th teachers on a limited basis Contact Person: Frank Bai-Rossi at fbairossi@ Description: A personalized, job-embedded, online coach focused on working with teachers to meet their professional goals inside the classroom.

Blackboard

Access: Open access at Audience: Students, Staff, Families, and Community Contact Person: Todd Clausen at tclausen@ Description: Our website is hosted by Blackboard. Blackboard also manages our mass communication that assists Midlakes in communicating out messages to our families.

Board Docs

Access: Web access assigned on an individual basis Audience: Board of Education Members Contact Person: Sarah Butler at sbutler@ Description: A paperless system designed for schools to efficiently manage agendas, minutes, policy manuals and much more. **New for 2019-2020

Book Creator

Access: Through Clever, upon request Audience: K-6th Students and Teachers Contact Person: Lydia Schadler at lschadler@ Description: A simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks right on the iPad. With over 30 million ebooks created so far, Book Creator is ideal for making all kinds of books, including children's picture books, comic books, photo books, journals, textbooks and more. **New by teacher request for 2019-2020

Book Flix

Access: Web access at ; Staff Tools; K-6 Links, Database Portal Audience: K-6th Students and Teachers Contact Person: Heather Bradley at hbradley@ Description: BookFlix is an online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks with related nonfiction e-books.

Brain Pop Combo

Access: Web access at ; Staff Tools; K-6 Links, Database Portal Audience: K-6th Students and staff Contact Person: Heather Bradley at hbradley@ Description: BrainPOP is a K-6 website for students and staff that creates animated curriculum-based content that is aligned to state standards. The site includes videos, games, quizzes, and an activity section for science, health, writing, reading, social studies, and math. The District has purchased BrainPOP, BrainPOP Jr., BrainPOP Espanola and BrainPOP Francais.

Britannica School

Access: Web access at ; Staff Tools; K-6 Links, Database Portal Audience: K-6th Students and staff Contact Person: Heather Bradley at hbradley@ Description: Britannica School is a safe, up-to-date and age-appropriate resource for students to use in their research at the elementary level in social studies, science and more.

Clever

Access: Web access at in/midlakes Audience: K-12th Students and staff Contact Person: Bill Gowan at bgowan@ Description: Clever connects School Tool to many of the subscriptions that you see in this document. Through Clever, students and staff only need to remember their one District username and password to gain access to many of our digital resources.

CultureGrams

Access: Web access at ; Staff Tools; K-6 Links, Database Portal Audience: K-6th Students and staff Contact Person: Heather Bradley at hbradley@ Description: CultureGrams from ProQuest includes World, Kids, and States editions, also Famous People, Recipe Collections, and World-Wide Photo Gallery.

EBSCO

Access: Web access at ; Schools; MMS/MHS; Quick Links: Library Media Center; 24/7 Research Databases

Audience: 7th - 12th Students and staff

Contact Person: Mike Purcell at mpurcell@

Description: Through EBSCO, students and staff have access to AP Images, which offers primary source news photos and graphic content from the 1840's through today, with more than 3,000 photos added daily. The Poetry & Short Story Reference Center provides a historically rich collection of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements, and techniques. Finally, the Ultra Online Package with Literary Reference Center includes the Literary Reference Center, MAS Ultra: School Edition, Newspaper Source, Health Source, Consumer Edition, TOPIC search, Professional Development Collection, and ERIC.

Facts On File

Access: Web access at ; Schools; MMS/MHS; Quick Links: Library Media Center; 24/7 Research Databases

Audience: 7th - 12th Students and staff

Contact Person: Mike Purcell at mpurcell@

Description: Through Facts on File, students and staff have access to their Issues & Controversies collection which offers by the numbers statistical overview of major issues, newspaper editorials, primary documents, a directory of contact for organizations, and curriculum/study aids. Also through Facts on File is access to the Science Online collection with a wealth of content and dynamic design that facilitates STEM research and learning with a comprehensive overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines.

FamilyID

Access: Web access for students and families with self-created accounts

Audience: Student Athletes

Contact Person: John Lombardi at jlombardi@

Description: FamilyID is a secure registration site that provides student athletes and their families a user-friendly way to ensure all of their required information is submitted. Student information can be used for multiple seasons.

Frontline

Access: Web access assigned on an individual basis

Audience: All staff

Description: Frontline has multiple uses including: ? AESOP for absence management (formerly Sub Finder) Contact: Your Building Secretary ? Employee Evaluation for APPR documentation Contact: Lydia Schadler at lschadler@ ? IEP Direct for managing IEP documentation Contact: Sharon Cheney at scheney@ ? Professional Learning Management for professional development Contact: Lydia Schadler at lschadler@ ? RTiM for Tier 2 Interventionists Contact: Michelle Robinette at mrobinette@

Gale

Access: Web access at ; Schools; MMS/MHS; Quick Links: Library Media Center; 24/7 Research Databases

Audience: 7th - 12th Students and staff

Contact Person: Mike Purcell at mpurcell@

Description: Through Gale, students and staff have access to the Questia High School and Archive Bundle which includes 24/7 access to an online collection of over 14,000 copyrighted books, digitized from cover to cover to include full text, and ranked by Lexile level. It includes research tools for advanced searching, book marking, highlighting in six colors, note taking, and automatic citation and bibliography generation. The American Heritage Dictionary, a thesaurus, and a World Encyclopedia are also included.

GradeCam

Access: Through Clever

Audience: 7th ? 12th Teachers

Contact Person: Lydia Schadler at lschadler@

Description: GradeCam allows classroom teachers to scan and grade multiple-choice tests and other assignments instantly to capture student responses. GradeCam also enables teachers to look at item analysis and use their time more efficiently to plan for data-informed instruction. Students are able to practice taking assessments on a multiple-choice answer sheet (also known as a Scantron or bubbling). **New by teacher request and coming soon for 2019-2020. .

Hudl

Access: Web access assigned on an individual basis Audience: Athletic Coaches Contact Person: John Lombardi at jlombardi@ Description: Hudl is designed to provide tools for coaches and athletes to review game footage and improve team play in a strategic way. Hudl is currently used by the following athletic programs at Midlakes: varsity basketball, varsity football, varsity soccer, and varsity volleyball.

i-Ready

Access: Through Clever Audience: 1st- 6th Students and Teachers Contact Person: Lydia Schadler at lschadler@ Description: I-Ready is an interactive online learning environment that assesses students and provides individualized instruction based on each child's unique needs.

i-Ready Teacher Toolbox

Access: Web access through self-created accounts at teacher- Audience: 1st- 6th Teachers Contact Person: Toolbox Support at toolboxsupport@ Description: The I-Ready Teacher Toolbox is a virtual filing cabinet with thousands of resources designed to help teachers differentiate instruction for all students. The Teacher Toolbox has been purchased by the District to support the work of teachers and students with i-Ready.

JAMF

Access: Access assigned on an individual basis Audience: Midlakes Tech Support Contact Person: Tech Support at techsupport@ Description: JAMF assists our Midlakes Technology Department in managing the District's i-Pads, MacBooks, Apple TVs.

Kajeet

Access: Signed out from the library, additional parental consents required Audience: 3rd ? 12th Students Contact Person: Tech Support at techsupport@ Description: Kajeet is a mobile hot-spot that provides filtered Internet connection to students at home, who would not otherwise have access online to resources.

KnowAtom

Access: Access assigned on an individual basis Audience: 6th Grade Science Students and Teachers Contact Person: Michelle Robinette at mrobinette@ Description: KnowAtom is a website that includes hands-on science lessons, Next Generation Assessments, nonfiction texts with Lexile levels, and many more digital resources to support students' love for science.

Learning A to Z

Access: Web access at learninga- Audience: K-6th Staff Contact Person: Lydia Schadler at lschadler@ Description: Learning A to Z is a literacy-based website that offers a variety of resources for elementary students and staff. Reading A-Z is available for K-6 reading teachers, AIS teachers, ELL Edition is available for our TESOL staff, and Headsprout is available for all kindergarten staff and students.

Mandarin

Access: Installed on a compatible district owned device Audience: Librarians Contact Person: Kristin Harrington at kharrington@ Description: Mandarin is our library circulation software that helps manage student accounts and teacher accounts.

Mathia by Carnegie Learning

Access: Web access assigned on an individual basis Audience: 7-12th Students and Math Teachers Contact Person: Lydia Schadler at lschadler@ Description: Mathia is an online math software created by Carnegie Learning to assist students and teachers in personalizing instruction in the math classroom.

MLSchedules

Access: Web access assigned on an individual basis

Audience: Secretarial Staff

Contact Person: Tracy Marshall at tmarshall@

Description: MLSchedules is designed to streamline the building use request process for our district.

myON

Access: Through Clever Audience: K-6th Students and staff

Contact Person: Heather Bradley at hbradley@

Description: MyON is a digital library with access to more than 6,000 digital texts. Students have access to reading tools that include text to speech, highlighting, note taking inside of the text, and more. MyON offers students a reader interest inventory to help guide in recommending books, progress monitoring that shows students how long they have read inside of myON for the week, and each text has a Lexile reading level.

Mystery Science

Access: Web access for teachers with self-created accounts at Audience: K-5th Teachers of science

Contact Person: Michelle Robinette at mrobinette@

Description: Mystery Science is a website of open-and-go science lessons that inspires kids to love science and includes visuals and activity materials that go along with the science supplies purchased by the District. **New by teacher request for 2019-2020

Naviance

Access: Web access assigned on an individual basis Audience: 7th -12th Students and PSO Staff

Contact Person: Chris Tillman at ctillman@

Description: Naviance is a college and career readiness software that offers opportunities for students to explore various options for post-graduation. Naviance also offers students a platform to build and manage their own resumes as well as create goals, to-do lists, and assign themselves tasks.

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