Curriculum+Tools+To+Check+Out

This is where members of EasyCurriculumTools wiki provide links to their favorite curriculum tools.

Generally speaking, everything that should be listed on this page should be a technology tool that enables the development of lesson plans, units, or curriculum maps (or all three). When making a post the member should include how easy the tool was to learn (see the rubric below) and some of the basic features that make this tool "valuable" to you as an educator.

1. What is the name and link to the tech tool you found "valuable" to you as an educator?

2. For consistency, let's use a 1-5 rubric for noting "ease of use:"
 * 1 = took more than 40 hours to learn how to build a lesson plan;
 * 2 = took more than 20 hours to learn how to build a lesson plan (but less than 40);
 * 3 = took more than 10 hours to learn how to build a lesson plan (but less than 20);
 * 4 = took more than 5 hours to learn how to build a lesson plan (but less than 10)
 * 5 = took more than 1 hour to learn how to build a lesson plan (but less than 5).

3. Describe some of the basic features that made this tool "valuable" to you as an educator.

Name: TeacherEase; []

Ease of Use: 5

Basic Features: I liked the ability to find the lesson plans and curriculum map links from the main teacher page. I could begin creating a lesson plan in 2 clicks. TeacherEase also has a way to import all my State's standards and then makes it easy for me to know how often I covered the standards in my lesson plans. I like the way the Standards Coverage by Lesson Plans report gives me a quick idea of how often I covered the standards in my lesson plans for a grading period or even for the entire year. I also like the easy way TeacherEase makes it possible to copy lesson plans to other periods of time or even other classes. I also like being able to share lesson plans with other teachers - including copying those I really like into my folder for my class. This one is extremely easy to learn - took me about 3 hours to really understand how to use the entire tool.



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