SACS....... NROC and HippoCampus
NROC together with HippoCampus.org is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge. Teachers project HippoCampus content during classroom learning and assign it for computer labs and homework. Students use the site in the evenings for study and exam prep. Users do not need to register or log in to use the site. As an open resource for personalized learning, HippoCampus.org was designed as part of a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone. HippoCampus is powered by The NROC Project, a non-profit, member-driven project focused on new models of digital content development, distribution, and use. NROC makes editorial and digital engineering investments in the content to prepare it for distribution by HippoCampus.
Getting Started
Your district may subscribe to to NROC which allows teachers and students to get some special services. There are also professional development opportunities along with the ability to network with other professionals. To get started go to the link provided:
Please take a moment to read and discover more information provided on this page allowing you to become more acquainted and use in your classroom.
Please take a moment to read and discover more information provided on this page allowing you to become more acquainted and use in your classroom.
NROC Network Professional Development
The NROC Network is a great place to find and share information about teaching with the power of digital media, working with open educational resources and realizing the potential of participatory media to enhance learning. Check this space often for updated resources, to follow research and developments in OER, and use the social media links provided to share ideas and tools with colleagues. You will find recorded webinars, conference presentations, orientation modules and more for your own development, and to share with your colleagues. We welcome questions and suggestions.
Monthly Webinar Series The NROC Network offers monthly webinars on topics of interest to our members. Access registration information and archived session recordings here.
PD Library In the PD Library, you will find NROC orientation materials, conference presentations, useful articles and reports, case studies and much more.
NROC Orientation Modules - Orientation modules offer "just in time" training for teachers, course designers, and administrators implementing NROC materials into their curriculum. Materials are presented as short video tutorials, as well as customizable documents you may modify to meet inservice teacher-training needs.
Lesson Plans and Resources - NROC's HippoCampus Bloggers contribute lesson plans and activities aligned with curriculum standards and NROC course resources to provide fresh ideas for teachers to engage their students. Teachers may subscribe to a discipline-specific blog on the blog site, and may find the resources on HIppoCampus.org, within each discipline area. Add comments to the blogs and share other good supplemental resources with your colleagues.
NROC Collections - NROC’s commitment is to provide high-quality content to our members. As part of this commitment, we continue to build new content to add to the NROC Permanent Collection. In addition, we are always looking for new content collections to add to the NROC Contributed Collection.
NROC News - Keep up with the latest news releases from the people at NROC. There is always something interesting along with new resources to explore.
Monthly Webinar Series The NROC Network offers monthly webinars on topics of interest to our members. Access registration information and archived session recordings here.
PD Library In the PD Library, you will find NROC orientation materials, conference presentations, useful articles and reports, case studies and much more.
NROC Orientation Modules - Orientation modules offer "just in time" training for teachers, course designers, and administrators implementing NROC materials into their curriculum. Materials are presented as short video tutorials, as well as customizable documents you may modify to meet inservice teacher-training needs.
Lesson Plans and Resources - NROC's HippoCampus Bloggers contribute lesson plans and activities aligned with curriculum standards and NROC course resources to provide fresh ideas for teachers to engage their students. Teachers may subscribe to a discipline-specific blog on the blog site, and may find the resources on HIppoCampus.org, within each discipline area. Add comments to the blogs and share other good supplemental resources with your colleagues.
NROC Collections - NROC’s commitment is to provide high-quality content to our members. As part of this commitment, we continue to build new content to add to the NROC Permanent Collection. In addition, we are always looking for new content collections to add to the NROC Contributed Collection.
NROC News - Keep up with the latest news releases from the people at NROC. There is always something interesting along with new resources to explore.
Some More Help Videos Using NROC
In this 4 minute video, Beth Pickett, Product Manager for HippoCampus, shows you how to create customized playlists from course content. She shows you how the playlist functionality is a very powerful way to combine cross collection and cross disciplinary content for use in your classroom. Note this is a two part series.
This below webinar is for teachers and administrators interested in learning how to use your NROC Member-branded HippoCampus in the Classroom. HippoCampus manager Beth Pickett covers:
• customizing the site's content and textbooks,
• maximizing the screen size for classroom display,
• using the members-only Standards tab,
• creating member-branded child accounts,
• creating Playlists, and
• creating textbook correlations.
• customizing the site's content and textbooks,
• maximizing the screen size for classroom display,
• using the members-only Standards tab,
• creating member-branded child accounts,
• creating Playlists, and
• creating textbook correlations.
Over the past four and a half years, HippoCampus.org has grown to serve, on average, a quarter million teachers and learners every month. Originally intended as a homework help site for students, it was quickly discovered that, of those quarter million users, over half were teachers projecting HippoCampus content into their classrooms.To better meet the needs of teachers and NROC Network members, HippoCampus has been redesigned to accommodate new content collections, highlight discipline-specific resources, and enable the creation and sharing of custom “playlists”. View the below webinar to learn more.
Learn About EdReady From NROC
EdReady is a math and English remediation system for anyone considering attending college in the United States. The purpose of EdReady is to help prepare students to avoid remedial instruction and begin their college studies by giving them the resources they need to achieve adequate scores on commonly used placement exams, such as AccuPlacer, Compass, and ACT. EdReady will test every user for math and English readiness in order to recommend a course of study, as needed, tailored to their personal remediation needs for the school (or schools) they are seeking to enter. After taking the EdReady assessment, users will learn which schools will likely not require them to take remedial course work (because their EdReady score demonstrates sufficient competency to eclipse the minimum remediation score required on that school’s
placement exam). Users will also learn which schools will likely require remediation and, for those schools, users will be offered a remediation program customized to their personal learning needs.Users will have a personalized course of study presented by EdReady that is assembled either from free resources (e.g., NROC library and other open resources), commercial resources (e.g., state- or district-adopted content) or some combination thereof.
placement exam). Users will also learn which schools will likely require remediation and, for those schools, users will be offered a remediation program customized to their personal learning needs.Users will have a personalized course of study presented by EdReady that is assembled either from free resources (e.g., NROC library and other open resources), commercial resources (e.g., state- or district-adopted content) or some combination thereof.