ITLS Newsletter
October 9, 2015
Message from Julie
And then I went to Hulstrom to give feedback on their Inquiry Quest projects. While there I let the Hulstrom middle school students educate me about WeVideo. Their explanations were easy to understand and clear, they showed me tips and tricks to save me time, and they gave me the confidence that I too could create a WeVideo, which eventually did happen.
Thanks for the way the you empower students to be digital literacy leaders for their peers and adults throughout our learning community. I've heard about the tech support teams that people have formed, the digital citizenship student leaders that people have identified, and the tech geniuses that have been trained to support the use of tech in classrooms. It takes time to teach students to be leaders; thanks for investing your time in our students!
Announcements
Celebration!!
Hour of Code: December 7-13
Grant Opportunities
- Century Link $5,000, Ocotber 1- January 11th.
- Jared Polis Foundation $1,500, Due by November 9th
- Colorado Grant Watch (All Kinds of grants...search away!)
From Your Peers
Adobe Voice: From Batoul Baydoun
Banned Book Week at Legacy High School: From Claire Trotter
Westlake Window Art for Banned Book Week: from Marcie Brozovich
Banned Bookshelf
Window Teasers
A Wall of Windows
Monsters! Monsters! Everywhere!
DLP Agenda: October 13, 2015
The Morning:
- Collaboration Successes
- Change Protocol (New learning experience for all of us!)
- If I had $10,000...
- Digital Literacy in the Content Areas: Guest Speaker-Brooke Tolmachoff
- Digital Literacy Collaboration in grade level groups
The Afternoon
Session One:
- Mt. Evans - SLO Work Session - Elementary level - with Megan Cain (Don't forget to prewatch the video)
- Mt. Lincoln - Collaboration time with peers
- Tin Cup - Tech Tools - Add-ons- Joelle
- Mt. Massive - Discussion about how to increase Depth of Knowledge; how to go deeper with research - Tiah
Session Two:
- Mt. Evans - SLO Work Session - Secondary level - with Megan (Don't forget to prewatch the video!)
- Mt. Lincoln - Collaboration time with peers (Battle of the Books Elementary Group)
- Tin Cup - Tech tools - Add-ons-Joelle
- Mt. Massive - Discussion about how to increase Depth of Knowledge; how to go deeper with research - Tiah
Session Three:
- Mt. Lincoln - Makerspaces- Tiah
- Tin Cup - Visual representations of data (Piktochart) - Julie
- Mt. Massive - Collaboration time
Disclaimer
Although we are using the ITLS newsletter to distribute many different ideas, we have not taken those through any type of formal approval process. We have not contacted IT to determine whether the tool(s) and/or resource(s) meet their standards nor have we obtained input from district content leaders; your resources and suggestions are not "officially" part of any Adams 12 curriculum, just ideas and suggestions for your consideration.