Schoology Enterprise is Here
What an exciting time for Bellevue Public Schools as our district officially joined the Schoology Enterprise system! This is a huge step for our district and their commitment to all students, staff, and administrators when it comes to integrating an efficient and effective blended learning workflow in our schools.
What is Schoology? Schoology is a learning management system that allows teachers a consistent way to design and deliver course content to students, provide feedback, access curriculum materials, collaborate with colleagues, communicate with students and parents, and much more. Schoology Enterprise ties into our PowerSchool system streamlining content and communication for students, teachers, and parents.
A number of Bellevue Public Schools teachers have been integrating Schoology into their workflow over the past two years with great success. Moving forward, the iPad Academy teachers and Building Technology Coordinators will be receiving Schoology training this semester followed by a full rollout next school year.
If you would like to receive Schoology updates, be sure to join the District Schoology group. To join this group complete the following steps.
Login to Schoology and click on the search icon.
Type DIST-All Faculty.
Click on the word group in the sidebar.
Click Join Group to join the group.
It’s EdCamp Season
What is an EdCamp, you may wonder. It is a free meaningful professional development unconference. There are no presenters or agendas scheduled ahead of time, rather the sessions are all participant driven. Anyone is welcome to lead a session or facilitate a conversation and everyone is welcome to attend and participate. Here are two EdCamp options for you.
1. EdCamp Omaha is February 25, 2017 at Millard West high School from 8:00-1:00. Sign up for EdCamp Omaha here. If you are not able to attend, just add #edcampomaha to your Tweetdeck and follow the conversation virtually.
2. Ed Camp Global is a virtual EdCamp February 28, 2017 8 AM to Wednesday, March 1 at 8 AM Central Time Zone March 1.Sign up here and represent #bpsne. If you are not able to attend, just add #ECGC17 to your Tweetdeck and follow the conversation virtually.
Our Blog is on the Move!
The Tech Trio’s Technology Tools for Teaching blog has moved to a new location! Why is this important? Many of you subscribed to our old blog and will now need to subscribe to our new one. If you haven’t subscribed to our blog make sure to click on the link below and click FOLLOW on the right side of the page. This will send our new blog posts directly to your email to keep you up on all the things happening with technology in Bellevue Public Schools.
Click here to access our Technology Tools for Teaching blog! 
Hashtags Telling Our Story
One of the most powerful parts of Twitter is the hashtag! It connects people, ideas, and creates communities within Twitter. It is a unique way for our teachers and administrators to share the amazing things happening in our schools, classrooms, clubs, teams and organizations. Our district hashtag, #bpsne, continues to grow and is becoming a powerful tool that we can leverage as a district to connect all of our teachers, students, parents, and community members. We encourage you to continue sharing the great things happening in your classrooms. Here is a list of all of the Bellevue Public School educators on Twitter. Let's create the 2016-2017 Bellevue Public Schools story together!
