Tech Tips
June 2015: Volume 2 Number 14
Summer Fun!
Snagit
DocSecrets
DocSecrets is a Google Add-On that lets you encrypt and hide information.
SnapSeed
Google Drive Shortcuts
Zaption
How to share Zaption to Google Classroom.
Google Takeout
Undo Send in Gmail
Shelfies: A Snapshot of Our Reading Lives
"There was animated book conversation from the start. As students were shopping in the classroom library, consulting the TBR lists in their notebooks, and making arrangements to borrow titles from one another, students were making plans–reading commitments–and talking to each other about books. Then came slogans and phrasing that encouraged others to read as students lettered their posters. And as they shopped for prime real-estate in hanging their posters around the school, my students considered their audience and who they were trying to promote reading with.
But then there was more. We noticed other students and teachers pausing at our posters, looking at the students’ faces and the titles in their pictures. We overheard other students who recognized titles they loved in our pictures, and other students who wondered aloud about books they didn’t know. And the best comment that we overheard? It was the one from a 5th grader in the classroom next door when she pleaded to her teacher, “Can we make TBR posters, too?”"
SCS Instructional Technology Information
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Email: vturner@scsmustangs.org
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