Back-to-School Reminders
Kaci Powers
UPDATE YOUR WEBPAGE
Please update your schedule, bio, and other relevant information. Click on Update Webpage for how to sign in to your webpage and make changes.
UPDATE FORETHOUGHT/RECORD TECHNOLOGY TEKS
Remember you must delete your 2014-2015 schedule and create a 2015-2016 schedule before you enter lesson plans into Forethought.
Forethought Beginning of Year Instructions
Record Technology TEKS
Each six weeks, each student is expected to use the iPad to create a content-driven product. To document all lessons which cover the Technology TEKS, record them in your Forethought lesson plans. Forethought now includes a section to check on your lesson plan.
TAC RESOURCES
TAC has a new look! Sign in to the district webpage and click the link below to view instructional videos and instructions for the TAC update : TAC Resources.
It can also be found online at MISD Webpage > Instructional Technology > Student Services > TAC Resources.
CURRENT RECOMMENDED BROWSERS
Schoolwires: Firefox
Teacher Access Center: All browsers, start with Firefox
Eduphoria: Firefox
YOUR STAFF DRIVE
Please remember to save all of your files and documents to your Staff drive. Your computer may be wiped out at any time with no notice. Nothing saved to your staff drive will be lost. You can also access all files saved to your staff drive through the VMWare app on your iPad.
MIDWAY STUDENT LOGIN CHEAT SHEET
Click to access the student login information.
MIDWAY STAFF LOGIN CHEAT SHEET
Click to access staff login information.
APPLE TV UPDATE INSTRUCTIONS
Please update your Apple TV and check to see that mirroring is working.
VOICE MAIL, WORK ORDERS, TROUBLESHOOTING
This link may help answer some questions.
VMWare INSTRUCTIONS
Click the link above for instructions for using VMWare on your iPad.
EDMODO
Edmodo is a useful tool for managing student projects made on the iPads. Ask for more information about getting your class set up.
GOOGLE DOCS
All teachers and students have access to an MISD Google Doc account that can be accessed under Students>Google App from the MISD website. Please see you campus technologist for password and user name information. This is a great time-saving, communication, and collaboration tool for teachers and students.
STUDENT E-MAIL
All students have an Email account that can be accessed from the Student tab on the MISD homepage. See the Student Login cheat sheet for Email formats.
TWITTER
Check out this page for information on Twitter.
INTERNET IMAGE SEARCHES
When searching for images on Google, select Images and then Search Tools. Under Search Tools, click on Usage Rights and select one of the Labeled for... options to see only copyright safe images. It is always a good idea to cite the source of the image anyway to practice good Digital Citizenship.
QR CODE LINKS TO VIDEOS
When creating QR code activities linked to videos:
Video links for students need to be from Clean Video Search.
http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=iWAtPMsk8_Y
instead of