Tech 4 U
For the Week of August 22, 2016
Laying the Foundation for Good Digital Citizens
This is the perfect time of year to begin conversations promoting good digital citizenship. Common Sense Media has all the tools to get you started. Common Sense Media Education, www.commonsensemedia.org, will help you to guide your students to become critical consumers of digital media in a fast moving and ever-changing world.
Your tech coach can also co-teach a BreakoutEDU focusing on teamwork and digital citizenship.
Teacher Resources:
- Common Sense Media Scope and Sequence for grades K-12
- K-2: iBooks available from iBook Store
- 3-5: Digital Passport (See Tech Cheat Sheet for more information)
Check out pictures from around the district of students participating in BreakoutEDU - Digital Citizenship!
Getting Started with Seesaw
Google Classroom Updates
From the Free Technology for Teachers Blog by Richard Byrne
Last week Google released a bunch of updates to many of their tools that are popular with teachers. Here's a short overview of those updates.
1. Google Classroom now supports sharing with parents. You can now invite parents and guardians to subscribe to a daily or weekly summary of activities in your Google Classroom classes. The process for setting this up includes a few more steps than you might anticipate. You can read the full directions on this help page.
2. In the Google Classroom mobile apps you can now draw on, highlight, and write on top of students' Google Documents, PDFs, and Microsoft Word documents. The iOS version of the app will also let you type on top of a document. With both apps students can annotate items that teachers have shared in Google Classroom and teachers can annotate items that students have shared back to them.
Contact Us!
We would love to come to your room and teach a lesson. Here are just a few of the lessons we are teaching in the classrooms.
- BreakoutEDU A Bad Case of Stripes (Context Clues) 3-5
- BreakoutEDU Digital Citizenship sessions for grades 2-5
- General BreakoutEDU
- Create a digital post card using Google Slides
- Create a Mystery Number, Person, Place, or Thing with Google Slides
- Lesson on Tour Builder
- Create Student Portfolios using Google Sites
- Pick from a number of Google Projects
- Graph data using Google Sheets
- Research lessons
- Technology Playground Centers
- Code Lessons
- Google Drive lessons with the Do's and Don'ts of creating a Google Slide Presentation
- Read an Augmented Reality Digital Book with a writing extension activity using Google Docs
- Reading Centers with iPad
- Digital Citizenship Lessons
- Research Lessons
We would love to learn from you! Please invite us into your classroom to see all the engaging ways you are using technology in your classroom.
Need Help?
Sara Carpenter's Schedule:
Tuesday- Riverchase
Wednesday- South Shades Crest
Thursday- Shades Mountain
Tuesday - Deer Valley Elementary
Wednesday - Bluff Park Elementary
Thursday - Greystone Elementary
Contact Karen to schedule
Link to Help Form: http://goo.gl/forms/FSrkrKVktU
Melanie Haynes's Schedule:
Contact Melanie to schedule
Jamie Nutter's Schedule:
Tuesday - Gwin
Wednesday - Green Valley
Thursday - Rocky Ridge