Hofius Hi-Tech Highlights
Tech Tips for a 1:1 Chromebook Campus
February 12, 2019
District NearPod Subscriptions and Trainings
You can also access Information on how to login and utilize Nearpod in Klein ISD’s Guide to Digital Resources GROUP in Schoology. You can join using this code 2ZQB6-BD5FW.
February Nearpod Trainings
- February 12th – KMPC, 4-5 pm
- February 12th – KMPC, 5:15-6:15 pm
- February 13 – Workplace Live Webinar 4:15-5:15 pm
- February 28th – 4-5 pm, KMPC
- February 28th – 5:15-6:15 pm, KMPC
Quizalize Pilot Coming Soon
Quizalize has offered Hofius a FREE pilot for the remainder of this year to test out the product with your students and collect students data. I am currently in the works of setting up our teacher accounts and hope to have more information in the next week! In the meantime, please check out the video below.
TELPAS Tools
Student TEK Progress Monitoring and Goal Setting
Engaging and Educational Activities to Celebrate Valentine’s Day!
Thursday is Valentine’s Day, a holiday that inspires our students to let friends, family members, and loved ones know how much they care about them. This caring holiday can also inspire our students to learn grammar, math, geography, coding, and more with a few Valentine’s Day inspired activities below.
- Check out this Valentine's Day Quiz Collection of games by Kahoot.
- Students can send free digital greetings to their peers, another class, nursing homes, cancer wards, orphanages, or the military with Animoto, Canva, or Pic-Collage First, allow them to create their messages or poems on paper and have their peers edit for grammar errors. Students can add drawings or photos to many of these web tools and apps.
- In math, your students can send Math-o-grams with cool heart designs graphed. Students can see the equation worked out.
- Students can learn cryptology by creating their own secret coded language and writing a Valentine’s Day message for others to decipher.
- Students can create love poems with the free digital Love Magnetic Poetry Kit.
- Students can create their own heart-shaped poem using the Neoformix Word Hearts generator.
- Use candy hearts as writing prompts in a poem or story.
Reminders From the Repair Center
Students should not be bringing their chargers to school. They are supposed to stay at home. Please help encourage our awesome students to leave chargers at home for the following reasons:
- They are easy to lose and mix up with other student’s chargers. If a student turns in another student’s charger at the end of the year, they don’t credit for a charger being turned in. The student who the charger was assigned to gets the credit (and a refund if they already purchased a replacement).
- Chargers are NOT covered by the $35 insurance.
- They are trip hazards in the classroom. There are already enough obstacles in the classrooms, the last thing we need is cables across the floor added to the mix.
FYI, Chargers and styluses ARE covered if they stop working with no apparent signs of damage (or the stylus tip breaks).
Thanks to everyone who sends students to me with a work order and their case. It makes a big difference in helping them prepare for the expectations in high school. Not to mention keeps their device safe in transit (we are kind of short on supply right now…)
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Stacy Alexander
Email: salexander1@kleinisd.net
Website: https://sites.google.com/kleinisd.net/hofiusdls/home
Location: Office 1222
Phone: 832-375-8798
Twitter: @stacymalexander