Crafting PLE
The Art of Creating Personalized Learning Environments
FMS Edition - December, 2015
Important Info
PLEF Schedule
My schedule this year is:
Monday and Tuesday - Ferndale
Wednesday and Thursday - JSGS
Friday - WSA
Upcoming changes:
Nov. 30 - Dec. 2nd, I will be helping with the GCS Learning Conference and will not be in the building. If you have tablet issues, please use the Tablet Trouble Ticket. For other concerns, please email me and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Day Users
Here are the procedures - please make sure you are familiar with these:
- Day User status will be assigned by the Tablet Team or an administrator.
- Parent Notification will be sent home with the student.
- All teachers of the student will be notified. Please make arrangements for homework assignments that do not require the tablet for these students.
- Each morning during AA, the student will pick up the tablet in the Media Center from the Tablet Team. S/he will sign the tablet out. Please do not send students after 9:10 AM.
- Each afternoon, the student will return the tablet to the Media Center and sign in. This should be done between 3:30 PM and 3:45 PM. Students will return to their class for dismissal.
- If a student misses a day of returning the tablet, an extra 3 days will be added on.
- The Tablet Team will charge the tablet for the next day.
- The student will have to come to the Lower Lab during lunch, most likely on the Monday of the Day User week, for tablet re-training. They will get their lunch and bring it with them.
Ferndale Student Digital Leaders
Student Digital Leaders will meet every other Monday in the Lower Lab during lunch. They will learn some basic and advanced troubleshooting, how to use various apps, digital citizenship, and other topics.
Meeting times will be (overlapped times will give incoming students a chance to eat):
o 6th – 10:50 – 11:20
o 7th – 11:10 – 11:40
o 8th – 11:55 – 12:20
HOMEROOM TEACHERS: Please use the survey below to submit the name of your student representative. A letter will be sent home with each, explaining this role to parents. The first meeting will be Dec. 7th.
News
New Tablet Feature
You may have noticed that your notebooks are now in alphabetical order. Hopefully, this will make it easier for you to find your classes. To get it in the order you want, you can change the names of classes. It updates right away.
I know we've been wanting something like this for a while, so better late than never!
Shout Outs
6th Grade Math Teachers Review with Kahoot!
Words of Wisdom
Teena Martin, PLEF
Email: martint6@gcsnc.com
Website: ple.gcsnc.com
Location: serving Ferndale Middle and Johnson St. Global Studies
Facebook: facebook.com/PLEFs
Twitter: @craftyPLEF