Tech. TidByte
October 12, 2015
A Message from Dr. Melissa Williams-Scott
Project Share Gateway Resources and iTunes U
Renaissance Place STAR Reading & Math Testing Windows
Reading
- BOY: September 8 - 30, 2015: All Students K - 8 & High School Students enrolled in a Reading Class
- Progress: October 12 - 23, 2015: K - 8 Struggling Readers & High School Students enrolled in a Reading Class
- MOY: December 7, 2015 - January 6, 2016: All Students K - 8
- Progress: February 22 - March 4, 2016: K - 8 Struggling Readers & High School Students enrolled in a Reading Class
- EOY: May 9 - June 1, 2016: All Students K - 8 & High School Students enrolled in a Reading Class
Math
- Progress: October 26 - November 6: 1st - 8th Grade Struggling Students & all 9th Graders enrolled in Ag Math
- MOY: January 11 - 22, 2016: All 1st - 8th Grade Students & all 9th Graders enrolled in Ag Math
- Progress: February 22 - March 4, 2016: 1st - 8th Grade Struggling Students & all 9th Graders enrolled in Ag Math
- EOY: May 9 - June 1, 2016: All 1st - 8th Grade Students & all 9th Graders enrolled in Ag Math
We recommend running the following reports, and instructions for doing so can be found at https://goo.gl/7hDnWX. While the tutorials currently show how to do this for STAR Reading, it is an almost identical process for Math by clicking on STAR Math instead of STAR Reading.
- Screening Report
- Student Diagnostic Report (Send home with report cards)
- Instructional Planning Reports
STAR can even provide suggested skills activities to plan with your small groups. Schedule time with Jennifer Rushing or Caroline Lightfoot to learn more about this.
District Guidelines for Accelerated Reader can be found at this link. Instructions for looking up student usernames and passwords can be found at https://goo.gl/bZYqWU, though they match district student usernames and passwords. Click here for a flyer.
Digital Citizenship Week is October 18 - 24, 2015
Digital Citizenship prepares kids to navigate the internet confidently and safely. While the internet can be a place with never ending possibility where we connect, collaborate, learn, and access information, it can also be full danger and threats like identity theft, inappropriate content, cyberbullying, plagiarism, and predators.
The first step towards digital citizenship is for us, as educators, to instill ethical behavior in our students and teach them to be an ethical person and treat others with respect, care, and dignity. Common Sense Media has compiled a fantastic set up resources to help you teach digital citizenship to your students. Click the following link to access lesson plans and other resources: Digital Citizenship Scope & Sequence .
A great way to introduce Digital Citizenship is to compile a Digital Citizenship tool kit to share with your students. The tool kit will give them an abstract representation of each aspect of Digital Citizenship that will help prepare them for the digital world. Click the following link to learn more about the tool kit: Digital Citizenship Tool Kit.
Online Textbook: K - 5 ELA, Science, & Math (Think Central)
The link for Think Central is www-k6.thinkcentral.com. All Online Textbooks are linked on the Symbaloo page found at www.symbaloo.com/mix/disdicons, too. Think Central is used for K – 5 Math and Science and K – 6 English Language Arts. Elementary teachers have been imported by Homeroom, so you may not have access to all of your students. Contact Jennifer Rushing for options on accessing all of your students.
- Teacher Usernames: DISD+Username (Ex. DISDAGator)
- Teacher Passwords: Thinkcentral2015!
- Student Usernames: DISD+StudentID (Ex. DISD12345, i.e., the student's computer login)
- Student Passwords: Disd+8DigitDOB (Ex. Disd01082004)
Online Textbook: K - 5 Social Studies (Teacher Created Materials)
Teachers will use their Dickinson ISD Google Account to access these resources.
Username: DistrictUsername@apps.dickinsonisd.org (Ex. AGator@apps.dickinsonisd.org - don't forget to add apps. before dickinsonisd.org)
Password: Your computer password, a.k.a. your Active Directory password.
Step-by-Step Instructions for logging in to Google accounts are located at this link.
Online Textbook: 6th - 8th Grade Science (STEMScopes)
- Teacher Usernames: District Username (Ex. AGator)
- Teacher Passwords: If the word stemscopes does not work, try your employee ID number
- If that does not work, contact Caroline Lightfoot.
- Student Usernames: DISD+StudentID (Ex. DISD12345, i.e., the student's computer login)
- Student Passwords: Disd+8DigitDOB (Ex. Disd01082004)
- A small handful of students may not have been imported. If a student cannot access STEMScopes, contact Caroline Lightfoot.
Online Textbook: 6th - 12th Math & Social Studies (McGraw Hill ConnectED)
- Teacher Username: DISDFirstIntialLastName (example only, not a real account, DISDCLightfoot)
- Essentially, insert DISD in front of your district username
- Teacher Initial Password: DISDFirstInitialLastName1 (example only, not a real account, DISDCLightfoot1)
- Basically, this is what you use for you ConnectED username with a 1 at the end
- If that does not work, contact Caroline Lightfoot.
- Student Username: DISDStudentID (example only, not a real account., DISD12345)
- Another way to look at this is DISD followed by the student's computer login
- Student Password: DISD8DigitDateofBirth
- The password is Disd followed by the student ID with no spaces (example only, not a real account., Disd08102001)
Online Textbook: 6th - 12th Grade ELA, 9th - 12th Science (HMH, my.hrw)
These online resources are for 7th - 12th ELA and 9th - 12th Science.
- Teacher Usernames: DISD+Username (Ex. DISDAGator)
- Teacher Passwords: Thinkcentral2015!
- Student Usernames: DISD+StudentID (Ex. DISD12345)
- Student Passwords: Disd+8DigitDOB (Ex. Disd01082004)
Technology Integration
Jennifer Rushing (Elementary Campuses and Barber Middle School)
Caroline Lightfoot (Dunbar Middle School, McAdams Jr. High, and Dickinson High School)
Set Your Default Browser to Google
How to Login to Google
Username: YourDistrictUsername@apps.dickinsonisd.org
- Teacher or Staff (Example Only, NOT your account): AGator@apps.dickinsonisd.org
- Student (Example Only, NOT a real account): DISD12345@apps.dickinsonisd.org
- Password: Exactly what you use to login to the computer
- Also known as your Active Directory Password
For step by step instructions, go to https://goo.gl/CaxrwH.
We also recommend forwarding your DISD Gmail to your Outlook account, and step by step instructions for that are located here.
This link will provide resources on switching between a personal Google account and your DISD Professional Google Account.
How to Login to a Chromebook and Proper Care
District Google Workshop for October Features Sheets
For the year's complete schedule of courses, visit https://www.smore.com/b1fs5.
Use Eduphoria Help Desk to Enter Technology Work Orders
Windows Updates
- Click on your Windows Start button in the bottom left hand corner of your desktop
- Type Windows Update and click on this option when it populates
- Select Check for Updates
- Click Install Updates
- Accept the terms
- Continue to work on your computer and restart when you have time after all the updates have installed.