DS TECH NEWS

...tech tips, best practices and resources

What's New This Week?

PD REMOTE LEARNING

Check out the new online presentation created by Technology Integrators, Lori Alighieri, Teresa Biene-Aime, Steve Harte, Sandra Sammarco, and Dianne Pappafotopoulos by clicking on the link above or the image to the right. The intent is to provide a quick access to information on apps that you may be using in your remote teaching. Just click on a topic to view a quick tutorial.


SCREENCASTIFY SUBMIT

New feature! Now you can include a link in your Google Classroom assignment to have students automatically save their videos to your Google Drive after they record them.


ZOOM 5.0 UPDATE
This latest mandatory update will occur on May 30th to enhance security features. If you don't update on your own, you will be asked to do so on that date. Click on the link to perform this task.


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PEEKING INTO A REMOTE CLASSROOM

Check out how MARY ANDREWS uses Google Slides for a creative and collaborative online project!

Here is the assignment:

Complete the “Being A Psychologist” activity/ review document and then add your own character analysis by creating a slide within the Class’ Google Slideshow.
Free Themes & Templates for Google Slides!

HELPFUL SITE FOR A SELECTION OF GOOGLE SLIDES TEMPLATES!

Great idea from ANDREA MERRITT using Google Forms with videos to communicate with parents!

See her example form below and check out this quick tutorial on how to embed a video within a form. How to insert videos into a Google Form
Eric Curts Webinar: Google Forms for Online Assessments

NEED HELP WITH GOOGLE FORMS? TUNE INTO A PRE-RECORDED WEBINAR FOR ADDITIONAL TIPS!

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WeAreDS Online for Educators

Click here to view our remote teaching/learning educator's site

Do you have a "best practice" or something "techy" that you would like to share?

Send me an email with your "best practices" content so that I can add it to the "Peeking into a Remote Classroom" area of this newsletter. Or, maybe you have a tech idea, timely article or interesting website that you would like to share. Contributions are always welcome!

May 21, 2020