LTHS All Staff Update
Back to School 2018
Welcome Back!
I am your Digital Learning Coach and I am responsible for Instructional Technology! I am all about student learning and you will see me pop up in your PLC meetings this year. I can help you earn your 5C Badges that will get you a Chromebook, but I will admit that I like to push people out of their comfort zones a little bit. The best way to reach me is by email at hamptonk@friscoisd.org.
Need Help? Feeling Lost?
I'll be available in the library with Chromebooks and laptops in the afternoon on Aug 14 and all day on the 15th if you need me. Come say hi and get help with things like eschool, Eduphoria planners, setting up your Google Classroom. Need a Learning Hub course? I can do that too!
Also, don't forget about The Digital Melting Pot is the place where all the Secondary DLCs in Frisco put our click sheets and help documents. If you need to know anything about eSchool it is probably in there! Remember there is a short URL to get there fast- bit.ly/digmeltpot
Check below for some eschool basic training :)
And finally, be sure to check out the DLC pinterest page at pinterest.com/techtator
eSchool Important Information
Important! If you get a Certificate Error when logging in to eSchool, please hit CANCEL. Otherwise a tech will have to come and fix it :0
August 14 is the official date that you can begin to use eSchool to send parent emails. Here are instructions for that if you need them. The reason is that all information has not yet been synced from Infosnap, so email addresses could be outdated. Please remember also that all schedules are not finalized yet.
If you are feeling confused about eschool- you can check out these video trainings,and/or stop by and see me next Tuesday and Wednesday in the library.
eSchool Video 1- navigating through eschool, student information, general setup
eSchool Video 2- setting up assignments, copying assignments
Please sign up!
Please join my Google classroom as I will be using this to send out information this year. You can go to Google Classroom and if you are brand new to Frisco, be sure that you sign in as a teacher first :)
Then you can click the plus button at the top right of the screen to Join my class. You will need to enter the code xv9dwhk when prompted.
5C Badges
Remind
Starting this year- we are automatically creating a Remind class for each class on your eschool roster. This will happen sometime on AUGUST 14. You will get an email from someone at our campus that tells you that you need to claim your accounts, but the date for that has not been set at this time. You will be able to merge some old remind accounts with new ones at this time.
Next you will send a notification to your classes. It will notify ALL STUDENTS and all parents in your classes. The way this notification will go to parents out will depend on what kind of information the parents provided during registration. If we have an email for the parents, they will get an email. If we have a cell phone, then it will text them. For students- we do not have student cell phone numbers in our Student Information System, so students will be invited by email only. You can go in and get the code so that you can tell kids to join your class on their cell phone later.
You will be able to rename these classes if you want. Rosters will be synced nightly to keep these current. You will still be able to create your own classes as well. Parent and students accounts are automatically created, and they will get a notification that their account has been created. Information for that notification pulls from eschool information. They will be able to merge these with their current accounts.
We are working on something to send out to parents before all of this happens to let them know they are about to get (possibly) 8 emails or more about Remind :)
We will send out more information as we have it- just remember this is brand new for all of us!
- You can do voice calls with Remind (appears to parents as a regular, 10 digit number on their phone that is not your phone number)
- Parents and students can call and text you through Remind. You can set "Office Hours" through Remind to allow them to contact you only during specific times. You can also disable the ability for parents/students to voice call you.
- You can auto translate messages that you send through Remind. This is helpful if you have parents who speak limited English.
- Remind now links with Google Drive, Google Classroom, and Quizlet so that you can share assignments and resources
Let me know if you need any help getting started!
Eduphoria Updates
GOOD NEWS!
Also new, the cart names in Eduphoria now start with a letter B,C,D, or G to indicate the hall where they live in the building. Because Eduphoria alphabetize the names, this helps group them by area. They still have the room number at the end of the cart name. For example, one of the new carts is named B Dartmouth CB Cart (15 Devices-B213) That should help you find something convenient to you a little more easily!
I also added our Block Rocker to the checkout this year. It lives in my office. It is a mobile mini sound system with a microphone and speaker. You can connect your phone to iit with an aux cable and it does bluetooth as well.
And finally, we now have a set of 10 VR goggles you can check out. There are no devices with them, but if you have students who want to use their own phones they can do that!
These can be found under mobile learning device lab in Facilities and events.