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OCTOBER NEWS
♥️💥SOOOO MANY UPCOMING EVENTS💥♥️
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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LAST CHANCE EVENTS THIS MONTH
UPCOMING NOVEMBER EVENTS
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📌 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
CELEBRATE HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
Immerse your classroom in the diverse cultures and experiences of Hispanic and Latinx Americans with this special collection of stories that highlight their voices and contributions. You can help your students explore Latinx stories, like author and poet Julia Alvar ez's, and how their experiences inform the broader American narrative and illuminate our country’s history. Explore more...
Pear Deck
Celebrating Hispanic American Heritage Month
Explore our collection of lessons to celebrate the history, contributions, and accomplishments of Latinx, Latina, Latino, and Hispanic people who have enriched the United States. Get the Slides here --AND-- Get the Wonder Pack here.
Learning for Justice
September 15 through October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month! To help you celebrate and honor Hispanic Heritage Month with your students, we’ve compiled some of our favorite resources for bringing Latinx voices to the classroom. We hope these help you uplift a diverse range of intersectional Hispanic and Latinx identities, experiences, cultures and histories. Get resource here.
ASSISTments Free Webinars for Louisiana Educators
The workshop is only 75-minutes long and will include a full demonstration of the features of ASSISTments designed uniquely for Louisiana educators and discover how the Acceleration Cycle works to transform learning.
Pick one of the following sessions below so you don’t miss out!
ART CONTEST
To celebrate #DigCit, Elementari launching our art contests with @digcitinstitute with theme #UseTech4Good! All artists, K12 students/classrooms and adults, are invited to submit before October 24th for a chance to win awesome prizes. More info: elementari.com/artcontests
Apply to the PBS LearningMedia Pilot Testing Program
Calling all educators! PBS LearningMedia is currently seeking ELA and Social Studies educators in grades 6-12 to pilot test educational materials created for the Ken Burns in the Classroom collection. This paid opportunity will require implementing materials in your class, providing sample work, and when possible, allowing classroom observation by a member of the PBS LearningMedia team. Apply Here.
Join the Curriculum Design Cohort and New Edcamp
Curriculum Design: Deeper Discussions in World History
Are you a high school world history teacher interested in improving the quality of classroom discussions? We're looking for 12 teachers to join our curriculum design cohort!
Whether new to or experienced in facilitating discussions, we’re seeking passionate educators to join our federally funded cohort, which will collaborate to design open-access curricular supports to deepen discussions in high school world history. No previous experience in curriculum design necessary.
Applications will be accepted until October 7th.
Saturday, October 8, at 11:00 am - 2:00 pm (EDT) on zoom.
There is no such thing as an average learner. At Edcamp Learner Variability, we'll hear from a panel of educators on ways they have used The Learner Variability Navigator (LVN) to meet the needs of their learners, and you'll have opportunities to learn from and network with other educators.
During registration, participants have an opportunity to submit topics of interest that will be used to build the session board for day-of discussions.
Connect with us on Twitter using #EdcampLearnerVariability before and during the event!
CANVA-WAKELET CHALLENGE
Time to get creative! We’re celebrating our new @Canva integration with an exclusive challenge and giveaway! The 6 winners will receive Wakelet and Canva goodie bags stuffed to the brim with awesome swag! Click here to find out how to enter: http://bit.ly/CanvaxWakeletChallenge
Free E-Guide and Book Giveaway
Sign up for a free e-guide and enter to win a book giveaway by Rachelle Dene Poth.
Here is the link: https://trackservicehours.x2vol.com/e-guide-the-simple-way-to-track-work-based-learning-service-and-more
CDW Has 5 Open Positions
Senior Manager of Education Marketing
Education Marketing Specialist
Education Ambassador - State Level (DOEs)
Education Ambassador - Higher Education
Education Ambassador - K12 (Regional Service Centers and National Orgs)
It’s Back-To-School: Take Care of YOU With These Tips for Self-Care
As you work through your back-to-school checklist, add these five tips for creating intentional habits that will help you reduce stress in your classroom and foster healthy routines all school year long. See the tips here.
The Google Classroom Adobe Express Add-on
See Monica Burns's resources for the Adobe Express Google Classroom Add-on Here.
See this Google Classroom Comments Tip
From Sarah Kiefer
Hey GoogleClassroom users - you can edit/delete comments you've saved in ONE spot.
http://mybraincantholditall.blogspot.com/2022/09/updatecommentbank.html
ZOOM UPDATES
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Earlier this year, we reached out about an update to the registration confirmation page for meetings and webinars. The update aimed to improve our security by reducing the chance that unwanted participants might locate registration links on the open web and use them to join your meetings without your permission. We received customer feedback that our initial design did not fully consider the different ways you use the registration function. As a result, we postponed this update to incorporate your feedback into an enhanced design. We are now ready to reintroduce this update.
With this update, by default, when an attendee registers for an event, the join link will no longer be displayed on the confirmation page of their web browser. Instead, the attendee will find the join link in the email confirmation, which will be sent to them as usual. Again, this design is meant to reduce the chance of an unwanted attendee joining a meeting or webinar. Our enhanced design will let you decide whether a user can join your events that are already in progress, or about to start. Selecting this option displays the join info on the confirmation page if a user registers less than 5 min before the start of the meeting, or if the meeting is already in progress. Importantly, enabling this option creates some risk by allowing users to join the session using any email and without email verification. Meeting hosts will see this new option in the Registration Settings dialog when they schedule a meeting. For webinar hosts to see this new option, an admin must first enable it under Webinar Registration Options in the web portal settings.
The new registration experience will be enabled in phases for all accounts starting on October 17, 2022, but admins and owners have the option to enable this right away if desired. If you would like to move to this new experience before October 17th, please contact support to turn on the “Enable New Registration Flow” setting for your account. Once enabled, by default, registrants will no longer see join information (link, meeting password, etc.) on the registration confirmation page and will be asked to refer to their confirmation emails for how to join your meeting or webinar. Please see the image below.
For more information on how to manage registrants and turn on the new registration experience, please check out our help articles. As always, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our Support Team if you have any questions.
OCTOBER IS CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS MONTH
ISTE Certification Informational Webinars
Do you have some questions about ISTE Certification for Educators that you wish a human would answer? Here’s your solution … plus a couple of special deals from ISTE!
Attend one of the 30-minute info sessions with Certification Director Carmalita Seitz for real talk, and real answers to your certification questions.
Choose from these upcoming dates and times:
- Wednesday, October 19, 2022 9:30 AM ET
- Tuesday, November 15, 2022 3:00 PM ET
- Monday, December 12, 2022 4:30 PM ET
For more information and to sign up, click here!
TCEA TECH BLOG GOODIES
GOOGLE PHOTOS’ NEW VIDEO EDITOR
SUPPORT STUDENT WELL-BEING AND ACADEMIC GROWTH WITH MICROSOFT EDUCATION
FIVE IPHONE HACKS YOU NEED TO KNOW
DOWNLOAD FREE LEGO MAKER CARDS FOR INSPIRATION AND CREATION
FOUR NEW TOOLS YOU’LL WANT TO USE
MORE ED TECH TOOLS (YOU KNOW YOU WANT THEM!)
THE BEST YOUTUBE CHANNELS FOR TEACHERS
30 RECOMMENDED PODCASTS FOR EDUCATORS
EIGHT CHROME EXTENSIONS AND SITES YOU MAY NOT KNOW (SEPTEMBER 2022)
✔👀👌😘5 Minute Tips of the Month
🎥 Webinars of the Month
😍 FREE Extension of the Month
This extension allows you to BLOCK ADs on websites, social media and YouTube!
Click on picture below for more information.
💻 📱 Tech Certification of the Month
💫MICROSOFT SUPPORT
Educators Can Get Office 365 for FREE
Flip Blog with Updates
🌈 Google Updates
A Couple More Google Updates
To Stay Updated, Watch ALL Here or EDU in 90: The Latest, September 2022
Earn the new Google Sheets Skill Badge
Earn a skill badge by completing the "Use Functions, Formulas, and Charts in Google Sheets" quest, where you'll analyze data with functions and visualize data using charts. In this intermediate-level quest, you'll learn to search, validate, format and display data.
What's new from Clever and Google Classroom
Let teachers focus on instruction, not tech challenges, by using automated rostering for Google Classroom with Clever! Get set up and learn about helpful new features for districts in this 30 minute training webinar, available for Google Workspace for Education Plus users.
6 Back-to-Class Tips For Every Educator
Whether you're in the middle of a school year or in the first couple months of a new one, check out these tips for getting the most out of Google tools for students, teachers, and families alike.
Teach and Learn with Chrome
Register to hear about the latest Chromebooks and ChromeOS updates in events from October 4th to November 3rd. Learn new ways to keep your district secure, brand new features to enable efficient teaching and learning (like Screencast and cast moderator), and so much more.
Get Started with Google Classroom: Self-Paced Training for Educators
Learn more about the basics of Google Classroom, like simplifying class management and accelerating grading workflows, with our new self-paced training.
💡See Me Here
Click on the pictures below for more information and to register and find more information such as dates, times, room numbers and links to register HERE.
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Dr. Desiree Alexander, Educator Alexander Consulting
Dr. Desiree Alexander is an award-winning, multi-degreed educator who has been in the educational field since 2002. She is the Founder CEO of Educator Alexander Consulting, LLC and the Deputy Director for the Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana. She consults with members of several schools/businesses and presents at conferences globally.
Dr. Alexander is lifetime certified in Louisiana in Secondary English Education, as a Reading Specialist, as a School Librarian, as an Educational Technology Facilitator, as an Educational Technology Leader and in Educational Leadership 1. She is certified in Texas as a Principal, in English Language Arts and Reading for grades 4-8 and grades 8-12, as a Reading Specialist for grades EC-12, and as a School Librarian. She holds multiple technology certifications, including, but not limited to, IC3 certification, Google Certified Trainer and Innovator, Apple Teacher, and a Microsoft Innovative Educator Trainer and Expert.
She holds a Bachelor, a Master + 30, and an Education Specialist Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Louisiana State University, a Master of Library Science from Texas Woman’s University and a Master of Educational Leadership with a concentration in Educational Technology Leadership from Nicholls State University. She also holds a Doctorate in Education with a concentration in Educational Leadership from Lamar University.
She is a 2022 & 2021 Texas Computer Education Association Featured Thought Leader, 2020 International Society for Technology in Education Featured Voice, 2020 Future of Education Technology Conference Featured Presenter, 2019 Customer Commitment Award Honoree from Better Business Bureau's Torch Awards for Ethics, a 2019 Shreveport National Pan-Hellenic Council Mover and Shaker, a 2017 Young Professional Initiative 40 Under 40 Awards Honoree, 2017 Center for Digital Education Top 30 Technologists, Transformers & Trailblazers, 2017 PBS Learning Media Digital Innovator for Louisiana, 2016 Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana Member of the Year, 2015 Librarian of the Year for Louisiana Librarian Association, 2015 Campus Teacher of the Year in the Zachary Community School District and 2014 Leader of the Year for Region 2 Louisiana Association of Computer Using Educators.
Learn more at www.educatoralexander.com.
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