Registering for Inservice & Everything Else (CMS 1.13.16)

 

1. Take Attendance

Use this link to get to the attendance sheet in Google Drive, or find the attendance sheet however you like to.

2. January 18 Inservice Registration

Next Monday is our K-8 district inservice. I'm really excited about the sessions we're able to offer, and I personally wish I could attend almost all of them!

OUR OBJECTIVE today is to make sure you fully understand the schedule and your session options for Monday's inservice. We will do this by using the Smore flyer and registering in My Learning Plan.

The Smore flyer contains all the information we need for the day. You might want to save it to your home screen for easy reference. The first blue button contains session information. You CAN print this up. If you do, be sure you are using the Landscape setting to get a file that's easier to read.

The second blue button takes you to My Learning Plan. Most teachers log in using your school email address (lastname.firstname@usd443.org). Click on District Catalog on the left, and then click on January.

Look up sessions by name. Click on the session title, and then click on Sign Up Here. Most of the session information is already complete. Scroll down to the Goals section and click on the goal(s) that best fits this session. Click the box that verifies that you have selected a goal.

Scroll on down to Documentation and type in "sign-in sheet" here. Scroll down to Comments and write a sentence or two that explains what you will learn (key words from what the session is about).

Depending on the type of sessions you choose, you could have from 4-6 sessions for the day. Don't forget to register for the Keynote session and the Final Session.

 

3. Bison Team - A New Quiz Site

Our OBJECTIVE today is to understand quizizz.com and the role it can play in our classrooms. We will accomplish this by comparing Quizizz to Kahoot, a quiz platform we are already familiar with.

Step 1: Let's play Kahoot. Go to kahoot.it in your internet browser. Most of us are familiar with Kahoot, so let's play a short quiz together to remind ourselves the role this familiar quiz platform can play or does play in our classrooms.

How is Kahoot best used in your classroom? What are its pros? Its cons?

Step 2: Now let's look at a new quiz platform. Go to quizizz.com and click on Join a Game in the upper right. Follow the instructions projected on the white board to play this Christmas quiz.

How is Quizizz similar to Kahoot? How is it different? What are Quizizz's strengths and weaknesses, and what role might it have in your classroom?

4. Electives - Getting Organized for Quarter 3

Resetting Google Classroom classes or re-loading student Gmail contact groups (screenshots here).

5. Sunflowers - Polyvision Boards

We'll look at turning them on, calibrating them, and moving between the computer and the writing function. Let's also figure out what else we need to know or learn.

6. Twisters - Google Classroom and Sheets

How much do we already know? What additional information do we need?

7. Honeybees - MDPT

We'll review the MDPT in general and then specifically look at helping students unpack prompts.

8. 8th Grade Teams - Skyward

We'll quickly review the tips we've learned and then have time to implement them.

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