Cardinal Team Tech (DCMS, 4.26.16)

1. Take Attendance

Mark your attendance on the DCMS Tech Training Attendance spreadsheet

2. Automatically Backing Up Photos into Google Drive

Our photos and projects on our iPad camera rolls are important to us and to our students; yet, they take up most of our storage space. Deleting these items off of our camera rolls frees up space, but we risk getting rid of something we need later. What to do?

Google Drive addresses this issue now by automatically backing up our camera roll projects into our Google accounts. Very handy!

3. Other Stuff

In addition to Google Photos, teams are looking at a few other items, as well: dealing with student videos, dealing with student absences, Quizlet Live, Zoom or Skype in the Classroom, and the DCMS Staff DubSmash!

 In addition to team agendas, we'll also be looking at the summer professional development offerings: USD 443 Summer PD and #EdCampSWKS.

4. Our Challenge

As we begin to wind down this school year, we are challenged to use technology as a tool to help us be more efficient and effective in our classrooms. We can help students focus on review or new content by increasing their engagement via quiz tools; we can assess students' understanding of content with video and assessment tools, and we can automatize procedures and activities to free our time to facilitate more. 

5. Feedback

I'd love to hear your feedback. Click this link and let me know what you think!

Coyotes Team Tech/PD (4.20.16)

1. Take Attendance

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2. Tech Show & Tell

One of the perks from attending a conference is learning about new tech tools, especially when the conference is ESStech at ESSDACK!

One session I attended was "If You Like This, Then You'll Love This!, led by Ginger Lewman. Ginger put together a spreadsheet of "old" tech tools (they're not really that old - keep on using them if they're truly your favorites) and collected suggestions for newer versions of those tools. I've made a copy of her spreadsheet for us to use here. It is editable, so feel free to add your own suggestions!

Two tools I'd like to look at more closely are Quizlet Live and Dotstorming.com! Here's a Quizlet Live tutorial for more infomation on setting up this review game.

Let's reflect on Quizlet Live using this Dotstorming board!

3. Our Challenge

As we start to wrap up this school year, it's important to keep providing our students with structure and closure. Matt Miller of ditchthattextbook.com writes here of ending his year with Epic Olympics. He uses tech and non-tech tools to review the most important concepts from the year. Maybe activities like Quizlet Live can help with this type of activity!

4. Feedback

As always, leave anonymous feedback here!

Cardinal Team Tech (DCMS, 4.12.16)

Take Attendance

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Team Agendas

Odyssey

Electives

Schoology, Part 4 - Work Time & SMART Board Review

Bring your laptops to Mrs. Royle's room. We'll combine some Schoology review/work time with some SMART board review!

Spartans

Class Blogs - A Conversation

Let's talk about blogs - their functions, the choices - and make a plan that works for you! Bring either device; chances are we'll talk more than work.

I'm linking to this very helpful article about how to set up student blogs in Blogger (Google's blogging tool) in case we decide we need it.

Olympians

Class Blogs - A Conversation

Let's talk about blogs - their functions, the choices - and make a plan that works for you! Bring either device; chances are we'll talk more than work.

I'm linking to this very helpful article about how to set up student blogs in Blogger (Google's blogging tool) in case we decide we need it.

Voyagers

Introduction to Plickers

Bring your laptops. We'll demo Plickers and give you time to set up a class. Bring your iPad, as well, if you're a quick learner. You set up Plickers on a computer and run the session via the iPad.

Here's a quick tutorial we can look at.

Defenders

Work Time

We've been working independently on quizizz.com and other projects. Bring whichever device you need!

All Stars

DubSmash/Flipping & Blending

We'll pick up where we left off (we were playing with DubSmash!). Bring your iPad. Here are Kristin's directions.