Getting Personal! - Adding Email Signature Lines to Our Email (DCMS 1.26.16; CMS 1.27.16)

1. Take Attendance

Use this link to access the DCMS Tech Training Attendance spreadsheet. Use this link to access the CMS Tech Training Attendance spreadsheet.

2. Updating our Email Signatures

OUR OBJECTIVE: Participants will demonstrate an understanding of accessing email signatures on their various school devices by updating their email signatures to include the non-discrimination statement provided by our building leaders.

Whether we already have an email signature or not on our various devices, we now NEED to have at least the statement of non-discrimination for an upcoming Office of Civil Rights audit. Here are instructions for almost any device you might be using. Please ignore any situations that do not pertain to how you use email!

Adding Non-Discriminatory Statement to School Email on Laptop (video):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3pXd2GN7Bi5VTJ0VDRfSzFnOW8/view?usp=sharing

If You Use the EXCHANGE WEB MAIL LINK ON THE INTRANET PAGE to Access School Email Inside or Outside of School –

Copy the Non-Discriminatory Statement from an email (or copy your entire signature, including the statement from one of your own emails)

Click on the link and log in

Click on Options in the upper right

Paste in the statement

Click on Save in the upper left

Adding Non-Discriminatory Statement on iPad or iPhone –

Copy the disclaimer from Ms. Feist's email on your iPad

Go to Settings (grey gear)

Go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars

Scroll down to Signature (about 3/4 way down)

Might need to click Per Account here to get all your email signature lines to open

Paste disclaimer into appropriate box for school email and school gmail

Adding Non-Discriminatory Statement on School Gmail on Laptop (do this in Chrome or Internet Explorer, not Firefox) –

Open up Gmail on your laptop

Click on the small grey gear icon in the upper right of the screen

Click on Settings

Scroll down this screen until you see Signature on the left. Unclick No Signature & paste in the Non-Discrimination statement in the box

Scroll to bottom of page and click Save Changes

IF YOU USE THE GMAIL APP ON YOUR IPAD OR IPHONE (in addition to the regular email app or instead of the regular email app) –

Your iPad is PROBABLY set to use your desktop Gmail signature by default, but YOU CAN’T SEE THIS AT ALL IN THE APP! To test this, send an email from your Gmail app on your iPad or iPhone to your school email account. Open the email to see if the signature line is in place.

If the signature line doesn’t show up as it should, click on the 3 horizontal lines in the upper left in the app, and then click on the gear icon beside your name. On this popup, check to see that mobile signature is turned off.

If the mobile signature is turned off, and you STILL can’t see your desktop signature when you send an email (in the opened, sent email; you WILL NOT see it on the Gmail app screen at all), then you may need to go out of the app and come back in to refresh it, or sign out with your school gmail account and sign back in to refresh it.

Adding the Non-Discrimination Statement to Replies & Forwarded Emails in School Email (Yellow Microsoft Outlook icon) – this is OPTIONAL! –

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3pXd2GN7Bi5UFBXZkx1Q3BCWm8/view?usp=sharing

3. As Always, Record Any Anonymous Feedback HERE! 

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.

9. Leave Your Anonymous Feedback Here!

Prepping for Our Inservice (DCMS 1.12.16)

Conference Room
Bring either your laptop or your iPad

 

 1. Mark Your Attendance

Mark your attendance on the DCMS Tech Training Attendance spreadsheet.

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. Twitter Basics

Believe it or not, teachers are one of the most effective Twitter users on the planet. Let's review how to connect with other educators teaching our same content or those who are exploring the same ideas we are.

Once you're set up, use the search bar in Twitter to explore some of these basic hashtags: #ipaded, #mathed, #socialstudies, #sschat, #mdpt, #physed, #tlap, #ela, and #edchat. Select All Tweets at the top once the page loads on your iPad (if you're on your laptop, click on Live at the top). Usually, these are all good people to follow. Also, don't forget to search #443chat and follow these tweeters, as well!

Here are some screenshots to walk you through the process on the iPad.

We'll use #443Tomorrows to create a back channel for Monday's inservice, so be sure and tweet out some of your "aha" moments!

4. The Challenge

Of course you want to get properly registered for Monday's inservice, so our CHALLENGE to you this week is to report some of the ideas you're most excited about via Twitter using the #443Tomorrows hashtag! Don't forget to add a picture or two.

5. Record Anonymouse Feedback Here