While gathering

• Questionnaire
  Your questions/thoughts/ideas about technology in D83

• Warm-up
• Concept map
• Digital pictures

• We aim to please!

• Many staff development opportunities
• Media Center specialist
• After school sessions/classes (can be taken for District 83 board credit)
• E-mails and handouts

• Classroom computers (turn off at end of day)
• Classroom printers (leave on at end of day)
• Labs (always turn off at end of class)
• Media Center computers and staff
• Laptop cart (COWS)
• Projector carts
• Peripherals: digital cameras, video cameras, scanners, cd/dvd burners
• Available software

• Helps
• Smart response systems
• Document cameras
  

• Passive vs active learning
  Bloom's updated taxonomy, critical thinking
• ISBE Standards
• National Education Technology Standards
• Information Literacy Standards
• Classroom activities/projects
• Collaboration is important
• District grade level technology projects
• Assessment
• Starting points or kid's search engines
• Teacher Web pages
• Keyboarding
  Middle school curriculum
  Type-to-Learn on OS X computers
  Easy Tech
  Learning Links

• Acceptable Use Policy
• Publication Consent Release Form
• Web Consent Release Form

• Two operating systems (OS 9 and OS X)
• Dock
• Security: 
  FoolProof-OS 9
  DeepFreeze-OS 10
• Saving
• Account on server
• Public folder on server
• "Our Creations" on hard drive
• Disks or jump drives
• PC compatibility

• D83 access online
• Sonic Wall
  Prevents portals or inappropriate sites from being displayed on district computer screens
• Parent & community forms
• Staff forms
• Staff Links
• D83 Learning Links
• Items of Interest

• BrainPOP
  BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. Our resources include movies, quizzes, experiments, timelines, activity pages, and much more covering hundreds of topics within Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Technology, Arts & Music, and Health. All content is aligned to and searchable by state standards.
• EasyTech
  Self-paced interactive tutorials guide students in technology-based activities that are aligned with the ISTE NETS-S and with state technology and core curriculum standards.
• WorldBook
  World Book Kids includes content from the award-winning World Book Student Discovery Encyclopedia, as well as dozens of learning activities and games.
• BookFlix
  Scholastic BookFlix is a new online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic to build a love of reading and learning. The engaging way to link fact and fiction, BookFlix reinforces early reading skills and introduces children to a world of knowledge and exploration..
• United Streaming
  Discovery Education unitedstreaming provides teachers with the tools to incorporate fresh, vibrant digital media into student learning environments - quickly and easily. Teachers gain access to a rich collection of more than 50,000 video segments from among 5,000 full-length educational videos (more than 1,000 new titles added every year).

• Web-based
• Check everyday (beginning of day and before you leave school)
• E-mail is not private. Only send e-mail messages that you wouldn't mind knowing that other strangers can read
• Spam and junk mail
• District e-mail is not to be used for personal use (many e-mails end up in spam filter)
• D83 Guidelines
• How to...
  

• Access from our Web site or your computer's desk top
• Each staff member is given an account on your school's storage server
• Can access from your school
• Can access from anywhere in the district or from the outside world
• Public folder is a public place to save something you want to share with others. Items are not protected.
• Save often. We keep back-up tapes of all items saved to the server.
• "Our Creations" is a temporary saving folder on computer desktops to save. Anyone who sits at that computer has access to all files in that folder.
• How to connect from home

• Student Information System
  PowerSchool automates critical functions like attendance, complex scheduling, classroom grading, and reporting, so student information is available when you need it, anywhere, anytime.
• PowerTeacher and Gradebook
  Within PowerSchool, grade program
• Best practices

• Directions
  What do you want others to know about you in our district? Must be completed before you leave today.