While gathering
- Questionnaire
Your questions/thoughts/ideas about technology in D83
- Warm-up
- Concept map
- Digital pictures
- Morning staff development/during day
- Media Center specialist
- After school sessions/classes (can be taken for District 83 board credit)
- E-mails and handouts
- Classroom computers
- Labs
- Media Center computers and staff
- Laptop cart (COWS)
- Projector carts
- Peripherals: digital cameras, video cameras, scanners, cd/dvd burners
- Available software
- Passive vs Active learning,
Bloom's taxonomy, critical thinking - ISBE Standards,
National Education Technology Standards - Information Literacy
- Classroom activities/projects
- Collaboration
- District grade level technology projects
- Assessment
- Starting points or kid's search engines
- Teacher Web pages
- Keyboarding
Middle school curriculum (Mrs. Boyton)
Type-to-Learn on OS X computers
Easy Tech
Learning Links
- 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
- 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. - 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...
- 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
Within PowerSchool, grade program
- Directions
What do you want others to know about you in our district? Must be completed before you leave today.