New Staff Orientation
While gathering
- Digital pictures
- Questionnaire: Your questions/thoughts/ideas about technology in D83
Introductions
- Warm-up
- Concept map
- Digital conversion in D83
Technology Support
- Technology Department
- Help Desk: School Dude
Ongoing life-long learning support
- Many staff development opportunities
- Technology Learning Coaches
- Media Center specialist
- After school sessions/classes
- E-mails and handouts
- Technology Collaboratives
Technology tools available
- SMARTBoards (turn off when not using)
- 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) (lock cart)
- MacBook Airs (Locked in cart)
- iPads (locked in cart)
- Peripherals: digital cameras, video cameras, flips, scanners & copiers
- Available software
Teacher Voicemail
- How to access
School Messenger
- Calls staff and parents with messages
Aseop
- Absentees...call in: Aesop website
SMARTboards
- Smart response systems
- Document cameras
- Notebook software
Technology purchase opportunity
- Fall
It's not about the technology, but rather the learning
- Passive vs active learning: If the answer can be found on Google, you might not be asking the right question.
- George Couros: What do you want kids to do with technology?
- Student Choice
- SAMR Model: Common Sense Media Example
- Curriculum Idea Examples: Florida's Technology Matrix and Arizona's Technology Matrix
- Big6: Problem Solving Website
- D83 Big6
- Internet Safety
- Bloom's updated taxonomy, critical thinking
- Common CORE and ISBE Standards
- National Education Technology Standards
- Information Literacy Standards
- Partnership for 21st Century Learning: Critical thinking, Communication, Collaboration and Creativity/Innovation
- Starting points or kid's search engines
- Teacher Web pages
- Keyboarding: Middle school curriculum and websites
Social Learning Network:
- Twitter: #D83Shines
- Edmodo: D83 Edmodo (under Students)
iPad Rules
Policies and procedures
- Google Apps Parent Permission Form: English | Spanish
- Acceptable Use Policy: English | Spanish
- Directory Opt Out Form: English | Spanish
- Copyright Guidelines
- D83 Email Guildelines
- Staff Links and Tools
Staff Trainings
Mac basics
- Macintosh Operating System
- Dock
- Security: DeepFreeze-OS 10
- Saving options:
- Account on school server
- Public folder on server
- Google Account
- "Our Creations" on hard drive
- Disks or jump drives
- PC compatibility
District 83 Web Page
- D83 access online
- Smoothwall Security
- Parent & community forms
- Staff forms
- Staff Links
- D83 Learning Links
- Items of Interest
Subscription tools available
Using Google: D83 e-mail, calendar and other goodies
- 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)
- Different calendar layers
- Google Drive
- Google Classroom
- How to...
Using D83 servers
- Access from our Web site or your computer's desk top
- Each staff member is given an account on your school's storage server
- 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.
Payroll
- Skyward, Web-based
PowerSchool
- 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
- Final Grade Set-up
- Best practices
Copiers
- Email documents to yourself.
Classroom Telephones
- Teacher's Voicemail
Final Activity
- All About Me in Google Docs
- What do you want others to know about you in our district? Must be completed and shared with me before you leave today.