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A Day of technology

Today is Digital Learning Day 2014. A Day of technology. Improving upon your technology skills. G iving every child the opportunity to learn in a robust digital environment everyday.

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A Day of technology

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  1. Today is Digital Learning Day 2014 A Day of technology Improving upon your technology skills • Giving every child the opportunity to learn in a robust digital environment everyday. • making a difference with digital learning in America's schools by supporting the effective use of technology in the classroom to improve education for all students.

  2. JMA Technology website bit.ly/JMAtechnology • Our school’s resource to technology created for you • Always updating • Be my source for ideas to add to this site • To view my website, you have to accept my invitation.

  3. Free Web Tools You Might Like to Try

  4. Students publish posts and participate in academic discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. • Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs and user accounts. • Students write for an authentic audience – they post, publish and comment on each other’s blogs. • Nothing goes LIVE until you approve it. You can comment yourself on blogs offering suggestions for improvement.

  5. My Class Blog

  6. FREE – mobile platform that keeps teachers and students connected

  7. REMIND 101 • Remind101 closes the communication gap between home and school in a modern way, allowing you to send reminders, notifications, and updates via text or email. • You can sign up through the website, Iphone app, or Android app. Students and parents can join a class by sending a text or email message to the designated phone number you give them. • Safetyis a primary feature of this site. All phone numbers are kept private. You never see your students' or parents' phone numbers, & students and parents don't see yours. • Messages are one-way - parents & student can not reply.

  8. Easy to Set Up • Create a class. • Invite them to sign up.

  9. REMIND 101 – Join mine! Text me.

  10. So . . . Go Get Connected! • Go to www.remind101.com • Sign Up Today!

  11. www.signupgenius.com • Say good-bye to paper sign ups! Make life easier and coordinate it all ONLINE! It is a free website. • Your members can sign up 24-7. You receive an email when someone signs up. • You can sign up people yourself. Keep an address book of your group for future sign ups. • Customize when reminders are sent. Members receive them by emails or text. Send them to people who signed up or those who didn't. • Make your sign up public or private. Can share your sign up on a social network like Facebook or Pinterest. • Members can easily add/edit/swap their responsibility if plans change. • Create as many sign ups as you like.

  12. NEW: SIGN UP TO USE COMPUTER LABS, MEDIA CENTER & Ipads

  13. Links You May Find Useful Lab & Media Center Sign-Ups CMS ITW Atomic Learning SIMPLE K12 Learning Community

  14. CMS ITW (Instructional Technology Weekly) • An opportunity to learn new technology in video format • In its 4th season • Add this website to your Favorites – bit.ly/cmsitweekly With David Cassavecchia& Aubrey Harrison

  15. Bit.ly/atomiclearning • Go to website - http://www.atomiclearning.com & sign in. • Login – your full email address & password – eettgrant • New to Atomic Learning? Register for a webinar to learn more about it. • By logging in with your email, it is documenting all webinars you take. At the end of the year, all that you have done will be submitted on your behalf to CMS licensure.

  16. Simple K12 Teacher Learning Community • Free for the Basic Membership; can purchase a more inclusive membership • Free online events & webinars • Get frequent newsletters to invite me to free webinars so that I don’t miss anything potentially useful to me

  17. Creating Bitmarks • Remember when: • our scholars signed up for clubs this year? • you sent your parents your wiki address? • Sent a Youtube video to your scholars to view? • Better bookmarks – shortened web addresses • Bit.ly - https://bitly.com/ • Simply copy & paste the long web address into the site. It will create a shortened one for you. • Give out the bitmark to your audience. For example, bit.ly/cteproctor

  18. JMA Technology Let’s Explore! CMS ITW You may use the rest of the time to explore further any of the websites covered today!

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