TIS Tech Crew Update

Posted on February 21, 2014 | Comments Off on TIS Tech Crew Update

Happy Friday everyone!

TIS Tech Crew met Wednesday to review the survey that they sent out last week to discuss some other items. We now meet every Wednesday during lunch/lunch recess in the conference room.

TIS TECH CREW

TIS TECH CREW

During our meeting RW created this tutorial for the TIS Tech Crew members that missed our meeting. The tutorial essentially describes how to reinstall the meraki profiles in order to remove Facetime, Game Center, etc. from the iPads. 6th grade is all set, so we divided the rest of the classes up. Please allow these students to take a look at the ipads in your class and help the user re-install meraki (if needed).

– JR in Quimby’s
– JR will help Michael for Childe
– RW will work with HubbardJ/Jurkowski/Steinke
– LP will work with Kimbrell/Gebuauer

We also discussed that it is a privilege to serve others by being a member of the TIS Tech Crew and that we have a responsibility to ALWAYS demonstrate responsible and appropriate uses of technology. Please let me know if you feel that any of the members are challenged with meeting this obligation.

The crew is getting into the habit of checking and reporting daily on the status of the iPads in the crates. The purpose is to have another verification of which ipads were in the crates at the end of the day. This, along with your observation at the end of the day, will help with keep track of the iPads.

Thanks for your support!

Christopher

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Tech Tuesday (capture)

Posted on February 3, 2014 | Comments Off on Tech Tuesday (capture)

captureFebruary 4th, 3:30-4:30, we’ll be exploring the use of the iPad application Capture to see how it can be used to teach CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.2-6.2.

Please bring your iPad charged with Capture installed. OR grab a student iPad a be ready to login to their Google Drive. We’ll meet in room 200.

More information.

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Students WANTED for TIS Tech Crew

Posted on December 18, 2013 | Comments Off on Students WANTED for TIS Tech Crew

Teachers,

I just put up posters requesting students for a TIS Tech Crew. I’ll make an announcement during the Miner Meeting as well.

TIS TECH CREW

TIS TECH CREW

Students are welcome to sign up now or wait until after the Miner Meeting. If they have any questions, they can talk to me or wait until the Miner Meeting.

The plan is to meet with students weekly. I may have to divide the team into two groups 4/5th and 6th due to schedules. Students will learn how to trouble-shoot common software/hardware issues and will also create and publish tutorials via screencasts.

If you have a student in mind that you think would be great for this, please encourage them to sign up. They can use the QR code scanner to scan the bar code on the poster, which will take them to the form. Or they can just go to www.goo.gl/hzxrdb.

Thanks so much!

Christopher

 

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Tech Tuesday (Nearpod)

Posted on December 5, 2013 | Comments Off on Tech Tuesday (Nearpod)

Hello everyone,

During the upcoming Tech Tuesday we are going to take a closer look at Nearpod.

Here are the highlights of what Nearpod can do:
– engage students with interactive lessons
– control student devices
– share content in real time
– instantly project student work from student ipad
– more, way, way more

Nearpod enables you to send information directly to student ipads simultaneously. You can also have students diagram, draw, label, match or whatever to a slide and then give instant feedback to students based on what they send you. Nearpod is ideal for giving students an opportunity to share their thinking on mathematics problems, diagrams, graphic organizers, maps, and much more. You basically send out a problem to students simultaneously and give them an opportunity to work on it individually, paired or grouped. You can see all of their screens while the students are working. You can select students to show their work on the projector screen and/or student iPads. Unlike working on slate whiteboard, students working on the iPad can have their work instantly shared and captured. There are LOTS of possibilities!

More Info: http://www.edudemic.com/how-nearpod-brought-active-learning-to-my-classroom/

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Hour of Code

Posted on December 4, 2013 | Comments Off on Hour of Code

Classroom Teachers,

Computer Science Education Week is December 9-15, 2013, I’d like to pretend it runs now through January 31st 2014!   🙂    So I’ll just go with that.

Code.org describes this as “a celebration geared to encourage interest in the field and show that anyone can learn the basics. Today, we’re surrounded by technology. Many students have their own tablets and phones — and yet, few are learning how computers actually work. Simple computer science activities can help nurture creativity and problem solving skills. By getting a feel for computational thinking early, students will have a foundation for success in any future career path.”

SO… in order to encourage students to give coding a try, I would LOVE to come into your classroom sometime during December (6th Grade only) or January (4th, 5th and 6th) to give your students time to code. We’ll be using  Hopscotch which enables students to visually move blocks of code around and instantly test their work.

I apologize for putting you off until January 4th/5th teachers. The app I need wasn’t able to get installed over break, but will be (I’m confident) during Winter Break.

If you are up for this, let me know. An hour of time is ideal. It is the “Hour of Code.” But I’ll settle for 45 minutes or whatever time you have. If you want to pass, no problem.

During the lesson I’ll demonstrate to students how they can  draw points, lines,  angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines. CCSS.Math.Content.4.G.A.1

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