Hour of Code 2016

Hour of Code 2016

December 5th- 11th

What is the Hour of code?

Let's introduce our students to the world of computer science through exploring coding. The Hour of Code week was developed to expose all students to a variety of resources which they can learn about coding. Share one of the text sets below or visit https://code.org/ to take it even further. Just spend one hour this week letting your students experience coding. 

                         K-5                                                                        6-12                                     

                                                  

Interested in taking this exploration a step further? 

Explore the class resources created by Karly Moura below. And if you are ready for learning more about integrating coding into your classroom, be sure to check out Beyond the Hour of Code, By Sam Patterson.

Check out this playlist of videos to learn more about coding (via Don Murphy)

Google Education on Air Online Conference- December 3, 2016

Education On Air is a free, virtual conference that I would highly encourage you to check out. Click HERE for the schedule and registration.

The December 3rd event will begin at 9:30 am with keynotes from:

• Dr. Jill Biden, Second Lady of the United States,
• Jahana Hayes, National Teacher of the Year
• Linda Darling-Hammond President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University

Starting at 10:30 am, educators from around the country will be presenting on a variety of topics, each 30 mins long. Explore the many sessions HERE  to find something that might fit your needs.

Not around on December 3rd? All of the sessions will be archived on the website schedule. Just click a session after December 4th and you can watch when it is convenient for you.

SDR is available for PUSD teachers interested. Whether you view sessions live or after December 3rd, you will be required to register and an email confirming your registration will be sent to you. At the end of each session, GoogleEdu will provide a form for you to fill out verifying attendance, once you complete it, you will then receive a certificate of attendance via email.

To receive SDR credit for attending sessions, please attach the registration confirmation and certificate of attendance for each session you attend.

Donors Choose and Cheveron

On September 1, Chevron launched their Fuel Your Schools campaign. 

Submit your project on Donors Choose to participate

Training For Google Apps - It's Like Having a Personal Tutor

The Training For Google Apps Extension adds an icon next to your profile picture in Google Apps. If you click on it, a list of tutorials pops up and will walk you through a brief training module. 

Get the Extension

Back To School Hyperdocs For Everyone

Created with Padlet

Back To School How-To Playlists

The Back To School Tutorial Playlist

Almost Everything You Wanted To Know About Google Forms

Setting up E-mail Filters

Tired of E-mails cluttering up your Inbox? 

Want them to be tucked away neatly into a folder rather than your inbox? 

You need E-mail Filters!

For Example - Imagine you are using Google Classroom and are receiving too many notifications from your students. Rather than disabling notifications you can have all the E-mails go to a folder in your E-mail rather than your inbox. 

More Videos On E-mail Filters

4 Easy Things You Can Do On Your First Day Back

The nuts and bolts to getting set up in Google Classroom

Google Classroom is a great way to manage your digital classroom. Students can enroll themselves and it's easy to assign work, e-mail classes and collect digital projects. Google Classroom now integrates with Google Calendar by creating class calendars with all assignments and questions. The Question feature also easily allows for digital class discussions. The calendar can be posted on a teacher webpage that parents can access and should dynamically update all posts.

Only students can enroll in a class and they must use the school provided Google Account!

A Google Classroom App is also available on Android and IOS. It provides the same functionality as the web version and will also notify students to updates to their classes.

How to get started...

For more information, check out these amazing resources from Alice Keeler

Google Forms To Rock Your World!

bit.ly/Formsthatrock
How To Get Started With Google Forms

Google Forms is a great way to collect and organize digital assignments, links, or other data.

Start With This Form

Copy the Results

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Forms For Writing

Use Autocrat to Create Personalized Docs From Form Responses Or send out Certificates as uneditible PDF's 

Autocrat Merge Tutorial Create a doc template

Napoleon Example Form

Napoleon Example Doc

Napoleon Example Spreadsheet

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Challenge

Uploading To My maps

Where would you go tomorrow if I gave you $10,000,000,000 Today?

Create a Form
With 2 multiple choice, checkbox, or scale questions to help you screen your guests.

Example
Will you go surfing with me?
On a scale of 1-10 how well do you cook?






Then complete this form to enter the $10,000,000,000 contest

The Map
View Locations Here
Location Results
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Other Awesome Add-Ons

Form Mule - Automate E-mail Responses

Form Ranger - Workshop Signups

Eliminator - Eliminate choices once selected

Flubaroo - Auto Score Responses

Doctopus - Push Docs out to students

Goobric - Interactive Rubric.

Site Maestro - Push out student websites

Presentation Feedback

Summer Tech

bit.ly/btstech101

WIFI -

Hyperdoc Lessons

Elementary Projects

Middle School

Tech For Instruction	Tech For Making Your Life Better
*There’s A Map 4 That	*7 Things to know about Google Forms
*Digital Formative Assessments	Google Sites
Hour Of Code	Media Literacy
*Edpuzzle	*Workflow and Extensions
Digital Discussions	Text Set Game Boards
Digital Citizenship Week	*Digital Portfolios
*Show What You Know	*YouTube
*HyperDocs and Multimedia text sets	*Twitter
BreakoutEdu	The World In 360

Annotating and Collaborating on a PDF

Use this slide tutorial to help students work together or on their own as they annotate of a PDF document. DocHub is a free Google Add On that is easy to use and creates an smooth workflow for working with PDFs. The key to using this beyond substitution level of tech integration is to create tasks which allow students to collaborate on the same document using the share settings.

Share how you are using DocHub with students on Twitter at @tsgivets or in the comment section below.

Create QR Codes to display Digital Projects for your Open House

Do you have digital projects that you would like to share with parents at Open House? It is possible with QR codes,  a computer generated code created from the digital project's URL.

Hang QR codes on your bulletin board for parents to scan using a QR code scanner and they can easily access their child's work.


To learn more about creating QR Codes, watch the following video tutorials. If you would like more help, just email and we can make an appointment.








How to Create a QR Code:
(fast forward through the Tellagami info!)

How to create a class set of QR Codes:

Step 1- Create a Google Form

Step 2- QR Code Generator

                                       

Extensions pushed on to PUSD Student Accounts

Extensions have been pushed to  PUSD Student Accounts Adblock - Snagit - Google Translate - Geogebra Cite This For Me - Shorten Me - Nimbus ScreenShot These extensions will appear on students extension bars.  Students can still add more and delete the extensions		GeoGebra
Snagit Screencasting Made Easy	Adblock Block ads on web pages	Cite This For Me Create a citation for a site
Nimbus Screen Shot Take Screenshots and Annotate on them	Shorten Me Shorten URLs and create QR Codes to Scan	Google Translate Highlight and Translate Text

Chatterpix - Make your pictures come to life.

Chatterpix

Make your Photos come to life in minutes. Chatterpix is a free Iphone and Ipad app that allows you to bring voice to inanimate objects from your camera roll. Check it out!