tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55285191967806831902024-03-13T10:20:33.862-07:00Union Pines Tech Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039724098081998975noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528519196780683190.post-67585593033181869742017-02-15T05:49:00.001-08:002017-02-15T05:49:37.625-08:00Feb 15: Kahoot Problems Answered by Quizzizz<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KAHOOT!: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Kahoot has implemented a new security / safety feature for 16 and under users that disables their ability to share their work; thank you UPHS Foreign Language teachers for finding the error. The result is simply that students cannot email you the link to play with the class or to grade their work. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">QUIZZIZZ:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Quizzizz is an extremely similar gaming / formative assessment tool. Students can create and share their work; just like they used to with Kahoot.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">You will still get the same great formative assessment tool with the individual student data you need for modification and </span><span style="font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">remediation.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039724098081998975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528519196780683190.post-9139192893781728302016-12-01T05:06:00.000-08:002016-12-01T05:06:09.255-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: lime; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PowerTeacher - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You probably have noticed the window shuts down very quickly (10 minutes or less) when inactive. I have asked MCS IT to see if this is a MCS or DPI policy. If this is an MCS policy, we will ask that time-out to take place in a greater increment (30 - 45 minutes) to allow you to do your work more between logins. If this is a DPI policy we may be stuck. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: lime; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3D Printing - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3D printing has a home in your club or course. A student from the Fishing Club (Johnson, Moore, & Allred) asked he can design and print lures. Two kids asked if they can design and print a scale Ziggurat for a class project (if you don’t know what that is, ask your local World History teacher). Ms Murphy asked if we can 3d print some dreidels for when she teaches world religions. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: lime; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keeping the UPHS Family Informed -</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: lime; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As you know we are re-thinking how to communicate all the academics, arts, community service, and sports going on at UPHS. It is a bigger undertaking than I thought initially. We need to find a way to communicate some info with staff, other information with students, and still other information with the parents and community. It needs to be reliable and timely and preferably catered to the audience. I’m not convinced there is a silver bullet to be found but if you have ideas put them out there. If your group, club or team already has a way to communicate with parents and community on Twitter or Facebook, may I know the Twitter Handle or FB page name to promote it? The rest of us can benefit from seeing what works for you already. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">—</span><span style="color: orange;">Digital Integration, the Joyce Kelly Edition: </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">The people you work around are doing great work with integrating technology into their daily instruction. Joye Kelly decided to tackle Canterbury Tales a new way this fall. She is having her standard ELA 12 students use StoryBoardThat.com to create illustrated characterizations of 15 of the pilgrims from the book. After 3 days the kids are pros with the program & are able to recall the physical traits and satirical elements of several of the characters they read about. This is a challenging group of students with which to try something new; not to mention in the context of English Literature. Good work and you are awesome!</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">— </span><span style="color: orange;">PLC’s and Accreditation:</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Your PLC minutes are great, don’t change anything. With that said, PHS was docked points for not have a central hub for admin and SIT to review them. As a result, I need all Dept Heads to please send me the share LINK to your docs and I will create a hub for them in Canvas. You will continue to access them as you always do or you can get them through Canvas. If you can get me the “Share” link in an email titled ex: "Science PLC” I will take care of the rest over Thanksgiving. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>Change Your Password NOW:</b></span><span style="color: orange;"> On October 13th 678 students were logged in as teachers on their personal devices to allow their cell phones to pull data from our government network. Those 678 students were only using 2 teachers credentials. The initial breach of security could have been my malicious intent by a student or by the willing sharing by a staff member with their child or student. In any case, we all need to take reasonable steps to ensure this sort of breach does not happen again. The networks here are for students to access content relevant information, not to engage in cell phone apps. If you believe your account has been accessed inappropriately or you have not changed your password this year, go into you .org email and change your password. Doing so will trigger a chain of automatic password resets on all MCS devices, Zscaler, and Wifi access. If students are using your information now the change will kick them off. </span><br />
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https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/press/vit14pr.cfmAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039724098081998975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528519196780683190.post-83840004468434171202016-10-18T08:30:00.000-07:002016-10-18T08:30:06.033-07:00Catching you UP<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i>Master</i> Calendar</span></b><br />
For the past couple of years I have heard staff members say that they would do more around here if they knew what was going on. An idea was worked out last year to have one mutual calendar in Google that would be our <i>MASTER</i> calendar. It worked really well for the Department Heads & Coaches last year so now it's time to expand the calendar. This AM you were all given access to our UPHS <i>Master</i> Calendar. You can add, alter and see all the awesomeness happening around here to "stay in the know." Here is a video to get you started if you are new to Google Calendars.<br />
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Thanks to everyone (especially the Science Department!!!) that was able to drop by the playdate for the Virtual Reality headsets. I was able to use them already in Mr. Johnson's room, which went well, and now I'm hoping to bring them into yours. Remember that these (right now) are best deployed as a small group, rotation style resource. I have compiled a google sheet with YouTube 360 Videos subdivided by department / course. Look around in there and tell me if there is something that would be valuable to your classes. Don't see what you need? Let me know that too & I'll search it out for you.<br />
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You may not be aware of it, but we have an awesome Green Screen setup waiting for you, your classes, and your clubs to use for still shots, commercials, and short movies. Please let me know if you are tired of the same old projects and I'll show you how we can make Green Screen movies without blowing up your pacing guide. Take a look and see what we are already doing in our Green Screen Studio.<br />
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5. Mr. McCormick has said that he is seeking out the funds to send more teachers this year to the NCTIES conference. A. Parsons, J. Blake, & K. Faw attended last year and can give you an idea of whether or not it is something that interests you. I will let you know if and when funding is secured as well as how we will determine who gets to go this year.<br />
<i>*If you want to seize the reigns and guarantee your spot: </i><br />
NCTIES offers free registration to anyone selected to present at the conference. Don't underestimate your teaching, many of you do awesome things that other teachers would love to know. Go to the website and fill out a session proposal. All they can do is say no.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039724098081998975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528519196780683190.post-47693505170858409712015-05-01T11:57:00.000-07:002015-05-01T11:57:14.194-07:00May 7th Digital Showcase<iframe height="480" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8mX8r_mbBcabmYzS1RoczBxNXc/preview" width="640"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039724098081998975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528519196780683190.post-65296562986831950512015-04-28T09:00:00.000-07:002015-04-28T09:00:29.684-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today I bring you some integration ideas I learned from </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joshua Cassellius</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a spanish teacher at Union Pines High School. Mr. Cassellius has been doing an exceptional job, smoothly incorporating technology into his daily instruction. He was an early adopter of Google Classroom to manage workflow and now runs a largely paper free classroom. Mr. Cassellius understands well that Chromebooks are a teacher’s tool for instruction that doesn’t fit every instructional situation. Accordingly, students move their devices back and forth from desktop to backpack efficiently several times in a class period. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a recent training session we discussed <a href="https://todaysmeet.com/" target="_blank">Today’s Meet. </a>Mr. Cassellius volunteered to his colleagues that he uses it with great success. He make one “room” per course, sets the time limit for 1 year, and posts the entrance code on the “About” tab of the course’s </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Classroom</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> page. Before tests and quizzes he asks students to post any questions they have to the wall. He credits the anonymity afforded by </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today’s Meet</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for the increased increase in student requests for help and as a result better student performance on the quizzes. Similarly he solicits student responses in spanish to verbal questions and as responses are collected peers critique the grammar and word choice without the fear of judgement by peers. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. Cassellius has also asked that students work in groups to create video presentations with cell phones and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WeVideo</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to demonstrate their mastery of elementary spanish. This one activity allows Mr. Cassellius to reach all 4 of the central components of spanish skill instruction: speak, writing, listening, and presentation. The task is made challenging and relevant because these students have to collaborate with each other to produce mastery work while navigating the non-native language. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;">Good morning UPHS</span><span style="font-size: large;">Tomorrow is one of our last Tech 20's for the 2014-2015 school year. Tough to believe but the end is near.</span><span style="font-size: large;">Here is a preview of our play list for tomorrow.</span></span></span></h2>
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<a href="http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make Belief Comix</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039724098081998975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528519196780683190.post-55430121290406116652015-03-09T08:36:00.000-07:002015-03-09T08:36:12.652-07:00UPcoming PD March 11th<span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Hey everybody!<br />I'm back on campus for the foreseeable future. We have some training still on the schedule and some to make up so we'll go ahead and start this Wednesday during all planning periods; start time is 30 minutes into each block (ex. 1st Class begins @ 8:30 so training at 9:00). In addition to those session I will also be coming in to do an early bird special from 8:00 to 8:20. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Our agenda includes a countywide survey that I need everyone to take and I'll do sort of a wrap up of the things we saw at the NCTIES conference in Raleigh last week. I look forward to seeing you all there!</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039724098081998975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528519196780683190.post-87581479537870262492015-01-27T09:15:00.001-08:002015-01-27T09:15:24.411-08:00HelpDesk is UP and Running!<div class="p1">
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b>I wanted to make you aware of a new resource available to you and the students this semester; the <span class="s1">IT Help Desk</span>. This is a group of tech-savvy UP students available every block of the day to respond to any and all of your classroom technology needs. They will be trained by the county's IT staff, the media center staff, and myself on how to do most everything between plugging you your <span class="s2">smart board</span> to helping Mitzi & Cyndi conduct asset<span class="s2"> inventory</span>, to building a <span class="s2">website</span> for you, to <span class="s2">videoing</span> a lesson for you, to assisting you with<span class="s2"> troubleshooting </span>when you try a new lesson. What they are not able to do they will quickly forward to Mitzi and Cyndi to determine a resolution. </b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039724098081998975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528519196780683190.post-81271535160946934512015-01-05T11:21:00.003-08:002015-01-05T11:21:47.739-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<a href="https://www.thinglink.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Happy Monkey'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ThingLink</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Happy Monkey'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a great new tool that we can start using today in our 1:1 classrooms! Essentially ThingLink allows users to import a still image and annotate that image with “hot spots” that hold either static photo, text, or video (one caveat here is that YouTube is currently not available to our students as it is for teachers) and present them to the viewer as pop-ups. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039724098081998975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528519196780683190.post-59911589905686016822015-01-02T11:43:00.003-08:002015-01-02T11:44:23.540-08:00Spring Trainings Dates in 2015!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039724098081998975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528519196780683190.post-78788723853477634142014-12-31T08:22:00.000-08:002014-12-31T08:22:12.696-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Blog entries could range from describing a product you created in class, describing a teacher or teaching styles you think really work in the 1 to 1 classroom, or your reflections on how your school or classes have changed in the past 12 months since Chromebooks were handed out. If you are interested, email Mr. Herring at </span><a href="mailto:wherring@ncmcs.net" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wherring@ncmcs.net</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with your idea and he will send you some examples from other students and help you develop your idea."</span></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039724098081998975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528519196780683190.post-3113833247781161882014-12-12T07:53:00.000-08:002014-12-12T07:57:37.078-08:00Postponing December Training<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HkcNRjt8NHI/VIsMuCeIGHI/AAAAAAAAAOI/En_Eav7UFcs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-12-12%2Bat%2B10.41.14%2BAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HkcNRjt8NHI/VIsMuCeIGHI/AAAAAAAAAOI/En_Eav7UFcs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-12-12%2Bat%2B10.41.14%2BAM.png" height="73" width="320" /></span></a><i><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Good morning and happy Friday</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">I wanted to reiterate an email I sent out the other day informing you all that I am <span style="background-color: #93c47d;">postponing</span> the trainings scheduled for <span style="background-color: #93c47d;">Wednesday the 17th</span>. Many of you are busy with senior exams or tying up lose ends before the break. I will be helping to run the Chromeboook help desk since Mitzi will be temporarily ousted from the Media Center. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">If your students have <span style="background-color: #93c47d;">trouble with their </span><span style="background-color: #93c47d;">chromebooks</span> next week please send them to the future home of the help desk <span style="background-color: #93c47d;">outside the attendance</span> office. Mitzi will be using that nice set up Ms. Lea built to offer the help. Mitzi has sent an email to everyone asking you to tell kids to turn in their <span style="background-color: #93c47d;">laptops with bad mice</span> now so we don't have issues that compromise testing after break. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">You will likely encounter students soon that will only have <span style="background-color: #93c47d;">limited access to the internet</span>. These students were flagged by the county as abusing some or several aspects of our acceptable use guidelines. Students will have <span style="background-color: #93c47d;">access to Google Apps (Docs, Movenote, Picktochart, Lucid, etc..) and some site predetermined to be educational </span>by IT. This is NOT a tech issue that should be sent to the help desk. This is a sentence they are serving for a period to be determined by Ms. Lea and the administrative team. If you need a certain site opened to one of these students let me know a day or two (preferred) ahead of time and I can request it be allowed for the student.</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">As you have seen, it has taken some time but the district and our school are serious about providing powerful tools to our students but also that they use them in productive and appropriate ways. We (I) need to do a better of preaching and <span style="background-color: #93c47d;">teaching digital citizenship </span>to our students. If there is a day that I can talk to one or more of your courses to </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">(give you a little extra planning time?)</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> talk to them about behavior in digital spaces please shoot me an email and we'll get it on the calendar.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></i>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Happy Monkey'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The second round of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6aa84f; font-family: 'Happy Monkey'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flubaroo </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Happy Monkey'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2nd and 4th). </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6aa84f; font-family: 'Happy Monkey'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flubaroo</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Happy Monkey'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> will grade, analyze and report your students' work on any M/C, T/F, Scale, Matrix, etc... question (sorry, no essays or short answer). Participants will leave with knowledge (and a handout) of how to design a test/quiz in Forms, add the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6aa84f; font-family: 'Happy Monkey'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flubaroo</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Happy Monkey'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> script to a spreadsheet, and grade student responses. </span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039724098081998975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528519196780683190.post-49238063353080836352014-11-25T09:20:00.002-08:002014-11-25T09:20:56.366-08:00Our NCTies Lineup Is Set!<h3>
<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Thanks to everyone that expressed interest in the </span><span style="color: orange;">NCTies </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">opportunity. At this point on entries are determined. The English, Social Studies, and Administrative teams will be represented by </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Amy Parsons, Jeremy Blake, and Kate Faw</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> respectively. I'm really excited about this team and I know they are too. It is rare in our profession to step away and be with coworkers in a collaborative setting. I am sure that this team will bring back great skills and insights to help us all do our work that much better. Don't hesitate to ask them or myself to share what we have learned when we return. If we are lucky enough to send I team next year I hope to see an email from you!</span></i></h3>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039724098081998975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528519196780683190.post-85699150245929768972014-11-13T08:13:00.000-08:002014-11-13T08:13:21.178-08:00NC TIES CONFERENCE 2015 **UP TO THREE GO FOR FREE***<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 32px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NC TIES</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is by far the largest teacher tech convention in the North Carolina. Thousands of teachers, coaches, administrators, and media specialists will descend upon the Raleigh Convention March 5 & 6th in 2015. </span><span style="color: orange;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">YOU CAN BE ONE OF THEM AND ATTEND FOR FREE</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ms. Lea</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">has very graciously offered to provide funds for up to 3 Union Pines High School teachers</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to join the dozens of Moore County Schools teachers already registered for the the 2015 NC TIES conference. That offer includes the cost of registration, accommodations, substitute teacher, travel and food (food and travel are based on county established expense sheets). Please understand that the offer comes in the context of very tight budgets everywhere. This conference is a priority for administrators all over the state. The expectation is that you will come back and become resources for the whole staff for years to come.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In 2013 I was lucky enough to have my registration paid by my principal as a history teacher / Dept Chair. That conference opened my eyes to the emerging world beyond the silo of my classroom and my instructional comfort zone. I was exposed to the actual 21st century, information-based economy that my students would soon enter. As a direct result of the conference I was able to improve the relevance and quality of my instruction To better prepare them for that eventuality. I met the writers of SAS Curriculum Pathways lessons, Google for EDU creators, and other leaders in the arena of EduTech. I became a leader in my local LEA beyond that of a SS Department head to a member of the school and county based tech council ultimately ending up here at UPHS. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are still new to teaching </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I suggest you try to attend the conference to see where the field is going, make lasting connections with great teachers from around the state and nation, and find practices to bring back to your classrooms. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are a veteran teacher </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would recommend you attend to expose yourself to the world outside your classroom treadmill. You need new ideas and whitespace to manipulate those ideas and strategies into your professional practice. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Participate in no less than 2 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stop Collaborate and Listen </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">meetings </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact me at </span><a href="mailto:wherring@ncmcs.net" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wherring@ncmcs.net</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to get the ball rolling. </span></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039724098081998975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528519196780683190.post-61297656166812030262014-11-09T10:24:00.000-08:002014-11-11T16:54:26.344-08:00Tech 20 on Wednesday, November 12th<h3>
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This session is applicable for all educators and administrators. In twenty minutes we will go over what Twitter is, why it is a valuable tool for any professional, and how to leverage Twitter to improve your instructional practices. This session looks at the platform as a tools for inter-professional communication, collaboration, research and support. Participants will leave with knowledge (and a handout) of how to sign up for an account, Tweet from their account, search for and follow colleagues from around the world, and engage in topical hashtag conversations.</div>
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This session is appropriate for all staff involved with lesson design. Technology tools/skills in all most all curricular contexts are intended to replace less effective instructional methods or increase the rigor and relevance of the existing curriculum. It should not constitute an increase in the teacher's daily workload. SAMR is a simple construct for incremental technological integration advancement and thereby increase the teacher's impact over time. We will look discuss the four levels of the SAMR model generally, self-asses our current level of integration, and how to utilize the framework in lesson planning. Participants will leave with knowledge (and a handout) of how to slowly and intentionally increase the level of technical tool integration into their curriculums. </div>
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p0ARRa533J88Fh-o6Rd0G5NvlifjwCCbnPIsWBAsnR4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Lose the Scantrons</a></h3>
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<b>1st </b>(8:45) <b>and 3rd </b>(12:15)<b> Blocks </b></div>
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This session is appropriate for all staff involved with teaching, testing, and assessing. Get off the paper copy habit, accommodate modifications and grade easier by testing with Google Forms. Google Forms is a part of the larger Google Suite. It was originally conceived as a survey collection and analysis tool (a capacity in which it serves very well) but through a simple tweak on the back end serves as a great test/quiz tool. That addition is a script called Flubaroo that is added to the student response spreadsheet. Flubaroo will grade, analyze and report your students' work on any M/C, T/F, Scale, Matrix, etc... question (sorry, no essays or short answer). Participants will leave with knowledge (and a handout) of how to design a test/quiz in Forms, add the Flubaroo script to a spreadsheet, and grade student responses. </div>
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<b>Notes: </b>This session is appropriate for all levels of technology users that frequently use standard question formats to assess students' mastery. You will not need devices however participants may choose to have tools to follow along.</div>
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Stop, COLLABORATE, and Listen</h3>
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<b>1st </b>(9:30) <b>and 3rd </b>(1:30) <b>Blocks </b></div>
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This participant driven session gives teachers already working to leverage technology for instruction to collaborate, share, and support one another. Participants will offer and solicit ideas for/from peers about upcoming lessons or units.</div>
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<b>Notes:</b> No devices required. Participants should come equipped with an upcoming lesson or project idea. Be ready to hear and offer suggestions to your peers. </div>
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