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Fresh Brewed News - Tech Tune UpFriday, December 01, 20172:57 PM?Do you have a lesson using technology that your students just loved? Click here: to share, using 40 characters or less!?Do you like this tool? CTRL+Click the image below to create your own activity to "Plant a Question and Grow Answers!" (or click here: )?ISTE Standards for Teachers and Students and the SAMR Model?right124142500As you continue to learn and plan through our district's digital conversion and build online resources for teaching and learning in your classroom, look through the lens of SAMR and the ISTE Standards. Reflect on your practices and the transformation that supports student engagement, authentic connections, higher order thinking, and technology use. Here are some resources to help.left15621000?Click the YouTube link below to watch the student created video that explains SAMR. (4 min)?Here's another video about SAMR that uses “fresh brewed” Starbucks Coffee as an analogy. this Starbuck video, you'll see these great questions to think about when using technology for teaching and learning.?Download the ISTE Standards for Students and Educators embedded in the blog post.16097255016500?????1047758763000Reflection Prompt: Think about a lesson or learning outcome in your classroom that you supported with using technology. Add a comment to the blog post to share your experience (successes and failures are welcome!!) ????161925000Tech Support Helpdesk?The success of our district's digital conversion is highly dependent on using the Tech Support helpdesk correctly. With the effective use of this system, we can improve the communication between staff and the IT department to better track and resolve our technology issues. Please watch the updated video tutorial to better understand the process of ticketing, monitoring, and following up technology requests.??Click here to watch the video: "Find Me" Printing?Here are the directions for students to print using the district "Find Me" copiers. (As we move deeper into our district digital conversion, always consider how students may share with you and each other digitally.)?Tap the button on the copier screen labeled “Alternate Login”Enter your lunch number for the username.The first time using this, you will need to create a PIN and confirm it.Students should write the PIN in your agenda or save it somewhere secure for the next time you use the printer/copier.DO NOT LOSE OR FORGET YOUR PIN!Next use will only require your lunch number and PIN.???Classroom iPads Maintenance?To keep your classroom iPads "lubed up" and "running well," follow these two maintenance steps once a week.(Note: You can teach a student or students in your class how to do this and assign the task!)???57150000Delete history, cache, and cookies in SafariHere's how: tap Settings > scroll down to Safari > Clear History and Website Data.????171450889000?Hard Reset the iPad?Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds until the white Apple logo appears.??Technology Reservation SharePoint?564832534925000As an Office 365 district, the technology reservations have been migrated to SharePoint calendars.? Here’s how to transition:?The Tech Scheduler link on the Staff Resource page has been updated to link directly to the SharePoint Calendar Reservation system. Here's the direct link: ? Directions for making a basic reservation are provided on the homepage.An additional tutorial video is also linked on the homepage to help you transition (or you can view it directly here - 5 minutes).Any existing reservations up to December 31, 2017, in the Google calendars have been transitioned to the SharePoint calendars as a courtesy.If you have made reservations from January 1, 2018, or beyond, please enter these reservations yourself.If you have any questions about this transition, please ask your instructional coach.?367030444500??????Update laptops to Microsoft Office 2016 ?Copy and paste this link to your Internet Explorer browser: . This link will take you to the district's Service Center, where you can download approved programs. It will only work in Internet Explorer!?Enter in your username/password as you would when logging onto a computer??Scroll through the list, and click on the Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 optionClick Install in the lower right ???Sync your Office 365 OneDrive to your laptop?To have easy access to your OneDrive folders and files, setup the Sync option. Here's how:?36290251397000Login to your Office 365 account and choose the OneDrive appClick on the Sync hyperlink at the top???Click Sync Now????Click through and accept all the prompts?This process will Sync all your OneDrive folders and files to your laptop hard drive (added bonus: this is a good "backup" of your OneDrive documents!)?After the sync completes, OneDrive for Business will be available to you in Windows Explorer ??right19050000Sync works both ways and is always updating. File/folder changes made in Office 365 OneDrive (online cloud version) will automatically sync to your laptop hard drive (offline version). File/folder changes made on your hard drive (offline version) will automatically sync to your Office 365 OneDrive (online cloud version). You can check the status of this sync in your hidden icons at the bottom right of your screen (two blue clouds). ................
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