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Each month, Technology & Media Services recognizes an East Lansing Public Schools teacher who utilizes technology in their classroom in thoughtful ways that enhance instruction.
Click here to nominate a teacher.
If you or a teacher in your building stands out to you in this area, please feel free to pass their name along with a brief explanation of what it is that makes their instruction so special. We would love to share it district wide.
With the new gradebook we lost the email function and many of you have worked with us to build Outlook groups to allow for emailing parents en masse. We're working on an alternate workaround until PowerSchool builds the function back into their gradebook. See if you like this:
OPTION 1: When you first log into PowerTeacher, click on the backpack icon (over to the right) and click on Email Addresses at the very top of the left side menu.
If you are emailing the entire class, you can check the box at the very top of the Parent/Guardian Email column, scroll down to the bottom, select Delimited type: Semicolon, and click on Build List. This dumps all of the email addresses into the text box at the bottom of the screen and highlights them so can click CTRL+C on your keyboard, open a new email, and paste (CTRL+V) the addresses in the BC field. You can put your own email address in the To field so the email goes out to you and blind copies all of your parents for the class.
OPTION 2: In your gradebook, click the Class icon that is now at the top of the menu bar and click on Email Class. Then it’s the same steps as above. Check the appropriate box(es), click Build List, then copy and paste the addresses into an email.
You’re not able to email from within your gradebook, you’re still using Outlook, but this prevents you from having to build and update groups as your roster changes.
Let us know what you think. Thanks!
A few important notes about the classroom iPads that we will distribute for the 2017-18 school year:
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Damages and loss will be covered through your respective building budget. Sorry, principals.
Chargers will be passed out with the iPads and the storing and charging will be expected of each classroom teacher.
If you do not need or want your iPads, do not check them out from the building librarian. They are not to be ‘long term loaned’ to one another due to their inventorying and management.
Chargers will be passed out with the iPads and the storing and charging will be expected of each classroom teacher.
If you do not need or want your iPads, do not check them out from the building librarian. They are not to be ‘long term loaned’ to one another due to their inventorying and management.
Smart Notebook was updated this summer and the new version does NOT support Flash. If you weren’t aware, Flash is going away and Smart stopped supporting it with the new version and that will impact any interactive Notebook files you may have created or used that incorporated Flash content. Apparently, the math curriculum Notebook files have Flash content in many of them and that content will no longer display with our version of Notebook.
http://knowledgebase.force.com/articles/TROUBLESHOOTING/Adobe-Flash-objects-not-supported-in-SMART-Notebook-16-2-or-later
Per our Smart rep:
As far as Flash goes, there are several options that will essentially do the same thing as many of those Flash objects. For example, if a teacher wants to do a learning activity that was previously made in a Flash game found in the Lesson Activity Toolkit (in the Gallery Tab in Notebook) then I would direct them to create one of the LAB activities such as “fill in the blanks” or “Flip Out” or “Super Sort”…. here are a few resources on that:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xY02GkdjAwOr_vpJmVoDpGZ1VL9uleIAm6_rY6k0d0Y/edit
https://education.smarttech.com/products/smart-learning-suite/smart-lab
If a teacher is looking for objects like timers or random object selectors or interactive periodic tables, then I would direct them to the “widgets” that can be downloaded from the SMART Exchange:
http://exchange.smarttech.com/search.html?q=#type=Widgets
Once downloaded they can add the object to their Gallery so it will always live there every time they open up Notebook.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may create and if there is enough interest we can organize a Smart training session to help those not as familiar with the software or those that may need a refresher. Thanks.
We’ve been generous for the first few days in permitting emails and phone calls regarding technical issues but we will start directing folks to submit tickets for issues. We want to help you resolve any technical issue as quickly as possible but we’re spending too much time managing our email, voicemail, and the ticket system. So please, help us help you and submit tickets from the link on the district website. Use your network log in and password to log in. Tickets trump emails and phone calls should only be for emergencies.
Marble 4th Grade using Ozobots.
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