tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86044504576488947382024-03-13T23:25:39.053-07:00Tech Tidbits for Teachers Offering weekly tips and tricks to assist teachers in incorporating technology into daily lessons.smanzerollehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11443304000011535453noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-65976637542461545862015-01-15T20:24:00.002-08:002015-01-15T20:24:39.073-08:00January 16, 2015 - New Year - New Tools<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">Hello Everyone and Welcome to 2015!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I hope that everyone had a relaxing and
rejuvenating holiday with family and friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you made a New Year’s resolution to make technology a greater part of
your teaching repertoire this year, I have some suggestions for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Google Classroom App<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Google Apps for education has
introduced a new Google Classroom app for Apple and android devices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both students and educators can utilize the
app to complete and view assignments on the go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Further, student can quickly snap a photo from the assignments page in
the app and attach it to an assignment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is fantastic for capturing an image of an experiment, completing a
photo scavenger hunt or even having a family member text them an image of
forgotten homework that they can hand in with the assignment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Students can also attach PDFs and webpages
from other apps to their assignments, simply click on share in the document,
etc. and Google Classroom will appear as one of the options.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This opens up many opportunities for teachers
and students to reduce, if not eliminate extraneous papers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Google has also announced new features for
teachers in the Google Classroom desktop application.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are now able to archive classes at the
end of a semester or term, and view an assignments page so where teachers can
see all of the student’s assignments and mark them as being reviewed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t wait to get started with these new
tools and options.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Ontario Google Summit – Kitchener, April 11and 12<sup>th<o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/gafesummit.com/on/">https://sites.google.com/a/gafesummit.com/on/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">In April, the EdTech team is presenting the Ontario
Google Summit in Kitchener.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is an
amazing opportunity to learn an immense amount of information about Google Apps
for Education (GAFE) and how to utilize them in class and as teaching
tools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the price is rather
high, this two-day event includes breakfast and lunches, 8 interactive
sessions, two amazing keynote speakers and a ‘demoslam’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having attended myself in previous years, I
can assure you that this event is extremely informative and will leave you
energized and ready to begin using Google Apps in your classroom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Cybraryman website and resources<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://cybraryman.com/index.html">http://cybraryman.com/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Jerry Blumengarten is also known as ‘Cybraryman’
and is the curator of the go-to website for educational websites and online
resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His webpages are organized by
both grade level and/or subject area and offer links to webpages from around
the world for students, teachers and parents alike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is a knowledgeable and supportive educator who always has many suggestions on where you can find
resources on a variety of topics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
wish to, or need to teach it, Cybraryman has a link to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Only 55
days to March Break!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Stace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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smanzerollehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11443304000011535453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-83701060818136511032014-12-11T20:15:00.001-08:002014-12-11T20:21:46.472-08:00December 12th, 2014 - Holiday Links<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3;">
Happy Snowy Friday everyone!!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">This week, I have a couple holiday suggestions for
you, which may be useful in your classroom or as links you can send home to
parents to keep students learning over the holidays.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">First,
NORAD</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Tracks Santa
(http://www.noradsanta.org </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- also </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">available</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"> as an app for iPhone and
iPad). </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">The North American Aerospace
Defense Command has set up Santa’s sleigh with a radar system so they are able
to track him as he travels around the world making his deliveries. This
is great fun for students to watch as he travels all the countries of the world
and there are even some videos of him visiting important landmarks. Until
he begins his journey, the website lets you watch the Big Countdown, play games
and learn more about Santa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Christmas Around The World.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(http://www.whychristmas.com/)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This website lets students explore a variety
of countries from around the world and view videos and descriptions of their
holiday celebrations and traditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are explanations of the customs and symbols of this time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">New Year’s Traditions Around the World </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(http://www.fathertimes.net/traditions.htm). This website contains brief
descriptions of New Year’s traditions from countries around the world as well
as how to say ‘Happy New Year’ in many different languages. What a
great way to remember that the world is a much larger space that what we
interact with on a day-to-day basis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Finally, a reminder that our very own UG2GO has a link to LEARN 360,
which has a multitude of holiday videos for both educational and entertainment
purposes. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A simple search of holiday and the appropriate grade level
returns various movies including ‘Holiday Facts And Fun’ for Kwanzaa, Hanukkah,
and Multicultural Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other
videos include The Polar Express, The Nutcracker and The Night Before Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Have a
great weekend!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> Stace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-32026351737349394852014-12-05T02:54:00.000-08:002014-12-05T02:54:41.869-08:00December 5th, 2014 - Google Presentation for the iPad<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hello Everyone
and Happy Friday,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-2y_PvNFlQxriULBUbLcOlHTsYRbU2XurNrxuFM8F1UIMJa_scAlSUmUPT826t7J2QnLc3eU7d10MkZxG2aw6sGZxJsXx40vEa2hfzW24wqcpmpQv9JP_L4_hSlpeVhCdFIJppl0uta9w/s1600/slides.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-2y_PvNFlQxriULBUbLcOlHTsYRbU2XurNrxuFM8F1UIMJa_scAlSUmUPT826t7J2QnLc3eU7d10MkZxG2aw6sGZxJsXx40vEa2hfzW24wqcpmpQv9JP_L4_hSlpeVhCdFIJppl0uta9w/s1600/slides.png" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I understand
that everyone is busy at this time of year, so this week I have a quick iPad
and iPhone app from Google to make things easier for you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Google Slides iPad app allows you to create
and edit Google Slides presentations on your iPad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also allows you to create new presentations
or edit Power Point ones you have created on the web or another device.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can rearrange text, format slides and
present right from your device.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id879478102"><span style="background: #F4F5F6; color: #2779d6; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Click here</span></a> to access the new app and begin creating on your
iPad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank you to everyone who responded to last week’s
contest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was impressed with the number
of participants who registered for a chance to win the gift card.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m happy to announce that the winner is
Laurie Orford. Thanks again and keep your eyes open for additional prizes
coming in the New Year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-36488673533704067362014-11-28T04:46:00.002-08:002014-11-28T04:47:46.282-08:00November 28th - Quick and Easy with QR Codes<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.15pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Happy Friday everyone,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />Recently, during our
daily five rotations my students have been having difficulty accessing (and
staying on) the webpages I have assigned for ‘Listen to Reading’.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;">I often set up the iPad on the Tumblebooks,
or other website I wish to have them choose a story to listen to, and once the
story is over, they are unaware of how to return to this page to access another
book.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;">As a result, I have begun
utilizing QR codes to assist students in accessing the webpages I would like
them using.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;">These QR, or Quick
Response codes are popping up all over the grocery and retail stores and now
they are making their way into education as well. They are a type of bar
code which allows a ‘reader’ to link to related information in the form of a
website. By installing an app with a QR scanner/generator
(such as ‘Qrafter – QR Code and Barcode Reader and Generator’ - free), teachers
can create their own codes and have students scan them to access websites
quickly and easily.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;">By visiting a QR code
generator website (</span><a href="http://www.qr-code-generator.com/" style="line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.qr-code-generator.com/</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;">) and entering the web address of the page I
would like ‘coded’, a unique QR code is created which you can download and
paste into a document. Once the document
has been printed out, students simply scan the code with the iPad and it takes
them right to the page I want them to be on quickly and easily – and with out
interrupting the conferences I am having with students.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;">With December right
around the corner, I have decided to begin celebrating the holidays early with
a draw for a $25 LCBO or Tim Hortons gift card! To enter simply click on the
following link and enter your email address. </span><a href="http://goo.gl/7tzqx4" style="line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://goo.gl/7tzqx4</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> I will draw a random name on Thursday,
December 4<sup>th</sup> and announce the winner in next week’s Tech Tidbits.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Good Luck and have a
great week!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Stace</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 16.15pt; text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-3952143749558322582014-11-13T17:24:00.003-08:002014-11-13T17:24:54.603-08:00November 14th, 2014 – CASL in the Cloud <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">Happy Friday everyone!!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">With the
passing of Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL) on July 1st, the Upper Grand School
Board and schools have had to revisit their email policies and procedures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result, the board has needed to seek out
parental consent to forward electronic mail, newsletters, board advertisements
and event invitations, all of which may contain advertisements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parents who have given their consent to
receive these communications have had their email addresses included in a
database, which is available to you as school staff, and here is how to access
this information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(<a href="http://www.ugcloud.ca/">www.ugcloud.ca</a>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Scroll down to the other apps and
services and click on the blue bar “Staff CASL Tool”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and password<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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identify your school, class and format (Constant Contact, First Class or Email
with CASL status) you are seeking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with all parents names and email addresses that you can use to contact families.</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Although
these additional steps will require a few more minutes of your time when you
wish to email parents, it does ensure that we are complying with the new CASL
requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Finally,
you should be checking this information EVERY time you wish to send out a
newsletters or parental communication, as parents can revoke their consent at
any time leaving us liable for fines upwards of $1 million to $10 million.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I hope
this is a helpful tool when communicating with your students and families.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Have a
great weekend!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-68642925767099368472014-10-16T19:53:00.001-07:002014-10-16T19:53:29.621-07:00October 17, 2014 – A 'Remind'er To Connect With Parents<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">Happy Friday
everyone!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">This week
I’d like to highlight a tool, which can assist you in keeping in contact with
your student’s family without giving up your privacy and still maintaining a
professional relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The app Remind
(<a href="https://www.remind.com/">https://www.remind.com/</a> formerly Remind
101) allows the parents of your students, or students themselves if you teach
more senior grades, to sign up to receive text messages from you without them
seeing your personal cell phone number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">As a
teacher, you simply go to the remind.com website and sign up for a free account
then begin by creating a name for your class (i.e. My Grade 4s or Language
period 2).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you click create, you
will be given a phone number and text message to have parents/students connect
with your ‘classroom’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Send this code
and phone number home with students and ask parents to text the message to the
number indicated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To make it even
easier, when you log into your classroom, there is a blue ‘Download
Instructions’ box on the right hand side and when you click it, you receive a
printable page with all of the information you can send home to the families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If parents are not able to accept text
messages, they can receive the same messages via email.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These instructions are available on the
handout, which is sent home to parents too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Messages can
be sent from your computer via the remind.com website, or on your mobile device
by downloading the free Remind app.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Simply type the message into the indicated text box on the website or
app and the message will be sent to all subscribers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Messages can also be pre-loaded and sent at scheduled
times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no option for replying
to texts; so all inquiries will need to go through your school email or voicemail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, you are also able to send photos,
files and voice clips through the application, and if students transfer out of
your class or when the year is complete, they can unsubscribe to your messages
by simply messaging unsubscribe and the class code to the text number
(instructions on the downloaded handout). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Personally, I
feel this is a great way to keep parents and students up to date with all the
events occurring in the class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope
you enjoy it as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-20258081869142400762014-10-09T17:46:00.001-07:002014-10-09T17:46:51.412-07:00October 10, 2014 – Thanks for Giving<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">Happy Thanksgiving Friday everyone!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the many
people who encourage me to continue writing the Tech Tidbits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although I sometimes find myself struggling
to come up with new and useful tech to be used in the classroom, speaking with
the many teachers and administrators who are reading, and using them </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">, makes the whole process worthwhile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, this week I’m giving thanks to you…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">On that note, thanks to Karen Hayhurst for sharing
with me how she is using Google Classroom in her grade 6 class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By creating multiple Google Classrooms for
her students, she can differentiate her assignments for all of her
students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as you would have a
variety of guided reading groups based upon their reading and fluency levels,
so too can you create levelled classrooms for your students and delegate assignments
to them, which are at their academic level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This way modified students will participate in all of the same classroom
activities while receiving assignments, which are at their skill and grade
level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a great way to differentiate
for your students without centering anyone out!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Also, a big thank you to my little buddy Kristian,
for sharing this tip with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
students are working with online websites they can still utilize Google Read
& Write by clicking on the green Read&Write icon in the web address
bar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will open the Read & Write
tool bar and you can continue to highlight text and have it read aloud to
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Additionally, if you have a student
who is distracted by unimportant ads and images on the screen you can click on
the ‘Simplify Page icon’ (see arrow above) and it will re-open the website in another tab in a
more streamlined version.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From here you
can choose to click on the + or – sign at the top of the page to further reduce
or enhance the information on the page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A super easy way to restructure the webpage to make information students need much more easy to find.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Finally a BIG thank you to everyone for continuing
to follow my blog and weekly tips. If you have an idea for a future blog topic or would like some assistance with a particular piece of equipment,
please feel free to pass it along to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Have a
great Thanksgiving weekend!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Stace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-38197109266340999572014-10-03T03:31:00.000-07:002014-10-03T03:31:38.288-07:00October 3rd, 2014 – Taking Your Classroom Virtual<div class="MsoNormal">
Happy Friday Everyone!</div>
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You may have noticed that our UGCloud homepage has a new
icon – Google Classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a quick
and very user-friendly way to take your class into the cloud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here you can assign projects and share documents,
and your students can receive, complete and hand-in assignments, paper free and
without fear of losing any of their materials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Instructors who teach more than one class can easily organize
assignments by class and maintain a portfolio of individual student’s work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I encourage teachers to give it a try with
their students.<o:p></o:p></div>
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From the UGCLoud homepage (<a href="http://www.ugcloud.ca/">www.ugcloud.ca</a>)
sign on to your account and click the icon for Google Classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From here you can click on the + sign in the
upper right hand corner, next to your UGCloud email address and then drop down
to ‘Create Class’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A new window will
pop-up asking for details regarding your new class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enter an identifier for the class such as
‘Mrs. Smith’s Class’ or ENG 402.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is an option to include the section of the class however this is not required
to be filled in, then click ‘Create”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Next, you will be taken to your new class’s home page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From here you can begin to invite students to
your class via email or with the class code.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To individually invite students click on ‘students’ in the center bar
and then ‘Invite’, and type the student’s name in the search bar and enter. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the correct student’s name is listed,
click on it and they will receive an invitation to join your classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Alternatively, you can view a ‘class code’ on the left hand
side, which students can use to access the classroom and join themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When students log into the cloud they can
click on the Classroom icon and then the + in the upper right hand corner then
select ‘join classroom’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will be
asked to enter the class code and will then be directed to the correct
classroom. <o:p></o:p></div>
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From your classroom homepage you can send out announcements
regarding the course, or distribute assignments to students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Announcements – simply type your message into the ‘Share
with your class box’ and click ‘post’ and it will appear in your class news
stream.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Assignments – click on the ‘assignment’ box and begin
filling in information about the upcoming assignment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t forget to update the due date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you wish to include a document for
students to full out or complete you can select if from your Google Drive as
part of the assignment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a document
has been selected to be a part of your assignment, you will se another drop
down menu to the right of the document, which allows you to let ‘students view
the file’, ‘edit the file’ or ‘make a copy for each student’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By making a copy for each student there is no
risk of one student changing the words or look of the assignment and altering
it for the whole class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Students receive
the documents and can complete, edit, revise and turn it in, all online. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When assignments are turned in, you will receive the
completed documents in your Google Drive in a folder titled Classroom and a
sub-folder with that class’s name (Mrs. Smith’s Grade 4s).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additionally, the student’s name and
assignment name are the title of the document, so there is no struggling to see
who has handed in the project and who still needs to complete it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Google classroom is an easy way to make your class paperless
while tracking student’s work and progress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The format is very user friendly and all of the documents are quickly
organized for you in your Google Drive.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Please don’t be afraid to give the Classroom a try and if
there are any questions please feel free to ask!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks and have a great weekend!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stace <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-6440755856163273802014-09-26T00:14:00.001-07:002014-09-26T00:14:39.572-07:00September 26, 2014 - Doing a Bang-Up Job With PowToon<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hello Everyone and Happy Friday!</span></div>
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online website which allows you to create personalized, professional looking,
animated videos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are fairly simple
to prepare and the results are a far more entertaining and engaging <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- a great alternative to power point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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allows you to create
your own animated videos or simply choose to edit one of their pre-made
presentations to suit your own needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They have many topics and designs to offer, covering topics such as book
reports, television ads, promotional videos info-graphics and many more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alternately, you can begin from scratch and
create your own individualized presentation by choosing your own style of
background, characters, animations and text, complete with moving effects and
transitions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creating the presentations
is similar to making a power point presentation with the added effects of
iMovie or Windows Movie Maker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
PowToon may take a little time and effort to create initially, once the basic
functions are understood, the presentations are created much more quickly and
easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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to media studies curriculum in the junior and intermediate grades – creating
media texts, in addition to identifying conventions and techniques in media
forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With little instruction, students
would be able to explore and investigate the tools and animations available on
the PowToon website and utilize them to construct their own striking videos and
cartoons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has any feedback regarding its use with students or would like to share some
student made assignments, I would love to see them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Additionally, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">past Tech Tidbits posts can be found on my blog at </span><a href="http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-27889717953078536632014-09-19T06:21:00.000-07:002014-09-19T06:21:56.762-07:00September 19, 2014 – Read&Write <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">Welcome back to a new school year!</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">I hope that everyone has had the opportunity
to get settled with their new students, roles and possibly schools.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">This
week I’d like to share with you some of the new and exciting functions offered
by Read & Write on UGCloud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNC3EHkTcH_gZ1GaSX6CbjgHo1gFTWFVhHbOpLM-55RSLK5MakZAUMT9WSpltmf6s1MRFX-43_oiAhcB4HCvzS0pXMwL9eCMZxXDsKeiy4xfC6dsTBGQ4iFaq4RG5Qon0ua0eQJis-RrgC/s1600/symbol.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNC3EHkTcH_gZ1GaSX6CbjgHo1gFTWFVhHbOpLM-55RSLK5MakZAUMT9WSpltmf6s1MRFX-43_oiAhcB4HCvzS0pXMwL9eCMZxXDsKeiy4xfC6dsTBGQ4iFaq4RG5Qon0ua0eQJis-RrgC/s1600/symbol.png" /></a><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">First,
ensure that your students have access to the Read & Write function.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they open a new Google document, the
Read& Write symbol (see image at the right) should appear at the top of the window just under
the web address bar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this is not
present then ensure that the student has signed into Chrome on a desktop or
laptop in the school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Signing into
chrome from a mobile devise such as an iPad or Chromebook will not ensure the
availability of the Read&Write function. Here’s how to sign into Chrome…</span></div>
<ul><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0GhRNEaacUK9byQhUvATcV5LWcqsQRH38_vANv2keroDYnNoCRBFBihXqOsts-y07WNv8F604WUQdCenyE0MMc0Z11SnKDLudu9G5rJRETqrchMUKj76o3QxoOy7DVz2GTcdY1aAhn-Zg/s1600/Hot+dogs.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0GhRNEaacUK9byQhUvATcV5LWcqsQRH38_vANv2keroDYnNoCRBFBihXqOsts-y07WNv8F604WUQdCenyE0MMc0Z11SnKDLudu9G5rJRETqrchMUKj76o3QxoOy7DVz2GTcdY1aAhn-Zg/s1600/Hot+dogs.png" /></a>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Click on the chrome
symbol to open Google chrome web browser on your computer</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Click on the ‘Hot dogs’ in the upper right hand corner of the web address bar </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">(there is
a more technical term for this icon but the kids understand the ‘hotdogs’ best)
and it will open a drop down menu</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Scan down until you see
‘sign into chrome’ and click on it</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Sign in with you UGCloud
email (first initial last name @ugcloud.ca) and password</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Go to www.ugcloud.ca and
sign in as staff or student with user name and password</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">A pop up window should
open asking if you would like to ‘link your data’, click to link</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">This should open more
tabs on your computer (all of the applications and extensions) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">They may need to be
‘accepted’ for them to work on your computer, however this will likely only need
to be done the first time</span></li>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Once
you have allowed Read&Write on your account, this tool bar will appear at
the top of the page when you open or create a Google doc.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">This is called
the ‘Study Skills’ toolbar and is where you will find the icons for the
app.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are having trouble seeing
the toolbar for the document you can click on the double arrow on the icon
(pull down) it will hide it for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Similarly, if you would like to
use the study skills toolbar just click on the double down arrows and it will
re-emerge for you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">You may notice that there are a
couple new icons on the tool bar – <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">is the crystal ball and
allows the student to access the new word prediction tool, and </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">is the audio
headset which opens the voice to text feature. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Word
Predictor</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> - By clicking on this icon while working in a Google doc, a
small window will appear near the cursor and begin to offer potential word
options as you begin to type. When the word you wish to use appears,
simply click on the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">word in the box to
insert the words, or hover their mouse over the words to get them read aloud. Although similar to Word Q, this tool does
not require students to open multiple programs, which will need to work
together; it’s all right in the Google doc.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Voice-to-Text – When working in a Google doc,
simply clicking on this tool and speaking into the device’s built-in
microphone, or an externally added microphone/headset combination, the program
will recognize your speech and convert it to text, writing it directly into the
doc for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There may need to be some
additional editing for punctuation or slightly misheard words (i.e. ball
written for fall) however this will offer far more opportunities for students
whose typing skills are holding them back from sharing their knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing to note is that while the internal
device’s microphone may be sufficient for use in quieter settings, utilizing a
microphone/headphone combination headset will offer the best results when
working in a busy classroom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Following the motto of ‘what is good for some, is good
for all’, these new tools are now accessible on ALL UGCloud accounts, not only
on SEA Equipment devices, so any of our students can have the opportunity to
share their knowledge, thoughts and creativity without restrictions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you require additional information regarding
Read&Write on the UGCloud, please feel free to contact me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additionally, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">past Tech Tidbits posts can be
found on my blog at </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Cheers
and have a great weekend,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Stace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-18500705238301662102014-06-19T19:25:00.000-07:002014-06-19T19:25:30.572-07:00June 20th, 2014 – Turn your computer into a ‘Mystery Machine’<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I understand that everyone is in wind down mode;
packing and preparing for a relaxing and restful summer, so when the time comes
to begin planning for next year, I have a cool new idea to try with your class –
Mystery Skyping!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">The concept is simple – classes Skype call one
another and try to guess where the other class is located. One class I am aware of has connected with
over 45 different locations around the world during this school year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">You can either sign up via an online connection
site such as <a href="http://4thchat.wikispaces.com/Mystery+Skype+Sign+Up" target="_blank">4th Chat Mystery Skype</a>,
<a href="https://education.skype.com/mysteryskype" target="_blank">#Mystery Skype</a> or <a href="http://mysterystate.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">Mystery State</a> or you can use twitter to make your own connections (#MysterySkype). Then agree upon a date and time to meet up
online – don’t forget about the time alterations due to time zone changes. Prepare your students to begin answering
questions about their part of the world, such as climate, weather, famous
people from the area, etc. Also help
them to determine what questions they may be asked by the other classroom and
how they will respond. Some classes
choose to group students into different roles - inquirers, researchers,
responders, recorders, and mappers. This
way students will not be asking the same question multiple times, and the
information can be synthesized into a coherent guess. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">When the call starts, you can simply take on the
role of coach and facilitator and allow the students to lead the activity. Many classes choose to take turns asking
questions, however you and your partner class teacher may choose an alternate
method. Once the students think they know the location of the Skype callers,
they are allowed to make their guess. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Once the classes have determined where they are
located, allow them some time to discuss how their lives are similar or
different and to interact with one another.
This is a great way to break down the classroom walls and bring other
countries into your classroom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Stace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-68002343469919918122014-06-19T18:41:00.001-07:002014-06-19T18:41:52.115-07:00June 13, 2014 – Story Telling Made Easy<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Happy
Friday the thirteenth!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Today I’d
like to share a story making and presentation app that offers many </span></div>
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options and
can quickly turn your own voice recordings into animated presentations with
just a few taps. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/adobe-voice-show-your-story/id852555131?mt=8" target="_blank">Adobe Voice</a> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">is a free story making app that is simple to use
and walks you through the process step by step to help create animated videos
in minutes.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Once the
app is downloaded, you can choose from the pre-made templates such as ‘tell
what happened’, ‘show and tell’ or ‘explain something’ or take creative license
into your own hands and choose to ‘make up my own’. Once you have chosen your theme then simply<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">tap and
hold the microphone button while you speak into the iPad to record single
sentence snippets of your story. Next,
you can match the spoken words with one of the over 25000 images/icons included
in the app or choose to use one of your own from the iPad, Facebook, or simply
take one with the iPad camera. Adobe
Voice will add in the animation and background music turning your simple story
into a work of art. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I
particularly liked the prompts at the bottom of the page which shows the basic
steps in story creating (Who, when and where, this happened, how it ended,
etc.) There are options to add text to your story, change the layout of the
images, and add your own choice of music or even background themes and
colours. Finally, make your story
viewable by the public or keep it private and share your story with others via
email, Facebook, twitter or share by message.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-11059279713765363282014-05-29T19:16:00.000-07:002014-05-29T19:16:06.427-07:00May 30, 2014 - The New DIY Lego Movie<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In 1998 this colourful and creative toy was one of
the original inductees </span></div>
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into the National Toy Hall of Fame and for generations
Lego bricks have been a fun way to entertain and share one’s imaginative ideas. Now these versatile and engaging Lego bricks
have now gone techie! Lego Movie Maker
is a free iPad app that lets students create stop motion movies quickly and
easily using Lego models.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once the app (</span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lego-movie-maker/id516001587?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D8" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lego Movie Maker</a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">)
is downloaded you are ready to begin snapping photos of your figures and
creating your movie. You can </span></div>
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add or
delete frames within the movie in addition to including title frames, sound
effects, text overlays and even include colour filters to the camera for
special effects. Once completed movies
can be uploaded to YouTube or saved to your iPad.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The app is very user friendly and creates fun and will
allow students to explore the art of movie making while expressing their
creativity. Provide your students with a topic and watch their imagination shine!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Past
Tech Tidbits posts can be found on the blog at <a href="http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca/">http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca</a> and if you have an idea
for a future blog topic, please feel free to pass it along to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Stace</span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-35377209782266787752014-05-23T08:28:00.000-07:002014-05-23T08:28:22.108-07:00May 22, 2014 - Picture Perfect with iPiccy<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This time of year teachers may be looking for fun uses
for their field trip and classroom photos or working to collate images for a
quick and uncomplicated yearbook. iPiccy (<a href="http://www.ipiccy.com/">www.iPiccy.com</a>)
may be the answer you are looking for. This website is a very user friendly photo
editing tool which allows you to apply a multitude of image effects, crop,
rotate, add text and even turn your images into colouring book pages for your
little ones to enjoy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When you visit the iPiccy homepage (<a href="http://www.ipiccy.com/">www.ipiccy.com</a>) you will be asked to create a
free personalized account by clicking on the ‘create account’ button in the
upper right hand corner (see image below).
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">After the account has been activated, you will be
taken to the image upload page where you can begin to choose the images you
would like to edit or choose to create a collage utilizing various images. The initial list on the left hand side
allows you to crop, rotate, adjust colour, and change the image to black and
white or sepia tones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">By clicking on the magic wand in the tool bar
across the top of the page you are able to access plenty of other options
including altering the focus, and creating a pencil sketch of your image (great
for colouring book pages!). </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYIDCuIv_yzhaGWSuNsozhare0QR4kgJp0njpFKmhEai53CMXx-BpoK_pEaPrCU4zOzgESpsfJzTOMFQP0ipHEE4NEx5DBHvssgECQd3A3GdHlFL8ca0SBxVMEKy6r7ET8R1CacaGniB8l/s1600/back_arrow.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYIDCuIv_yzhaGWSuNsozhare0QR4kgJp0njpFKmhEai53CMXx-BpoK_pEaPrCU4zOzgESpsfJzTOMFQP0ipHEE4NEx5DBHvssgECQd3A3GdHlFL8ca0SBxVMEKy6r7ET8R1CacaGniB8l/s1600/back_arrow.png" /></a><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Once you
have determined that the effect is one you wish to keep, simply click on
‘apply’ in the effect box. If after
having applied the effect, you feel it is not right for what you are trying to
accomplish, simply click on the back arrow above your image to have the last
action ‘undone’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One additional effect which I feel would be useful
is being able to add text to the image.
Simply click on the ‘Blender’ tab at the top of the page (see image
below) and by clicking on the Capital T in the row below a text box will appear
situated on your image. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Type the text
into the box on the left hand side in addition to choosing the text colour,
font, size, alignment and transparency.
Just remember to click on ‘Combine layers’ when you exit this page so
that your image will be captured as you have intended it to be. Finally, your image can be saved to your
computer files for sharing, printing or pasting into other documents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikPWy-hKc6H4h_qsmHcqJ3OV4jZVX6gOekwePEMfE9byxoBgyGStUrxtm8aqlzAvJ7-MB32oKbPfvTh0zRH0s3D942pNjI5MIi-e5hZbT5dZ5lihiIWGnoIa-3squipAKcJ6dDbbSLY8JL/s1600/profile+sketch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikPWy-hKc6H4h_qsmHcqJ3OV4jZVX6gOekwePEMfE9byxoBgyGStUrxtm8aqlzAvJ7-MB32oKbPfvTh0zRH0s3D942pNjI5MIi-e5hZbT5dZ5lihiIWGnoIa-3squipAKcJ6dDbbSLY8JL/s1600/profile+sketch.jpg" height="320" width="236" /></a><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Overall
I have found iPiccy to be very user friendly and I have enjoyed experimenting
with the effects and reading the blog of suggested uses for iPiccy creations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Past
Tech Tidbits posts can be found on the blog at <a href="http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca/">http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca</a> and if you have an idea
for a future blog topic, please feel free to pass it along to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-37798284867043021392014-05-15T20:03:00.002-07:002014-05-15T20:09:08.779-07:00May 16, 2014 - Exploring a Few Math and Science Gizmos<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHxTezqguaXgcVWHKuK-y4041tqtjKlkGl0W4pMXmuFGdam1ic_ibXq8_zh5IW3LFtyROAV6nfKQHFLsivagjCiRxtn1PpVqDBLSlh6xW6Ud_JgARBObbsQP0SkI_JYVn1Bmfppm7bbY7R/s1600/icon.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHxTezqguaXgcVWHKuK-y4041tqtjKlkGl0W4pMXmuFGdam1ic_ibXq8_zh5IW3LFtyROAV6nfKQHFLsivagjCiRxtn1PpVqDBLSlh6xW6Ud_JgARBObbsQP0SkI_JYVn1Bmfppm7bbY7R/s1600/icon.png" height="67" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Although I frequently bring you new tools and tips
on how to use technology in the classroom, this week I have elected to
highlight a tool that is frequently being underused by teaching staff. GIZMOS are online, and iPad compatible,
interactive simulations which help to make math and science concepts easier for
students to understand. Funded by the
Ministry of Education, Gizmos are available to all Ontario teachers and can be
accessed through the Explore Learning website </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">(</span><a href="http://www.explorelearning.com/" style="background-color: transparent;">http://www.explorelearning.com/</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">) as
well as via a link on UG2GO (</span><a href="https://www.ugdsb.on.ca/ug2go/elementary.asp" style="background-color: transparent;">https://www.ugdsb.on.ca/ug2go/elementary.asp</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">). </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Each school board has been provided with its own password and it can be accessed
by contacting personnel at your individual school board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Gizmos are interactive simulations designed to help
students understand key math and science concepts in a visual and active manner.
By clicking on ‘Browse Gizmos” after signing into your account, you are able to
search by Academic Standard (further separated by province curriculum), Grade
and Topic or by the textbook you are using in class. Topics range from fractions and 3D shapes to
astronomy and physics spanning grades 3 to 12.
These Gizmos can be used as examples in class to demonstrate concepts found
in the curriculum, as well you may create a ‘classroom’ where you invite your students
with a generated class enrollment code and they will be allowed to view and practice preselected
Gizmos chosen by the teacher. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gizmos Lesson Materials include a vocabulary guide,
student exploration sheet and answer key in addition to the Gizmo itself. Further, when you click on the Gizmo tab
students are able to complete a brief assessment based upon the work they have
done and the results and reports are sent directly to the teacher so they may
monitor students learning and progress. The Gizmos actually tailor themselves
to the student’s learning patterns and use this information to optimize a
student’s learning and potential. One
difficulty I have with the Gizmos is that they are often wordy (especially the
vocabulary guides) and may prove to be a challenge to students who struggle with
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Tidbits posts can be found on the blog at </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca/">http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> and if you have an idea for a
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tired of the tried and true power point presentations and has experienced the prospective
motion sickness when the ‘Prezi’ frames move about too quickly on the screen. This week I would like to introduce you to a
new option which you (and your students) can use to create and edit presentations
online and on the web – Haiku Deck. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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images and 6 presentation themes. By
creating an account and clicking on ‘New Deck’ you can begin creating your
unique and colourful presentation. The
unique feature that Haiku Deck offers is that you can save your presentation on
one web tool (i.e. iPad) and retrieve it from your home computer and vice
versa. Additionally, when you are
creating your slides, simply type in a key word (i.e. anxiety, books, biology)
and Haiku Deck searches the web and locates Creative Commons licensed images
for you to use. If you would rather, you
can add your own images or screen shots to the deck from your photo stream, Instagram,
Facebook page, Flickr, Picasa or Google Drive, then share your finished
presentations on a variety of social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter,
Pinterest, Google+ and Slideshare. You
can even hook your phone or iPad up to a projector and present directly from
it, embed the deck in a blog or website, or download a PDF version to use for a
handout. The iPad app version of Haiku
Deck allows you to include private notes to guide your presentation or public notes
for everyone to view as they follow along.
Decks can be published with three different privacy settings – private to
be viewed only by you, restricted to be viewed only by those you grant
permission to and public which is available for anyone to view and search out
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Deck is the user friendly format. When
you are not sure how to begin or where to go next, simply click on the question
mark in the upper right hand corner and you will immediately view an overlay
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next, simply click on the screen and the overlay disappears to allow you to
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appreciation week, Haiku Deck has offered to give teachers <u>ANY OF THEIR PREMIUM
THEMES FOR FREE</u>. </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Just open up the iPad app tap on Themes, and select
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-54263088386893262832014-05-01T19:55:00.000-07:002014-05-02T02:25:20.247-07:00May 2, 2014 - Everyone Surfing on the Same PageHappy Friday everyone!!<br />
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Have you ever wished you could remotely take control of your students’ computers while teaching a lesson so that you could directly walk them through what you wanted completed on a website? Or at least know that they are all on ‘the same page’? With the new tech tool I have for you this week – YOU CAN!!<br />
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Surfly is a real-time web sharing tool which allows you to link to a web address and when your participants join into the session, you are able to illustrate and have them follow along with your web tour. Here’s how…<br />
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Simply head to the Surfly website (<a href="http://www.surfly.com/">www.surfly.com</a>) and create a free account. Surfly will send you an activation email and you are ready to begin. Once you log, in you will see a pop-up window asking for the web address of the site you would like to share with your students, colleagues etc. Merely type in (or copy and paste) the web address you have chosen and click on ‘Start a Session’.<br />
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You will be given a unique link to the guided web tour which you can post on the board for students to enter online, or share it with them via the UGCloud where they can click on the link. <br />
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Once students begin utilizing the link you will receive notifications that friends have joined your session (this way you can tell if you are missing anyone in the tour). Students will not only be able to view exactly which website you are sharing with them, and follow you as you click on and travel to other sites along the way, but they can also watch as your highlighted pointer show them what you are clicking on, hovering over, etc. When you wish to terminate your session simply click on the red X in the tool bar along the left-hand side of the page (see image at right) and everyone will be released to begin surfing on their own again.<br />
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I hope that this will be a useful tool you can keep in your repertoire and may come in handy in the future. If you have an idea for a future blog topic, please feel free to pass it along to me.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
Stace<br />
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to Google Extensions (Read&Write, Google Dictionary, etc.), Add-Ons improve
ease of use and increase the possibilities linked to the documents you (and
your students) can create.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some ideal
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simply click on the ‘add-ons’ drop down in the tool bar and select the add-on
you wish to use. The add-on will open a
communication box on the right and side of your document where you can utilize its
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clicking on the add-on drop down menu and selecting ‘manage add-ons’. Then click on the ‘manage’ box linked to the
add-on you wish to have removed and when the drop down menu appears selecting
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(especially Easybib!) and hope that you too can benefit from them. Please give them a try and let me know if you
have found any others that need to be shared
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">This week there has been a great deal of media
attention given to the ‘Heartbleed’ security glitch and it appears that it is
going to be getting worse before it gets better. Although technically not a virus or security
bug, Heartbleed is an error in programming that could leave you vulnerable to
hackers and cyber-criminals. The Canadian Revenue Agency has temporarily halted
their e-file online tax submission option for fear over concerns that the
public’s information may be compromised and several other major companies may
be affected. Google, Yahoo, Facebook,
Instagram, Pinterest, Dropbox and even Minecraft may have been affected to some
degree. So how do you ensure the safety
of your online information? Here are a few tips…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> Don’t
save information on your computer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">When
shopping online or filling in forms online, the website will often ask if you
would like to ‘save password’ or save information for later’. This is strongly not recommended. What will save you a few seconds in the
future could cost you your identity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> Watch what you do on public wifi systems<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Recently
many public spaces such as your favourite restaurant, library and even the Town
of Orangeville have chosen to offer free wifi to individuals as a courtesy, however
you need to know that the information you are transmitting could be viewed by
others in the system. So save the
internet banking for at home over a secure wifi connection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> Create a strong password<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">It has
been estimated that hackers can break into a 5 character password in as little
as 10 seconds, a 6 character password in 1000 seconds, a 7 character password
in 1 day and 10 character password would take 3000 years to identify – so as
passwords go, the longer the better. Use
a variety of numbers and letters and even include punctuation if possible. Instead of using a simple password such as ‘money’
try using ‘m0n3y!’ The addition of punctuation
and combination of letters and numbers will make it more secure. Also don’t use
the most frequent passwords – ‘aaaaa’, ‘abc1234’ and ‘password’ You can even
use a sentence to make up your password, by using the first letter of each
word. For example, the sentence ‘I love
my special dog Spot’ could be changed to ILMSDS; a very random mixture of
letters which are not likely to be hacked but simple enough for you to
remember.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> Change your passwords frequently<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Although
we run the risk of forgetting our new passwords when we opt to alter them, the
recommendation is to change them once every three months. Additionally we should not be using the same
password for several accounts. If a
hacker discovers your password for one account they can then easily follow the
trail of social media, etc. and use the same password to hack several of your
other accounts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> Use an app or tool to help you remember<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">There are
several trustworthy online tools and apps which can assist you in maintaining
your passwords for you. Lastpass (<a href="https://lastpass.com/">https://lastpass.com/</a>)
and 1Password (<a href="https://agilebits.com/onepassword">https://agilebits.com/onepassword</a>)
securely encrypt your passwords and maintain them securely for you so you never
have to think up an outside-the-box secret word. Further, many personal computers now have finger
swipe encryption or a ‘Simple Pass’ fingerprint reader which can be used to
safely log into several accounts so you never need to remember that complicated
string of letters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">While
this current threat to security can be frightening, you </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">shouldn't</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"> shy away from
using technology. You simply need to be
smart about your virtual conduct and behave as you would in real-life. Don’t give out private information to
strangers and be sure to be secure.
Starting students on this path to virtual security early can have a
significant impact later in life. Don’t leaver yourself vulnerable to cyber-criminals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Happy Friday everyone!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">With the Upper Grand District School Board rolling
out BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) system wide, I thought this week I would
highlight a student response web tool called Socrative. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Similar to a clicker system, but without all of the
specialized equipment, Socrative communicates immediate feedback on student
knowledge and understanding, while engaging students in a fun and interactive
classroom experience. Teachers and
students can access Socrative on any device with a web browser (tablet,
smartphone, laptop or iPod touch). By
logging into a free Socrative account (<a href="file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/Hyland%20Heights/Tech%20Tidbits/www.socrative.com">www.socrative.com</a>)
with their email and a chosen password, teachers are given a ‘room number’
which is their own personal identification for all of their activities. Students access the website (no need for an
account or log in) at <a href="file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/Hyland%20Heights/Tech%20Tidbits/m.socrative.com">m.socrative.com </a> and enter the room number their teachers have been
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classroom they will be able participate in the activities that the teacher
creates. These activities can include
multiple choice, short answer, exit ticket and true/false questions and
teachers make up the questions as they go along or have a preset exit ticket
prepared in advance. Results are
displayed immediately in graph form showing the number of respondents for each
answer. Questions can be answered
anonymously or with student names and Socrative sends teachers live reports
that include grades for all questions asked (except short answer). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Give it a try and let me know what you think of
this engaging and accessible web tool. If
you have an idea for a future blog topic, please feel free to pass it along to
me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-47645934154643691822014-03-28T07:34:00.003-07:002014-03-28T07:34:56.689-07:00iBet You May Not Know These Tricks<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">This week I have chosen share a few tips and tricks
for the iPad that you may or may not be aware of…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the keyboard</b></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">If you're holding your iPad with
both hands, you know how hard it is to thumb type in either the portrait or
landscape view. The good news is that then you can split the keyboard to make
typing easier. Touch and hold the
"Keyboard" key, to bring it up onto the screen then use two fingers
to ‘unpinch’ the keyboard to split it, and pinch to merge it (often this is
best performed by placing both thumbs on the ‘g’ and ‘h’ keys and pulling them
back towards the outside of the screen
or squeezing them back together).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><u>Caps
lock</u></strong><u><o:p></o:p></u></div>
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To type a single
capital letter on the iPad keyboard you need to tap the left or right shift
key, then the letter, however typing multiple capital letters can be
frustrating. To type a whole word in
Caps turn on the caps lock by double taping on either shift key. Double tap again to turn off caps lock.<o:p></o:p></div>
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photo of what is on the screen (“Screenshot”)</u></strong></div>
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You can take a
photo of the image on your iPad by pressing Home and then the Sleep/Wake button
at the top of the iPad. The screen will flash and you'll hear a click, indicating
that the photo has been taken. Your images are automatically saved in your
Photo gallery, where they can be viewed, emailed or used in iPad apps.<span style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none black; font-size: 0pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">iPad’s intuitive word suggestions can automatically
include a contraction for you quickly and easily. By repeating the last letter of the word, it
will add in the apostrophe (i.e. well<u>l</u> – we’ll) and complete the word
for you when you tap the space after the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Restoring Deleted Apps<o:p></o:p></b></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you accidentally delete an app, and wish to retrieve it you may do so by following these instructions. Visit the app store on your iPad and tap on purchased at the bottom of the page. This will display all of the apps on your iPad. By tapping on the ‘not on this iPad’ box at the top, it will display all of the apps which are not synced with the iPad. Simply find the one you want and tap on the cloud symbol to download it.</span></div>
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<strong><u>Hidden
keys on the keyboard</u></strong><u><o:p></o:p></u></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUG6pGTuUfT7l0Pi8r8wGe6VttEkNwv89N0VKcQQsg04LoYUvmB2yDi2O05tT-aBwDuyYFI5bJyj-1RHVIRrne7yjfJs_cNC5tv0wQAtczFG9nMFKwepG2_ZXCOmnEnLIwCw0YLSpmuyv/s1600/iPad.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUG6pGTuUfT7l0Pi8r8wGe6VttEkNwv89N0VKcQQsg04LoYUvmB2yDi2O05tT-aBwDuyYFI5bJyj-1RHVIRrne7yjfJs_cNC5tv0wQAtczFG9nMFKwepG2_ZXCOmnEnLIwCw0YLSpmuyv/s1600/iPad.png" /></a>Rather than
tapping on the iPad's second keyboard screen to enter a quotation mark or
apostrophe, you can simply enable some hidden keys. By tapping and hold over the ? key and a
quotation symbol will appears above the key.
You can select it by moving your finger upwards. Likewise, you can tap
and hold the ! key to show the hidden ‘ key – just slide your finger up to
access it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><b>Change your signature</b></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">The default email signature on the iPad says, ―Sent
from my iPad however if you wish to change it to something more personal merely
go into Settings and tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Find Signature in the
fourth section down and type whatever you wish. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Scrolling back to the top of a lengthy list of
twitter messages or website you have been reading can often take many, many
swipes up the screen of the iPad.
Instead tap the title bar at the top of the page and the iPad will jump
to the top of the page for you – in one quick tap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I hope these are helpful in making your iPad
practice more user friendly. If you have
any questions or suggestions for future tech tips, please feel free to email or
message me. Past Tech Tidbits posts can be found on the blog at </span><a href="http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-84513725667041763132014-03-20T20:47:00.002-07:002014-03-20T20:51:07.607-07:00March 21, 2014 - An Online Tool You'll 'Flip' For...<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Happy Friday everyone!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This week I’d like to bring you a fun and exciting
online program which allows you to create your very own game show style practice
and assessment tool. It’s called
FlipQuiz (<a href="http://flipquiz.me/">http://flipquiz.me/</a>) and I’m
certain that it will quickly become your student’s favourite way to review
material and practice for evaluations!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once you create a free FlipQuiz account, you are
able to begin generating your own game show ‘boards’. First, determine your category(s) and then begin
filling in the questions you would like the students to respond to. You can include the answers to your questions
or simply leave them blank to generate classroom discussions. You have the opportunity to create up to 6
different categories with 5 questions in each and point values increasing from
100 to 500. Additionally, you can
include links to webpages or YouTube videos in your questions and/or responses
to make them more interactive and illuminating. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Your ‘boards’ are saved in the FlipQuiz database so
that you can view them again later or edit the questions and responses you have
entered. Also, you can view other subscriber’s
boards to see if any of them are of benefit to your programming. Finally, you can share the link to your board
with your students and without creating an account or signing in, they are able
to access the board on their own devices and practice the material themselves
at home or at school – and are unable to alter the questions or responses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Overall, I really enjoyed the user-friendly format
and how quickly I was able to create a board based on my own material. I believe that this tool will soon become one
of your students’ favourite techniques for assessment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a great week…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-15870882511356816912014-02-28T04:59:00.001-08:002014-02-28T04:59:08.666-08:00February 28, 2014 – I would not, could not, forget to say Happy Birthday!<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Welcome to yet another cold and wintry Friday everyone!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">This Sunday, March 2<sup>nd</sup>, is the 110<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the birth of one of the most beloved children’s authors, Theodor
Geisel – otherwise known as Dr. Seuss. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Here are a few online tools and resources to help you celebrate this amazing author with your students!</span></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Seussville Website (</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://www.seussville.com/">http://www.seussville.com/</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">This fun interactive website will keep children
busy for hours, listening to his stories, learning about the many adored
characters and playing various games and activities based upon his well-loved
books. A truly terrific way to learn about not only
the author himself but revisit the many lessons his books taught to us all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Teacher Stuff AtoZ</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> (</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u><a href="http://bit.ly/1hv9LhW">http://bit.ly/1hv9LhW</a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">)</span></div>
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and resources to incorporate Dr. Seuss characters and themes into every day
math, science and language programming. From
surveying and graphing how many friends like Green Eggs and Ham to creating Oobleck
and justifying whether or not King Yertle was a good king, students will be
engaged and enjoying these fun activities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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characters Dr. Seuss also made significant impacts on the public through his
political cartoons created during the Second World War. When visiting this web page, older students
can view and learn about the political statements which went largely unnoticed
until he became better known later in his writing career. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can be used to help educate students on the safe use of social media. “A person’s a person no matter how small”
will clearly illustrate for students that no matter the size of the person at
the keyboard, they have feelings and need to be respected. Written in 1954, a full 30 years before the
internet began its rapid expansion into the mainstream world, and yet the words
of Horton the Elephant can still educate students on digital citizenship. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tidbits posts can be found on the blog at </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca/">http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and if you have an idea for a
future blog topic, please feel free to pass it along to me.</span></div>
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been estimated that the Apple App Store has over 475000 apps available for the
iPad, so I have chosen to highlight a few more for you this week.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Enjoy!</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Teacher
Notes (Free)<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">With
Teacher Notes you can keep your grades, anecdotal, video and photo notes for
all of your students in one place. Organized
by class and student, Teacher Notes is an easy way to maintain student records
for easy report writing and evaluations.
You can file notes by student name, domain (self-chosen categories such
as language, cognitive or behavioural) and content areas (i.e. Art, Math,
Science, etc.) Notes can be seamlessly uploaded
and stored on Dropbox and can be maintained securely using a PIN code. Additional features include being able to
search notes by phrase, sort notes by child, domain or date, and e-mail notes
to parents, administrators or teaching partners. There are various Youtube videos available to
assist in learning how to record and edit notes as well as use the graphing
feature. Although the app takes some
practice to become familiar with, it is very much worth the effort and quite
beneficial. Many thanks to Michelle for bringing the Teacher Notes app to my
attention.</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Penultimate
(Free)<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">A free
app which allows the user to handwrite, draw or create on lined, graph or plain
virtual paper. Some may wonder why this app
would be preferred over the iPad Notes app, and my response would be that with
Penultimate you are able to draw, as well as write on the virtual pages – while
in class you could draw and label a diagram in addition to taking notes on the
topic) Also, you are able to insert images from your camera or photo stream
into your notes and add comments, labels or captions to them. Other features include zooming into the
diagrams and notes, being able to search handwritten notes for keywords, email
notes and maintain all pages in various notebooks by subject or topic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Google
Translate (Free)<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">This app
lets you translate into 80 different languages including French, Spanish,
Hindi, Dutch and Italian. You can type
in or paste text to be translated or you may speak directly into the app and
have the sentence appear on the screen for you.
Then you simply listen to your translations being spoken aloud as well
as view the written words for easy rewriting.
Google Translate also maintains your translations in the memory for
easier review later or they can be starred for quick access when offline. I have worked with this app briefly and with
my limited French background, it appears to be able to successfully translate
various French verb tenses. I would love
to hear from any French instructors as to how they feel the app works in
practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">WWF
Together (Free)<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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Wildlife Foundation has yet again found a way to excite and educate students
about animals from around the world.
This app includes informative and interactive stories of endangered species
including tigers, butterflies and polar bears coupled with spectacular photographs
of them in their natural habitats. Additionally, it allows students to use the
interactive 3D globe to discover the location of over 70 different species and a
step-by-step guide to creating over 15 origami animal creations. Kids will love the cool and unusual facts and
games, making this a definite must have app for animal lovers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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always, past Tech Tidbits posts can be found on the blog at </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca/">http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> and if you have an idea for a future blog topic,
please feel free to pass it along to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004227841781461335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604450457648894738.post-57558591044162898092014-02-14T08:58:00.000-08:002014-02-14T08:58:04.595-08:00February 14, 2014 - Sharing the Love - Tech Tips for Social Media<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In light of the many different forms of social media which are currently being used by students in our classrooms, I have chosen to highlight a few and offer a brief description of how they are being used. Enjoy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Vine is a video-sharing app used mainly by teens and twenty-somethings which allows people to share short (max. 6 second) videos through the app and other forms of social media. The short clips are often humorous and fun-filled, meant to entertain friends and comment on events in one’s life. Vines can be imbedded into tweets on Twitter and in Facebook posts. Many of vine’s “greatest hits” video compilations can be found on YouTube. Accounts are free and can be downloaded to Apple, android and Window’s devices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Similar to Vine, Snapchat gives students the ability to share images and broadcast </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">events in their lives. Free accounts can be created utilizing a phone number, email or username (as in Twitter) which are used to search for, and connect with your contacts. Contacts are added, as friends are on Facebook; you can view their images and they yours. The app features the ability to overlay words on the image and even doodle on videos in a range of colours. One unique feature of Snapchat is that the images are only visible to the intended recipient for a set length of time. Once the recipient opens the image it will display for 1 to 10 seconds (depending on the sender’s settings). After the timer runs out, the image is no longer able to be viewed. Always remember to be careful of what you send because the receiver may have had the forsight to take a screenshot of the image! Some believe that Snapchat has deceived their customers by giving them the false sense of comfort, believing that the images were completely deleted after the 10 second viewing, when in fact they retain and log the last 200 images sent and received. Finally, images can be added to your story (a brief ‘all about me’) which is viewable by your contacts when they tap on your contact name. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Instagram is a mixture of Snapchat and Twitter where you take and post pictures using hashtags (i.e. #checkthisout). Images can be viewed by anyone who looks up your handle and/or the hashtags, unless the user has chosen to make their account private within the settings. Businesses and schools are beginning to use this social media stream for contests, product placement and promotions. Students have even begun using it to send you pictures of homework or class notes to fellow students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Created in 2009 by a group of University of Waterloo students, Kik is comparable to Facebook</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> messenger where individuals are able to message others who also have the Kik app. Accounts are free and created with either a phone number or your email address which is used to search out and recommend contacts for you. Many students who use their iPod touch with internet access choose to use this app so they can keep in touch both family friends. When people in your contacts list are located it sends a message indicating a new “Kikster” has been located for you. Kik allows you to exchange messages, videos, stickers, sketches and more with your contacts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jelly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jelly is a newest way to find out information which you are seeking using pictures and your social media. Think of it as Google meets Facebook. For example, if you are out walking or visiting a new city, you can snap a photo of a sculpture or building, you can post the image and ask what it is or what the history is behind it? Then individuals in your social network are able to offer responses to your question. Additionally, if friends are unable to answer the question, they can forward the post to their own network and see if anyone is able to respond to it for you. Available as an app on an iPad, iPhone and Googleplay, Jelly is the new way to search out information using images.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Although these social media networking sites may not be of interest, or of use to you, I felt it important for teachers to be aware of them and to know that this is the way students are beginning to use tech tools in their daily lives. So even if you are not going to quickly download Snapchat or Vine to your device, you can amaze the students in your class with how ‘down with the latest tech apps’ you are while maintaining a close eye on digital citizenship for them as well! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Cheers,</span></div>
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