1. Inventory is coming, Inventory is coming…
2. Thank you to Trudy Tkach
3. Intro to Word and Excel Class for Teachers or Classified Staff 11-15-11
4. Google Calendar for Sharing Event Calendars
5. Library of Congress Class 12/15/2011
6. Previous Recipients List in “Mail” on the Mac
7. Political Activities at Work Procedure on For District Employees Page
8. Using the UserBox on the new Konica Copiers
1. Inventory is Coming, Inventory is Coming….
Getting your classroom ready for the every-other-year district-wide inventory is simple and painless. Here are a couple things that will keep your classroom from getting blanketed in yellow slips:
- Make sure any personal equipment is marked as belonging to you and not the district. A sticker or note stuck to the equipment would be very helpful!
- Make sure any new WSD equipment in your classroom has a tag
- Have your equipment at work! You must get permission from your building administrator to check out any equipment. There is a short form they need to keep track of while you have the item away from the building.
- If you have equipment on loan to another staff person, you should have it written down somewhere in your room, or document it with your building’s inventory designee.
2. Thank you to Trudy Tkach for Co-Teaching the iMovie Bootcamp
A very big thank you to Excelsior Math/Science Trudy Tkach for her work planning and co-facilitating the six hour iMovie Class again this year. Trudy’s experience as a teacher who has worked with students and video is invaluable, and she is a wealth of information on how to help students be successful with video projects. The feedback from the class was very positive, and participating teachers created some great, fun video projects to take back to their classrooms.
3. Word and Excel Class Nov. 15, 4-7 PM
There is still some space available in the Microsoft Word and Excel Class that Susan Nesmith and Rebecca Woodings are co-teaching on November 15th, 2011. The class will be in the Excelsior Mac Lab, from 4-7 PM, and 3 clock hours are offered to teachers who attend via ESD 112. Teachers may pay themselves to attend from their PD fund, if the class aligns with their goal and they have funds available. Classified staff are invited, but there is not a mechanism to pay them to take this class. If you are interested, please e-mail Les Brown to register.
4. Google Calendar for Sharing Events
WSD Teachers can get a free sign-up for the WashougalSD.org Google Apps for Education domain, which will let you use Google Calendar for free. Google Calendar is a great tool for sharing calendars with your peers, or publishing a schedule or classroom calendar for parents to see as part of your classroom webpage. You could also create a PLC calendar to share with your grade level team, sharing ideas about the pacing for your classes. You can create multiple calendars, and can make them public, private, or shared only with specific people.
5. Still Room in the Library of Congress Tech PD Class on Dec. 15, 2011
Gause Teachers Heidi Kleser and Cheryl MacIntyre are prepping for a great class on the resources available FREE to teachers via the Library of Congress website. Both Heidi and Cheryl attended a packed session of a class on this topic at the NCCE conference last year, and they’re excited to help you bring these powerful, primary source materials into your classroom. Three clock hours area available through ESD 112, and teachers can pay themselves to attend the class if it aligns with your professional development goals, and you have funds available. If you are interested in signing up, just let Les Brown know.
6. “Mail” Application Guesses Old/Non-working E-mail Addresses
For those of you using Mail on the Mac, you may have older or non-working addresses stored in your Previous Recipients list, that Mail will “guess” as you start typing a new message. For instance, if you had a parent of a former student named Rebecca that you communicated with last year, but that you were no longer likely to e-mail, and you were now trying to e-mail Rebecca Woodings at CCMS, just typing Rebecca might bring up the older e-mail address instead of the one you want. You can edit the list of e-mail addresses that Mail guesses from, narrowing it down to ones you currently use. To do this, open Mail, then open the “Previous Recipients” list from the Window menu. This will open up a small window. You can scroll through the list, and highlight people you no longer e-mail. Once you’ve got the old address you no longer want selected, click the Remove from list button. This will make Mail stop guessing that name.
7. Political Activities at Work Linked on For District Employees Page
The Washougal School Board Policy 5224-p, Staff Participation in Political Activities procedure, is posted on the “For District Employees” page of the WSD website. To get started, visit the “For District Employees” page, which is linked in the upper right corner of the WSD Site. As a reminder as we head into the new Election Year, staff are free to wear a button with the name of their candidate or position on a political measure, but at no time can they actively campaign for any candidate or issue during work hours on school grounds. Staff should not use work related resources, including their work e-Mail, copy machine, or telephones, at any time for any political purposes
If you have a suggestion for something else that could be added to this page (check first to make sure it’s not already there!), e-mail Les Brown and he’ll look into adding it to share with everyone.
8. Using the UserBox on the new Konica Copiers
Sean Elkinton writes that The UserBox is a folder on the copier that stores your documents that you want to print. It can hold all your print jobs you send there until you are ready to print them. Once the UserBox is setup on your computer then it functions the same way as a printer so when you print to the copier it is automatically copied to your UserBox.
Here are Sean’s Directions to use the UserBox:
1) login with your code number
2) push the UserBox button
3) push the 2nd item in menu, "Use Document"
4) push "Search UserBox"
5) select your UserBox icon and select OK
6) select the document and push Print
7) push start button
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