Topics for this Tech eNews 11-3-2011
1. Room for More Teachers in iMovie Class Saturday Nov. 5
2. Laptop Users: Retrospect Warnings About Backup
3. Thank you to Scott Rainey and Chelsea Meats
4. Google Docs for Collaboration and Sharing
5. 30 Websites in 90 Minutes Class needs participants!
6. Bullying Policy Linked on "For District Employees" Page
7. Music Through Your Classroom Sound Amplification System (K-5)
1. Room for More Teachers in iMovie Class on Saturday Nov. 5
There is still space for teachers looking to work with iMovie and video editing with their students. Excelsior Teacher Trudy Tkach and Les Brown have planned an active and hands-on class, where participating teachers will script, storyboard, film, and edit the next masterpiece of American cinema. The class is on this Saturday, and we’re still looking for a few more teachers to participate. There are 6 clock hours available through ESD for this class, and teachers can pay themselves to attend if they have Professional Development funds available and the class aligns with their Tech goal. You can register via e-mail by letting Les know you'd like to attend!
There is still space for teachers looking to work with iMovie and video editing with their students. Excelsior Teacher Trudy Tkach and Les Brown have planned an active and hands-on class, where participating teachers will script, storyboard, film, and edit the next masterpiece of American cinema. The class is on this Saturday, and we’re still looking for a few more teachers to participate. There are 6 clock hours available through ESD for this class, and teachers can pay themselves to attend if they have Professional Development funds available and the class aligns with their Tech goal. You can register via e-mail by letting Les know you'd like to attend!
2. Laptop Users: Retrospect Warnings About Backup
Laptop users, your attention, please! If you are getting a pop-up from the Retrospect Client Application telling you that you are not getting backed up, please let Sean or Anthony know so they can check out your computer. If you have been getting this error for a long time, your files are not getting backed up, and it’s critical that you let us know.
3. Thank you to Chelsea Meats and Scott Rainey
A big thank you to Chelsea Meats and Scott Rainey for their work planning and co-facilitating the WebQuest Class again this year. The feedback from the class was very positive, and participating teachers learned some great new skills to take back to their classrooms.
4. Google Docs for Collaboration and Sharing
WSD Teachers can get a free sign-up for the WashougalSD.org Google Apps for Education domain, which will let you use a variety of Google Apps for free. One of these is Google Docs, which is a great tool for collaborating on word processing documents or spreadsheets with your peers. Several people can collaboratively edit a document, even simultaneously, and see changes and notes posted by others. Google Docs maintains a revision history and change log, so you can see how the file has changed over time, and which changes were made by specific people. If you attended the Google Sites class, the login is the same as the one you use for your webpage. If not, let your building tech know if you’re interested in a sign up.
5. 30 Websites in 90 Minutes Class Needs Participants
The 30 Websites in 90 Minutes Class doesn’t have enough folks signed up! This class, scheduled for Monday November 14th from 4-5:30, is the first of our short Tech PD classes for the year. WHS Teacher Jay Bennett and Cape Horn-Skye Teacher Kelli Dizmang are hoping to share a wealth of cool teacher and student tools they saw at the Northwest Council for Computers in Education conference last Spring. If you are interested in signing up, just let Les Brown know.
6. Bullying Policy Linked on For District Employees Page
The Washougal School Board Approved anti-Harrassment, Bullying and Intimidation policy is posted on the “For District Employees” page of the WSD website, along with a training video. To get started, visit the “For District Employees” page, which is linked in the upper right corner of the WSD Site.
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.
7. Music Makes Transitions Easier
K-5 Teachers, are you interested in trying out the concept of Transition Music with your students? Did you know you can plug an iPod or CD player into your Lightspeed Classroom Sound Amplification System that’s already in your classroom? If you’re interested, ask Sean or Anthony for the mini-jack connector, which you can use to plug a MP3 player or other audio device into your sound amplification system.
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