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Step #1- Establish classroom norms and routines for the 1:1 environment.
Step #2- Have desktops available in your classroom for students to use. Step #3- Have students complete the assignment on paper. Step #4- Provide an alternate assignment for students to complete if they do not have their Chromebook and the original assignment requires one. Helpful Website: thecornerstoneforteachers.com/classroom-management-in-the-byod-classroom/ **Video to the right is excellent to show your students to establish 1:1 norms and routines.** |
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Convert all Word documents to Google Docs
Step #1- When in Google Drive click "New" and then "File Upload." Step #2- Select the document you wish to upload and click "Open." Sept #3- Double click on the document you just uploaded which will open the document. Step #4- Click the "File" menu with the document open and select "Save as Google Docs." You now have a copy of the document as word and a copy as a Google Doc. Step #5- Adjust any parts of the document that were not compatible with the Google Docs. Step #6- Upload the Google Doc file to Google Classroom. Helpful Website: lowndestech.blogspot.com/2015/09/google-classroom-best-practices-convert.html **The video to the right demonstrates converting a Word Document to a Google Doc** |
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Step #1- Click your account photo in the bottom right corner of our Chromebook.
Step #2- Make sure Wi-Fi is turned on. If it says "no connection" turn the Wi-Fi on. Step #3- Your Chromebook at this time should have a list of available connections. Step #4- Select the desired connection you are trying to secure to connect. Step #5- If no Chromebooks are able to connect to the Wi-Fi connection in the room then contact IT personnel. Helpful Website: support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1047420?hl=en **The video on the right demonstrates how to fix Wi-Fi connection on Chromebooks.** |
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Step #1- Click your account photo in the bottom right of your screen.
Step #2- Click the settings icon (gear icon). Step #3- Scroll down to the appearance settings. Step #4- Change the page zoom to the desired setting. 100% is the default setting. Helpful Website: www.laptopmag.com/g00/articles/change-screen-resolution-chromebook?i10c.encReferrer= **See the video to the right for a demonstration.** |
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Step #1- Push the "F11" key.
Step #2- Exit Full screen mode. You cannot close the address bar on Chrome, but it is not visible if using full screen, so you need to exit full screen. Helpful Website: www.techwalla.com/articles/address-bar-missing **See the video to the right for a demonstration** |
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Using your Chromebook touchpad you do not need to use sidebar scrolls. Follow the directions below to scroll vertically and horizontally on your Chromebook.
Step #1- Place two fingers on your Chromebook touchpad. Step#2- Slide your two fingers together either vertically or horizontally, depending on needs, to scroll on your Chromebook. Helpful Website: support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1047367?hl=en **See the video to the right for a demonstration.** |
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Step #1- Set the expectation that students will charge their Chromebooks at home before coming to school.
Step #2- Ask your school to purchase a few electrical outlet strips so that multiple students can charge their Chromebooks from one outlet. Helpful Website (Good Example of Chromebook Expectations): www.lelandandgray.org/index.php/chromebooks/811-chromebook-expectations **Video on the right helps set up Chromebook expeactations in class** |
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Step #1- Try a different web browser such as Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Step #2- Try accessing the same information from a different source. The website may be temporarily down. Helpful Website: www.teachhub.com/new-technology-classroom-weve-got-you-covered **The image to the right is what you may see if Google Chrome cannot display the webpage you are trying to reach.** |
Step #1- Click on the start/windows icon.
Step #2- Click control panel. Step #3- Select displays. Step #4- Select Multiple Displays. Step #5- Select Clone Displays. Step #6- If the above steps do not work try checking the input on the Smartboard. Helpful Website: www.davis.k12.ut.us/cms/lib/UT01001306/Centricity/Domain/8891/SMARTBoard%20Troubleshooting.pdf **See the video on the right for a demonstration of adjusting screen settings on a windows computer** |
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Step #1- Give the computer a moment to "catch-up" do not press any key or move the mouse during this time.
Step #2- Press the keys: control, alt, and delete in that order while holding each key. Step #3- The task manager will appear to allow you to close out programs. Step #4- Select the program that is not responding and click end task. Step #5- This should close out the non-responsive program and unfreeze the computer. Step #6- If the previous steps did not fix the problem then restart your computer. Helpful Website: complicatedtosimple.com/how-stop-frozen-unresponsive-program-windows/ **See the video to the right for a demonstration.** |
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Grading papers seems to take so much of our time as teachers. However, thanks to today's technology grading can become a very simple and quick task to complete. I used to spend a large chuck of my time grading assessments, both formative and summative, but I have recently learned more about tools to help me save time. EdPuzzle is an excellent resource to use for formative assessments while Grade Cam is an excellent to use for summative assessments.
EdPuzzle is great because it allows students to watch an instructional video while answering questions throughout to demonstrate understanding. This tool is great for formative assessments because you are able to clearly see which concepts need to be reviewed after students have learned a new concept. Also, EdPuzzle is great because it collects and organizes the data of student responses for you so that you do not have to use any of your time grading the assignment, and your time can be used analyzing data to better serve your students. Grade Cam is wonderful because you can use it to grade multiple choice questions on a summative assessments. On Grade Cam you can print a response sheet for students to use while taking the test, and when students are finished you simply scan in each student's response sheet. When scanning in student's grade sheets Grade Cam will grade the assessment for you and organize the data in multiple ways. Again, this shortened time of grading can now allow you to spend your time analyzing your data to decide the next steps for students. Teachers should not have to spend their time grading papers because our time is so much better spend analyzing data and making instructional decisions based on that data. Therefore, I know that the next steps for me is to utilize these resources more often to improve my data driven instruction. Visit the resources below and to the right to learn more about these tools and see the right for examples of the tools being used. Resources: EdPuzzle Grade Cam |
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What are H.O.T. differentiated assessments, you may ask? H.O.T. differentiated assessments are assessments that require higher order thinking, but also provide differentiation for students who do not understand the concept. Prior to this week I did not think that providing an assessment with higher order thinking questions and differentiation was possible. I believed that if it was possible then it required tons of work on my part. However, I have learned just how easy it is to incorporate these two things into my lessons, and even together. Let us just look at one at a time before jumping into both of them together. I have recently learned that it is very easy to incorporate higher order thinking tasks within lessons through the use of pictures. Pictures are a very powerful tool to be used within the classroom and there are tools online that allow you to edit photos for your purposes. This comes especially in handy when including pictures to accompany Mathematical word problems. I have provided an example in the picture to the left of editing pictures for use of creating higher order thinking tasks. I would like to continue to grow in this area by including at least one picture within my lessons per week. I have also recently learned just how easy it is to differentiate an assessment through the use of Google Forms. By using Google Forms you can direct students to particular resources if they miss the question being asked. On the flip side you can send students who get the question correct to resources that provide extensions. This is a very useful tool because this will provide the differentiation for students based on their needs determined by their assessment answers. See the picture to the right for a resource page that I have created for students who got a question incorrect. I would like to begin creating formative assessments using this tool in my classroom every week to provide differentiation to students. I feel that these two concepts are very easily accomplished through the use of technology, specifically through the use of these two technology tools. Therefore, I feel that it makes sense to combine these two ideas together to great H.O.T. differentiated assessments. Additional Resources: www.alicechristie.org/workshops/azgafe2016/Google_forms.pdf http://www.readingrockets.org/article/how-increase-higher-order-thinking |
I am a student at IUS and working towards my Masters degree in secondary education with a technology enhancement.
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