May 3 and 4, 2011

Updates from Technology

Department of Instructional Technology

Summertime and the livin’ is easy.

✤ June 1 - 2: SMART Learner Conference

✤ June 8 - July 28

✤ District SMART Board Certification

✤ Moodle

✤ Response and CPS

✤ SMART Notebook: Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Content Creation

✤ WebQuests, Collaborative Tools, Movie Maker and Flip Cams

going the distance

✤ Where are we going?

✤ How will we get there?

✤ Tandberg

✤ MOVI

✤ Skype

its a BIG Universe

✤ 2099 eBooks

✤ read and CREATE! from phone, iPad, computer, iPod Touch

✤ Targets grades K - 8

✤ AR books available

✤ Thank you.....Title1

Student logins!!

✤ Student logins are available and must be in use by October 1.

✤ Lists of usernames and passwords generated by ITS

✤ lists available by September 1 on Sharepoint

✤ contact James McKinnis (jmckinnis@mcpss.com)

✤ Schools will be responsible for maintaining up-to-date lists

We have iPads, now what?

✤ iPads must be set up to work with the MCPSS network by ITS

✤ Apps cannot be purchased with Title 1 funds

✤ The Apple Volume License Purchase Program

✤ There is a link with iPad app suggestions on the principal wiki

HELP!!

✤ Thank you for your support

✤ Calls taken from TST and Principal only, thank you

SMART things you should know

✤ Warranty

✤ SMART Board Install Check Sheet

✤ Cleanliness is next to Godliness

✤ Are you registered?

Enabled, Engaged and Empowered

✤ Survey says....the national Speak Up Survey

✤ 67% of parents would purchase a mobile device for schoolwork

✤ 53% of students said inability to use mobile device was largest obstacle when using technology in school

✤ 71% of HS students want us to allow greater access to digital content

✤ 33% of HS students report they are using online textbooks or online curriculum as part of their regular schoolwork.

what does it all mean??

✤ Conference, school and district discussion and policy trends:

✤ mobile learning

✤ online and blended learning

✤ e-textbooks

✤ Student vision: socially based, un-tethered, digitally rich learning

✤ Parents: support the student vision

the new 3 Es of Education

✤ Enabling students to reach their potential through increased access to educational resources and experts that extend learning beyond the capacities or limitations of their school or community.

✤ Engaging students in rich, compelling learning experiences that develop deeper knowledge and skill development especially the problem-solving, creativity and critical thinking skills so highly desired for our world today.

✤ Empowering students to take responsibility for their own educational destinies and to explore knowledge with an unfettered curiosity, thus creating a new generation of life long learners.

and, don’t forget IMPACT

✤ Have you taken your IMPACT yet?

✤ Open until May 18

✤ Request results from Michele White

next.....

✤ Hands-on SMART for Administrators June 7, 2011

✤ Robbins, Burns, Clark and Central Office

✤ BYOC / BYOL

✤ Technology’s answer to the Very Long Day

✤ July 18 - 21 at Clark

✤ 2 hours of....

Questions from the floor??