I recently came across a great PDF publication titled, A Parent’s Guide to Facebook found on this site-http://www.connectsafely.org/Safety-Advice-Articles/facebook-for-parents.html It goes over all those things I wish I could tell parents and much more! A great resource to add to your own website, share with your Home & School group or post to your school’s Facebook [...]
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This question is from an email thread for ArchSPM Tech Coordinators. We’ve had this question go around a few times this year, so I’m going to try to get all the comments to be here instead of floating around our email… ———- Hello, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Julie and I [...]
Lisa Whitaker has a school board member that wants them to run on Linux. Any thoughts? The school board member writes: I have been looking into Linux and think we could do some travelling carts for pretty cheap. Or if not carts we could have some computers in the classroom. Linux runs well on old computers (Windows 98 [...]
Below are the updated documents for the interpretation of ISTE Standards for the Archdiocese schools who wish to use them. If you wish to collaborate on the “Resources & Lessons” documents, please email me with your Google account email address and I will share it with you (ArchSPM only, please). You do NOT need a [...]
Here is the Word document from the MN Dept of Ed website regarding the technology license. Board of Teaching – Tech License revisions (download)
Our first technology standards writing session was a success! We had 14 participants and got quite a bit accomplished. Below are links to what we have put together so far (still in early stages). We started with the ISTE NETS for Students 2007 version and put the ISTE student profiles in what we felt were [...]
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It has been decided that much of our focus at our meetings with Archdiocese tech coordinators this year will be on standards. There is no “standard” standard we are required to follow. Though many schools are using McREL standards for much of their core curriculum, not all are. I offered to look over the McREL [...]
mcrel-tech_standards_k-2 mcrel-tech_standards_3-5 mcrel-tech_standards_6-8 I am hopeful these will download for you. Let me know of success or failure. Should we have a new category of ‘standards’? I am feeling energized after yesterday’s meeting!
How do schools handle their AUP? At St. Wenceslaus, I thought we were having new families (all kindergarteners and any other new families in grades 1-8) sign ONCE. Then annually teachers would review our acceptable use policy and sign a record stating they (the teacher) reviewed our policies with the students. In reality, what is [...]
We have completed most of our Learnia tests now, save a few absent students. It actually went pretty well, if I had to give an overall opinion. But I’m starting this conversation about what could be done better and what tips and tricks others used to survive the sessions. Overview I made sure all student [...]