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Technology Site for Students & Families

STEAMfest 25'

May 8, 2025

5:00-7:30 PM

Felix Festa Middle School

What is Computer Science Education Week?

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION WEEK IS AN ANNUAL CALL TO ACTION TO INSPIRE K-12 STUDENTS TO LEARN COMPUTER SCIENCE, ADVOCATE FOR EQUITY, AND CELEBRATE THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND PARTNERS TO THE FIELD.

What is the Hour of Code?

The Hour of Code started as a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify "code", to show that anybody can learn the basics, and to broaden participation in the field of computer science.

Learn computer science. Change the world.Every student in every school deserves the opportunity to study computer science.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Safely Using AI at Home

Technology Learning Platforms

Commonly Used & Approved Software/Apps

Google Chrome

Browse faster and access the extensions provided by using the Chrome Browser. Pick up where you left off on your other devices, search by voice, and easily read webpages in any language. Be sure to login with your school username and password and sync your account.

Google Drive

Google Drive, part of Google Workspace, is a safe place to back up and access all your files from any device. Easily invite others to view, edit, or leave comments on any of your files or folders. Be sure to login with your school username and password and sync your account.

Google Docs

Create, edit, and collaborate on online documents with the Google Docs app. Be sure to login with your school username and password and sync your account.

Google Slides

Create, edit, and collaborate on online slides with the Google Slides app. Be sure to login with your school username and password and sync your account.

Google Sheets

Create, edit, and collaborate on online Sheets with the Google Sheets app. Be sure to login with your school username and password and sync your account.

Google Drawing

Create, edit, and collaborate on online canvas with the Google Drawing app. Be sure to login with your school username and password and sync your account.

Google Calendar

Get organized and keep track of your schedule with the Google Calendar app.

Gmail

Compose and read email communications using the Gmail app. Be sure to login with your school username and password and sync your account.

Jamboard

Create, edit, and collaborate on online Jams with the Google Jamboard app. Be sure to login with your school username and password and sync your account.

YouTube

Watch and learn from the filtered and approved videos provided on YouTube. Be sure to be logged in to your school account, using Google Chrome, and be on either the student or Chrome Wifi network if you are in a school building or you will not have any access.

Google Earth

Explore the whole world from above with satellite imagery, 3D terrain of the entire globe, and 3D buildings in hundreds of cities around the world.

Google Arts and Culture

Google Arts & Culture puts the treasures, stories and knowledge of over 2,000 cultural institutions from 80 countries at your fingertips. From the suffragettes who fought for women’s rights, to performing arts at the Paris Opera, to NASA’s archive of stunning images, discover stories about our cultural heritage. It’s your doorway to explore the art, history, people and wonders of our world.

Google Forms

Create, edit, collaborate, and complete Google Forms. Be sure to login with your school username and password and sync your account.

Kami

Universal learning environment, enabling students to interact with teachers, resources, and each other in their preferred medium – text, freehand, audio, voice-typing, or video.

Pear Deck

Pear Deck Slides help you engage every student in every seat and give formative assessments, no matter what grade or subject you teach. Pear Deck supports an interactive and community-focused classroom that helps students build confidence and comprehension.

Sora

Sora is your school's gateway to the industry's largest catalog of ebooks and audiobooks in the classroom and beyond. Students can read and listen on any device, and teachers can assign and track students' progress.

Screencastify

Screencastify is used to record, edit, and share videos. Students express and share their best ideas through the power of screen recordings. Students' voices are heard and their thinking visible with fun, interactive videos.

Lumio

Lumio is the digital learning tool for transforming lessons into active, collaborative learning experiences that engage students on their own devices.

BrainPop

Help kids understand their world with the BrainPOP Featured Movie app. Our animated movies engage via narrative, humor, and characters who speak in a voice kids can relate to, encouraging self-directed learning and further exploration of the world around them, and the world within them.

PlayPosit

With over 5 million learners and counting, PlayPosit offers a variety of options for interaction through educational videos.

WeVideo

WeVideo, as the name suggests, is a video platform designed to use the cloud for collaborative storage and work – hence the "we" in the name.This tool can be used to capture, edit, and view video footage. Crucially, it is all cloud-based so it requires very little storage space or processing power – allowing it to work on most devices.Both educators and students can use this tool as it not only teaches how to video edit, in an accessible way, but also allows students to use video as a vehicle to express ideas and submit work projects.

Dreambox

DreamBox Learning Math is an interactive, adaptive, self-paced program that provides engaging activities for students to learn and practice skills in mathematics. It’s available for both web-based and iPad platforms, and student progress is tracked across both.

RAZ Kids K-3

Raz-Kids is an award-winning teaching product that provides comprehensive leveled reading resources for students. With hundreds of eBooks offered at 29 different levels of reading difficulty, it's easy to put the right content in every student's hands.Kids access their leveled text through an interactive learning portal designed to keep them motivated and engaged. Every eBook is available in online and mobile formats, and allows students to listen to, read at their own pace, and record themselves reading.

Typing Club

TypingClub is the most accessible typing program available. Interactive experience. A full range of experiences from games, videos and different typing challenges makes learning fun. Voice over. Once you turn it on, every word is read out loud as you are typing each word.

Adobe Spark

Spark Video helps anyone create compelling video stories in minutes. Easily add and trim video clips to make your videos stand out on social media. Pick from over 1 million beautiful iconic images or add your own photos to highlight what you have to say. Select the soundtrack that works best. Then Spark automatically adds striking cinematic motion to your story — no design experience needed. Share your video to make an impact: persuade, inform and inspire your audience. You can even access, edit and share your video from a browser using Adobe Spark for web.

Castle Learning

Provides a wide-range of content specific learning support at every grade level – from core subjects to electives. They also provide critical review and assessment tools, ensuring students get the most from their education in a measurable way. Castle Learning’s curriculum empowers teachers and students on a daily basis.

Kahoot

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes.

Gizmos (secondary)

Gizmos are interactive math and science virtual labs and simulations for grades 6-12. Over 400 Gizmos aligned to the latest standards help educators bring powerful new STEM learning experiences to the classroom.

Code.org

Code.org® is a non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science by making it available in more schools, and increasing participation by young women and students from other underrepresented groups. Our vision is that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science. We believe computer science and computer programming should be part of the core curriculum in education, alongside other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses, such as biology, physics, chemistry and algebra.

Kodable

Kodable helps every kid build a foundation for their futureKids learn core programming concepts through engaging games developed with real teachers and kids.

Scratch

Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations. Scratch is designed, developed, and moderated by the Scratch Foundation, a nonprofit organization.Scratch promotes computational thinking and problem solving skills; creative teaching and learning; self-expression and collaboration; and equity in computing.

Sphero

Sphero, the industry leader in edtech programmable robots, standards-aligned computer science curriculum, and STEAM-based educational tools, was founded in 2010 in Boulder, Colorado, and has since grown to reach over 40,000 educators, 20,000 education institutions, and millions of students around the world.

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