Welcome!

The old adage that everyone is a reading and writing teacher, now applies to technology. We are all technology teachers this fall.

We also know that technologically savvy teachers are going to be leaned on heavily in their schools to help other teachers, students and families set up and problem solve for all technology.

This is a great opportunity for us as technology/computer science teachers because others understand more clearly how technology is a part of everything that we do. We are in the position to help everyone develop or strengthen their computational thinking skills this fall.

We also have the opportunity as we focus on tech skills to make this fun. We want to help build student confidence and help the students start to create an online virtual school community.

We recommend that the first month of school really focus on teaching tech skills. We want students to be confident and comfortable with technology. If they aren’t confident with the technology they will be unable to focus and concentrate on other content (including computer science).

We are going to be posting a series of lessons on our website. We are going to focus on technology skills such as the ones listed below.

• Lesson(s) on norms of Google Meets

• What is my profile picture?

• Google Classroom scavenger hunt.

• Using Google Calendar -- get me to class on time.

• How to write and answer an email appropriately

• How to create strong passwords

• Organizing Google Drive

We will be posting new lessons and resources on our website on a regular basis. We will have a form where you can provide feedback and help strengthen the materials. This is a collaborative effort.

Thank you to our teacher team for all of your hard work in helping to create this wonderful resource: Alicia Gomez (Whitney), Megan Calhoun (Murray), Yazmin Romo (Dore), Laura Gaytan (Edwards), Alicia Kostecki (Disney), Joan Mendelson (Lorca), Stephen Tow (Goudy), Peter Moi (Gray), Sara Weisman (Newberry), Kinga Baut (J. Locke) and the many other Teacher Advisory Council members that helped along the way!