Tuesday Tech Tips

Tuesday Tech Tips is a weekly blog that contains interesting technology tips, articles, and videos.

Two Screens for Teachers is a non-profit that started in September to provide teachers with a second monitor for teaching during COVID. A second monitor lets you see your students on one screen and lesson plans on another.

DEADLINE: TODAY at 11:59 pm Eastern

https://www.twoscreensforteachers.org/

To celebrate Giving Tuesday, we're buying monitors for an entire school district! But we need your help.

The school district with the highest percentage of teachers signed up on Two Screens for Teachers will win. So spread the word to colleagues throughout your school and school district and ask them to sign up:

www.twoscreensforteachers.org/request-monitor

Reporting Connectivity Issues:

We are monitoring our network performance, so if you experienced any type of connectivity issues, please report it to the Help Desk, and carbon copy Edward Ward and your Building Administrator.

Before reporting check the following:

A. Check to see how many applications you are running on your MacBook. Click on the Apple and go to Force Quit. (This will list the open applications currently running on your computer - Word, Excel, Chrome, Zoom, etc). If you have multiple applications running, then quit the applications you don't need.

B. Check the number of open tabs on your Chrome browser

C. Make sure you have the latest Zoom App running on your MacBook.

Please include the following:

• Name:

• Building / Classroom #:

• Date and time of the incident:

• Description of issue:

• Please include the application(s) you were using (Zoom, Google Hangout, or a specific website):

Zoom Update:

Current release is December 8, 2020 (Today!)

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201361963

A cool update for meeting features:

Enhanced co-host privileges over Breakout RoomsCo-hosts have the same breakout room controls as the meeting host, such as starting or ending breakout rooms, assigning participants, etc.

Move participants to main session from breakout roomHosts and co-hosts have the option to assign a participant back to the main session, rather than ending all breakout sessions.

This is CSEDWEEK • DECEMBER 7-13, 2020:

Celebrate Computer Science Education Week this year with flexible one-hour coding activities that can be completed online with a device, or offline and unplugged.

CSEdWeek Kickoff Activities

Google CS First Resources

Google Teaching Resources

Code.org - Join us during this year's Hour of Code for our live CodeBytes interactive mini-lessons!

Code.org - Resources for Teaching in Virtual and Socially-Distanced Classrooms

GoGuardian YouTube Channel and Video Filtering:

In Go Guardian I have created three profiles for YouTube filtering: Elementary (K-5), Middle School (6-8) and FHS (9-12). Please complete the FTPS YouTube Channel or YouTube Video Request Form if you would like to request a YouTube Channel or YouTube video be allowed for students. Currently, Educational YouTube Videos or YouTube Channels are allowed. Please allow 24 - 48 for your request to be processed.

That's it for now!

Enjoy the Tuesday Tech Tips!