i3 Monthly Update
Classroom Environment & Digital Citizenship
Check out the Monthly Skill Challenge at the bottome of the page!
Class Dojo at Daugherty
Our campus uses ClassDojo. If you have not used ClassDojo before, please let a teammate or me know.
ClassDojo is a user friendly classroom manager. This app has many options for organization and communication.
Check out the updates video for last school year including major upgrades to the messaging tool.
Visit Mojo's Activity Corner to find SEL lessons, materials to create a cool down center, job charts, and more!
If you are interested in training, ClassDojo has live and recorded professional development sessions available here.
Management Tools
Have you tried using random spinners such as wheelofnames or wheeldecide? These are great for engaging students and helping keep choices random and fresh...
Classroomscreen
The digital whiteboard that answers all your students’ questions.
With Classroomscreen you've got all the classroom tools at your fingertips. Whether you need a timer or would like to show your instructions, Classroomscreen has a variety of features that support your class activities, stimulate engagement and help your students get to work.
First click Launch, and then add widgets!
Meet the different Classroomscreen widgets...
Widgets available:
● Timers
● Voice level
● QR codes
● .. & more!
Common Sense Education
Digital Citizenship!
The beginning of a new school year is a great time to talk about Digital Citizenship and web safety. Are you familiar with "common sense education"? This website has a series of age appropriate lessons leading our students in discovering the importance of good digital citizenship. Check out these lessons for guiding our students in creating safe habits for a lifetime online!
You are doing so much everyday! Our teachers have grown in using technology in the classroom over the past several years. Are you sharing your successes? Tweet your triumphs!
Create an "X" account (formerly Twitter) for your professional self. Please add your information to this Google Sheet and advocate for your classroom!
Share with me: @dghtymusicrocks, with the school: @DES_Hornets, and with the Digital Learning Team: @DigitalGISD. Common hashtags used by GISD accounts are #GISDunmatched, #theGISDeffect, #GarlandUSA, #ChooseGarlandISD, and #ExperienceTheMagic.
Want to be caught being techy? Email me I'd love to come by your classroom, take some pics, and share your successes!