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The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) provides a framework for describing and targeting the use of technology to enhance learning. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, collaborative, constructive, authentic, and goal-directed.
Tech Tip(s) of the Week
1. Google just rolled out a new feature in Google Classroom utilizing AI called "Practice Sets."
2. On a Windows PC - Snap a Window to One Side:
a. Pressing the Windows Key + Arrow Keys will quickly snap a window to the side of your monitor.
3. On a Windows PC - Emoji Keyboard
a. No matter the topic, there’s probably an emoji you can use to represent it. To access your emoji keyboard, press the Windows Key +. (period) or Windows +; (semi-colon)
b. You can scroll through all the available emojis and categories (People, Nature, Food & Drink, Celebration, Activity, Travel & Places, and Objects & Symbols).
Tech Tip(s) of the Week
2/16/2023 From: Coach Santos
Tip #1) CTRL + F = Finds a word or phrase in a document or webpage (saves scrolling!)
Tip #2) To Reopen a Tab or Window that you just closed = CTRL +Shift +T or right click or double finger tap on top bar /ribbon of the window and click reopen tab or window for tabs/windows just closed.
Tech Tip(s) of the Week
10/25/2022 From: Anonymous
Tip #1) Windows Key and L is a quick way to lock your PC when you need to step away from your computer.
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New Feature - Flashback Tuesday:
Tech Tip Flashback #2 ) Most of you are aware of the program Go Guardian Teacher that we implemented at the beginning of the pandemic.
If you are yet to explore its benefits, this tip is a great reminder that it is a great classroom management tool!
“Go Guardian has received rave reviews district wide as it is not just a tool for distance learning. “
Features Summary:
· In Go Guardian Teacher, teachers can create classrooms or import from Google classroom
· Enroll students manually by adding their school emails, using an enroll code, or bulk-adding them with CSV file upload.
· Additional classrooms owners, teachers, or helpers can be added to a classroom to assist with classroom management.
· You can run classroom sessions to monitor student browsing activity! You can see what tabs students have open on their Chrome browser and view a preview of their active tab.
· Set scheduled times for classroom sessions to run automatically.
· During active sessions, teachers can issue commands to lock/unlock student screens, open/close tabs, exclude/include students, and capture screenshots of student browsing activity.
· Teachers can also chat with students during active classroom sessions.
· Create Scenes in Go Guardian Teacher to preset browsing restrictions for students and apply them to classroom sessions.
· View data from past sessions, such as websites visited by students in a Timeline view, snapshots captured, and commands issued.
· Teachers can view student browsing activity during all past classroom session by generating Student Reports for individual students.
· Keep students on task by preselecting allowed sites and avoid gaming sites etc..
Support Documents on Tech Talk: Go Guardian Video Tutorial Go Guardian Users Guide
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3/21/2021 From: Coach Dumais
Chromebook: How to Pin Meet to the Shelf on a Chromebook
Open a new Chrome window and go to https://meet.google.com.
Select the three vertical dots in the upper right corner of Chrome, then choose More tools, then Create shortcut.
Select the blue Create button. This adds Meet as a Shortcut in the Launcher.
Pin Meet to Shelf
Open the Launcher ALT + Shift + L + enter
Hover over Meet
Use a 2 finger click to pin the APP to the shelf
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3/30/2021 From: Coach Burgess
Chromebook: Turn off On-Screen Keyboard
I know I've gotten a lot of kids coming to me from all grades with their keyboard popping up on their screen every time they click. If you go to settings and "accessibility" you can just toggle the switch over so this feature is off.
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4/06/2021 From: Coach Leonard
Math teachers unite!
Stop photomath abuse!
Edia.app is a free math worksheet generator that has the added feature of confusing Photomath.
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4/13/2021 From: Coach Lukowicz
Create a Daily Doc
It seems very simple but it something that has saved me so much time the past few years! Here it goes!
Create a google doc with all the links you use in your classroom every day! This is a time saver as you don't need to search for your docs/slides or links!! They're all in one place.
As you shift units or content area, just change your links! It just takes one click! See sample!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-kjgOCF2xScrVoG4ovVJzp9wZ1UkA1B-o9pynnFruIQ/edit?usp=sharing
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4/27/2021 From: Coach Watters
Power School: Bulk Email
In Power School, you can easily select the whole class or individual students’ or parents’ emails and copy them to the blind carbon copy (BCC) and sent bulk email messages. Combined with the send later feature of Outlook it is a quick and easy built in messaging function similar to Remind or Bloomz.
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5/04/2021 From: Coach Santos
Seating Charts in PowerSchool/Google Doc: Create a layout of your classroom in the seating chart feature of PowerSchool. Save your layout, and it's quick and easy to move students around. THEN, using the screenshot tool and add the seating chart to a google doc. This has saved me a lot of time updating my seating charts, because I just switch out the image and do not need to upload a new document each time I update my seating chart.
5/11/2021 From: Coach Pacheco & Coach Melillo
Reusing posts in Google Classroom with your PLC: If you add a PLC member as a teacher on your Google Classroom, then you can share stream posts and assignments between teachers. That way your team only needs to make it assignment once, then reuse it in all of their other classes, rather than each teacher creating their own posts/assignments. Steph and I have also found it helps keep directions more consistent across clusters.
5/18/2021 From: Coach Leonard
Chromebook: How to take a screen shot on a Chromebook.
Press Ctrl, Shift and "windows shift" together to take a screen shot. The Windows shift key if above the 6 key as shown below.
You can then either copy to clipboard
or
You can click on the screenshot to open it from the file location and edit from that screen.
To paste, use ctrl v
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5/25/2021 From: Coach Beagan
Chrome OS has an option to access the dual-screen mode with a simple shortcut.
Using Alt + [ on any app makes the app align to the left side of the screen
Using Alt + ] for another app to align to the right side.
We can also toggle between them seamlessly with Alt + Tab shortcut.
6/01/2021 From: Coach Watters
Outlook: Mail, Send Later
If you use the Outlook app from within Microsoft Office 365 (Staff Quick Links/Microsoft Office 365/Outlook) you can schedule the date and time when an email will be sent. Just use “New Message” then select “Send Later” from the drop down on the “Send” button.
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6/08/2021 From: Coach Bouzan
Add a Personal Google Account to Your Chromebook (Video Tutorial)
Sign into your Chromebook click on the Chrome icon
Click on Google Drive
Click on your Circle Avatar or Initial on the top right
Click on Manage Accounts
Click on add account
Enter your personal Google email address
Click next
Enter your password
When You Want to Return to This Account
Sign into your Chromebook click on the Chrome icon
Click on Google Drive
Click on your Circle Avatar or Initial on the top right
Select your Google account
6/08/2021 From: Tom Capparella
Change the Function of Keys
In Settings, under Keyboard, you can change the function of keys such as esc, backspace, and search. Specifically, you can change the search key to be caps lock!
6/15/2021 From: Coach Leonard
Chromebook: How to use Caps Lock on a Chromebook.
Notice there is no Caps Lock key, don't panic!
To turn caps lock ON:
Use alt and the magnifying glass.
Once Caps Lock is on, just click the shift key to turn it off.
To turn caps lock OFF:
To turn OFF click alt and the magnifying glass ( which is called search), to shut off temporarily you can use the shift key while typing.
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6/15/2021 From Coach Dumais
Windows 10 comes with Video Editing software that many people are un aware of. This was Microsoft's replacement to Windows Movie Maker
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6/22/2021 From: Coach Dumais
Here are 2 really fun tools that I recently found.
Tip:1 Unscreen.com Producing short background-free videos Tutorial
Tip:2 Wheelofnames.com Enter student names, spin wheel to pick a random winner. Customize look and feel, save and share wheels. Tutorial
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10/20/2022 From: Coach Watters
Google Keep is a pretty good tool to keep a daily class log. Labels can be created and applied to notes which makes it easy to find and sort them later. You could also create a label for each student and tag the notes with them, link parent emails, etc. A simple way to keep a dossier on each student and easily pull up all notes on a particular student.
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