PL Catalog
Classes have already started for this year's PL Catalog. Don't miss out on a great opportunity to increase your knowledge and earn some re-certification points. Click the link above to access the PL catalog and explore the classes offered. Contact your ITRT if you have any questions about signing up.
PL Catalog classes will be taught in Google Classroom this year. Check out the video above for instructions on how to join a class after you have received your class code from your instructor.
TCPS is in the process of becoming a Google School Division. The PL Catalog is offering many Google classes to help employees prepare for the change over.
For every TWO MobileMind badges you earn by October 15, you will receive a Jeans Pass!
MobileMind is great training resource to learn about all of the amazing Google tools in "byte size" modules. If you haven't started, here are easy step-by-step instructions:
For every THREE Lessons you complete, you will receive 1 hour of Professional Development. This is a great way to earn points for license renewal! Certificates will be emailed at the end of the school year.
MobileMind Badge Leaderboard
Administrators
1st Place: Susan Maupin
2nd Place: Charity Hurst
3rd Place: Kimberly Ringstaff
Teachers
1st Place: Mary Beth Greer
2nd Place: Angie Patrick
3rd Place: Taylor Richardson
Check out the ITRTs' Top Tech Tools
Print Information on Sticky Notes
Getting Started:
Open a Google Presentation or PowerPoint.
In the Page Setup area, change the size of the slides to 7.5 x 7.5.
Add any desired design/content to the slide.
(You can add any combination of text, clip art, pictures, tables, etc.)
Duplicate the slide so that you have a total of four identical slides.
Flash Player Update
Flash Player is being phased out and will be completely gone in December 2020.
We are starting to see some websites that are not working and Chrome will not ask you to enable Flash. Follows these steps to reactivate Flash Player in Chrome to ensure you can use the websites you need.
Click on the three dots in the top right corner in Chrome.
Go to Settings
Scroll to the bottom and click Advanced
Click on Site Settings
Select Flash
Click the button so it turns blue to change to "ask first."
After completing these steps, when you go to a website it will now ask you to allow Flash. Click allow and you are good to go!