The purpose of posting these session is for staff to be able to re-watch them to refresh their memory after completing the course. You will not get IDP points for watching these videos.
All prerecorded sessions for summer 2023 were embedded in EdPuzzle.
Click this link to access the prerecorded sessions.
The purpose of posting these session is for staff to be able to re-watch them to refresh their memory after completing the course. You will not get IDP points for watching these videos.
ReadyGen Online for In-class or Remote Learning
Screencastify Unlimited (Premium)
Pear Deck: Creating a Deck from Scratch
Accessing Your TSCPL Card and Checking Out Books
FlipGrid - Shorts, Screen Recording, Disco Library
Seesaw Activities: Scratch Off Activity
Seesaw Activities: Magic Revealer
Seesaw Activities: Sorting Lesson
Seesaw Activities: Movie Board
Seesaw Activities: Choice Board
Seesaw Activities: Feedback with Stickers
Seesaw Activities: Bitmoji Classroom
Seesaw Activities: Number Bonds
Seesaw Outside the Box, Creating and Tracking Attendance
There were also three for-credit classes that have closed. Most of the content is available in the preservice section.
FlipGrid - Shorts, Screen Recording, Disco Library
Getting Started with Google Classroom
Getting Started with Screencastify
Google Sites & Edpuzzle for the Music Classroom
Languages of the World - Online Edition
Microsoft Office & Google Drive
Pear Deck for Distance Learning
Podcasts - How Can I Get Started
Seesaw for Distance Learning in Kindergarten
Seesaw for Distance Learning in 1st Grade
Seesaw for Distance Learning in 2nd Grade
Seesaw for Distance Learning in 3rd-4th-5th Grade
Using Twitter as an Education Tool
Using Tables in Word to Create Fillable Forms
Google announced the end of "unlimited storage" for school accounts. They are limited our district to 100 TB (terabytes) of storage - which includes the contents of your Google Drive (docs, sheets, slides, Jamboard, videos, images, etc), Email (even archived, SPAM, and anything in the Trash that hasn't been emptied) and Photos - (all of your content).
What this means for you! All staff is being asked to remove content from their Google Accounts to reduce our district capacity.
Go to your Google Drive and click the Storage Link on the left lower side. It will show the total amount of storage used, then the amount in your Google Drive, Gmail, and Photos. While we haven't yet set a limit for staff yet, if you have over 50 GB of space used, you need to get busy reducing your numbers.
Look for older files you no longer need and delete them.
For example, in search box type before:2017/01/01 to find all files before Jan 1, 2017.
Upload videos to YouTube and mark them Private (only you can see them) or Unlisted (only people with the link can see them).
If you are/were a video taping teacher for remote lessons, please DO NOT delete this content - get in touch with Diane Kimsey and Robin Dixon to make arrangements with them to get the content ownership transferred to them so they can upload the videos to the T&L YouTube channel. This content belongs to the district and should not be stored in your personal Google Drive.
Move all personal files, photos, music, videos, etc out of your Google storage. Your district account is only to be used for district content. If you have a personal Gmail, then you also have a personal Google Drive and can store up to 15GB free there. For a nominal sum, you can increase that. Personal accounts are called Google One and 2 TB of storage cost $99 per year. Two terabytes holds a lot of files and photos! Move all your personal videos to your personal YouTube account and make them private if you don't want anyone finding them.
If you delete the files in the Shared With Me drive, you will remove your access to all listed files. documents shared with you do not count against your storage quota, they count against the owner of the file.
Do not worry about deleting files on a Shared Drive (formerly Team Drive). The manager of the particular shared drive will take care of them.
If you have never deleted any of your emails, it will be the most difficult to get under control. There are somethings you can do to make it easier, but it takes the longest to sort through and delete.
Get rid of old emails - For example, in search box type before:2017/01/01 to find all files before Jan 1, 2017.
Delete everything in the Spam folder
Look in Promotions (even if you have it turned off)
Look in Social, most of this, but not all, is spam
Empty your trash can
If you have personal photos in your district photos.google.com account, use Google Takeout to download them and then move them to your personal account.
Go to takeout.google.com
click on Deselect All
Scroll down to Google Photos and click on the box to check
Scroll tot he bottom and click Next Steps
Leave all settings alone except change 2GB to 50GB
Click Create Export
You will receive an email (when it is finished) so you can download the files
Save the files to a different cloud drive (personal Drive, personal Google Photos, Dropbox) or external drive
Once they are downloaded,
Turn off your phone sync if it syncs to your district account
Delete the images/videos in Google Photos
There is also an option to transfer files to a personal account. I caution you about using this method!! It will dump files helter-skelter all over your personal drive and will even pull in files that do not belong to you from Shared Files and Shared Drives. You will have a mess and unless you pay for A LOT of drive space, you will jam up your personal Google Drive.
