Welcome to the UNIS Hanoi Digital Literacy & Citizenship

Please select your grade level pathway below...

MS / HS TECHNOLOGY ORIENTATION

SESSION 3: HS STUDENTS

TECH LITERACY ORIENTATION

SESSION 4: Time Management, Shortcuts, & Taking Good Photos

How to Take a Good Photo

Step 1: Photo Booth

Step 2: Align your Photo

Step 3: Preview

Step 4: Rotate & Crop

Step 5: Adjust Lighting or Color

Step 6: Try it out!

Typing.com Tutorials

SESSION 5: Digital Citizenship Student Agreements

Whole Group Type Racing Challenge

SESSION 5: Typing & Hour of Code

Typing.com Tutorials

Hour of Code (for those over 30wpm)

SESSION 6: Be Internet Awesome Digital Citizenship Game & Typing HB Race!

MS / HS TECHNOLOGY ORIENTATION

Complete the following modules in Elevate when you have time:

Gmail for Students
Google Calendar
Google Drive
Google Docs

Veracross is our Learning Management System where all of your lesson plans for each class are posted. If you are out of school for any reason, you should be able to look at those lesson plans to understand what is being done in the course and if there are any tasks that are due.

The following Technology Orientation tutorials will help you understand how to see Lesson Plans and turn in Assignments. Let's practice submitting an assignment!

Go to the Student Schedule Overview on Veracross and click on your schedule.
Screenshot your schedule (Here's how to screenshot on a Chromebook or Macbook)
Go to Veracross and click the green Submit Assignments button
Find your first assignment in the Student Orientation course using your Veracross assignment planner.
Open the Dropbox for our Venture course, upload the screenshot of your schedule, and hit Submit!

Check out this video on what information is appropriate to share with others.

STEP 2

Let's create your own introduction quiz using Google Slides!

Fill in this Google Form to help generate ideas for your Introduction!
Copy this Google Slide Deck
Add your First name and Last Initial to the Title Slide
Create 5 questions that share Personal, NOT PRIVATE, information about yourself. NOTE: This quiz will be shared with all the new students and your parents.

5. Change the Presentation Title on the top left and then click Share on the top right

6. Change the Sharing settings to Share with United Nations International School. Then click Copy Link

7. Go to the Seesaw Activity: Upload Intro Quiz!

Click Add Response and Link, then Paste your Google Slide Deck Link and Submit

BREAK OUT QUIZZES!

STEP 3

Open up your UNIS Gmail
Compose a new email to your parents and CC (Carbon Copy) Phelix the Phoenix (pphoenix@unishanoi.org).
Copy and paste the email below and send

Hi,

I just started this new course called the Odyssey Orientation and my teacher wanted me to send you the following message...

Dear parents,

Your child has just attended their first technology sessions and learned about several tools and systems we use at UNIS Hanoi. The following links will help you stay informed.

- Subscribing to your child's calendars in Veracross
- How to view your child's assignments and feedback in Veracross

Several teachers in the Middle School use Seesaw to share student portfolio material. You may use this link to download the app on your phone and view a short introduction quiz that your child put together for orientation. https://app.seesaw.me/s/481-289-961

FINAL CHALLENGE!

SESSION 3: HS STUDENTS

TECH LITERACY ORIENTATION

Veracross assignment Planner / Elevate BYOD
Get to know your HS Innovation Technology Coach via https://kahoot.it/
Odyssey Student Introductions COMPLETE THIS FORM
DISCUSSION: What's a technique, app tip or technology trick would you recommend to your fellow classmates about distance learning?
Google Keep vs Any Organizing App??
Troubleshooting access, permissions and support
Future Email to your Future Self
Artificial Intelligence Discovers Padlet

Veracross is our Learning Management System where all of your lesson plans for each class are posted. If you are out of school for any reason, you should be able to look at those lesson plans to understand what is being done in the course and if there are any tasks that are due.

The following Technology Orientation tutorials will help you understand how to see Lesson Plans and turn in Assignments. Let's practice submitting an assignment!

Go to the Student Schedule Overview on Veracross and click on your schedule.
Screenshot your schedule (Here's how to screenshot on a Chromebook or Macbook)
Go to Veracross and click the green Submit Assignments button
Find your first assignment in the Student Orientation course using your Veracross assignment planner.
Open the Dropbox for our Venture course, upload the screenshot of your schedule, and hit Submit!

Open up your UNIS Gmail
Compose a new email to your parents and CC (Carbon Copy) Phelix the Phoenix (pphoenix@unishanoi.org).
Copy and paste the email below and send

Hi,

I just started this new course called the Odyssey Orientation and my teacher wanted me to send you the following message...

Dear parents,

Your child has just attended their first technology sessions and learned about several tools and systems we use at UNIS Hanoi. The following links will help you stay informed.

- Subscribing to your child's calendars in Veracross
- How to view your child's assignments and feedback in Veracross

SESSION 4: Time Management, Shortcuts, & Taking Good Photos

Google Keep & Tasks

What are they and how are they used?

Pomodoro Timers

Practice using a Pomodoro timer to set up quick (25 minute) tasks and then record your progress.

TomatoTimers.com

Google Tab Groups

How to create Tab Groupings AND SAVE THEM!!!

If...you forget this and your browser restarts, there's always CMD + Shift + T

chrome://settings/onStartup

Mac Shortcuts

Command + Shift + 3 — Take a screenshot of the entire screen

Command + Shift + 4 — Take a screenshot of a selected area (Drag over an area to select it)

How to Take a Good Photo

Step 1: Photo Booth

Press CMD + Spacebar to open up Spotlight Search
Search Photo Booth and then hit Return

Step 2: Align your Photo

Try to find an area where your photo has even light hitting it.
Line your photo up so it's pretty straight
Press the red button to take a picture on Photo Booth
When you are happy with your photo, right-click and export to Pictures

Step 3: Preview

Press CMD + Spacebar to open up Spotlight Search
Search Preview and then hit Return
Open your Photo in Pictures

Step 4: Rotate & Crop

Click to Show Markup Toolbar
If you need to Rotate your image, use the Box with the Arrow
If you need to Crop the image, Select the area you want to keep, and press the Crop Button

Step 5: Adjust Lighting or Color

If you want to adjust the Brightness or Color of your image, select the Adjust Color icon.
Change the Exposure and Contrast to adjust your Brightness
Change the Temperature to adjust the Color
When you are happy with your photo, press CMD + S to Save

Step 6: Try it out!

Find a piece of work you have uploaded to for work.
Practice the steps above in a small breakout group
Upload your Photos to the Veracross Dropbox

Typing.com Tutorials

Go to Typing.com
Click Student Login and select Google and Allow
Click on Tests at the top and begin a 1-minute Race when I say go!

SESSION 5: Digital Citizenship Student Agreements

Tech Session Task #1

Go into Veracoss and open class and "view all assignments" and click assignment with a chat icon where a teacher has given you feedback. Give a single response to what your teacher wrote.
Take a screenshot (see above) before going into "Submit Assignments" in the top right of the Student Portal home screen.
Find the assignment "Upload Veracross Feedback Screenshot"

Tech Session Task #2

Go into the UNIS Acceptable Use Policy document. This was the document your family agreed to for the admissions into UNIS.
Please read over the "Student Agreement"
Complete the Digital Citizen Agreement form. Give a thumbs up when you are done. Raise hands for any questions.

Tech Session Task #3

While still in the UNIS Acceptable Use Policy document, we will make small groups to answer some "scenarios" when it comes to digital citizenship topics.
Please have one person in your group fill out the Digital Citizenship Scenarios Quiz, answer the best response you can think of and write in answers that you think are better than what is listed.
When you are done with your responses, submit answers.

Typing.com Warm Up

Go to Typing.com
Click and select Google and Allow (if you have not already)
Click on Tests at the top and begin a 1-minute Race when I say go!

Whole Group Type Racing Challenge

Go to Typeracer
The teacher will share the join code for up to 200 players. We will all be guests but winner can share their high score at the end.
Keep up with practice your typing speed in Typing.com and we will be having more races later.

SESSION 5: Typing & Hour of Code

Typing.com Tutorials

Go to Typing.com
Click this link to Join Mr. Mack's Typing Class
Go through the lessons that are assigned!
Complete a 3 Minute Typing Test (continue with lessons if not yet at 30wpm)

Hour of Code (for those over 30wpm)

Go to Hour of Code.com
Click the Grade & level of your coding experience.
Go through the lesson, some will require a login while others will not.

SESSION 6: Be Internet Awesome Digital Citizenship Game & Typing HB Race!

Play Interland - Be Internet AwesomeInterland is an adventure-packed online game that puts the key lessons of digital citizenship and safety into hands-on practice. Play your way to being Internet Awesome.