This Week's TECH News: Week 4 (Sept. 15th)

Here's this week's TECH News Update. Please review in it's entirety. If you have any questions or concerns, please see Mrs. Glass.

USING the CHROMEBOOKS in your Classroom

• Did you know you could request your Teacher Chromebook? Please CLICK here to fill out a request. If you have not completed Level Up, you can still get your teacher Chromebook.
• BEFORE your students can access the Chromebooks, ALL HR Teachers MUST Reset the students Passwords in the Aldine Cloud (see Level Up for more details)

• All student passwords must be change to First Initial + Last Initial + ID#, example: SG123456 (note, this will be the same as their username)
• Also, my schedule is ready for you request a co-teach session for Digital Citizenship for KIDS lesson and/or the Chromebook Crash course (which includes student initial sign in) Click here to sign up for a time. Note: if you don't sign up, I'll just stop by to check on you. 

ONLINE COURSES 

Have you completed the following District Schoology Courses? Not sure of the Due Dates, but they should be completed. Remember you do get INVEST Hours for all of these courses!

• Level Up Schoology Course: Join the course in Schoology using the Access Code: BWSPK-D7BVM
• eSchool for Educators. (Required for all teachers who take attendance and/or give grades) Course Code: VNP28-FRND5. Please send an electronic copy of your certificate to Mrs. Glass via Google Drive.
• Special Education course (Required for all Greenspoint Staff) Please print or send an electronic copy of your certificate to Ms. Grimage, our school diagnostician. Course Code: Q4GGW-2BJXW
• Counseling courses: Everyone needs to take the Sexual Abuse  and Suicide Prevention Training, but only professional staff new to the district need to take the Mental Health Training.
  
  
  All Staff must submit a copy of their certificates to the counselor. If you took the Mental Health Training last year, the counselor need a copy of your certificates.

  
  

                    - Child Abuse and Sexual Assault Schoology Course Code: CDTZF-5FX38

                              - Mental Health Schoology Course Code: WR45W-HZ58P

                              - Texas Youth Suicide Prevention Course: Click Here for Directions. 

SOCIAL MEDIA UPDATE 

Have you starting Tweeting yet? Still trying to figure what that is? As we dive deeper into this "Innovation Thing", as a campus we will share our happenings with the world using Social Media.  If you want to venture out and share what's happening in your classroom or even around campus, please using the following hashtags and twitter handles (names). 

• Greenspoint's Twitter Handle: @GreensptElem
• Our Campus hashtag: #GPeInspires
• **New: Grade level Hashtags (Courtesy of 3rd grade teachers: Morris and Washington)

                          - #GPe1stgrade

                          - #GPe2ndgrade

                          - #GPe3rdgrade

                          - #GPe4thgrade

Share your grade level successes with our campus hashtag(s)! 

WHAT'S THIS BLOG?

  

So...I know you have seen it. But have you read it? What am I talking about????? The campus BLOG(s) of course! Since your arrival at Greenspoint Elementary, there has been various forms of communication--coming from EVERYONE and literally everywhere! 

We all understand that there's not enough time in the day to read all the emails AND there's not enough hours at night to catch up on them...which is where blogging comes in. 

There's two of them. One SPECIFICALLY for staff. 

The other is for what's happening on campus that we would like to share with our parents, the community and ultimately the world! whew!--yes, that's a mouthful!

Check this daily. You may not get an email--or truthfully you might miss one or two. The skills are using this as their way of communicating. Have you heard this statement yet: "Did you see my blog post?" If you have, that's because ALL the happenings on the campus is HERE! 

Shout outs to Ms. Dettwiler, Mrs. Benitez, and Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Bobb for posting to the blog. Give it a try. Communication is key right. We are just trying to place it all in one location!

NOTE: Soon, very soon-- I will start asking if you wouldn't mind sharing what's happening in your classroom. This will develop as a request to become a contributor to the blog (remember the conversation at the beginning of the year???) Don't panic. Just remember: We are the settlers of this school, the beginning, the contributors to its CULTURE. It takes a village and WE are it!

Special note: If you have a blog, have started a blog, or even follow a great blog that you think might benefit the staff, please comment to this post or share on our campus Google+ community! We learn and grow from each other!  

USING GOOGLE CALENDAR as a CAMPUS

Please check the campus Google Calendar for dates from following: 

• General Campus
• Technology
• Math
• Upcoming Events and/or holidays

Don't forget to sign up for the following ONLINE Programs:

OTHER TECH REMINDERS:

• Don’t forget to submit tech requests (this can also be found in my signature via email)
• no longer accepting email issues/concerns.
• Shout out to all the Educators that completed Level Up and eSchool Courses!
• Please shut off your projectors and Lumens when not in Use!
• You can NOW submit your Lamination/Posters and More...
• Don’t forget to sign your Ethics and AUP Agreements in ePortal
• check the EduBlog Daily!