Welcome to the first #RamTech News Update!

At the West Hempstead Union Free School District the goal is to integrate instructional technology into well-designed learning experiences to create highly engaged academic environments in which students are the drivers of their own learning experience.

We will be sharing all the great technology work from the district as well as activities and tools you can use at home with the students.

At Chestnut Street, Cornwell Avenue, and George Washington students can access Claslink using their log in information. These are the applications and the programs students use daily in their classrooms!

Apps Include:

• Book Creator
• FlipGrid
• ST Math
• Canva
• Raz-Kids
• My-On
• StarFall
• Amplify
• Pebble-Go
• Microsoft Products
• Google Classroom

Google Classroom is where you can sign up to be a guardian for your child's class to get a daily or weekly report of the assignments given in Google Classroom.

The guardian summary includes:

• Missing Work
• Upcoming Work
• Class Activity (Announcements, Questions & other information posted)

Below is tutorial video about how to sign up and what the summary looks like when it is received via email.

This is where you would go to check your child's grades, assignments in the grade book, attendance, communicate with the classroom teacher, and view their schedule.

You can access Power School in a variety of ways.

Go to the District Website www.whufsd.com and look for this icon.

You can download the Power School App for both Android & Apple Product

iOS App :

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/powerschool-mobile/id973741088

Android App:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.powerschool.portal

By definition, Digital Citizen is the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to the use of technology (NYSED State Standards Glossary of Terms, MDESE, 2016). We encourage this daily interactions with students.

We also emphasize the digital footprint which is the trail of data that one creates when being online. It includes websites, emails, and information that is collected.

In one internet minute in 2023, students and adults engage in a variety of technological tasks! This is a great graphic to share about how we are inundated with technology all the time. Below are some resources to talk to your students about being a good digital citizen, and what is a digital footprint.

https://ediscoverytoday.com/2023/04/20/2023-internet-minute-infographic-by-ediscovery-today-and-ltmg-ediscovery-trends/