EDCAMPALDINE
If you need additional PD hours don't forget to sign up for EDCamp Aldine! It’s November 14th and will be virtual this year.
TECHNOLOGY & CURRICULUM CONFERENCE OF ALDINE (TCCA)
TCCA went virtual and global! We had educators from 43 states and 22 countries that attended TCCA this past weekend! We had 11,635 impressions for the sessions on YouTube! From Michael Bonner's inspiring keynote to Dr. Belinda George's heartfelt and inspiring story. If you missed something you really wanted to see, you can go to TCCA website session page, find a session of interest and click on the Video Stream button to view the sessions until this Friday, October 30th.
The DLS team is busy planning for next year's TCCA...stay tuned for more information!
TCCA SESSION SPOTLIGHT
Lauren Lutz-Coleman, Technology Teacher & Technology Coach/Educational Consultant from Scotch Plains, New Jersey, presented at TCCA this past weekend and this is one of the amazing things she presented! Win the White House...
Do you want to be the next President of the United States? This refreshed version of Win the White House challenges you to build your campaign and allows you to simulate a presidential election: Building arguments to support timely issues that are relevant to you, Strategically raise funds to support your campaign, Keeping campaign momentum through targeted media campaigns and personal appearances, Polling local voters to see what issues resonate. You’ll also meet our new campaign manager, named Ana, who will guide you through the process.
For English Language Learners: Use the support tool, Spanish translation, voiceover and glossary.
FREE TCEA MEMBERSHIP THIS WEEK
To help give educators the tools, ideas, and community resources you need to succeed, you can join or renew your TCEA membership for free, for a full year, when you sign up this week! What is TCEA? TCEA = Texas Computer Education Association.
Don't miss out this opportunity to sign up for FREE! Why should you, you ask? Look at just a few of the benefits below.
- The largest community-and-expert-developed resources for remote learning tools
- A vibrant online TCEA Community with more than 33,000 active users
- Weekly live and on-demand webinars created by and for educators of topics of interest
- Three years of professional learning recordings, available immediately
- 80+ hours of annual, free CPE credit
FREE HALLOWEEN DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOMS AND GAMES!!!
SCHOOLOGY TIP OF THE WEEK
We have completed an entire grading period and many teachers are unpublishing work from prior weeks for the purpose of organizing. This makes those materials unavailable for students to go back and review materials as needed. You might want to lock or disable submissions instead of unpublishing them. That way, students who want to review a previously taught topic, can.
Note: you can't lock Assessments, you will have to disable those to prevent students from submitting.
Click Here for more information on Disabling or Locking assignment submissions.
OFFICE HOURS
We will continue hosting office hours as our schedules allow for those of you needing to pop in and ask us questions! We will be adding the days and times to our Google calendar and inviting our school groups, so be sure to check your Google calendar!! It will not always be the same days or same times each week, the times will be dependent on our availability. Be on the lookout!
SCHOOLOGY VIRTUAL LEARNING RESOURCES
Click Here to join the Middle School Virtual Learning Group
If you haven't joined already, that is where you can access all the Resources from the training sessions that have been presented (last year during virtual learning and Aldine LIVE sessions in July). We will continue to add materials to this Schoology group for teachers to access.
*This group is for Aldine staff only, please do not share this group code/link with parents or students.
MIDDLE SCHOOL DLS TEAM
As you navigate this new role as a virtual teacher please know we are here to support you! If you have a question about a digital resource reach out to your designated DLS. You can also request help in ePortal (or click here)!
Chad Cochran--Drew, Garcia, Hoffman, Shotwell
@MrCtechme
Hosea Pipkins, III--Jones, Lewis, Plummer, Stovall, Teague
@HoseaPipkins
Ann Waite--Aldine MS, Grantham, Hambrick, KEC, Mead
@AnnMWaite
