If students or teachers have issues with their school issued device please call Bruce Stewart at 706.213.4049 to arrange an appointment with the technology staff.

Thanks to everyone for rolling with Google Meet. When we get back from spring break there will be new features that will have been pushed out to everyone in our domain. Recently, Google announced a few new features. These have been pushed out to Elbert County and should be available once we get back from Spring Break. We will now be able to do things like record our Google Meet, and give the meeting organizer (in our case the teacher) more control over the meeting. I have created the screen cast below to go over these features. Please take a couple of minutes to review this screencast below because it is going to be a little different from my previous directions.

The Google meet Gridvidew Extension is a fantastic new feature to make it so you can see all the participants in a Google Meet. Thanks to Dot Rutherford for making these easy to follow directions. Bruce Stewart will be pushing the extension to all staff soon.

The COVID-19 Site (www.elbert.k12.ga.us/covid19) is the place to receive the most up to date information about the Elbert County School District's response to the extended school closure. On this site will be information about wifi access, school lunches, and technology resources for students and parents.

Wifi Access for students - Thanks to the hard work of the technology department wifi is now available in all school parking lots. HERE is more information about free wifi access across the county.

Thanks to Shane Anderson for sharing this out. If you don't follow Richard Byrne on Social Media you should. He is the Godfather of Edtech. Hector Santiago has enabled this for teachers in our district.

Google Teaching from Home Hub is a temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers while we are out of the building. See the link below for information about the Teach from Home Hub

Please join me in Unplugging next week. Personally, I am going to make it a point to not check my E-mail as often next week and spend some time outdoors. Please take time for you and your family next week. I look forward to getting back to distance learning after spring break.

Matt Johnson - Elbert County Middle School

Sherri Rampey -Elbert County Primary School

Hector Santiago - Elbert County Comprehensive High School

Bruce Stewart - Technology Director Elbert County School District

Clint Winter - Instructional Technology Coordinator Elbert County School District

Website: elbert.k12.ga.us
Phone: 706.213.4000
Twitter: @elbertcoschools