#EMSISDITS Tech Talk

Techy Talk for Teachers

Bi-Weekly Tech News
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The EMS Instructional Technology Team is excited to work with students, teachers, and administrators this year to support and enhance the great things going on in our district this year!

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Are our students using using images online correctly? (Are we?)

@CultofPedagogy recently published a post about teaching students to use images legally online.

"As our students create more and more digital products - blog posts, videos, podcasts, e-books—they should be using images to enhance them. Images grab an audience’s attention, they can illustrate key concepts, set a certain tone, and present a more complete understanding of the ideas you’re putting out there.

And the internet is absolutely teeming with images students can grab and use in a matter of seconds. But in most cases, they SHOULD NOT GRAB. Despite the fact that these images are easy to get, using them may be illegal."

Read the rest of the post here for specific ways we can help our students use images legally. (Good info for teachers, too!)

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BrightBytes Survey Next Week!

We are excited and encouraged by the great technology integration that's happening in our classrooms this year ... and we're absolutely thrilled about moving forward with our technology plan over the next few years. Gathering feedback from teachers is an important part of the process. We are partnering with Clarity BrightBytes again to survey teachers and on the impact of technology use both inside and outside of the classroom.

Campus Technology Integrators (CTIs) will be sharing information next week about an important BrightBytes survey. Thank you, in advance, for your participation. Your responses will help shape the future of technology integration in our district!

Holiday Skype

Join the EMS ISD ITS team for a fun holiday Skype on Thursday, Dec. 14th. We will be reading The Polar Express and Skyping with Capital Grill's Executive Chef, Keith Hanks. He will be sharing a hot chocolate recipe with the students and how he uses writing in his profession. The time will be posted soon.

Students will also be invited to share their recipes with Chef Hanks on this Flipgrid.

https://flipgrid.com/bf473f or use the code: bf473f

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Story time at HCES

The Old Lady strikes again. Thank you High Country for letting us come and read to your sweet kinder students.

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Seesaw at GES

Thank you Ms. Flores for letting us share Seesaw with your precious students. They did a great job retelling their fairy tales to each other.

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Seesaw at PES

Ms. Marshall's students use Seesaw to retell what they did over Thanksgiving break.

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Tech Tuesday at HDC

HDC teachers are so excited to learn more tech tools and different ways to use their interactive board.

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AirServer at NES

Nothing like leaving a tech PD session & immediately using what you learned. These teachers and students were so excited to use AirServer.

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Seesaw at BES

These sweet kiddos couldn't stop talking about 3-D shapes after using Seesaw. They loved it!

Go Incognito in the Chrome Browser

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Don't be nervous about "going incognito" in the Chrome Browser. This little tool is actually quite handy. To open an incognito window in Chrome, click on the 3 vertical dots at the top right corner of the page and choose “new incognito window.” If you're a "keyboard shortcut kind of person", try shift+control+N.

When you open an Incognito window, you are opening a browser that is not logged into anything, and it doesn't save your history or cookies. It's like a blank canvas for your browser.

There are lots of reasons you might want to browse in an incognito window. One of our favorite bloggers, Kasey Bell of Shake Up Learning, shared her top 8 reasons here.

Use Incognito Browsing when working with EMS Student Office 365 Accounts

In order to share documents with and communicate with your students in Office 365 , teachers must log in to Office 365 with their student tenant email address and password. If you log into your student account while already logged into you teacher account, Office 365 gets confused and doesn't know who you are. Open a new Incognito window whenever you want to log into your student account, and all will work flawlessly.

Incognito Browsing is NOT really Private!

Remember, that anything you do on a computer can be tracked. Your Internet Service Provider (and our Technology Department) can still track any activity. Browse wisely!

Reserve an #EMSTechspert

We want to help you successfully infuse technology into your classroom. We would love to train you on how to create tech infused lessons, co-teach the lessons, or even share our favorite tech tools with you!

Email your IT today to set up an appointment! (Find contact info here.)