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Ambient Sound Websites to Help Keep You Focused

What helps you focus when reading, writing, or getting work done? Do you need a totally silent room, or does some amount of ambient noise help you? For some people, students included, having sound in the background can actually help them focus better. This could include music, nature sounds, or just white noise.

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A Soft Murmur

http://asoftmurmur.com/
A Soft Murmur offers 10 sounds including Rain, Thunder, Waves, Wind, Fire, Birds, Crickets, Coffee shop, Singing bowl, and White noise. You can play multiple sounds at once, adjust individual volumes, cycle through random volumes (meander), and set timers to start, stop, or fade out the sounds.
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Noisli

https://www.noisli.com/
Noisli offers 16 sounds including Rain, Thunderstorm, Wind, Forest, Leaves, Water stream, Seaside, Water, Fireplace, Summer night, Coffee shop, Train, Fan, White noise, Pink noise, and Brown noise.
You can play multiple sounds at once and adjust individual volumes. If you log in with your Google account you get access to additional features including saving and sharing of favorite combinations, and settings timers to start or fade out of the sounds.
Noisli also has a Chrome extension to turn on and off your custom combos easily - Chrome Extension link
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Moodil

http://www.moodil.com/
Moodil offers 15 base sounds with most having variants for a total of 38 sounds. The base sounds include Rain, Thunder, Fire, Water stream, Waves, Night, Frogs, Birds, Forest, Wind, Leaves, Walking, Train, Coffee shop, and White noise.
You can play multiple sounds at once and adjust individual volumes. If you sign up for a free account, you can also save favorite combos.

Getting Techy -- Easy Ways to Give Students Feedback Getting Techy -- Easy Ways to Give Students Feedback

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FASTER FEEDBACK- EDITING SHORTCUTS IN GOOGLE DOCS!

Are you tired of writing the same feedback over and over again when editing Google Docs digitally? Check out the screencast to see the new way to create Google Doc editing shortcuts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj9wtXLIs-o

Already Using Keep? Check out this video for simple integration into docs Already Using Keep? Check out this video for simple integration into docs

https://youtu.be/FgV1ypW6ZL8
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Book An Appointment With Your Tech Coach


Book An Appointment With Corey Lennon

Book An Appointment With Michaela Pantaleo

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Have a Tech Problem/Concern?

Please don't email our IT guys directly, please use sktech@sksd-ri.net. This process will ensure that your needs will be met in an efficient manner. Thank you.
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#UmatteratSK Twitter List

Our hashtag is GROWING! Remember to tweet out the amazing things happening in our district! Don't forget to add the hashtag #UmatteratSK

Here's a link to a Twitter list that we are curating of individuals in the district who are tweeting. Feel free to subscribe. Don't see your name on the list and want it added? Fill out this form.


#UmatteratSK Twitter List

Archived Newsletters

2017-2018 School Year

Biweekly Edition 12/15- Clip it Good, Notification Alerts for GClassroom, New GCalendar

Biweekly Edition 11/26- Google Draw for Infographics

Biweekly Edition 10/30- Read and Write for Google & Equatio

Biweekly Edition 10/09 - Info about the New Google Sites

Biweekly Edition 9/18 - Buncee account set up and information, digital replacements

Welcome Back Newsletter - Google Classroom, Google Forms, Recap and Flipgrid

2016-2017 School Year

Week of 6/5- Review Games
Week of 5/15- Flippity, Sutori, Google Takeout

Week of 5/8 - Google's Team Drive, Google Auto Draw, Keyboarding Shortcuts

Week of 5/1 - Tech Challenge Padlet, Sketch Notes, My Simple Show

Week of 4/10- Tech Challenge Update, Common Lit

Week of 4/3- Interactive Notebooks, Allsides Website for Bias

Week of 3/20 - "I Wish My Teacher Knew"

Week of 3/13- Infographics

Week of 2/13- Screencasting

Week of 1/23- Awesome Chrome Extensions

Week of 1/9- Media Literacy and Flipgrid FREE update

Week of 1/2 - APPY New Year, Managing a Classroom with Tech,

Week of 12/19- Google Classroom Tips

Week of 12/11- HyperDocs, Twitter Challenge, G Suite Updates

Week of 12/5- #Booksnaps, #Mathsnaps & Twitter Challenge

Week of 11/28 -Hour of Code, Google Keep

Week of 11/14- Google Arts & Culture and QUIZIZZ

Week of 10/31- Quizlet Live and #DeviceFreeDinner

Week of 10/24- Formative and Socrative

Week of 10/17- Google Form As A Quiz and Formative

Week of 10/10- Google Guardian Summary and Buncee

Week of 10/3- Dig. Citizenship and FlipGrid

Week of 9/25- Google Classroom and Mentimeter

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