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4th Grade BL Parent Training
8/8/13
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Agenda
• Year Overview: Content
• The Ultimate GUIDE: Matrix
• Checking on my child...Why? and How?
• Blackboard: My Announcements, My Messages, Assignments and Journals
• Edmodo
• Spelling City
• LearnZillion
• Grading & EnGrade
• Communication
• Questions
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Click on this link to see a brief overview of curriculum.
Click on this link to search Hawaii and Common Core State Standards
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Survival Document: THE MATRIX
• Posted in
announcements
every Monday.
• Should be
kept in their matrix
document protector
• Filed in
“important” section of
accordian.
• Lightly shaded in as
items are completed.
• Please have them
show you completed
items.
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Is parental support needed for success?
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Yes!
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More so at first, then dependent on your child......set a routine!
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Check-in Tips: #1
• Set a routine
• Start stronger in beginning of year
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Check-in Tips: #2
• Motivate self-directed behavior: Don't explain or do! Get them to problem solve!
• Ask child what he thinks
What does it say to do?
Where can you go for screencasts?
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Check-in Tips: #3
• Ask to see proof!!! Make student show proof.
• How do I do this?
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Blackboard Demo Live: Fast Version
Please use the next several slides as references for the future. There will also be
screencasts linked in the presentation!
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Blackboard Basics:Course Menu Buttons of Note
Getting Started: Blackboard Tutorials/Practice from boot camp for students
Skills and Strategies: A wealth of resources!
• There are screencasts for How to?s on many tech tools
• Lessons from hidden units• Opportunities for learning
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Blackboard Basics: My Announcements
Students check for important info from teacher...daily 3xCourse Menu Buttons
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Blackboard Basics: Submitting Assignments
1. Navigate course using course menu buttons on left: unit, lesson title, and assignment title.
2. Complete lesson/task
3. Type in submission or browse computer to attach file
4. Submit assignment
• Click this link to watch a screencast on how to check if assignments are complete
• Click on this link to watch a screencast on how to submit assignments in the new version of Blackboard or go to Getting Started in child’s account
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Blackboard Basics:Submitting Journals
1. Navigate course using course menu buttons on left: unit, lesson title, and journal title.
2. Complete lesson/task
3. Write in word or Google Docs as a precaution
4. Click Create Journal Entry
5. Copy and paste in to journal and click Post Entry
• Click this link to watch a screencast on how to check on journals
• Click on this link to watch how to submit journals in the new version of Blackboard or Getting Started in child’s account
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Edmodo: Social Media
Uses:
1. specifically timed online class meetings on off days (Details in Announcements/Matrix)
2. quizzes and polls
3. discussion and relationships Specific Groups for specific conversations!
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Vocabulary Spelling City
Tests in class and assignments/practice at home
Click on the link to play this screencast on how to check on your child's Vocabulary Spelling City assignments and test scores.
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LearnZillion: Math Lessons• Math notebook: formatted notes for every video lesson
(print copy pasted in front of notebook, modeled, guided practice with students)
• Problems on paper and/or Edmodo
• Please check to make sure assignments are complete!
• Click on the link to play this screencast on how to check on your child's Learn Zillion account.
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Class Website Information
• Student Electronic Portfolios
• Shutterfly (Class photos/videos/volunteering forms, etc.)
• Google calendar and hovering over events for more info
• Library resources
• Class Website Link
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Engrade: The Class Gradebook
1. An online Gradebook
2. To access: https://www.engrade.com/
3. Check every end of day Monday with student:-No late assignments accepted after end of day Tuesday from the previous week
4. Grading Scale:ME=Meets w/ Excellence
MP=Meets w/ Proficiency
DP=Developing Proficiency
WB=Well Below
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What Engrade Looks Like:
s
Average of all scores will be posted at the top of the page.
Assignments are put in by the week of the quarter so it’s easy to find.
0=Missing assignment or that assignment needs to be redone
Blank spaces mean either not graded yet or excused from the assignment
I will accept corrections on all grades except for tests taken online. (no deadline on corrections... I believe in learning from our mistakes!)
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Communications• Email: [email protected]
• Personal Phone: 808-754-4008(Not after 6PM and only parents)
• In class phone if absolutely necessary: 808-622-6380 *262
• Happy to visit with you face-to-face after school.
• Check BlackBoard messages & announcements (students must check too!)
• Emails!!! Please check daily!!! This is the main way I will communicate information to you.
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Interesting Learning Experiences
1. Making Global Connections-using Google Hangouts and other Web tools to connect with classes around the world
2. The Global Read Aloud-Out of My Mind
3. Global Cardboard Challenge (Oct 5th Library)
4. RWS (Reader’s Workshop Book Reports & Student
created projects). One per quarter.
5. DIY.org-online scouting with badges for those who need extensions/extras
6. Parents have any other interesting ideas, skills, or talents you wish to share? Let me know!
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Question Time