A Day of technology

Improving upon your technology skills

Today is Digital

Learning Day 2014

• Giving every child the opportunity to learn in a robust digital environment everyday.

• making a difference with digital learning in America's schools by supporting the effective use of technology in the classroom to improve education for all students.

JMA Technology website

Our school’s resource to technology created for you

Always updating

Be my source for ideas to add to this site

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bit.ly/JMAtechnology

Free Web Tools You Might Like to Try

Students publish posts and participate in academic discussions within a secure classroom blogging community.

Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs and user accounts.

Students write for an authentic audience – they post, publish and comment on each other’s blogs.

Nothing goes LIVE until you approve it. You can comment yourself on blogs offering suggestions for improvement.

My Class Blog

FREE – mobile platform that keeps teachers and students connected

REMIND 101 Remind101 closes the communication gap between home

and school in a modern way, allowing you to send reminders, notifications, and updates via text or email.

You can sign up through the website, Iphone app, or Android app. Students and parents can join a class by sending a text or email message to the designated phone number you give them.

Safety is a primary feature of this site. All phone numbers are kept private. You never see your students' or parents' phone numbers, & students and parents don't see yours.

Messages are one-way - parents & student can not reply.

Easy to Set Up

Create a class.

Invite them to sign up.

REMIND 101 – Join mine! Text me.

So . . . Go Get Connected!

Go to www.remind101.com Sign Up Today!

Say good-bye to paper sign ups! Make life easier and coordinate it all ONLINE! It is a free website.

Your members can sign up 24-7. You receive an email when someone signs up. You can sign up people yourself. Keep an address book of your group for future sign ups. Customize when reminders are sent. Members receive them by emails or text. Send them to people who signed up or those who didn't. Make your sign up public or private. Can share your sign up on a social network like Facebook or Pinterest. Members can easily add/edit/swap their responsibility if plans change. Create as many sign ups as you like.

www.signupgenius.com

NEW: SIGN UP TO USE COMPUTER LABS, MEDIA CENTER & Ipads

Links You May Find Useful• Lab & Media Center Sign-Ups• CMS ITW• Atomic Learning• SIMPLE K12 Learning Community

CMS ITW (Instructional Technology Weekly)

With David Cassavecchia & Aubrey Harrison

oAn opportunity to learn new technology in video format

o In its 4th season

oAdd this website to your Favorites – bit.ly/cmsitweekly

Go to website - http://www.atomiclearning.com & sign in.

Login – your full email address & password – eettgrant

New to Atomic Learning? Register for a webinar to learn more about it.

By logging in with your email, it is documenting all webinars you take. At the end of the year, all that you have done will be submitted on your behalf to CMS licensure.

Bit.ly/atomiclearning

Simple K12 Teacher Learning Community

Free for the Basic Membership; can purchase a more inclusive membership

Free online events & webinars

Get frequent newsletters to invite me to free webinars so that I don’t miss anything potentially useful to me

Creating Bitmarks

Better bookmarks – shortened web addresses

Bit.ly - https://bitly.com/

Simply copy & paste the long web address into the site. It will create a shortened one for you.

Give out the bitmark to your audience. For example, bit.ly/cteproctor

Remember when:• our scholars signed up for clubs this year?• you sent your parents your wiki address?• Sent a Youtube video to your scholars to view?

Let’s Explore!You may use the rest of the time to explore further any of the websites covered today!

JMA Technology

CMS ITW