August+26+Training

Monday Pre-Meeting Only with new teachers or anyone that doesn't have a Discovery Education, Gradelink, Teacher Web and Ed Tech Profile accounts New Teachers also need their own email accounts. I would like to do teacher aide training too. They may have Dstreaming accounts too. They should have their own email accounts so they are not on the teachers login. Plus if you want to communicate to teacher aides you can have a distribution list for them. This way they will be ready for tomorrow's training.

8:15 Welcome to the Lab and sit at a workstation 8:20 Start with Prayer 8:25-9:00 Gradelink- How to populate your classes We will populate at least one class and then move into what you see after the class is in. 9:00-9:30 Then we have to go to the Attendance area so you understand what all the different status labels mean Go over Attendance Handout and policies for this school year. Note: Need to be put into the Parent Handbook We will have another training on the Gradebook details and Web access to the parents at a later date. TBA The parents will not be receiving their passwords until the General Parent meeting on September 23. We want to give you more time to get use to the program and be able to set up your gradebook assignments.
 * Meeting Agenda ** 8:15 to 11:30

9:30-9:45 I have a PowerPoint to show you as an overview of teacher and student expectaions for the year.

9:50-10:00 Break to use the restroom and get a drink.

10:05-10:15 Examples of Projects made with Dstreaming meeting State Standards and the 2007 NETS-S, and 2008 NETS_Teachers I would like you to see the level of technology we can being doing with our students. We have the equipment to do it. We can Blast our Open House this year with excellent content projects. We can also enter the same projects into contests for the students. Youth Expo too!

Show : Sea, Community, Math, Homophones, Solar System

10:15-11:15 Login into Discovery Education to learn updates, go over the details of downloading and where to download files to on the server. (Teacher Download files-these can be viewed by teachers only, they will need to be tranfered to Classroom files for the items you want the students to use in their projects.) There is a new student access in the works for them so they will be able to do their own searches. (TBA maybe by Nov. 2008) Login to Discovery Education New Searching features Advanced searching Close captioning- so students can read as they watch the video. My Content area for teacher Teacher Center -Catholic Resources Spanish Teacher tools Atlas Professional Development Area Discovery Educator Network-Join the DEN to receive EVEN MORE support than you have ever experienced Talk to Pat Nagy she went to one DEN event last year the Tech or Treat Conference last October 11:15 Q and A time 11:30 End in prayer and thank you for your time.

More resources [|NECC 2008 Webcasts] Den National Institute 08 ABC's of Web 2.0 with live links [|Diocese Tech Share] [|CUE] [|ISTE] [|OCDE] [|OCCUE]