Please check out the short screencast explaining how to enter MidTerm grades into your gradebook. Please let me know if you have any questions!
Holiday Gift Guide from Common Sense Media
Introducing Our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide
'Tis the season for wish lists galore! But how do you know what's best for each of the kids, tweens, and teens on your list?We've made it easy with more than 70 of our editors' favorite picks in movies, games, TV shows, books, music, website memberships, and apps to go with their new tech toys.Browse our recommendations online, or www.ec.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/recolists/holiday_gift_guide_..." target="_blank">download the full version of our 2011 Gift Guide to share with family and friends. 
Storybird.com -- good for reluctant writers
Language Arts teachers,
“Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.”
Storybird.com is a site where kids use art (cartoon-ish, not famous art) to help them write stories. Students choose the style of art they want and create a story to go with it. Attached are examples of a storyboard, a cover, and two pages of the story. Notice on the storyboard that students can add & delete pages, choose from numerous pictures (on the left & right), and add text.
You can set up a teacher & class account. Students can collaborate on stories, publish to the web, and print. Printing looks nice and expensive; I think it’s a fundraising option. I couldn’t find any prices for printing.
It’s free, but you do have to create an account.
Fall & Thanksgiving activities ((Fall Thanksgiving Activities))
Online Fall / Thanksgiving games – good for the SmartBoard, maybe for that last hour before school gets out for Thanksgiving vacation
http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/fall/games/index.html -- “arcade” games: catch the falling leaves, a memory & tetris sort of game, paint the turkey
http://www.primarygames.com/season_match/fall_match/fall_match.htm -- memory/concentration
http://www.primarygames.com/puzzles/jigsaw/fall/FallJigsaw.htm -- jigsaw puzzle
http://www.primarygames.com/seasons/fall/word_search/search.htm -- word search
The First Thanksgiving from Scholastic – videos from Plimoth Plantation, maps, the Mayflower…
Math Rap from Edutopia
If you teach math, you might find this VERY interesting and engaging for students to learn.
Model your Math Problem
GradeQuick Enhancement
Hello,
I just pushed out a minor change in GradeQuick with a feature you can use to set score footnotes. The next time you login to GradeQuick, it will inform you that Score Footnotes have been added.
The footnotes I added are:
L = Late
M = Missing
E = Exempt
In order to use any of these footnotes, simply click on the student assignment score in question, right mouse click the score, and you will see in the context menu the three new score footnotes. Click the appropriate one.
You will see the score footnote inside the score cell.
If you need to take the score footnote away, simply right mouse click on the score and you will see Remove Footnote in the context menu.
If you think there should be more types of Footnotes that are available, let me know and I’ll add them to the grade book template that will push out to your gradebook. I hope this helps!
John
Survey for Technology Committee--earn a free-jean-day pass!
To those of you having trouble logging into your school Google account,
On the login page, if it already says “@stlaurence.org” underneath the username field, only put your first initial & last name as the username.
On the login page, if it does NOT say “@stlaurence.org” underneath the username field, you’ll need to include that in your username.
If you continue to have trouble with this, please let me know.
Katie
From: Katie Lavery
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:16 PM
To: Staff-all
Subject: Survey for Technology Committee--earn a free-jean-day pass!
Staff,
The Technology Committee wants to learn how it can better serve the school community. Please click on the link below to fill out a short survey. Anyone who fills out the survey will receive a Free Jean Day Pass.
You will need to login to your St. Laurence Google account. If you can’t remember your user name or password, let me know. Please remember when logging into your school Google account, do NOT use @stlaurence.org as part of your user name.
We appreciate your input.
The Technology Committee
| Katie Lavery |
NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY: This electronic communication may contain confidential student record information intended solely for school business. Any disclosure, verbally or in print, by an unauthorized person is prohibited, and violates St. Laurence Catholic School policy. Should you receive this electronic communication in error, please notify the sender and delete the message. | |
Cleaning your iPad
Here are some tips on cleaning your iPad. Thanks Katie!
iPads
Handle your iPad with care to maintain its appearance. If you are concerned about scratching or abrasion, you can use one of the many cases sold separately. To clean iPad, unplug all cables and turn off iPad (press and hold the Sleep/Wake button, and then slide the onscreen slider). Use a soft, slightly damp, lint-free cloth. Avoid getting moisture in openings. Don't use window cleaners, household cleaners, aerosol sprays, solvents, alcohol, ammonia, or abrasives to clean iPad. iPad has an oleophobic coating on the screen; simply wipe iPad's screen with a soft, lint-free cloth to remove oil left by your hands. The ability of this coating to repel oil will diminish over time with normal usage, and rubbing the screen with an abrasive material will further diminish its effect and may scratch your screen.
iKlear
I've been told this is what they use at the Apple stores to clean the display models.
Don'ts
- Do not use disinfectant wipes containing bleach or disinfectant sprays in general.
- Do not use an extremely damp disinfectant wipe to clean the area. If you encounter a very damp wipe it may need to be squeezed to remove some of the excess liquid before use.
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