Vol. 4, Issue 4 May 17, 2016

Tech News Tuesday online eNewsletter

IN THIS ISSUE

Schoology: End-of-Year Suggestions and Summer Access for Content Development

OneNote Tips and Tricks

Summer Training Opportunities for All Staff

Practice Using Touch with the Surface

Sway the new Interactive Microsoft Presentation Creator

Askie the Techie: How does my Surface get updated and what OneNote should I be using?

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Table of Contents

Schoology page 1

OneNote Avenger

page 2

Summer Training Calendar for All Staff

page 3

Going Pro

with Your

Surface

Pro page 4

Sway

& Play page 5

Askie the Techie page 6

Schoology: End-of-Year Suggestions and Summer Access for Content Development

Until the PowerSchool sections for S1 are unlocked the week before school starts, your PowerSchool-created Schoology courses will not be accessible. You can however quickly make generic courses in Schoology that can be used to create assignments, quizzes and other resources. Once your PowerSchool-created sections are active, you can easily import your work into them. Please check out the video above to see how that can be done.

Linked Sections: with our enterprise edition of Schoology we have a nice feature called Linked Sections. For next school year you may be interested in linking your courses together. If you teach multiple sections of the same course and grade level, then this feature will allow you to create materials and setup the gradebook once and it copies automatically to the linked courses for the entire school year. You can switch between each section instantly. Take a look at the step by step guide – click here

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Start your Summer off right with the OneNote 2016 Tips & Tricks eBook! Find out about handy shortcuts, hidden features, and timesavers. This eBook will have useful information for the Beginner to the Advanced OneNote user.

OneNote 2016 Tips and Tricks eBook – click here

We also recommend OneNote for Teachers website – www.onenoteforteachers.com featuring ideas how students, teachers, and administers can use OneNote in education

A favorite OneNote resource we like is the blog post on “Top 10 things you didn’t know about OneNote.” In this post you will find amazing tips for using OneNote like tip #5 you can change the paper style and color! Check out the blog post – click here

This Summer sit back and relax and watch this tutorial on how to setup a OneNote Class Notebook with Schoology – click here

Summer Training Sessions on how to use OneNote in June and July. Check out our Training Website for signing up for hands-on or online self-paced lessons at www.mcs4kids.com/training

Great for staff meetings! Admin join us for OneNote Staff Notebook training on Wednesday, June 8th or Thursday, June 9th at the Pearson Computer Lab Room 1

Register – click here

About Staff Notebooks – click here

OneNote Avenger

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Summer Training Calendar for All Staff

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p Check out our Summer Calendar at: https://its.mcs4kids.com/training/training-calendar

2 Sign up for hands-on or online classes at: https://its.mcs4kids.com/training

8 You may also email Matthew Ketchum and Alexandra Hancock to sign up, click on

“Contact Us” link at: https://its.mcs4kids.com/its/about/instructional-technology

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Going Pro with Your

Surface Pro

This interactive online tutorial will help with how to use the touchscreen on the Surface. Use the menu on the side of the tutorial to walkthrough different practices. Click the above image to get started!

visit website to sign up www.mcs4kids.com/TCE2016

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Sway & Play Sway is a new tool from Microsoft for creating presentations that are viewable on any device with Internet access. Teachers, staff, and students can find Sway tile waiting for us to use in our Office 365 portal http://portal.office.com.

Sway makes it quick and easy to create and share interactive presentations. Easy drag-and-drop features let you add content and go from start to finish in minutes. Sway is a great tool for collaboration and communication. It is efficient, effective and fun to use. It can give teachers and students a way to create projects and demonstrate learning. Sway gives you a unique web URL for easy sharing and viewing the presentation. You can include interactive content such as photos, videos, charts, documents, and maps. Sway can be used to create presentations, newsletters, reports, and storytelling.

Getting Started with Sway with these video tutorials – click here

Project ideas in the classroom using Sway for ELA, math, and science – click here

View a couple samples of Sways created in our District

Gregori High School Teachers share strategies for instruction and inspiration compiled by Jamie Fredericksen https://sway.com/QWZitF9kUQxYIQ3g

Hanshaw Middle School Teacher Seth Simas had students collaborate and present with Sway on Social Studies topics https://sway.com/GjiS8XdCQMObQS8o

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Askie the Techie Dear Askie the Techie,

How does the Surface Pro

get updated?

– Finding Refresh

Dear Finding Refresh,

The Surface Pro and all devices get

updated 24/7. Meaning you don’t have to

sign out and leave it overnight once a week

for it to get the updates anymore.

Whenever the device is connected to the

District Internet it will receive updates

now. This includes all Windows 7 and 8.1

devices. Windows 10 updates will be pushed

out starting soon the very same way.

~ Askie the Techie

Dear Askie the Techie,

How do I know what OneNote I should

be using? – OneNote Wanderer

Dear OneNote Wanderer,

You were lost and now you are found. I

can help you navigate the correct

OneNote to use. We have created this

nifty handout that showcases what

OneNote to use and how to set it up

– click here for handout

~ Askie the Techie

Submit your questions for Askie the Techie – click here