I assisted Dan Poisson our Vice Principal who needed assistance on sharing a large document (student handbook for our new middle school-LMS) He couldn’t send it due to the large pictures. First I thought if there weren’t too many pictures, he could take the pictures out and send it, if they weren’t essential. Then I went back up to my room and played with google a bit. I had him import it from his word document to a Google document. It worked, however he felt unsure about doing so due to the fact that he didn’t trust that it wouldn’t go out to the entire staff. I showed him how the sharing option allowed the sharing to only whom he wanted to share it to and how he could allow them to only view it or edit it, but he could decide that on his own.
Additionally, I offered a training and did some very small group training on my Haiku site and demonstrated how Haiku-LMS, is inclusive and easy to use in a classroom setting. It offers teachers a home for all of their assignments, tracks students' online accessing, allows for completion of assignments and acts a portfolio home to all of their work. Teachers can post tests and quizzes and Haiku will automatically grade them and offers students immediate feedback. I also showed the teachers how you can import a Google document right into Haiku.
I have assisted many teachers when using Google Documents,Google Presentations, ipads and relevant ipad apps for their students' needs as well as their own individual needs. I have assisted teachers with using and managing Powerschool for adding assignments descriptions, grades, setting up Powerschool gradebook, as well as how to look up student information in the Powerschool interface.
I
have instructed teachers on how to use Prezi Presentations and
Sliderocket for alternatives to Powerpoint. My students have created and
maintain a blog using Blogger and I have encouraged other teachers to
embrace Blogger because of its ease of use and many applications. Common
Core standards can be achieved when students connect their subject
learning to blogs!
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