Promoting Achievement through Technology and INstruction for all Students Sandi Mahl: PATINS Southeast Regional Site Coordinator

B.S. – Science Education M.S. – Special Education Middle School Science Teacher Alternative School Teacher Preschool – 12 Special Education Teacher High School Earth/Space Science Teacher PATINS SE Regional Coordinator

Structure There are 5 PATINS Sites throughout Indiana – NE Site in Wabash – SE Site in Columbus – SW Site in Newburgh – Central Site in Indianapolis – NW Site in Crown Point – A total staff of 15 full/part-time employees.

The Chromebook!

Beginning in Chrome

Living in the Cloud! Cloud-based operating system. It’s not a “laptop” Boots up very quickly.

Living in the Cloud You need a Google Account – but not necessarily Gmail. Google Chrome Services “follow” you. You can save into Microsoft Formats. Offline apps are called Plug-ins – you need these if you want to work when not connected.

Let’s Go Shopping! This is what my screen usually looks like:

Let’s Go Shopping! Once you click that you get this!

Let’s Go Shopping! Click this and get started!

Accessibility Searching in the Chrome Web Store Apps vs. Extensions Apps are websites that run within the Chrome Browser Extensions create a feature that is available within the sites you visit.

Accessibility

Read&Write for Google can be found by searching the title in Extensions

Accessibility Help!

Accessibility Help! Chrome-Users-Listen-To-Any-Website-Text.htm?nl=1

Accessibility Help

Storage Starting Size = 5 GB Excellent Platform for Sharing

Google Drive 5 GB – Beginning Size Works well off line. Can only open Documents in Google Docs.

Thank You! All slides from this presentation can be found at this link: Then choose SE PATINS and go to the Training Calendar. The link to the PDF file will be with the October 10 th Closing The Gap listing. The pdf of my notes will also be included in the post conference files.