1 Tangipahoa Parish School System Presenters: Kathy Prine Dina Spears TPSS Technology Facilitators

2 "If someone brings a lot of new technology into your school district, and doesn't provide staff development, the only thing that will change is your electric bill.“ David Thornburg

Tangipahoa Technology Team 3 Vicki Blackwell Director of Technology Phone: Mike Diaz Assistant Director of Technology Phone: Carol Edwards Help Desk Secretary Phone:

4 Tangipahoa Technology Team Network Administrator: Lyndy Pier Network Technicians: David Duval & Colin Wiegand Computer Technicians: Kenny Babin, Carl Head, Jason Martin, Jerrell Hookfin, Roy Church, Vernell Tate & Justin Saltzman

5 Tangipahoa Technology Team Student Information Systems (SIS): Ricky Saragusa, Vicki Allen, Robert Morgan, Julie Larkin, and Tracey Ceaser Instructional Technology Facilitators: Dina Spears, Kathy Prine, Amy Ard, and Kristy Rocquin

TangiSchools HelpDesk 6 Link on Tangischools homepage

 TPSS teachers have a network login and a “tangischools.org” address supplied by TPSS. Username: First initial Last name (kprine) Password: First and Last Initial plus the last four digits of your employee ID number. (kp1234) 7

8  HOTT team members at each school - liaisons between Technology office and schools  Technology Contacts  Webmasters, Lab Managers, WebPams, etc.

TPSS Technology Resources  Accelerated Reader (K-12)  Brain POP & Brain POP Jr (K-12)  Blackboard  Student accounts  Discovery Education- United Streaming Videos  GALE Databases (K-12)  Worldbook Online (K-12)  Espresso (K-5)  Simple K12 (K-12)  PD 360  TrueFlix (2-6) 9

Current Technology Equipment  6 classroom computer stations – “nComputing”  SMARTBoards  Video Conferencing Equipment  More depending on school iPad carts 10

Online Staff Development Portal 11

Online Staff Development Portal 12 CLUs Tech Points

 3 days of intensive technology integration modeling and strategies. main/336 main/336  Followed by a 1 week Blackboard class (online) 13

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15 iPads in the Classroom

16 Bringing it Back to the Classroom

Blackboard Online  TPSS Resources  Internet Treasures for Teachers – 6 wks.  iPads Presentation Tools– 4 wks.  PBL + Tech = Success– 4 wks.  Nothing But Notebook– 4 wks.  QR Codes in the Classroom– 4 wks.  Web 2.0 Tools – 4 weeks.  Book Trailers – 4 weeks  M.O.R.E. – 4 weeks  Math Treasures for Teachers, Science Treasures – 4 weeks  Glogging in the Classroom – 4 weeks  Print, Cut, and Fold – 6 weeks  Prezi in the Classroom – 4 weeks  Picture This! – 4 weeks  SMART Games – 4 weeks 17 School Level Classroom Level

Other Workshops 18  After school classes from 3:45 – 5:45 on specific software or technology skills  Saturday workshops  Schedules can be found on Master Calendar

Technology Initiatives 19  OnCourse Lesson Planner Student Stats  Aesop  WebPams Grade Book / Attendance  Student Progress Center Chrome

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Other Technology Initiatives 21  SMARTboards  Smart Response  Document Cameras  iPod Touch, iPads  iPad Tech Tubs  Video Conferencing

22 Schoolwires Websites School Teacher

“Where there is a genuine vision, people excel and learn not because they are told to, but because they want to.” Peter Senge The Fifth Discipline 23

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