1. Enhancing Your Classroom With Technology
Presented by: Christy Tatum and Sylvia Bullock

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3. Gmail Accounts
Every student in our school is issued a Google gmail on their first day of class. We purchased a domain for students only. With a Google gmail account, students have access to gmail, Google Drive, and a Youtube account.
accounts are created, monitored and managed by leadership members. Accounts are deleted once a year. Students leaving may have their information transferred to a personal account.
Benefits of student accounts are: every student can send and
receive s. Students have access to Google Drive. Teachers can
or forward information. Students can absences.
Teachers can use Google Classroom (need a domain to
access).

4. ESL Technology Currently being used in our ESL courses:
Burlington English
Google Voice
Gmail Accounts
Scavenger Hunt (smart phones)

5. El Civics Assessments - Using Google Voice
Establish collaboration between programs
English as a Second Language – ESL
Computer and Office Technology - CTE
Promotes Leadership Skills
Community/ Customer Service
Leadership
CTE students work together to establish Google numbers
CTE students meet to review documents for assessments
CTE practice role plays
Advantages
Finish all classes in one morning instead of an entire week
Increase “real life” experience for ESL students
Avoid the need for subs and additional lesson planning

6. What is Google Voice? Google Voice allows you to set up a number
and you can have this number ring your cell
phone, home phone, or work number.
Benefits:
Students use this and not personal numbers
Provides transcripts of messages
Students can text this number
Keeps a record and you have access to it anywhere.

7. EL Civics - 911 What is your emergency?
ESL students practiced calling “911” and reporting an emergency to CTE students using Google Voice.

8. ABE Technology students are using in ABE: Gmail Accounts Google Drive
Google Chromebooks
Google Classroom
Khan Academy
Odysseyware

9. ABE Using Google Docs
ABE students are using Google Docs for a variety of assignments.
Some examples are:
Vocabulary
Research paper
Extended Response

10. High School Diploma
Technology being used in our high school diploma courses:
Odysseyware
Gmail Accounts

11. Odysseyware Students use Odysseyware: Instructors
Credit recovery to meet student needs individually
CRX mode allows students to pretest and do only units needed
Reports available for individuals or classes
Can set your own score threshold
Offer a variety of electives otherwise limited
Instructors
Courses can be built from scratch using topics in odysseyware
Existing courses can be modified and changed to meet student’s needs
Alerts sent when students complete assignments
Blocks students when they are not passing or from skipping around

12. HSE (GED) Gmail Accounts Google Drive (Slides, Docs, Forms)
Google Classroom
Quill.com
GED Ready
Newsela
Youtube
Blendspace (tes.com) - GED Math Unit 1
Weebly.com
Technology Created Units - Career Week
Facebook/Twitter

13. GED Focuses on RLA
GED students use gmails and Drive daily. All of their assignments are created in Google Drive, placed in their folders or uploaded to the classroom.
Advantages:
Student folders are shared with you and anything they create in the folder you can look at and leave comments on their work.
Google classroom allows students to upload assignments and you can look at each assignment, and you know what has been turned in or not.
We also use:
Newsela.com - current articles and questions
Quill.com - Grammar practice

14. GED focuses on Science and Social Studies
Students continue to create and share documents for each subject matter. There are special projects students create and share.
A great resource on Google Drive is the ability to share and collaborate with each other. Students can create a Google Slideshow and share with other students and they can all work on it at the same time.
Project ideas:
Social Studies - Revolutionary War Newspaper
Science - Travel the Solar System Example
Science - Travel the Solar System Guidelines
Science - Rollercoaster Projects

15. GED Projects
Currently, I continue to build projects and units for students
to use technology and learn subject matter content. My goal
is to create units in all subject areas to encourage a blended
learning environment.
Two complete units are:
Career Week Unit ( Used Google slides, Google forms, TedTalks, and Youtube)
GED Math Unit 1 (Used Blendspace with videos, handouts and powerpoints)

16. CTE - Computer Office and Technology
Chromebooks
Gmails - Leadership quotes
Google Drive
Google Sheets - progress reports
Google Slides
Digital Portfolios
Twitter
Weebly
Microsoft Suite
Microsoft Office Specialist Certification
Community Service

17. COT
Students work with Microsoft Office to enhance their technology skills and become MOS (microsoft office specialist) certified -nationally recognized certification.
GMetric is used to assist student readiness of MOS certification upon completion of each Microsoft application.
Google drive is used create and store digital portfolios.
Gmail is used for daily gmail correspondence
Kahoot is used in class collaboration/assessment of math, microsoft and technology skills.

18. COT and Technology
COT students have the ability to review their progress from anywhere at anytime via their google drive.
COT Progress Reports
MAS Progress Reports
COT Website

19. COT Leadership - Community Service
Students respond to leadership quotes via gmail on a daily basis. They are encouraged to respond using HOTS...there is no wrong answer, only what they think.
Twice a year students participate in school leadership by assisting in the EL Civics assessment process utilizing technology (911 -health interviews, mock employment interviews).
Students who participate receive a community service certificate to add to their portfolios

20. Technology Tips Embrace Technology!
Try free apps first to see if you will use it
Students need technology to be Career & College ready
Just starting? Pick one or two forms of technology to focus on at first
Don’t have a domain? Have students sign up for a free gmail account
Students create a folder in Google Drive and share it with you
Use apps for their phones instead of being a phone tyrant
Instill leadership and have students assist new students
Students can create lessons for you
Students can find and rate videos to use
Google it! Students do it and so can you!
Use social media for professional growth!

21. Kahoot
Kahoot

22. Questions? Contact us: Presentation Survey ctatum@muhsd.org