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This tutorial is about 7 minutes long and will guide through the steps to get your blog set up for the first time. The tutorial will work for both teacher and student blogs because we all use the same platform - Wordpress MU! Tip: You can use Command and plus key to make the text on your screen a bit bigger! Enjoy and please ask if you have any questions. As part of our commitment to meeting the needs of all staff and students at Shanghai American School and adhering to the newly created Standards and Benchmarks, please find a short survey for every grade level below. This will become a guide as to what skills you would like to focus on during the next school year in your classrooms and will also guide what areas I can collaborate with you on as our computer roll out is complete next year in the middle school. If you are a specialist, please fill out for at least one of your grade levels. Consider choosing the grade level you have or wish to explore technology with in detail. It might be good in the text box at the end of the survey to name your subject so we can target your needs. Thanks so much for your feedback!
Also attached is the Horizon Report…..a fantastic read! And the NETS for Students which our S & B’s are taken from. With only seven weeks left in the academic year there’s still a lot happening! Among the important events, is the upcoming SAS school board election. We would like to remind you that YOU have a vote in the upcoming board election. WE hope that you will exercise your right to participate in this election and help determine who will sit on our school board. Board ballots must be turned back to school by Thursday, April 29 at 5:00pm. This post is not about campaigning for any individual candidates, just to serve as a reminder that you can exercise your vote in an election that will confirm two new members. This is significant because of the effect that two strong choices could make for a school board of this size. Please take some time to make an informed choice by having a look at the 4 candidates to understand their priorities and views, and by chatting with others about their opinions. It’s always a good thing to have the right to participate in elections and we hope you’ll find a few minutes to complete your ballot and send it in. Key facts:
Today we will hold a Parent Counselor Coffee in the middle school from 9:00 – 11:00. I will answer questions during that time about our laptop program in the middle school. I am putting several links here that I will be mentioning in my session. If you know of more that may be of interest to others, please leave a comment on this post with the link information! Articles about Monitoring Your Child’s Computer: http://www.macworld.com/article/136339/2008/10/parentalcontrols2.html Touch Typing Resources http://web.me.com/jonathanchambers/Touch_Typing_-_The_Need_for_Speed%21/Welcome.html Powerschool Email Preferences Video The Great Chinese Firewall – An article about what we are doing to give the kids access in China. http://www.sentimentsoncommonsense.com/?p=530 Setting up an RSS Feeder in Netvibes We are being invaded!!!!! As much as l love ugg boots… grr…. As we fight the spam war and understand our enemy the first step is to stop your blog from emailing your groupwise account when a comment is sent to your blog. To do this you have to go to the dashboard of your blog. Go right down to the bottom left and look under Settings. Then click “Discussion” Where it says “Email me whenever” uncheck both of these boxes. See the 2 photos below… This will help stop the emails coming but not the SPAM….we are working on this – thanks for your patience
Not only can you link an SAS Student Email Account to your Mail application on your Mac, you can also link Gmail accounts, hotmail accounts…. almost anything except for yahoo. Watch this video to find out how! Back up your blog NOW! Walking around the classrooms at SAS Pudong, I am always impressed by what our teachers are doing in their classrooms and how our students rise to the challenge. One year ago, I can safely say that we were still learning how to best use the technology at our fingertips. Many of the things we are doing now seemed so out of reach last school year. We are all still on a technological journey and we are all thankfully still learning, but, hey – look what we can do now! Student engagement is always at the forefront of educational discussions. The fact of the matter is that when students are actively engaged, they are not only learning faster but they have a deeper and better understanding of the content at hand. Good job teachers and good job students! I am so proud to be part of such an amazing learning environment here at SAS. Take a look at just a few examples of tech around our middle school over the past couple of weeks! 6th Grade Science – The Water Cycle 8th Grade Science – What is a Biosphere? Chinese – Duoshaoqian
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Watch this 36 second video to find out how….
Changing your passwords periodically on your computer is a good thing. Remember than you can only change your password at school. Changing your password at school lets you access the school servers. You can change your password for both of these accounts from your System Preferences panel.
Where should students go to help with their computers? Below is a list of different activities/applications we can help students with at school. Of course, I am happy to be the first point of contact but this may help some of our students save some time.
