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Plaquemines Parish School Board Technology

TechLink Linking Technology and Education

Director of Instructional Technology

Alberta Cousson

Information Technology Director

Trevor Smith

Network Administrator Arlen Dardar

System Manager and Help

Desk Christine Cascio

IT Specialists Joseph Allen

BCHS Chad Arbourgh

BCPS; BCO; TRANS Melvin Broussard

BCMS Joseph Chauvin

SPHS Jared Landry SPES, PPLC Scott Palermo

BVES Dane Quackenbush

PHS, WCO

District Webmaster Terri Buras

Instructional Technology

Courtney Bullock Rose Hebert

IT Applications Specialist

Terri Buras

Technology

Department

What’s News?

PD Opportunities

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Quick Tips

What’s News?

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

~ Mark Van Doren~

Be a show-off! Please share photos of students engaged in learning or

just a special event taking place in your class or school. To make the

sharing easier, we have created a folder on the district P drive entitled ―00

PPSB Media Collection 2012-2013‖. When you open this folder you will

see additional folders labeled with school initials. Click on the one you are

associated with and add your pictures. Be sure to label the picture so that

we know what class or lesson the picture is associated with.

The technology shined this year at the 2012-13 school year’s opening at

Boothville-Venice Elementary School. .The Wizard of Oz movie clips

and characters in this school year’s opening presentation entitled,

―Ease On Down the Road‖, gave teachers and school administrators

an insight of how important it is for educators to guide students in

becoming active participants in their learning opportunities both in and

out of the classroom.

Have You Heard? Did You See?

New teachers to our district got a special treat, on

Thursday, August 4. Jennifer Henton, with

Summit Integration (formally Creative), did a basic

training for the Smartboard to help new teachers

get familiar with some of its basic features.

A “Smart” Welcome to New Teachers!

Be a Show-Off

Cindy O’Brien and Kathy Susor, the librarians at BCHS,

are working on ways to encourage students to read more

They are taking advantage of the available technology by

using it to create an information brochure of study

resources that can be found online and through the library.

They are also in the process of building a BCHS library

Google site that will include student book review podcasts.

Finally, they are utilizing Accelerated Reader and creating

a million word contest called ―Who Wants to be a

Millionaire?‖ for students.

Belle Chasse High School




Alberta Cousson


Trevor Smith





BCHS Chad Arbourgh


BCMS Joseph Chauvin



PHS, WCO





Terri Buras

Technology

Department

What’s News?

PD Opportunities

Inte-GREAT!

Quick Tips

Professional Development Opportunities

Student Contests

Look What’s Coming! Create Your Own

Moodle has a new look. To help with the ―scroll of death‖ we have reorganized it to make it more user-friendly. Students and Teachers can click on the name of their school to access their classes.

Professional Development through PPSB Moodle

Check your email often for the announcement for the new Moodle course we are developing to provide you with a way to become more proficient in the use of technology and earn CLUs once you have completed all the requirements of the course.

Smartboard Tip

Looking for a way to grab your

students’ attention? Try adding a

scrolling text banner—Super Easy!

Click on the gallery icon, then in the

search box, type ―text banner‖, click ―

search‖, finally click on ―interactive

and multimedia‖—there it is, click on it

and drag to page. To edit just double

click on banner.

Grant Opportunities http:/grants.ocde.us/Teacher_Classroom_Grants.htm

This website lists a multitude of grants that includes info about the listed grant, such as amount, due date and short summary about the grant’s goal.

Find out about other grants on the PPSB—Tech Department for Teachers website. https://sites.google.com/a/ppsb.org/itf/resources/grants

Have website addresses that go on forever? Copy and paste to ―Tiny Url‖ site and it converts to a short URL that is easy for you and your students to remember. http://tiny.cc/

Professional Development Hippocampus http://www.hippocampus.org/ is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

Open Yale Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/ Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

Dow AgroSciences is offering a scholarship to three lucky students who plan an innovative promotion activity for September National Rice Month. This scholarship is directed at high school seniors. Entries must be submitted by October 1, 2011. Also has contests for all grade levels.

http://tiny.cc/2d63s

Tech Cafes are going Digital We loved our tech cafes and we’re

bringing them to your computer. We’re

creating 10-minute quick sip tips of great

things to know about what resources and

tools you have in your classroom. Stay

tuned for our grand opening of the digital

tech café.

http://grants.ocde.us/Teacher_Classroom_Grants.htm

https://sites.google.com/a/ppsb.org/itf/resources/grants

http://tiny.cc/

http://www.hippocampus.org/

http://oyc.yale.edu/

http://tiny.cc/2d63s




Alberta Cousson


Trevor Smith





BCHS Chad Arbourgh


BCMS Joseph Chauvin



PHS, WCO





Terri Buras

Technology

Department

What’s News?

PD Opportunities

Inte-GREAT!

Quick Tips

Inte-GREAT Ideas

Send your contributions to [email protected] or [email protected].

Content Trailers introduce students to vocabulary with images, text and

music. They are a great way to start a lesson. The content trailer on

August 8th was made with Powerpoint but it’s also easy to make them

with photo story.

The final content trailer was a game to check for understanding. A little

challenging to do in a room of 400, but in a classroom, it could be a

great summary and assessment activity. It was the same content trailer

– without the words. In a classroom you could pause for students to

answer with a definition.

Check out the content trailers created by West Baton Rouge teachers.

http://www.wbrschools.net/technology/ctrailers.htm

The movie was made with a very basic Sony Handycam Camera. The

key is starting early in the year if you are doing a presentation about

your year. Take photos or video clips throughout the year and then

learn how to turn them into a movie to share with your parents or on the

web. Better yet, have students work in groups and one of the groups

could create a video.

The story clips were made using GIMP image editing software and

powerpoint. The powerpoint slides were exported as JPG’s and

inserted into the movie.

The audio clips were made with Audacity. Each person recorded their

voice and a cheerful sound clip was added in the background. This is a

very simple program and could be integrated into any class subject.

CONTENT TRAILERS

Random Name Chooser – If you are using less than 36

names, or using the same names over and over, I would

recommend using the Smartboard random word chooser.

The online chooser I found is not perfect but I like that it

doesn’t have ads. Once you click save and share, there is

an embed code that allows you to embed the name chooser

on your website. http://primaryschoolict.com/random-name-

selector/

The clip of the movie was a You Tube clip that was downloaded and cut

to just the content we wanted to share using Windows Movie Maker.

We have a different movie editing software on the computers. Movie

Maker is not a part of the updated version of Microsoft.

MOVIE PRODUCTIONS

RANDOM NAME CHOOSER

YOU TUBE

For help with any of the following ideas, email or call Courtney Bullock or Rose Hebert.

http://www.wbrschools.net/technology/ctrailers.htm

http://primaryschoolict.com/random-name-selector/

http://primaryschoolict.com/random-name-selector/




Alberta Cousson


Trevor Smith





BCHS Chad Arbourgh


BCMS Joseph Chauvin



PHS, WCO





Terri Buras

Technology

Department

What’s News?

PD Opportunities

Inte-GREAT!

Quick Tips

Quick Tips

Did You Know?

We’ve created a great resource for you in Power Teacher. You can now print a list of your students with their log in and passwords as well as print out labels with the same information. Go to:

PPSB Tech Dept. For Teachers

Click on tab on right labeled, ―created for teachers‖, next click on ―instructions‖ and you can print the pdf entitled ―Printing Labels in Power Teacher‖.

Please be responsible with the list of passwords. Do not have students use each other’s

passwords and do not log in on a computer with your log in for student use.

PPSB.org—Tech Department for Teachers

Finding Student Log Ins

Cross Curriculum Maps were created by integrating all the subject areas on the same spreadsheet. If you would like to relate your subject to another class, check the curriculum maps. Before you make a plan, double check with the other teacher to see if the curriculum maps schedules are accurate to their planning. If you have a change to the curriculum maps, please email Courtney Bullock. To find the maps: Go to ppsb.org, faculty, teacher tech center, teachers, curriculum maps or click here.

Teaching Across the Curriculum

We’ve created a new look for the PPSB Tech Department for Teachers Website. On the home page you can see what types of projects we’ve been helping teachers with. Click on Grants and Contests for a list of great opportunities for teachers as well as students. There are links to various publications, technology standards, and presentations created for and by teachers, a resource list of what you have on your computer and instructions for how to do sheets we’ve handed out at tech cafes and workshops. Please feel free to call or email us if:

you have any suggestions or additions for our site

If there is something you would like to know how to do

If you have a quick tip you would like to share with others

https://sites.google.com/a/ppsb.org/itf/welcome

https://sites.google.com/a/ppsb.org/itf/teachers/instructions

https://sites.google.com/a/ppsb.org/itf/teachers/curriculum-map

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