Brightbytes Internet Access Data

This fall we surveyed grade 3-12 students, parents, and staff using Brightbytes Clarity to collect baseline data on classroom practices, access, skills, and environment in relation to technology. Our access to technology at school and at home is a bright spot in our survey data and our overall district access score is rated exemplary.  This has allowed us to focus our efforts on growing in the skills, classroom (integration and digital citizenship), and environment (tech support and professional development) domains. Checkout our district and building access data points in the presentation embedded below. 

Slides Carnival

Looking for some quick and easy templates for Google Slides? Slides Carnival offers a large library of templates complete with matching images and icons. The templates will work for PowerPoint as well and come in a large variety of styles that can be used "as-is" or easily customized. Slides Carnival includes directions for making a copy of the templates to use in Google or for downloading as a PowerPoint presentation. The latest template linked below has a holiday theme.

http://www.slidescarnival.com/christmas-2017-free-presentation-template/2117

Checkmark Chrome Extension for Feedback in Docs

Checkmark, by EdTechTeam, is a great extension to use in Docs to provide feedback on student writing. It offers over several canned comments that can be easily selected and added to the document when you highlight text in a Google Doc. Options include several common writing errors such as: evidence needed, check punctuation/capitalization, subject-verb agreement, etc. Check out the demo image below and click here to add the extension from the Chrome Webstore.

http://www.checkmarkclass.com/demo.html