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TWTW Teaching with the Web |
The Instructional Technology Journal of Volume 2, Number 3 August 1,
2006 |
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Laptops for New Hires 8/1/06 Newly hired teachers should receive a
laptop when they report to work the first day of school. The following describes the process for
distributing laptops to new hires: ·
Laptops
should be distributed only to classroom teachers – not literacy coaches,
Reading Recovery teachers, counselors, librarians, etc. ·
Each
laptop must be checked out through the school media center and should be
issued immediately when school starts – so new hires have a chance to play
with the laptops before their training sessions. ·
New
hires will be required to attend a three-hour workshop in order to keep the
laptop beyond the first couple of weeks of school. Three or four workshops will be
scheduled. That schedule will be
posted before the first day of school.
At the end of the training, new hires will receive a new flash drive. ·
If
a school had an increase in its teaching staff, a laptop will be moved from a
school with a corresponding decrease.
Additional laptops will be purchased for teacher use, if necessary. |
Important Teacher Notes · Before returning for the first day
of school, PLEASE remember to update virus definitions and run a full scan on
your computer. See the instructions in
the last issue. Please. · When you run the full virus scan
on your computer, be sure to plug in your flash drive so it will be scanned
too. · When you return to school, please
remember to take your laptop immediately to the media center so it can be
scanned back into the school inventory; then check it out again for the
school year. · In most cases, you will have your
old desktop to use as a student computer; be sure to plan some lessons and
activities that will let students have the opportunity to use that
computer. In some schools, the
classroom desktops have been moved to create multi-purpose labs for classes
to use; be sure to plan activities that will take your students to those
labs. · Please plan strategies in your
grade level and department meetings for compiling resources that can be used
by all teachers. · See the links at the bottom of his
page for access to instructional resources and planning strategies. · We are still working on wireless
solutions for most schools. More
information will be coming to you soon. |
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Montage Video Resources The
district has licensed Montage video resources for teachers to use in
classrooms. Those resources can be
accessed as follows: ·
Open
Internet Explorer and type the URL for your school on the address line. The URL is your school’s abbreviation
followed by a dash followed by the word “montage” (for example, GHS-montage,
BRW-montage, etc.; see school abbreviations below). ·
Your
username is the same as your Novell username; your password is “montage.” ·
After
you login the first time, change your password: o
Click
“Settings & Tools” in the bar along the top of the screen o
In
the section labeled “My Login Information,” click the “Change Password” link. o
Type
in your new password and click “Update.” ·
Your
personal account lets you set up your own playlists
for use in your classes. Currently,
the Montage servers are accessible only from inside the district. END=East End; HOD=Hodges; LAK=Lakeview;
MAT=Mathews; MER=Merrywood; OAK= |
Site Survey: Websites that Educate,
Enlighten, Entertain, and Engage ·
Smithsonian Source ·
Microbe! ·
Simple Machines ·
Illuminating Mathematics |
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The Laptop-and-Projector Project Website Tech Project:
http://www2.gwd50.org/TechPlans/TechPlan2006.htm Instr. Resources: http://www2.gwd50.org/TechPlans/StaffDevResources.htm
Previous TWTW Issues: http://www2.gwd50.org/techplans/TWTW-Index.htm
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