EOY Assessment Update 04/24/15

The information below was sent via email by Traci Powell regarding End Of Year (EOY) Assessments (including an update for Istation):

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From: Traci Powell
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 3:38 PM
Subject: EOY Assessment

Good afternoon!  It is time to start looking forward to EOY Assessments.  J

Hopefully the table below will answer your questions about the iStation and WRAP assessments.  When a student gets on iStation in the month of May, they will automatically be assessed. 

I have also included some information about summer school in the table below ….  

Let me know if you have any further questions.  J

	iStation	WRAP Assessment
When Do We Assess?	May 1st  - May 22nd (This is an updated window)	Before May 20th (All WRAP data is due May 20th )
Who Needs to Be Assessed?	All Students PK-4th Grade	All Students K-4th Grade
What Needs to Go in the Student’s Cumulative Folder?	Student Summary Handout	N/A
What Goes Home in the Report Card?	N/A	Reading Level Progress  Report
What Goes to Summer School with Each Child?	Student Summary Handout	Reading Level Progress  Report

Screen Recorder to GIF 04/24/15

Tool for Recording Your Screen and Saving as GIF

This tool allows you to record a selected area of your screen and save as a GIF.

http://screentogif.codeplex.com/

Features:

• Record your screen and save directly to a gif looped animation.
• Pause and continue to record.
• Move the window around to record what you want.
• You can add Text, Subtitles and Title Frames.
• Edit the frames, add filters, revert, make yoyo style, change frame delay, add border, add progress bars.
• Export frames.
• Crop and Resize.
• You can work even while the program is recording.
• Remove frames that you don't want.
• Select a folder to save the file automatically or select one before enconding.
• Add the system cursor to your recording.
• Very small sized, portable and multilanguage executable.
• Start/Pause and stop your recording using your F keys.
• Multi language: Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Greek, French, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Vietnamese and Tamil.
• GreenScreen unchanged pixels to save kilobytes.
• You can apply actions/filters to selected frames.
• Fullscreen Recording.
• Snapshot Mode.
• Drag and Drop to add frames in the editor. 

Free App Friday! 04/24/15

Free Apps Available Today!

• Demibooks Composer Pro (regularly $9.99)

• Dream-X (mind mapping; regularly $4.99)

• InDesign to iPad Publishing (regularly $16.99)

• Learn Graphic Design (regularly $16.99)

• Quick and Easy Lessons for Illustrator (regularly $16.99)

• Quick and Easy Lessons for InDesign (regularly $16.99)

• Quick and Easy Lessons for Photoshop (regularly $16.99)

• Wordflex Touch Dictionary (regularly $11.99)

• Bufo's Music (regularly $3.99)

Office 365/DropBox Web Integration 04/17/15

For those of you who use DropBox and are using Office 365, this information might be of interest:

Office Online and Dropbox Web Integration Now Available

http://blogs.office.com/2015/04/09/office-online-and-dropbox-web-integration-now-available/

Sherrie Grounds (Instructional Technology) has tried this and indicates the following about it:

"It works. I tried it. Opens, edit and saves it back to Dropbox."

Free App Friday! 04/17/15

Free iOS Apps today!

• Fractions Fun (regularly $2.99)

• My First Keyboard (regularly $3.99)

• Wordflex Touch Dictionary (regularly $11.99)

• Tuck Me In (create books; regularly $9.99)

• Demibooks Composer Pro (excellent app for creating your own ebooks; regularly $9.99)

• TouchLogo (regularly $2.99)

Istation Home & Teacher Assignments 04/17/15

Free Istation Informational Webinars

All times are Central Daylight Time. Select a day and time below to register! Sign Up Now!

Understanding and Using 

Istation Home and Teacher Assignments

Mon, April 20, 2015 at 4:00 PM CDT

Mon, April 27, 2015 at 4:00 PM CDT

If you aren't able to watch these on the dates listed above, you can also access these and other recorded webinars from the U:Drive (Public) on Pasadena ISD network:

• Open the Public Drive (U:Drive)
• Open Instructional Materials - Electronic
• Open Istation
• Webinars

Tots and Technology This Summer - 04/10/15

Reminder of this summer training opportunity:

TCEA's Tots and Technology Summer Conference

June 14-16, 2015 – Galveston Convention Center

Register Here

Elementary educators will walk away with the technology tools, techniques, and lessons that address the standards and beyond. If you are looking for new ways to engage students, want specific ideas for using technology to enhance your current teaching practices, and need to guide your students towards success with the new technology standards, make plans to join us at the beach for this exciting and fun 2-day event.

The Tots and Technology Summer Conference offers hands-on workshops and sessions especially designed to effectively integrate technology in the PreK-5 classroom.

Istation Lexile Trend Report (NEW) - 04/10/15

New Lexile Trend Report!

This new ISIP™ Reading report is available for students who take the Reading Comprehension subtest (grades 1+, English only). The Lexile Trend report plots students' Lexile® level across the school year.

Updates to the Usage Trend Report!

There are two new features on this report:

• Filtering by tier will update the average monthly usage minutes displayed below the graph.
• Details below the top graph are now sortable by minutes as well as by alphabet.