Friday, May 22, 2015

Keyboarding for the Summer! - 05/22/15

Summer is a great time for students to practice keyboarding!

Don't forget about these great sites for learning how to type faster and more efficiently!

 Easy

 Learn Your Keys (letters)

 Bubbles Typing (letters)

 Cup Stack Typing (letters)
Medium

 Air Typer

 All The Right Type

 AlphAttack

 Alpha Drop

 Arachnid Falls

 Assault Typing
Difficult

 Learn to Type (keyboarding lessons)

 Dino Kids Typing (challenging!)

 Fast Typer 2 (challenging!)

 Gyroshi Typing Game (very challenging!)


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Learning.com - New Login Page! 05-22-15

New Login Page for 2015-2016

Learning.com is unveiling a new login page for the 2015-2016 school year!

Beginning on June 2, 2015, students, teachers, and coordinators will only be able to login at login.learning.com


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Dream Box - 05/22/15

PISD Board recently approved the purchase of DreamBox Learning Math Lessons for the 2015-2016 school year.

What is DreamBox Learning Math Lessons?
It provides an adaptive assessment in math for students.  Then it places the students into the appropriate level of instruction to help boost their skills.

 What kind of lessons does it include?
Unit Descriptions - 
http://www-static.dreambox.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/unit-description-guide.pdf 

Kindergarten - 
http://www.dreambox.com/kindergarten-math-lessons

 First Grade - 
http://www.dreambox.com/first-grade-math-lessons

 Second Grade - 
http://www.dreambox.com/second-grade-math-lessons

What grade levels will PISD purchase?
K-2nd grade 

Will it be available in English and Spanish?
yes

Sample Lesson

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Friday, May 15, 2015

Free App Friday! 05/15/15

Free App Friday!


Interactive Books

  • Noah (regularly $0.99)
Science


Social Studies



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OneNote Taskbar Icon...What Is It? 05/15/15

Using OneNote and you wonder what that "extra" icon on your TaskBar is at the bottom of your screen? Maybe you don't use it and you would prefer to get it out of the way?

In the two images below, you can see the OneNote Icon that appears when you open OneNote on your computer.
 
<--This icon has the OneNote symbol and a pair of scissors on it. It's designed to be a quick and helpful tool for taking screen shots and quick notes.

If you prefer to remove this and not have it displayed, do one of the following things:

  1. Click the OneNote Icon and remove the check from "Start with OneNote".
  2. With OneNote open, go to File--Options--Display and remove the check from "Place OneNote Icon in the notification area of the taskbar. (You can always add this back by checking this option again.)


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Eduphoria Workshop Error Message Tip 05/15/15

Getting an Error Message in Eduphoria Workshop when you are using Chrome?
Can't figure out the problem?

The image below shows an error message that can appear in Eduphoria Workshop while you are navigating through the Courses in the Management Tab.  Before turning in a work order or getting on the phone, try checking to see if the Zoom setting on your Chrome browser is over 100%.

How do you check this?  Click the Settings Box (3 horizontal bars) at the top right of the Chrome Browser to display the Zoom Percentage.

In some Eduphoria modules, if the Zoom is set to a percentage greater than 100%, this error message can occur.


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Excel - Subtotal Outline Details Not Showing 05/15/15

Excel 2013 Tip - Subtotal Outline Details Aren't Showing

For those of you familiar with creating subtotals in an Excel spreadsheet, this tip might interest you.

What are subtotals?

 The Subtotal feature in Excel will display columns of similar information in groups and can perform functions such as adding or counting the number of similar data items in the column.  In the example below, each time the Location Code changes, the Subtotal feature will count the number of employees from each of the Location groups.  In this example, there are 4 employees at Location Code 001, and there are 7 employees at Location Code 002.  Totaling 11 employees at both locations.

Location Name Job Description
001 Employee1 Early College HS Tchr
001 Employee2 Early College HS Tchr
001 Employee3 Sec Speech Teacher
001 Employee4 TEST COORDINATOR
001 Count 4 4
002 Employee5 Sec Geography Teacher
002 Employee6 CTE Marketing Management II
002 Employee7 Sec Math Teacher HS
002 Employee8 Sec English Teacher
002 Employee9 Sec English Teacher
002 Employee10 Sec Biology Teacher
002 Employee11 Sec History Teacher
002 Count 7 7
Grand Count 11 11


How do I add Subtotals to an Excel spreadsheet?
  1. Select all the cells with data 
  2. Click the Data Tab at the top
  3. Click Subtotal in the Outline group on the right
  4. Click OK
  5. Choose the column on which you want to create the groups from the drop menu for "At each change in:"
  6. Choose the function.  Some common functions are:
    • Sum will total the amount in each group in the designated column
    • Count will count the number of rows in each group in the designated column
    • Average will average the total amount in each group in the designated column
  7. Choose the column where the group data is located
  8. Click OK

What if the Subtotal Outline doesn't appear on the left like the example above?

The default setting in previous versions Excel displayed the outline on the left (which included the Count and the Grand Total Count like the example above).  However, in Excel 2013 your default setting appears to have changed.  As a result of this change, the outline on the left does not appear unless you change the settings for Excel.  Here's how to do this.

In Excel 2013, do the following:
  1. Click File-->Options
  2. From the Excel Options window, click Advanced on the left
  3. Scroll a little over halfway down until you see "Display options for this worksheet"
  4. Click to check the option for "Show outline symbols if an outline is applied"


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Free Children's Books Today! 05/15/15

Check out these free children's books available only today via Amazon today!
And Free App Friday too! (click this link to see what is available today)

Remember that you don't need an Amazon Kindle to take advantage of this. 
The free iOS Kindle app allows you to load wonderful books on to your iDevice. You can download Kindle books to iPhones, Androids, iPads, Macs, and PCs. 

Titles in bold signify exceptional value. 
Titles in italics are newly free today.

Free Children's Books (regular price in parentheses)
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Friday, May 8, 2015

Learning.com Announcement Re: Browser Support 05/01/15



Internet Explorer 9: Upgrade Guide

Beginning in August 2015, Learning.com will no longer support Internet Explorer 9. If your campus has been using Internet Explorer 9 or an earlier version of Internet Explorer to access Learning.com, the company strongly recommends that you update your browser:

Minimum System Requirements
Any of the following browsers:
‧‧ Chrome latest update (Chrome updates automatically)
‧‧ Internet Explorer 10 or later

‧‧ Firefox 32 or later

*Some content requires current versions of the following plug-ins: Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader
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Tips for Managing Student iPad Sets 05/01/15

iPad Users?

Looking for ways to manage your iPads with large or small groups of students?

The website link below provides some tips on using Backgrounds to easily identify your iPads:

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Discovery Education Spring 2015 VirtCon 05/01/15

Discovery Education presented their Virtual Conference this past weekend. If you were unable to watch it live here is a link to the recorded video stream -
http://livestream.com/DEN/events/3989061?origin=event_published&mixpanel_id=a38179945c993-0ce130d3d-43681f0a-2ee000-a38179945de5f&acc_id=1742170&medium=email 

So that you don't have to watch portions of the recorded broadcast that don't pertain or interest you, here is a list of the presentations and the time in the video they start:
(Thank you Alfredo Juarez @ Jessup for providing these timings)
Key Note
For all the world to see
Don Levy
3:29

6 Ways to Show What You Know
Dennis Grice
55:10

It’s About the Learning, Not the Device
Rachel Yurk
02:00:10

Embracing Failure in a Creative Classroom
Todd Wirt
03:00:10

Building Community Trough Creativity
Tracy Carpenter and Zulma Whiteford
04:00:50

Farm to Table: A SAMR Inmersion Lesson
Matt Monjan
05:00:38

Engage, Inspire, Expect and Inform
Dacia Jones
05:57:32
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Free App Friday 05/08/15


Free Apps Available Today:

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