EL: Dollar Questions 02/20/17

Teaching Kids to Move Beyond One-Word Questions

https://www.edutopia.org/article/teaching-kids-move-beyond-one-word-questions-jessie-grees

This article is specific to Kindergarten classes, but can also apply to other grade levels.

What’s a Dollar Question?

If you’re tired of why, use this framework to help your students ask specific questions that yield better answers.

ALL: Presidential History 02/20/17

Celebrate the history of the United States presidency and discover defining moments in American Democracy

American Democracy

The History of the Presidency:

• Learn about the past Presidents of the United States
• A closer look at life in the White House
• Presidential Pets
• Surprising Facts About Keeping the President Safe
• Influential First Ladies
• Virtual Tour of Presidential Homes
• Significant Moments in Past Presidencies

EL/MS/INT: Istation ISIP: New Export 02/20/17

New ISIP™ Reports Feature
ISIP reports now feature a “View as CSV” option. Selecting this button will generate a new CSV file containing a CSV conversion of the report’s grid/table.

This differs from the “Export Details” option in that it provides a direct conversion of the grid/table; whereas “Export Details” contains the base-level data used to create the grid/table (often a summary of the base-level data).

“Export Details” is still the place to go for all student data. However, to capture the summarized details shown on the report page, use the “View as CSV” button.

Reports with this feature include:

• ISIP Summary
• ISIP Skill Growth
• ISIP Skill Growth by Tier
• ISIP Tier Movement
• Assessment Completion
• Lexile Trend

EL/MS/INT: Istation and Aware 02/20/17

Eduphoria Announcement

Updates to Test Importers!
 

We are pleased to provide additional support and tools for highly requested test types for our districts!

NEW!  

Aware now supports NWEA Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) files. If your district has MAP data, those files can be imported at this time.

Coming Soon!  
We are in the midst of testing and about to release support for iStation ISIP Reading files. We will send another announcement when iStation is updated and available with information about which files can be imported.



Date of Announcement: February 6, 2017

ALL: Superbowl!!! 02/03/17

Check out these fun Superbowl sites:

Interactive Superbowl Rings
Get up close and personal with Superbowl Rings thru the decades.
http://extras.mercurynews.com/super-bowl-rings/


30 Superbowl Trivia Questions To Stump Your Friends
http://nypost.com/2014/01/31/30-super-bowl-trivia-questions-to-stump-your-friends/


Superbowl Trivia Game
http://www.nfl.com/m/superbowl/48/trivia


Kidzworld Superbowl Fun Facts
http://www.kidzworld.com/article/25277-super-bowl-fun-facts-and-trivia


World History Project: Superbowl Trivia Quiz
https://worldhistoryproject.org/quizzes/super_bowl_expert

ALL: Windows 10 DVD Doesn't Play? 02/03/17

Dilemma:
Do you have a new teacher or even a personal computer with Windows 10?
When you try to play a DVD, it doesn't play?

Here's why?
Microsoft removed the license to play DVDs when they released Windows 8 and 10. There is a licensing cost to play DVDs, and Microsoft decided not to charge everyone to play DVDs when fewer users were playing DVDs each year. So, they decided to make that an add-on. 

What can you do to play a DVD on a Windows 10 computer?
Here are two options:

1. Purchase the add-on at approximately $15 per computer
2. Use a free open-source version of the add-on that can be downloaded at this website: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

Thanks to Mike Marler for this information!