Sonoma Valley Unified

November 2016

ED TECH NEWS “It Takes A Valley!”

District News Clever, not being so “clever” Have you seen this icon on your school website? Peachjar is a digital flyer system that delivers district-approved flyers to parents’ inboxes (email addresses in PowerSchool) and posts them on all of our schools’ websites. This eflyer system will not only cut expenses related to paper copying, but will also save on our use of paper in general! No more copying thousands of flyers regularly, yay!

Common Sense Media Elementary: Be on the lookout! You will receive a Google form asking for your feedback on the Common Sense Media lessons you have taught your class(es). If you haven’t taught these lessons, please make sure you get them in your plan book soon! Thank you!

Enjoy Thanksgiving Break!

Clever is a single sign on App for our students to access Lexia, Dreambox, and Typing Agent. The goal of using Clever is to allow for students to sign in one time and automatically be logged into the three applications. However, we are having difficulties with this. In the meantime, keep signing into the applications separately until we come up with a solution to get this running correctly. Stay tuned for more information!

Lexia and Dreambox and Typing Agent, Oh My! In the transition of having an Ed Tech Coordinator, it only makes sense that Ed Tech software programs be managed by the Ed Tech Coordinator! Jen is now overseeing Lexia, Dreambox, and Typing Agent (all elementary/middle school programs). If you have questions or need assistance, please contact Jen!

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GIF? What’s that?→

Like the new format of our Ed Tech Newsletter? It was made using Google Slides! If you are interested in making your newsletter using slides, or having your students create a newsletter to show their learning, check out this video to get started! Enjoy! GIF stands for: Graphics Interchange Format, it is a graphic image that moves. Check out how to create your own GIF here! Or, ask your Ed Tech Coach! The first 5 people to send me their favorite GIF via this form, will receive a hot/cold beverage of their choice(non-alcoholic of course! ) hand delivered to their classroom/office!

What the tech is going on? Check out amazing tech integration happening around the district! (click on the buttons to see more). Want your class project(s) featured in What The Tech is Going On? Share what you’re doing with Jen or your Tech Coach!

Flowery: Kinder Team Melissa Keylon Katie Carlson Liliana Zepeda Marilou Montanez

Adele Harrison Cathy Wedell Students created a pecha kucha presentation using google slides, and they narrated their presentations which Cathy uploaded to YouTube.

SVHS Veronica Gray Veronica used a hyperdoc to teach her students about poetry and guided their creativity in writing poems about themselves.

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Kinder students created a multimedia project that included a picture of themselves, text, and a picture they drew digitally.

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Spotlight on Flowery Kinder Team! Site: Flowery Class: Kindergarten Tech Tools: ComicLife & KidPix

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Kid Pix (Digital Art Creation using an iPad)

Comic Life (Photo Comic Creation for iPad)

Don’t forget! If you would like help, we have our wonderful Ed Tech Coaches!

Way to go kinder teachers! Nice integration of several applications!

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Spotlight on Cathy Wedell

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Site: Adele Harrison Class: English Tech Tools: Google Slides, Screencasitfy, YouTube

Screencastify (Chrome extension for screen video recorder)

Google Slides (Cheat sheet for slides)

YouTube (How to create your own channel and upload videos)

Thanks Cathy! What a great experience for your students!

Video not playing? Click here More presentations: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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Spotlight on Veronica Gray

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Site: SVHS Class: 9th Grade English Tech Tools: Hyperdocs, Google Slides, Prezi

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Hyperdocs Engaging/interactive Google Doc. Click here for an explanation of how to create Hyperdocs

Google Slides Slide presentation. Click here for a cheat sheet!

Prezi Online presentation platform. Click here to check it out!

Thanks for sharing Veronica! You are doing an excellent job engaging your students with tech integration!

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