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Google Tips and Tricks for Admin! And other amazing information they should know
This 1 hour session is presented 'by request' and the following slidedeck represents some of the issues we see coming down the road at us when we arrive in the room!
These slides will be updated after the session and we hope it serves as a useful resource for our intended audience as well as anyone else out there looking for this type of thing.
#schoolstarts Tech Survival for new Faculty to get you started.
Welcome to the start of the 1617 year! This is a post that stands in support of a session we are presenting to all new Elementary Faculty. It's therefore a survival guide for those new to Singapore American School.
SAS teachers can also access our Technology Orientation document, the content of which we are confident will be extremely helpful.
This week in The Loft we will be running a session on game based learning in a situation where your students do not have any devices. We’re hoping that this will help you provide some engaging activities for your class towards the end of the year after iPads and MacBooks have been collected.
The activities include some useful websites that provide options for using your own material and some with ready made material. We also look at some creative teaching techniques that encourage critical thinking in students.
Come along for an upbeat and fun session that will give you a number of tools to use in your classroom straight away.
Let's have some FUN! Join us the week of April 25th for an engaging session on game-based learning. With the school year coming to a close soon, keeping students engaged can be quite a challenge. By incorporating game-based learning tools into instruction, students have fun WHILE they're being assessed. The learning never ends.
We are well accustomed to embedding video, or consuming video content across websites and social media. But what about video and other interactive content embedding in video? This is Touchcast. Video that's immersive and interactive. And classes at Singapore American School are starting to embrace the concept which we will show you in this session. Plus: it's pretty easy to jump in and make something that's great, with enough features to keep the journey interesting for those looking for more of a challenge. Setup: TouchCasts are available for viewing from http://www.touchcast.com/ Download the TouchCast app. iOS only at this stage.
You may have heard that The Loft was getting a makeover. This week, we invite you to come see what our Creation Stations are all about. Our Creation Stations give students the opportunity to be "Coders", "Builders", "Artists", "Engineers", and "Filmmakers" - creating anything that their minds can come up with. Each of the Creation Stations offers a unique way to integrate with the DSLOs.
With the school year beginning to wrap up, what better way to keep students engaged and empowered. Come check out one of our LOFT PD sessions during the week of April 11th -15th to see how the Creation Stations can support student creativity and innovation within your class.
With Picasa Web Albums being laid to rest this May, we figured there's no better time to learn about it's replacement, Google Photos than now. The SAS ES Ed Tech Team is ready to help you transition from Picasa to Google Photos during our LOFT PD sessions the week of April 4th - April 8th. During these sessions, we'll be focused on the following:
Getting Started.Transitioning from Picasa Web Albums to Google Photos.
Creating. Turning pictures into animations, stories and movies.
Sharing. Creating and sharing photo folders with students and parents.
Join us during one of the following dates/times to discover how Google Photos can be used in your class.
We are the Elementary School EdTech Team from Singapore American School.
Our current SMART Goal is:
By May 2016, the ES Ed Tech Team will create and document conditions for a perpetual learning environment in which innovation and experimentation are viewed as ways of conducting day-to-day business.
This online space captures our efforts to transform the physical space, programs offered, and learning culture in our school. Our motto: Aim High!
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