Cloudcroft Schools New Administrative Team is back to School

Cloudcroft Schools New Administrative Team

Tana Daugherty, Robyn Cook, Travis Dempsey

Cloudcroft is back in session for 2014-2015 and off to a great start.  New Lenovo Laptops are being deployed across the district with great expectations for enhanced student learning with technology.  This year at Cloudcroft Schools the technology department will be adding some additional support through their membership with Region IX Education Cooperative.  Bryan Dooley & Robert Miller will be coming to help Joel Ferguson on a weekly basis.  In addition the Region IX staff will be working with Cloudcroft teachers to provide technology / curriculum integration.  Joel Ferguson, Cloudcroft's technology coordinator is already implementing changes to increase communications and streamline support issues.

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Bryan's Technology App of the week

• CCSS Technology Standard Addressed - 7.RL.7    Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film).
• Use your imagination and create a series of multiple choice questions that are based on compare and contrast. The students will use their response cards to answer and see results immediately.

Plickers - Change up the question & answer process by having fun with this great electronic response app.  Find out more at https://www.plickers.com

• It's fun, easy to use, and free.
• It requires No Electronic Devices in students' hands – no laptops, tablets, remotes, cellphones, smartphones, or payphones.
• No batteries to lose or replace, no expensive equipment to buy, no BYOD, and no one left out.

1. How it works:
   1. Each student gets a unique barcode – a paper clicker.
   2. Students answer questions by showing their barcodes to the teacher's smartphone.
   3. The teacher gets a real-time bar graph and the data is stored individually by student.
    

Web Resource of the week - Challenge your students to take their writing to a higher level.

• 22 Rules of Storytelling by Pixar http://www.advicetowriters.com/home/2014/3/11/22-rules-of-storytelling-from-pixar.html

• heres a sample from rule#9: When you’re stuck, make a list of what WOULDN’T happen next. Lots of times the material to get you unstuck will show up.

Roberts Tech Corner - Tips & Tricks

• How to calibrate your Smartboard - Press both buttons on your Smartboard tray at the same time and hold them down until the screen pops up that has little press points on it.

• Grab one of your pens and place it on each of the press points right in the center until you have done all of them. Your board is now calibrated. You rock.