BMS Tech Notes
table of contents
Our campus community and why you should use it
BMS Quick Links
- A list to high-use materials on our website homepage: http://bms.bisdtx.org/
- Direct link Quick Links
- Screenshot
Staff Links Map
- One stop shopping for as much as possible
- Tip: Use CTRL+F to search
- Direct link to SLM
- Screenshot
What (and who) are TIGs?
(screencast of this section 5:24)
- Campus TIG Manual 2013-14 (to be updated soon)
- Here’s what we do: (Official Job Description also to be updated soon)
- Current roles and responsibilities:
Bastrop ISD Technology Integration Guides, 2017-18
Our Mission: To assist teachers in integrating technology and future-focused skills into their classroom through basic technology support and training.
Your roles as TIG:
- Create a team. This should at minimum include the Media Specialist, Lab Managers (if applicable), Digital Learning Specialist, and preferably Instructional Coaches, Admins, Teachers, and Students, to help you address basic technology concerns, communicate tech-related announcements, and provide PD/training as needed.
- Create an efficient system. Your system should include clear processes for: 1) addressing basic technology concerns and needs, like providing basic troubleshooting and alerting technology when there are urgent issues; and 2) assessing campus needs for targeted tech training/resources, then providing said resources (either personally or by arranging to meet that need in some other way).
- Communicate. Your goal is to have a system that provides basic on-demand tech support at any given point during the day, to communicate concerns to technology, and to provide training/PD as needed. Communicate also means that people on your campus need to know who you are and how to get in contact with you and your team. Ideally you will have a very brief (3-5 min) check in at each faculty meeting, reminding teachers who you/your team are, what they should come to you for, any trainings that are on the horizon, etc.
Stipend:
- Elementary & Intermediate - $1500
- Middle & High School - $2000
Basic list of what you (and your team) might be expected to do:
- Basic “how to” support for:
- Clever SSO
- Eduphoria (Retrieving answer docs, scanning, etc.)
- Skyward Educator Access
- Internet connectivity - filter.bisdtx.org
- Google Apps For Education (GAFE - Docs, Drive, Forms, Gmail...etc.)
- Specifically: Google Forms/Quizzes and Google Classroom for 2016-17
- Any campus-wide intervention apps being used (Istation, for example)
- Digital Learning Checkout Kits (how to request/schedule)
- iPads (downloading free apps, connecting to internet, Apple ID questions)
- Basic tech troubleshooting (including x27199, how to do Helpdesk Tickets, etc.)
- Basic device setup (Doc camera + Laptop + Projector, for example)
- Present PD to staff (Teacher Orientation, Staff Development days, Faculty Meetings, etc.)
- Help with no more than 2 outside-of-work-hour events or training resources (For example, Edcamp, New Teacher Orientation, training video or walkthrough document, etc.)
Meeting Dates:
First Semester | Second Semester |
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As a reminder, you should NOT...
- Leave your class (or otherwise be interrupted from their classroom duties) to assist with technology problems or questions.
- Be available all the time - You should have a schedule, and your schedule should be supplemented by your team’s schedules.
- Here’s our community (2:37):
- Here’s how we meet (2:53): (Hangouts from home supplemented with discussion notes)
- Gradebook Help Guide with lots of extras! (3:13)
- Friday afternoon tech help sessions nearly every Friday (4:15)
- Key links in my email signature line (location for creating your own below the list) you might consider something like this! (4:40)
Here are the links which are currently below my signature line
- Archive of BISD Tech Tips Emails
- Classroom Blog
- BMS All Rosters Sheet
- BMS Faculty Binder
- BMS Forms Directory
- BMS Props Form (Responses)
- BMS Sign-out Form
- BMS Staff Directory
- BMS Staff Links Map
- BMS Staff tech help request form
- BMS Team Drive Links Map
- BMS Tech Notes
- BMS Twitter Page
- BMS Website
- BMS Website video tour playlist
- BISD Help Desk (work tickets)
- Tech Apps G+ Collection
- Tech Apps Posts Archive
- TIG tutorial bank
- JustBMS G+ Community
- Gradebook help guide
- Edlio site help guide
- Parent Newsletters (7th/8th)
- Anonymous Click-to-Comment
- Traits: INTP (other types)
- True color: Green All types (find yours)
Our campus community and why you should use it
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- JustBMS Private G+ Community
- Google+ Communities Help Guide (0:50)
- Correct posts after you post (1:08)
- Post in categories and use built-in search window (consider tagging your posts!) (1:31)
- Collect and share images (share to community directly from your phone - link to Android app) (3:23)
- Get notifications and reply to them without opening a new page/screen (3:58)
- Consider creating a communities bookmarks folder like the example below for easier access to your communities of interest (4:38):
Teacher Websites
Recommendations:
- Help Guide (for new Edlio teachers’ pages)
- Keep your site pages generic to limit updates each year (ie say 'Welcome to the new school year' rather than 'Welcome to the 2014-15 school year')
Google Classroom
- Signup here
- Google Classroom Help Center
- YouTube search results on ‘Google Classroom’
BMS Social Media
- Campus Public G+ Community (tool for the future)
- Campus Twitter Page (automatically posts public calendar events)
- BISD Social Networking Directory (concept resource)