Welcome to Parent

Technology Night!

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Hello! I’m...

Jamie Rifkowitz

• Technology Facilitator for the Kenilworth district

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• Provide professional development/coaching
• Supporting our students through new technologies/best practices
• Collaborating with teachers to incorporate instructional technology
• Troubleshoot issues related to educational technologies

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Technology does not equal a learning outcome…..

...It’s a tool that enables learning outcomes

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Tonight’s Agenda:

• Google Classroom/Seesaw
• Kami
• Zoom
• Go Guardian
• Digital Safety/Citizenship
• Q&A Session

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Google Classroom

• Classroom is a web-based platform

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• Integrates your G Suite for Education account with different services- including Google Docs, Slides, Gmail, and Google Calendar

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• Classroom makes it easy to access classes, distribute assignments, communicate, and stay organized.

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Important Features

To Do List...

Due Dates...

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Important Features

Materials...

Submit/Late...

Attaching Documents...

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Important Features

Parent View Student View

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Did you know?

You can receive Guardian summaries

To get email summaries of your student’s work, you must accept an email invitation from a teacher

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As a guardian, you can get email summaries about your student’s activity in Classroom. Email summaries do not include grades.

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You can review:

• Missing work—Work not turned in when the summary was sent.
• Upcoming work—Work that’s due today and tomorrow (for daily emails) or that’s due in the upcoming week (for weekly emails).
• Class activities—Announcements, assignments, and questions recently posted by teachers.

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Seesaw

• Students document their learning and learn how to use technology tools

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• Creates a loop between students, teachers, and families

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• Built in annotation tools

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Important Features

Tools...

Self Expression...

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Kami

• An online document annotation and markup tool-- Google extension on student chrome accounts

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• Allows you to highlight, underline, and strikethrough text in PDF and other document formats

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Important Features

Kami Tools...

Editable...

*Stylus...

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Zoom

• A video communication app for virtual conferencing

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• Access to class meetings, classmates, and material

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• Variety of security tools available to the host to set parameters

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Important Features

Breakout Rooms...

Chat feature...

Screen Sharing...

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Important Features

Registration to access class...

Importance of shutting down chromebooks/tabs...

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Go Guardian

• Used to manage student devices

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• Understand/help students in real time

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• Improve student focus, assessment tool

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Important Features

*Use issued chromebook (updates, software)...

Screen viewer during class session...

Student reports...

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Activity Timeline...

Tab Control/Attention Mode...

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Digital Safety

The importance of being a good digital citizen

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Digital Citizenship

Digital literacy

Cyberbullying prevention

Ethical behavior

Responsible technology use

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Apps you should know about (2020)...

Link: 13 Apps for Parents

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If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow

― John Dewey

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Q&A

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Thank you!

Contact Information:

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Jamie Rifkowitz

Technology Facilitator

jamie_rifkowitz@kenilworthschools.com

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Office: Brearley Ext. 2142

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