
Tech Sessions
Tech Trainings
Most sessions start with a 15-30 minute demo and are followed by an open forum. Where questions were posed before the session started, the demo start time is indicated in the description.
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Chromebook Tips
05.06.20 || Includes: optimizing your computer, built-in tools, keyboard combinations/shortcuts, and touchpad tricks

Desktop (Mitel) Phone
11.08.21 || Includes: checking messages, changing account options, configuring speed dial, identifying indicator icons

Doc Cam / Ladibug
04.15.20 || Includes: connecting the doc cam to your computer, choosing your software, software tools, recording the session

Doc Cam Alternatives (+Wireless Projection) Tech Session 2
02.12.21 || Includes: mobile phone as doc cam, iPad as doc cam, web cam as doc cam, wireless projection via Dell software

Doc Cam Alternatives Tech Session 1
02.05.21 || Includes: mobile phone as doc cam, iPad as doc cam, web cam as doc cam

Email on Mobile Devices
05.12.20 || Includes: Webmail access both full and basic interfaces, iOS account configuration and use, Android account configuration and use.

Flipgrid / Nearpod
04.28.20 || Includes: Flipgrid and Nearpod, how to create content, how to share content and what it looks like from the student side.

Gmail (+Contacts)
10.25.22 || Email settings, Inbox organization, inbox management, Google Contacts, parent email address books

Google Apps
04.30.20 || Long demo! Includes: Sharing files and folders, changing language, editing/suggesting/viewing mode, creating comments, assigning tasks, copy/pasting format, formulas, conditional formatting, data validation, version history, slides notes, importing themes, editing master, publishing to the web

Google Apps Intermediate Features
11.06.20 || Includes: Google Classroom - adding students, teachers and guardians; Google Docs - sharing modes, edit vs suggest vs view mode, commenting and assigning comments; Google Sheets - filtering, sorting, conditional formatting; Google Slides - slide notes, presenter view, pointer tool, importing themes

Google Apps on Mobile Devices
05.11.20 || Includes: Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Classroom. Installing the apps, signing in, using the apps, how they're different from the browser interface and any of the issues we've known to occur.

Google Classroom #1
04.09.20 || Includes: adding students, creating assignments, organizing assignments, emailing students, adding guardians

Google Classroom #2
05.01.20 || Includes: classroom settings, notification settings, creating content, reusing content from other classrooms, adding guardians, viewing assignments as student, turning assignments in, unenrolling
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Google Drive
04.24.20 || Includes: Navigating the interface, organizing and searching for files, Classroom/Meet/Screencastify integration, Drive as the Google hub, Drive on a phone/tablet

Google Forms (+Google Classroom)
12.14.20 || Includes: creating a form, fancifying a form, configuring form settings, viewing form responses, setting up forms as quizzes, importing quiz scores to Google Classroom grades.
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Google Shared Drives
05.14.20 || Includes: shared folders vs shared drives vs shared drives, creating a shared drive, adding members, adding files and folder, communicating with collaborators and what shared drives look like on a mobile device

Google Suite
04.14.20 || Demo starts @ 8:18 || Includes: signing in, navigating Drive, organizing files in Drive, identifying owners and collaborators of files, accessing Google apps, accessing third-party apps

GroupWise
04.07.20 || Includes: opening lnks in webmail, configuring name completion settings in webmail, updating address books in webmail, configuring the client to work at home, setting up address books in the client without network access, updating address books in the client

Jamboard / Pear Deck / Google Forms
04.27.20 || Includes: Jamboard, Pear Deck and Google Forms, how to create content, how to share content and what it looks like from the student side.

MacBook Tips
05.08.20 || Includes: optimizing your computer, built-in tools, keyboard combinations/shortcuts, and touchpad tricks

MediaCAST #1
04.17.20 || Demo starts @ 1:20 || Includes: signing in, uploading videos, adding video metadata, linking to videos

MediaCAST #2
04.20.20 || Includes: signing in, uploading videos, adding video metadata, linking to videos || UPDATES: transcode error message, editing video information, deleting videos, linking to videos

NetStorage
04.08.20 || Includes: getting to it, signing in, downloading, uploading, editing files, parent email list

Odds & Ends
05.18.20 || Includes: Schoolmaster StaffLink, Archiving Google Classroom, Disabling Google extensions/notifications, using Google Keep/Drawings, using LucidChart/LucisPress

Office Hours 1/25
1.22.21 || Includes: TV setup, room setup, printing, EdPuzzle, etc.

Desktop (Mitel) Phone
11.08.21 || Includes: checking messages, changing account options, configuring speed dial, identifying indicator icons

Gmail (+Contacts)
10.25.22 || Email settings, Inbox organization, inbox management, Google Contacts, parent email address books