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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

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Desktop (Mitel) Phone

11.08.21 || Includes: checking messages, changing account options, configuring speed dial, identifying indicator icons

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Doc Cam / Ladibug

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

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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

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Doc Cam Alternatives Tech Session 1

02.05.21 || Includes: mobile phone as doc cam, iPad as doc cam, web cam as doc cam

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Google Classroom #1

04.09.20 || Includes: adding students, creating assignments, organizing assignments, emailing students, adding guardians

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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MacBook Tips

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

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MediaCAST #1

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

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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

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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.

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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