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Use this to help you find and print a progress report for your advisees. Computer Cart Sign Out Please pick up your carts first thing in the morning and return them at the end of the day. I am in the book store in the morning to provide a key for the first floor, if you are on the second floor or cannot find me, **Ms. King has a key** you can use and return to her for the next teacher to use ( **students should not be sent to get or return keys** ). There are a limited number of **black cart keys** that will lock the netbook cart when not in use. Please **count the computers** before and after each hour, monitor students leaving the room while computers are out. You do not have to shut the computers down, but do have **students log off**. Here are the current laptop/netbook cart assignments: **__Second Floor Vault__**  LaptopCart - Sp. Education/2nd Floor Cart LaptopCart2 - Teacher Laptops 1110 - Paik - Room 253 1123 - Stanhope - Room 254 1296 - Russell - Room 244 1350 - Brown - Room 247 1355 - Speyer- Room 256 1360 - Knight - Room 243 1371 - Spencer - Room 255 1373 - Reisner - Room 240 1393 - Vincent/Wine - Room 246 1414 - Gernand - Room 252 1503 - Jones - Room 248 (Special Education teachers may also want to share with their team teachers) **__First Floor Vault__** LaptopCart - JacksonLaptopCart 1 - Rhodes-O'Neill/Bonner - Room 149 - Costan - Room155 1227 - Hayes/Turner - Room 151 - R&R - Room 158 1240 - Tracy - Room 1561353 - Gui - Room 1451406 - Segrist - Room 1501410 - Hennes - Room 1571423 - Schultz - Room 1521429 - Wiener/Todd - Room 312/316
 * Please work with your colleagues to **secure carts during passing time**.

__ Technology PD, Tuesday, September 5, 2012 __
__**Ms. Hudson -**__ [|Attendance Presentation] __**Ms. Hussein -**__ Gradebook Presentation __**Mr. Reisner -**__ Email Presentation
 * It is important to select "P" for first day present regardless of tardiness
 * The red/grey circle tells you the previous day's attendance mark
 * Select the sheet of paper by their name to see their entire attendance history for your class only
 * You must set up the preferences, options, and assignments before entering grades
 * Under Teacher Preferences, make sure to turn on sharing and select semester 1 for viewing
 * Options allows you to forward your board email to any account (select Mail)
 * Briefcase is an online file storage available from any computer
 * Calendar can be shared with anyone and will allow you to view other's shared events

http://sis.detroitk12.org __**Login**__ using e+file number and your password Student Profile on the main menu will give you access to student schedules, grades, and demographic data

__**Google Groups****__ link and forum. Please post concerns and discussion topics in the group. You do not need a Google Account to participate in Google Groups or Google Docs. Use your DPS or any other email. Google Groups

Google Docs has more information.

Blogger Profile [|DIT Cody High School]

Twitter Profile @DITCodyHS

Facebook Profile Detroit Institute of Technology High School

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Below is a link to an excellent website that includes numerous activities to help you get to know your new students. Also, you will find activities that will help students get to know you and one another. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: calibri; font-size: 18px;"> http:// www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/icebreakers_for_kids_2.shtm Mircea Gui Biology, room 145

=__**MACUL Conference 2012**__=

There were a lot of vendors at MACUL and many of them want to come and give us a free demo of their product to try out and/or a presentation on how to use it.
 * 1) W.A.Y. is hiring teachers for online work. Take a picture with their button and you could win a free digital device (website/button in teacher's lounge)
 * 2) Troxell Communications has ladybug document cameras and wants to do a presentation
 * 3) Sound Engineering wants to present clickers that can do short answer response
 * 4) VSC, Inc has Elmos with clickers and wants to do a demo (register at http://www.ShopVSC.com/MACUL by Friday and win a free digital device)
 * 5) The Markerboard people have rolls of dry erase boards that stick to any substance... let me know if you are interested
 * 6) Lightspeed technologies Classroom Audio microphone demo
 * 7) QOMO demonstrations @http://qomo.com/
 * 8) Lunch and Learn from Sehi Computer Products @http://www.sehi.com/ (willing to come March 21st )
 * 9) AVI-SPL staff demos with doc cameras
 * 10) REMC provided several websites
 * 11) @http://www.remcbids.org/ has cheap computers
 * 12) @http://remc.org/projects/blendedlearning/ in the fall has courses
 * 13) @http://remc.org/projects/connectededucator/ has peer communications
 * 14) @http://www.remc.org/resources/mlo/ has MOODLE courses 4 teachers
 * 15) @http://mistreamnet.org/ has PD for teachers
 * 16) 21 things for administrators, 21 things 4 teachers, and 21things4students are up and running
 * 17) @http://www.21things4administrators.net/
 * 18) @http://www.21things4teachers.net/
 * 19) @http://www.21things4students.net/

@http://www.ixl.com/math/algebra-1 (students can do up to 20 problems per day per computer for free without logging in, 30 day trial has unlimited practice) Jay Smith from CEO Image Systems is our Netbook dealer, he said he would get the Netbooks fixed... we'll see.

The MACUL conference sessions also had several handouts that outlined what the speakers discussed or just handy websites to try. Feel free to visit the link to see if anything is helpful or may be of interest to you: @http://www.macul.org/conferences/2012maculconference/speaker-handouts/ @http://www.mivu.org/MVUPresentationsMACUL/tabid/718/Default.aspx

Fliers and Vendor information will be available in the lounge. Please do not remove material but feel free to peruse the papers for websites or phone numbers.
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