Tech Trainings

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Tech Sessions

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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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  •  mitel phone

    Desktop (Mitel) Phone

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

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  • Ladibug doc cam

    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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  •  Ladibug doc cam

    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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  •  Ladibug doc cam

    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 logos

    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.

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  • Gmail (+Contacts)

    10.25.22 || Email settings, Inbox organization, inbox management, Google Contacts, parent email address books

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  •  Google Docs, Sheets and Slides logos

    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 logo

    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 Suite logo

    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 icon

    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 logo

    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 logo

    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 Drive logo

    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 icon

    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 logos

    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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  •  Apple logo

    MacBook Tips

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

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  •  MediaCAST logo lite

    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

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  • Odds & Ends

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

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  • Office Hours 1/25

    1.22.21 || Includes: TV setup, room setup, printing, EdPuzzle, etc.

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