SEPTEMBER2017 VOL.

TECH IT OUT
THE LATEST NEWS AND UPDATESFROM THE
HW TECH HELP DESK

IN THIS ISSUE
HW 6-12 Teacher Tech
RECAP 2.0: BUILD A Leadership Team
CULTURE OF INQUIRY IN byJohanna Wilson, 6-12 Technology Integration Specialist
YOUR CLASSROOM
Miles River/HWRHS This summer, I attended the
International Society for Technology in Education(ISTE)
GSUITE: THE LATEST Conference.More than 20,000 educators from around the world
converge to share and learn about all things edtech.
UPDATES ON THE
GOOGLE TOOLS WE ISTE has developed a series of standards for students, teachers
and coaches. In my own practice, I rely heavily on the ISTE
Standards when developing curriculum, assessing the Help Desk
students and as a coach in my work with the faculty. The
COPPA/CIPA: KEEPING
Integrated Media team referred to these standards when
OUR STUDENTS SAFE IN developing the district's transfer goals.

A DIGITAL WORLD
In an effort to provide teachers with an
opportunity for professional growth with
a focus on digital learning and technology
CREATIVE COMMONS integration, the Teacher Tech Leadership
ATTRIBUTION LICENSES Team was born.

AND WHY YOU SHOULD (cont. on page 2)
CARE ABOUT THEM

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With the district's emphasis on the use of the GSuite
Recap by Swivl
(formally GAFE) Apps, it made sense to have teachers
proficient with the Google tools available to assist their
Build a Culture of Inquiry
colleagues in their departments and classrooms. in Your Classroom
Summer 2016,seven teachers from the middle and high
school prepared for, took, and passed the Level 1 Google
2.0
Are you looking for a different way to check for student
Certified Educator Exam. This summer, some of those
teachers moved on to Level 2 andfour more joined the
understanding? Maybe you'd like to hear directly from
team. Congratulations to Nora Burnett (HWRHS),Brett your students how they solved a problem or what they
Burnett (HWRHS), Courtney Duffy (HWRHS), andJoe thought about a selection of text. This might just be the
Maher (HWRHS) for passing Level 1 and Danielle tool you've been looking for.
Petrucci (MRMS) for passing the Level 2 Exam. Look for
their google sessions at the next EdCamp HW! Recap allows you to create a dialogue with and among
your students, and to "gather, manage and discuss
student questions to promote inquiry in your
classroom."

The Recap app helps teachers communicate that

"questions matter". This platform can be used to ease
the fears of students who struggle to ask questions in
class and can help you develop students questioning
skills. "Share good questions publicly to drive group
Interactive Diagrams on dialogue, then follow up with Journeys, Video
Responses or both." (www.letsrecap.com)
Quizlet
Intrigued? Get started by signing up for a teacher
account at www.letsrecap.com. I suggest making a
queue for each of your classes. Encourage your
students to sign up using their school google account,
although they can login with a class join pin.

As if Quizlet wasn't cool enough,now this program

You may be wondering, what's a queue? How do I
offers a library of interactive Diagrams you canuse
collect student responses? What's a Journey? All
to help your students review or reinforce content.
great questions.

A diagram in Quizlet asks a learner to match terms

Stay tuned for the Teacher Quick Start Guide coming
with hotspots on an image. You can study diagrams
soon from the HW Tech Help Desk.
in Learn or Match mode.

The best part about Quizlet Diagrams is that you

can create your own for free. Its as simple as
uploading and tagging an image.

Be sure to check the quizlet diagram library first,

there are dozens of interactive images from all x. 4436
content areas.

Learn more about this useful feature at

www.hwtechhelpdesk.net
https://learninginhand.com/blog/quizlet-diagrams
studenttech@hwschools.net
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The Latest Updates on

the Google Tools we

Version Control
Assign custom names to versions, organize and
track changes under "Version History" formally ] Select File > Version history > Name current version
"Revision History."

Preview 'clean' versions of docs, slides, sheets

without comments or suggested edits. ] Select Tools > Review suggested edits > Preview
accept all OR Preview reject all

Accept or reject all edit suggestions at once in your

Doc so your team doesnt have to review every
single punctuation mark or formatting update.
] Select Tools > Review suggested edits > Accept all
OR Reject all.

You can assign action items to anyone you mention in a

comment. They'll be notified and can mark it as done.

Action Items
Turn Comments into Tasks
Select the text you'd liketo use to create
your comment.

In the comment, enter a '+' symbol and the

email address of the person whom you'd like to
assign the task.

Select the 'Assign to' box.

When you click the blue Assign icon, the person

you indicated will receive an email with a link to
the document.

NEWGoogle Earth Voyager

Google Earth is now web-based - no need to Google teamed up with National Geographic and other
download the program or any updates. You organizations to add to the Google Earth experience.
and your students can use Pegman and
Street View within Google Earth and even
& Open Google Earth using your chrome browser and
select Voyager in the left toolbar. Choose a subject and
embed 360 degree images into projects. a guided story will take your students to places near
and far.
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COPPA/CIPA: CREATIVE COMMONS

KEEPING OUR ATTRIBUTION
STUDENTS SAFE LICENSES AND WHY
IN A DIGITAL WORLD YOU SHOULD CARE
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) ABOUT THEM
imposes certain requirements on operators of
websites or online services directed to children
under 13 years of age, and on operators of other "Creative Commons provides free, easy-to-use
websites or online services that have actual copyright licenses that make it simple and
knowledge that they are collecting personal standardized to give the public permission to share
information online from a child under 13 years of and use your creative workon conditions of your
age. (Federal Trade Commission 16 CRF 312) choice."
www.creativecommons.org
The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) What is Creative Commons?
requires that K12 schools and libraries in the Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization
United States use Internet filters and implement that enables sharing and reuse of creativity and
other measures to protect children from harmful knowledge through the provision of free legal tools.
online content as a condition for federal funding. The goal is to help those who want to encourage
reuse of their works by offering them for use under
As for CIPA, the IT Department has us covered. Web generous, standardized terms; those who want to
filters are in place protecting our students from make creative uses of works; and those who want to
inappropriate online content. Are there ways benefit from this symbiosis. (www.creativecommons.org)
around our web filters? Yes, and many students have
installed there own VPN (Virtual Private Network) What does this mean for you and your students?
to avoid the filters in place at school. Too often I see students giving credit to 'Google
Images' for content they've used in their
What are we doing about VPN's? Mrs. Willwerth is presentations or projects. I think there is a common
able to see who has installed a VPN on their device misconception that "if I can access it on the web, it's
through our mobile device management system. o.k. for me to use. " In some instances this is true,
Students who have installed VPN's are asked to however, the vast majority of our students don't
remove them. This is a violation of our Acceptable know that it is necessary to give the author,
Use Policy and consequences can and will be producer, creator of the work credit - not Google.
administered.
I would like all students and teachers to use Creative
COPPA is a greater concern for teachers, especially Commons to obtain content for their projects and
at the Middle School level, as you are often presentations. Material licensed under Creative
searching for and implementing new tech tools in Commons requires users to provide attribution to
your lessons. While the law is intended for the creator when the material is used and shared.
operators of websites and online programs, it's There are six different Creative Commons licenses,
important for you, the teacher, to make sure these with varying conditions for reuse. Conversely, you
tech tools are COPPA compliant. and your students can obtain licenses for your own
work, including photographs, educational resources,
How do you know an online tech tool is COPPA videos, and music!
compliant? Websites and online programs will
indicate their compliance within their privacy Please stop by the HW Tech Help Desk for more
policies. Please check for COPPA compliance! information about Creative Commons.