Classroom Cell Phone Policy
Students are encouraged to use smart phones and other tech devices RESPONSIBLY during class, since many students now have such devices which can enhance their educational experience.
Policy:
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When the green sign is up in the classroom, electronic devices like cell phones are permitted. When the red sign is up, electronic devices are no longer permitted and need to be in a backpack/purse (not pockets) or the pouch hanging from the desk.
ANY LOST OR STOLEN TECH DEVICES ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STUDENT, so watch over your belongings. |
Classroom Chromebook Use Rules
1. If the sign is up, take the device assigned to you.
2. Inspect the casing, screen, and keyboard and report issues to the teacher immediately. Anything reported after the beginning of the class will be your responsibility.
3. “Ask 3 before you ask me.” Utilize peers’ expertise to help troubleshoot before asking teacher.
4. Absolutely no food or drink on your desk.
5. Keep all four corners of the device on your desk.
6. When walking with the device, you must have TWO hands on the devices at all times.
7. Return your device to the appropriate slot, with the charging port up and facing the front.
8. Plug in your device with the correct charger. Be aware that the charger is fragile, so plug with care.
9. One assigned group a week is in charge of making sure all are returned and charged correctly.
2. Inspect the casing, screen, and keyboard and report issues to the teacher immediately. Anything reported after the beginning of the class will be your responsibility.
3. “Ask 3 before you ask me.” Utilize peers’ expertise to help troubleshoot before asking teacher.
4. Absolutely no food or drink on your desk.
5. Keep all four corners of the device on your desk.
6. When walking with the device, you must have TWO hands on the devices at all times.
7. Return your device to the appropriate slot, with the charging port up and facing the front.
8. Plug in your device with the correct charger. Be aware that the charger is fragile, so plug with care.
9. One assigned group a week is in charge of making sure all are returned and charged correctly.
GAFE (Google Apps for Education)
All students will be expected to access their GGUSD GAFE (Google Apps For Education) account on a DAILY basis. If you do not yet know your account access information, you will get it at the start of the year.
Not only will you use your GAFE account to access your Google Classroom and "G-Drive" on a regular basis, your GAFE gmail address is what this class will use for most classroom announcements and communications. It will also be the email that you will use to email the teacher. There will be a lesson on how to access this account and how to sync your GAFE accounts to your smart phones and personal gmail accounts for easier access.
How to Access:
Your Username: grad year + first initial + last name (+possible #) + @ ggusd.net [ex: [email protected])
Your Password: your 8 digit birthday (until you change the password)
All students will be required to CHANGE their passwords to their GAFE accounts. However, do NOT do this until directed. It will be an assignment for this class and your passwords will be shared with the teacher (in case you forget!).
Not only will you use your GAFE account to access your Google Classroom and "G-Drive" on a regular basis, your GAFE gmail address is what this class will use for most classroom announcements and communications. It will also be the email that you will use to email the teacher. There will be a lesson on how to access this account and how to sync your GAFE accounts to your smart phones and personal gmail accounts for easier access.
How to Access:
Your Username: grad year + first initial + last name (+possible #) + @ ggusd.net [ex: [email protected])
Your Password: your 8 digit birthday (until you change the password)
All students will be required to CHANGE their passwords to their GAFE accounts. However, do NOT do this until directed. It will be an assignment for this class and your passwords will be shared with the teacher (in case you forget!).
Access to Online Learning
Google Classroom is one of the main ways in which you will receive assignments and announcements, and turn in digital assignments.
2021-22 Access Codes:
Period 0:
Period 1:
Period 2:
Period 3:
Period 5 (Journalism):
Period 5 (Yearbook):
Instructions:
2021-22 Access Codes:
Period 0:
Period 1:
Period 2:
Period 3:
Period 5 (Journalism):
Period 5 (Yearbook):
Instructions:
- Log into your .net account
- Go to www.classroom.google.com
- Click the plus sign in the top right hand corner and choose "Join Class"
- Type or copy/paste your period's access code into the new window
Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows based on certain themes. We will use this site for tech-based book projects and presentations.
Edmodo is an educational website that takes the ideas of a social network and refines them and makes it appropriate for a classroom. Using Edmodo, students and teachers can reach out to one another and connect by sharing ideas, problems, and helpful tips.
In this class, you will be doing some learning online from the comforts of your own home, called "Flipped Learning." Why? Because it allows you to not only learn at your own pace, but also enables us to spend quality class time discussing and applying the learning together as a team!
We will be using this website throughout the year. After you join the appropriate class, you will be able to receive lessons and complete some assignments to show your understanding.
We will be using this website throughout the year. After you join the appropriate class, you will be able to receive lessons and complete some assignments to show your understanding.
With Kahoot! teachers and students can create fun interactive games to assess prior knowledge on a topic in class. We will use this as a fun way to review before an assessment throughout the year.
This website is another flipped learning tool we will be using in this class. It focuses on grammar instruction, practice, and assessment. Learning the "rules" of grammar can help your writing skills immensely! And this website does a great job of helping students learn the ins and outs of those rules.
Again, you will join the appropriate class, complete lessons and assignments online, and grow as writers!
Again, you will join the appropriate class, complete lessons and assignments online, and grow as writers!
Padlet is a free application to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic. Easily create an account and build a new board. You can add images, links, videos, and more. This site will be used for projects, class discussions, and group work.
Prezi is a presentation tool, like Google Slides or PowerPoint, but it is different in the way it uses one large canvas instead of individual slides. Your presentation will zoom along a path to various parts of the canvas, and emphasize the ideas presented there. This site is good to change up your presentations throughout the year.
PowToon is a free website that allows you to create animated presentations. This is a good site to use for tech-based book projects and class movies/presentations.
Quizizz is a game-based classroom response system you can play on any device with a web browser. Create and play quizzes in a variety of formats. Build your quizzes or use public ones. Students answer at their own pace and watch their data appear. We will use this site as an alternative to Kahoot!
Quizlet provides free study tools for students and teachers that can be used in and out of the classroom, on your own or with friends, and on the go with an app. You can create flashcards to study and review before a quiz or test. This is perfect for Word Dissection and vocabulary!
Schoology is another "learning management system (LMS)" that we will use primarily for online assessment and discussion purposes. Although it is a great classroom tool to store files and distribute assignments, nearly everything we do in my class is related to Google in some way, so we will be predominantly using Google Classroom. Nonetheless, for those few instances in which we will need Schoology, below are your access codes for this year's class.
Instructions: Go to www.schoology.com, choose the blue "sign-up" button and select "student." That is when you will type in your class's access code from above. You will next be asked to type in your official first and last name, email address (MUST use .NET), password (MUST use same .NET password), and click "register." You may ONLY have ONE account on Schoology.
Instructions: Go to www.schoology.com, choose the blue "sign-up" button and select "student." That is when you will type in your class's access code from above. You will next be asked to type in your official first and last name, email address (MUST use .NET), password (MUST use same .NET password), and click "register." You may ONLY have ONE account on Schoology.
Socrative is an online student response system that allows students to engage in educational exercises like polls and quizzes in real time.
On Storybird, you can create picture books, long-form books and poetry. This site helps you become more creative with your writing. We will use this site for some writing assignments and activities throughout the school year.
We will be using this site to create our collaborative and individual DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS & BLOGS!!! Get excited!
Please go to this link to create an account: http://www.weebly.com/link/cjmYQa
If you already have an account, you can just add a site to that account.
Please go to this link to create an account: http://www.weebly.com/link/cjmYQa
If you already have an account, you can just add a site to that account.
There's an App for That
Remind is a SUPER valuable tool in our classroom. It allows students and parents to receive TEXT MESSAGES from me without giving me access to their numbers. I might use Remind to send you reminders for an assignment, announce what to bring to class, where to meet for class, comments of encouragement, etc.
Make sure to download the app on your cell phones!
2019-2020 Instructions to Join:
Copy and paste the url to your web browser.
Periods 0-2: https://www.remind.com/join/822hf
Period 4:
Period 5:
*Use you cell phone # for text message notifications...NOT YOUR EMAIL!
Make sure to download the app on your cell phones!
2019-2020 Instructions to Join:
Copy and paste the url to your web browser.
Periods 0-2: https://www.remind.com/join/822hf
Period 4:
Period 5:
*Use you cell phone # for text message notifications...NOT YOUR EMAIL!
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