By Kerry Gallagher Your teens will probably be around the house and have more downtime this summer than they do during the school year. That means they will also have more opportunities to go onlin… Source: 5 tips for keeping your teen safe online this summer
Online Safety, Summer
Our summer/August PD registration is all set and ready to be shared through District email with our staff very soon. You will be able to select a combination of summer and August time slots as long as the requirements described on the front page are met. You will also be able to come back and edit […]
August PD, curriculum, medical training, Summer PD, technology
Below is a link to a great article outlining the basics of student data privacy. Student data privacy is a growing area of consideration for me not only because of my new role in public education but also because of the pervasiveness of online services and projects we are asking our students to create in often […]
Schoology, student data privacy
Osmo is basically a mirror you hang off the top of an iPad camera so it can read specially designed blocks that kids move around to play educational games. The newest set of blocks they released teaches children the basics of coding – the thought process required to think through a problem’s solution. Two Christmases […]
coding, Osmo
Just like you clean and organize your physical classroom at the end of the school year, teachers using our District LMS will want to clean up their courses to their Resources. Doing so allows a teacher to continue to work on course materials over the summer, keeps archived courses pristine, and allows new courses to […]
collections, end of school year, Schoology
Fellow NJSD staff members, your custom PLD itineraries for our Friday, May 27th, PLD. You should be getting them within the next few hours. If all goes well. May our registration Google Form hold true and the scripts run strong!! Thanks, everyone, for taking the time to fill out the registration. I consider this knot untied!
Itineraries, NJSD, PLD
So, after I shattered my screen on my iPhone 6 Plus a few months ago, I brought it in to Batteries Plus to get a new digitizer and screen put on my phone. They messed it up quite badly. Battery drains really fast, there are color distortions on the top part of the screen, and […]
battery, iPhone, mobile
After reviewing our data findings in our school group, we are sharing out to the larger group our data findings in each of our areas of needs. We still need to make our goals a bit more concrete and create concrete actions for our staff. I’m coming away with not only our data findings, but also […]
BrightBytes, Clarity
What is design thinking? Design thinking is a way of thinking as a solution finding process, it’s about solving problems for others. Needs Assessment: What do we need. What are we providing? Design and Development: How do we do our work? What role does tech play? Feedback and Adjustment: How do we measure efficacy? How quickly […]
BrightBytes, design thinking
Wondering about breaking our District down into 3 levels: Elementary Secondary High School What are our goals and concrete tools to use in the 4 C’s and what tools for each of these grade levels? Communication Collaboration Critical Thinking Creativity So, something like: Elementary Communication Tools: Schoology Groups, Schoology Status Updates/Comments, … Elementary Collaboration Tools: GAFE […]
4 C's
Lots of data and lots of understanding needed in what we are looking at. Choosing a goal, and choosing actions towards that goal is a lot of work. Simplicity is the key first step – starting small. How do we make the large amount of data break down into simple, small goals that administration and […]
CASEAligning Vision, Mission, Goals & Initiatives What is our District direction? Aligning our curricular and instructional technology goals. How does our District technology help support curricular growth? How does curriculum help support or instructional technology growth? How fun for this to become a two-way street!
As I sit here at our CESA 6 building and we begin to get in the right mindset to unpack our District’s BrightBytes data, I am deciding to use this platform for my note taking. Right now I have my site hooked up to my LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google accounts. Usually, at these events, I use […]
BrightBytes, CESA 6
