"So I can offer you’re school district  the State Per Diem rate of $85.00 at the Fairfield Inn. Your rate here at the Hampton Inn is $95.00.
Also,  for the next two months we are offering a shopping special for all your district employees."
 Fairfield  Inn by Marriott    $75.00 per night!
Hampton Inn  by Hilton       $85.00 per night!
Teachers and Staff, this is from Terri Killian and if you could use this what a great deal for us all. 
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Teachers I have recently come across two complete sets of SmartResponse Clickers. I have tested them a little. They seem to work. If you are interested in a set for your class, let me know. 

If you need to create a quick Google Doc, Sheet, Slide there is a simple solution.
"type in the address bar doc.new, sheet.new, and slides.new​ to open a brand new document in your drive without going into drive to create a new document."

            Google slide add-on of the week:
                           Unsplash
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Insert free, HD photos from Unsplash easily in any Slides presentation.Insert free, HD photos from Unsplash easily in any Slides presentation.Open a new slides presentation then click on Add-ons in the top menu and select get add-ons.  Search for Unsplash and add to your account. Search for photos in the sidebar to the right of your slides document.

Teachers this I believe could be a great tool for determining if a text is too hard for our students. I remember giving reading assignments and then wondering why so many kids struggled to understand what they read. The truth was the text was too difficult for them. 
Also with the ability to analyze the text and determine which words the kids may not understand or struggle with. You can be proactive and help them before hand. So try this site out, and best of all it's free. 

                                             https://wordsift.org/

This is a web site for allowing you and your students to be creative. Comics, greeting cards, ebooks, and other items.  

Apple's Classroom App turns your iPad into a powerful classroom management tool. Teachers can guide student work, share work, and manage student devices all in one place. Facilitate individual, group, and whole-class activities with just a few taps.
To find more resouces about how to use the Classroom App go to https://appleteacher.apple.com and sign in using your apple ID, then click on the links for the Classroom App.  If you would like training or help in getting Apple Classroom setup contact Tom or James.

If you need help from the tech department. This is were you need to go to submit a ticket for us, Help Ticket. Once you are at the help ticket site you need to click on the active directory button. 
Also when you submit a ticket the more information you can give us the better. So fill in all  of the boxes. 

Click on the box to learn more.

Managed Software Center is coming to a computer near you.  This software will allow you to update your computer on your time and schedule.  So be watching for this icon on your computer and in the labs. By combining it with Mosyle we hope to give you a great computer experience.

This is a great interactive website with hundreds of activities in all subject areas.  You can search the interactives by grade, by discipline, by audience (teacher or student), and by required software to run the interactives you choose. Here are two examples, click on each to check it out or go here to explore. ​www.learner.org/interactives/

Do you like art and culture, then let me recommend this extension. Google art and culture extension allows your Chrome browser to have its screen be famous pieces of art.  You can set it to change daily or to change your artwork with every new tab you open. 

Next week May 22, 2018 the tech department will be coming around to pick up surplus items. Please have them ready to go. Please bring any surplus to the location listed below for your school. 

AES - Faculty Room
AHS- Data closet near cafeteria
Con amore - old workroom
KPES - old faculty room
NES - Library
UHS - Library
MES - Library
DHS - Library
DES - Faculty Room
RJHS - Faculty Room
EES - Stage
CES - Faculty Room
MES - Library

This I thought was interesting to see how different cultures and age groups look at things.  I don't agree with Jackie Chan, but we do live in a different world then we grew up in, and it will continue to change. Are we helping our students to face those changes?

Science Journal is a free digital science notebook made by Google. With Science Journal you can keep your notes, photos, and
observations all in one convenient place.  Students can perform experiments using the sensors on their phone or iPad.  Science Journal app is compatible with iOS and Android devices.  Here is a list of what is possible: 
     -  Measure light, sound, acceleration, and air pressure.
    -   Take notes and photos to document your science experiments. 
    - Connect to external sensors using select Bluetooth-enabled Arduino                devices.
    - Create automated triggers for recording data and taking notes.
   -  Use sonification to hear the movement of your graphs.

"CommonLit delivers high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 3-12. Our resources are:

• Flexible;
• Research-Based;
• Aligned to the Common Core State Standards;
• Created by teachers, for teachers.

We believe in the transformative power of a great text, and a great question. That’s why we are committed to keeping CommonLit completely free, forever."
CommonLit About. (2014-2018). Retrieved March 23, 2018, from https://www.commonlit.org/about

Teachers we have just added CommonLit to Clever. This is a FREE reading tool for educators. It has articles for students from 3rd grade to 12th grade. It works with your Google Classroom, and you can assign articles to your students. It also has questions, quizzes, and discussion topics for each article. CommonLit also has a tool to read the articles for emerging readers. 

CK-12 is a google Chrome Extension that has over 5000 types of learning applications to help students and teachers. Learn more than 5000 mathematical and scientific concepts at your own pace and in your own style!

• Supports common base and government standards for consistent content (digital tutorials and concepts).
• Supports Utah Standards.
• View, learn and practice (or teach) more than 5000+ concepts using several modalities (text, videos, quizzes, cards, etc.).
• Manage your class online through groups.
• Create practice activities and assessments for students and track their progress.
• Everything on our application and website is always 100% free.

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How to copy assignments from class to class or quarter to quarter:

Are you interested in adding more technology activities in your classroom? Coding is a great way to teach students skills in problem solving.  Check out these great opportunities for elementary and secondary teachers to add coding curriculum to your classroom. Click on one of the pictures below for more information.

TED Ed is a great resource for short entertaining videos. I have found videos for all subjects.  There are also lessons to go along with the videos. 

This is a website for math and science teachers.  It has some free features, and some that cost. 

Kaizena is a web app that helps you as a teacher give immediate and effective feedback to students.  Some of the features that make this app amazing are the voice record feature that allows you to talk to your student about their work instead of typing it.  Another is the Google Drive integration, and now the creators have just rolled out the Google Add-on feature. To access this feature just open a google doc, then in the top menu click on Add-ons, then get add-ons.  Search in the google store for Kaizena and add. Click on the videos below to learn how to us Kaizena.

When I was a social studies teacher at Roosevelt Junior High I loved and most of my students seemed to enjoy this one assignment. Create your own city. They would have to follow the features of an early Utah settlement but could put whatever they wanted into their city. I also enjoyed watching their creativity as to what they would place in their city, however, I always wanted more from this assignment. 
Sim City for iPads is a free app that teachers could use to allow students to create their own city. Tom introduced me to this game, and I have been hooked on it since then. 
In this game, you are the mayor of your city. You have city resources to manage and try to build. You have to make sure that your citizens have their needs met, like sewer, fire department, and electricity.  Taxes are collected which gives you money to build your city. Which means you need to make sure your citizens are happy, and people are moving into your city. 
I could see this being a fun way to help students learn about citizenship in a community, managing resources, you could also discuss current issues. Such as coal power plants or green energy. Overall I think this could be a fun way to teach several social studies standards either as a class or individually. ​

Collaboration is essential to students learning! Preparing students to work well with others is becoming increasingly more important in today's working society.  Having kids work together promotes cooperation, builds social-emotional skills, and gets them engaged in active learning. Group work, on the other hand, tends to come with challenges. Some students feel like they do all the work, others feel left out, motivation becomes an issue, and assignments sometimes don't come together very well.  So, what makes for better group work ? Watch the video below to get some great tips.

Digital devices put the world at our students' fingertips, whether with their own cell phones or with school-provided computers and tablets. But, along with opportunities for powerful learning come the risks -- and realities -- of distraction. So, what are the best ways to manage digital distraction in the classroom?Check out our practical tips on supporting students and modeling productive 21st Century learning

Kahoot's new challenge feature lets you assign kahoots as homework, saves time on correcting assignments and makes it easy to assess learning progress.  The new report feature makes it easy to monitor the progress your students are making.

Sharemylesson.com is a free website that gives educators access to other lesson plans and
class activities. It spans all grade levels from toddler to 12th grade and lesson plans are
well organized by subject and grade level.
This website is an amazing source for teachers of any grade to be able to use when it
comes to figuring out their lesson plans. Teachers can use this site to search/find lesson
plans that another teacher has posted, share lesson plans of their own, etc. They can
search for any lesson plan by grade, subject, topic, standards, etc. Teachers could also use
this website to look for resources by grade, subject, and topic.