Teachers with Techitude

• STRATEGIES (Hour of Code, some Google fun, Flipgrid)
• OPPORTUNITIES (COAST, Dave Burgess)
• ANNOUNCEMENTS (EADMS, and the Thomas Fire)
• and some flashback news at the end
  

I know our last few weeks with students were different than we expected for reasons we wish were not reasons, so I hope some of these ideas can be adapted for your "welcome back/happy new year/winter wonderland" time that will replace the last week of holiday fun!

Hope winter break brings you rest and laughter with friends and family. See you in 2018!

- Liz

Many of you enjoyed Hour of Code with your students last year, and it is that time again! Find an hour this month to allow your students to explore the world of coding!

• There are so many options for all grade levels and all experience levels to begin learn coding concepts. If you have tried it, you know how students connect with coding, and it is a GREAT way to bring the math practice and critical thinking standards into practice
• Please plan to join the movement at some point this month or in January-- or hey, what about both?
  
  

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Eric at Control Alt Achieve has some fun templates and ideas.

Pixel art, magnetic poetry and emoji stories, oh my!!!

These lessons would be good now, or into January. Proof that Google Slides are not just for presentations!

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Flipgrid is a website that is like a selfie video bulletin board. So great for students to give feedback, explain their learning, practice their language structures, respond to a 'what if' question... all while practicing their listening and speaking skills with an authentic audience of their peers!

The best way to understand Flipgrid is to check it out! Here is a Flipgrid explorer about BRAINS, so you can see how it works. You can create a board with a prompt so your students can respond. I would love to help you get started with Flipgrid!

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Are you playing? Collaborative, Online, Activity Based, Self Paced Training is the thing to get you the training you want, WHEN you want! Sign in at alludolearning.com (top right corner) with your @hsdschools.org Google account and get started!

Congratulations to the 7 teachers and 2 admin who have completed Level 1! Surf's up! Enjoy your tshirt and upgraded teacher iPad! What are the rest of you waiting for?

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All Hueneme staff can get a free ticket. This will not change!

Here is the new twist:

• Our colleagues from *outside the district* can get a ticket to attend for only $10 in December (price will increase in January)
  
• Invite 3 people to join us, and you will win a Teach Like a Pirate t-shirt! (fine print: they have to put your name in the referral box when they get their ticket, and they have to actually attend the amazing event)

So, invite far and wide! Spread the word! Share the Eventbrite link!

Let's show Dave Burgess that Hueneme, and all of Ventura County, is ALL ABOUT engaging instruction for our students!

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Are you feeling overwhelmed with where data goes and how to access it in EADMS? We hear ya, so we added some info to the Common Assessments doc and we made a video for you!

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This past week has been such an example of community and the way the Hueneme family encourages each other. Here is an opportunity to help your students process the events of the Thomas fire by showing gratitude to our first responders. Complete THIS FORM and get matched with an agency for you and your students to adopt and express appreciation. Thank you to the Ventura USD teachers who have put this together!

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Join a "Letter & Art Campaign" to thank as many of our emergency responders as we can find. Fill out this simple form to be "matched." You will get info/mailing address so that all responders receive our kids' thanks! (from @mwantz on Twittter)

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PLEASE, before requesting anything technology related, run it past the tech department.

We can not connect all devices (color printers, tablets etc) to our network, and not all apps/sites required (to use robots, for example) can be loaded on our iPads or used on our Chromebooks for privacy policy reasons.

This is NOT a time for "ask forgiveness, not permission", but it IS an example of "look before you leap"

We want you and your students to have cool stuff, but technology has some parameters you probably aren't aware of. Help US help YOU, see what I'm sayin?

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The beginning of the year is the most natural time to introduce digital citizenship concepts with your students. You probably are familiar with the one lesson your grade level teaches, but there are four more. Look though your grade level, and earlier grade levels, and use the lessons that meet the needs of your students. It is important that we are all learning how to be safe online!

Click here to see your Digital Citizenship resource options!

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Looking for information from past newsletters? See the archive on our Tech Department page (click here)

Email: lhoppe@hueneme.org
Website: www.hueneme.org
Phone: 805-488-3588 9832
Twitter: @hoppeteacher