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Students and Parents, We have begun to roll out devices to students. As of 9/14/2023 all students, Kindergarten through 5th grade, will have had the Responsible Use Policy lesson. By 9/13/2023 all of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades will have had an initial iPad Chromebook login lesson (Seesaw, Google, etc). The Responsible Use…
Students and Parents, We have begun to roll out devices to students. As of 9/9/2022 all 3rd, 4th and 5th graders have had the Responsible Use Policy lesson. All of 4th, 5th, and half of 3rd grade have also had an initial Chromebook login lesson. During the week of 9/12 the rest of 3rd grade…
Students and Parents, The Responsible Use Policy is the document that outlines, for all Scarsdale Schools users (students, teachers and staff alike) appropriate use guidelines for using district devices, accounts, and services. Every year I do this lesson with the students, usually in big grade-level groups, where we can talk about it, ask questions, and…
3rd graders, this is a follow-up to the live lesson we did together. Your teachers will also review this again in class. You will have a folder in Shared with me called Persuasive 3D, Persuasive 3L, or Persuasive 3M. This depends on class, you will only see the folder for your class. To add your…
3rd Graders, Once you finish your Google Slides file about your Persuasive Writing, you can record yourself narrating it. To do that we will create a screencast. A screencast is simply recording the screen. There are 2 main ways to do this Quicktime (on a Mac) Screencastify (on a Chromebook, Mac, or PC using…
The Responsible Use Policy is a document that outlines, for all Scarsdale Schools users (teachers and staff alike) appropriate use guidelines for using district devices, accounts, and services. Every year I do this lesson with the students, usually in big grade-level groups, where we can talk about it, ask questions, and have a general back…
3rd and 4th graders now have access to their @scarsdaleschools.org GMail inboxes. 5th graders were given access at the start of 2020. Email in 3rd through 5th grade is designed to streamline communication. Teachers and students will still use Drive, Docs, Classroom, Kami, etc to leave each other comments on specifics pieces of work, but…
This post is so 3rd graders can learn how and why to use the commenting feature, and to post some practice comments. 3rd graders, don’t forget to use the Blog Commenting checklist before you submit your comment. Please leave a comment about blogging. Do you like it? Does it interest you? Are you…
Adobe Spark is a great platform we’ve been experimenting with this year. Adobe Spark has a few great benefits including being cloud based so students can use any connected device and access their work anywhere, and it gives you 3 options; Spark Post, Spark Page, and Spark Video. We used Spark Post earlier this year…
Recently we introduced 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders to the Adobe Spark platform of creative apps. Adobe Spark Post is used when creating graphics such as flyers, posters, infographics, and so on. Adobe Spark Page is for creating scrolling multimedia web pages. Adobe Spark Video is a visual storytelling platform that adds simple animations, music,…