THE SCOTT SPOT VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1

Keep Up with Ms. Scott

the

Scott Spot Instructional Technology Newsletter

Teach With Me! As the name suggests, an ITA’s primary function is INSTRUCTIONAL. My main goal is to TEACH students and teachers how to effectively use technology. What can I teach? I can teach you and your students how to create cartoon strips, mini movies, web pages, Fakebook pages, videos, story boards, animations, fun review games, text message conversations, etc. See my Teach With Me webpage for more information

http://itascott.weebly.com/teach-with-me.html

Phone/ Email

Website www.itascott.weebly.com

Social Media Twitter- @ingeniousteach

Google+- kimberlyscott05@gmail.com

Tip of the Week Exporting Grades from CPS or Smart

Response into Power Teacher

Did you know that you could export grades from CPS or Smart Response into Power Teacher Grade book? This process takes about 2 minutes and all the grades from that assignment are transferred into Power Teacher! No more printing instructor summaries and adding the grades in one at a time!!! Want Ms. Scott to show this to you? Make an appointment with Ms. Scott http://itascott.weebly.com/appointments.html

901- 491-2614 scottks@scsk12.org

THE SCOTT SPOT VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1

Site Spotlight- My ITA Website

Your Ed Tech One Stop Shop!

My ITA website is up and ready to go! This site can be used to see the newest tech tools (comic strips, Fakebook, creating games, making storyboards, using Prezis for presentations, making animations and videos, creating brochure and newsletters such as this, etc.), to book an appointment with me, get detailed step sheets (directions for how to do things), archives of past and current newsletters, favorite websites, ways to get me to teach in your classroom, etc.

I also feature pictures from classes I have taught and trainings I have provided. Check it out!

http://itascott.weebly.com/

Teacher Showcase I would like to showcase Mr. Derek Wilson. Mr. Wilson is a 6th grade Social Studies teacher at Sherwood Middle School. Mr. Wilson allowed me to co-teach his students how to create comic strips on world religions (Christianity and Judaism). Thank you Mr. Wilson! For more information http://itascott.weebly.com/teach-with-me.html

What is Gaggle? Gaggle is a district provided website that give a learning platform for student/teacher email, access to YOUTUBE, cloud storage, blogs, discussion boards, photo editing and online assignment submission. EVERY teacher & student in SCS already has an account setup (they just need to start using it!). Gaggle is available anywhere you have Internet access and even has an iPad app! The link is www.tinyurl.com/scsgaggle Teachers should log in with their SCS email info. If you would like me to teach your students to use Gaggle, make an appointment with me. http://itascott.weebly.com/appointments.html