Visit the Phenomenal Five ++ website for Spring Blitz training descriptions, schedules, and locations and register in PDExpress for each training that you will be attending.
The GIGA Squad (Game-changing Innovation for Growth in Academics) are district Academic Innovation and Technology Integration Specialists who are dedicated to promoting personalized learning across Saint Paul Public Schools.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The Blitz Is Coming Next Week
Are you ready to learn more about how to use the Phenomenal Five ++ tools in your classroom to leverage student learning styles and to support personalized learning?
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Spring Blitz
Are you looking for some training on SPPS Apps, Moodle, Urban Planet, SPPS Apps Docs, SPPS Apps Forms, SPPS Apps Sites, Web 2.0 Sites for K-8 or 7-12, or Search Strategies? Come to the Spring Blitz May 6 to May 9 to learn more about these handy tools and how they are being used in Saint Paul Schools to support personalized student learning.
Visit the Phenomenal Five ++ website for Spring Blitz training descriptions, schedules, and locations and register in PDExpress for each training that you will be attending.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
April Promethean User Group
Have you been wondering how to use your Promethean Board as an interactive review station during independent work time? Would you like to be able to quickly and easily create self-correcting sorting activities? Join us April 11 for the next Promethean Board User Group and we will show you how to use the Containers Made Easy resource pack to quickly create interactive sorting activities in your flipcharts.
Click the video below to see a little preview of how containers can be used to create activities for students.
Click the video below to see a little preview of how containers can be used to create activities for students.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Searching For Creative Commons Licensed Images on Google Images
Pictures and images on Google.com are copyrighted by the owner even though they are published on the web. One of the safest ways to use them in your work is to search for Creative Commons licensed images that give you the rights to repost and modify images as long as you give credit to the owner.
Here’s how to find images posted with Creative Commons licensing on Google:
2. Type in your search topic and click the gear icon to Advanced Search options
3. Use the drop down to change the usage rights that you are searching for. You may want to choose the most encompassing choice.
4. Click the Advanced Search button.
5. Notice that your search results now list the usage rights.
6. Click on the image that you want.
7. Click on the View Original Image button.
8. Hold the Control button and click on the picture (Mac) or right click (PC) on the picture and choose Save Image As (Chrome and Firefox) or Download Linked File As (Safari) to save the picture to your computer.
9. Copy the website address (URL) of your image and paste the address into your product to meet the minimum level of citing the source.
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