Helpful Google Extensions

Extensity

If you have many tabs open (even if you group your tabs), all of your extensions will run on those tabs which slows down your Chrome web browser and computer. Check out Extensity for quickly enabling and disabling all of your extensions for Google Chrome. It keeps your toolbar clean and you can quickly turn all extensions off (and back on) with a single click.

Teacher Tip Dualless

Having a second monitor is extremely productive for virtual teaching. If you do not have a second monitor, check out the Dualless extension. It splits your browser window two by just 2 clicks. You can choose one of the preset ratios according to your needs. This will be helpful when you are sharing your screen at the next virtual faculty meeting with only your laptop :)

Commit to Learning

This school year we will focus on care for students and their emotional well-being.  We will continue to focus on relationships while growing as learners. Students are able to anchor themselves with their virtual classmates and teachers as part of Parkway Virtual Campus.

Take inventory of what is working for your child in the virtual classroom and what they still need to make this as successful as it can be.

What can you do at home to support your child?

• Reevaluate your child’s learning environment at home.

• Is the learning area free from distractions?

• Is your child able to be proactive, present, and purposeful in their virtual classroom?

• Maintain a daily or weekly task list to stay organized and on track.

What are we continuing to work on as a district?

• Parkway Virtual Campus teachers will be working together as Collaborative Learning Teams and with curriculum coordinators to design and deliver engaging learning experiences for students.

• Developing connections between students and teachers.

Digital Citizenship Activities

 

Digital Citizenship

 

Technology has greatly changed but one thing has remained constant: the importance of teaching students how to respect and protect themselves and others online.  Digital Citizenship is more than just online safety.  More than creating a strong password.

ISTE website reads, “Digital citizenship shouldn’t be a long list of don’ts. It should be about the do’s that help create thoughtful, empathetic digital citizens who can wrestle with the important ethical questions at the intersection of technology and humanity.” 

Those do’s include:

• Using technology to make your community better.

• Engaging respectfully online with people who have different beliefs than you.

• Using technology to make your voice heard by public leaders and shape public policy.

• Determining the validity of online sources of information.

Schoology Images, Tutorials, and Gifs

Take out the guesswork for students - include images, tutorials, and/or gifs of how to submit materials in Schoology from this new shared folder of Schoology Images, Tutorials, and Gifs. These are student-centered instructions and views to help them navigate through Schoology.

Above is a gif for students on how to submit/import a Google Doc created in Drive. This is found in the new shared folder.

Do you need other student instructions in a tech gif, image, or video? Submit your request through the Google Form.

Website Availability Check

You’ve found a wonderful, new website or video to share with your students tomorrow and are so excited for the lesson. Then when you start the lesson the next day, you realize that it is blocked and students can’t use it during class.

Does this sound familiar? Good news! Parkway now has a new filter that allows you to check the website's availability. Follow these instructions to check for website availability. Please be aware with this new filter, we have had to reset some allowances. Contact your building Technology Specialist or the Technology Help Desk for these allowances.