Cam Newton Piedmont Spirit and Other News

Two new contests:
(for students ,classrooms, and Piedmont)

1- Remake a Music Video Deadline Oct 24th:  2 1/2 minute video and win a $70,000 tech makeover for your classroom! (Thanks to Ms. Newburger for the link) 
Winners judged on    
  •  Effectiveness of expressing how the use of technology enhances personalized learning in the classroom  (40%);
     •  Overall Creativity and spirit (40%); and
     •  Production Quality of the video (20%).

2- Cam Newton School Spirit- Please check the Piedmont bulletin and share with your students the classroom code to enter the Cam Newton School Spirit Video Contest. Piedmont can win big $ and your student can win dinner with Cam Newton. Ms. Lyttle will happily trade places with any winner who does not want to attend! 

Interested students can see the instructions for entering the contest at my StudentSpace page.

New on this PiedmontPD website this week:

• New! Piedmont PD ONLINE Course for Renewal Credit - Watch a series of 5 IB webinars whenever you wish before May 1 and earn credit (see the bulletin for the join code)
  
• Speaking of PD Here is how to use MyTalent to register for PD 
  
• Schoolnet - Tests automatically grade themselves and go straight into your Powerschool gradebook with this handy tool. I am doing a training next Friday, but here is info in the meantime. Mr. Carpenter and Mr. George use this.
  
• http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/celebrating-piedmont/hi-tech-art-instruction
  
• New lesson ideas including making movies, digital citizenship, and teaching growth mindset:  : http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/lesson-ideas 

Links of the Week:

8 Steps to Self Control - The steps are at the bottom of the article but the article itself is an honest and irreverent look at all of us who are interested in increasing our own self control, plus it notes some seminal education issues of "grit" and why according to Dweck some of our students don't practice self control (it's because they don't believe it will work for them- many times because they have been unable to trust in the past.)
Wearable Drone Bracelet - Your students might think it's cool. Or scary.
Cleaning up Your Digital Footprint 
Transforming Learning Spaces - research-based classroom design