News of the Week

Learn Schoolnet 
Would you like training on Schoolnet? If so, let me know this week and CMS can come during your planning. Schoolnet training includes how to give autograded tests via schoolnet- scores instantly go into Powerschool. (to see how to do this with Google Drive check here) 

Google Classroom Updates

• has an app now for your phone and ipad
  
• 5 Things You May Not Know About Google Classroom - link courtesy of our very own tech-savvy principal, Mrs. Barone!
  

Tech Integrated tools and lesson ideas

• Smore   This site supposed to be a nice alternative to the old fashioned and expensive Glogster (take that Glogster!) 

• Make a Mixtape  - I  can think of a thousand ways this could be useful as a class project or in your lessons. Like you could have students make a mixtape about a topic or you could make one of songs for each morning opener, or exit ticket songs...

Digital Citizenship Resource  

• For you What Teachers Should Know About Privacy and the Internet
  
• For your students

Rubric Rethink
Here are 2 articles that were tweeted recently with interesting thoughts on rubrics:

• Single Point Rubric 
  
• Your Rubric is a Hot Mess, Here's How to Fix It
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Maker Movement
Ms. Newburger and I presented about the media center's makerspace and Piedmont's maker culture at the CMS tech meeting. If you don't know what I mean by our maker culture, think the 6th grade's egg drop designs, the 8th grade civil rights museum installments and this week's 7th grade industrial revolution inventions extravaganza.