Send Texts to Your Students!

It seems like our students are living by their phones. It's estimated that the average teen is sending over 2,000 texts per month. It's how they communicate with one another and now we can get in on the party at no cost. Remind 101 provides an easy and direct way to reach your students and parents; directly to their cell phones. Don't worry, they won't see your number. Check out the video below regarding this promising service.  Let us know if you use it so we can share the experience with others.

Remind101 from remind101 on Vimeo.

Quizlet!!!

          Many of you who have worked with me know that I won't pass up an opportunity to suggest quizlet.com.  It was an extremely useful tool for me as a classroom teacher and I love to share it with others.  Watch this short video, and if you’re interested in learning more about this tool contact one of us at the mountain.

Free Website Builders

There are many free services for building websites.  They differ in things such as user interface and learning curve, allowed bandwith usage and storage space among others.  Here are a few that you are likely to come across if you decide to create a website.  As always, we're willing to help you through the process of choosing what will work best and supporting you in its creation.

Class Jump is a website that many teachers here are already using. Read more about it here:
classjump.com

Weebly (which also has a classroom and campus edition)



Yola


Google sites


Snap pages


Webnode


We don't want you to feel overwhelmed, we want you to realize that you have many, many options (these are just a few). If you're serious about creating a class website, take some time to think about how you, your students, and parents would use it. We can help you find the tool that will best fit your skills and needs.

Websites, Wikis, and Blogs

     We enjoyed our time with those of you who came to the "Web Walk" this week!  Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to do so.  For those of you who were unable to attend, I’ve included some of the links to the sites and services we discussed. 

www.classjump.com/b/ballato

http://www.classjump.com/N/Nizinkirck/

https://5thgradereading.pbworks.com/w/page/32205210/FrontPage

www.ahsinnovation.weebly.com

www.mrgale.com

www.mrvacanti.blogspot.com

I’ve also embedded a video below regarding the classroom management system, Edmodo.

AHS Science Teachers!

     It was nice working with so many of you last week!  I've posted a video below regarding exporting data to Excel after giving an assessment.  There were other videos on our wiki about exporting the data from the teacher tools (class reports, and student reports) but if you're looking to see how every student responded to each question as well as class and student averages, then this video is for you.  As always, if you run into trouble, need help getting started, or just want someone to bounce some ideas off of please stop by the mountain or email one of us.          

A Glimpse and a Thank You

     There are many great things happening at AHS this year and a lot of it is due to the open minded, hard working staff that continues to fight the good fight.  Thank you for all that you do.       

    

"Winning"

The following people may or may not have tiger blood flowing through their veins but they have all won Elmos for their classrooms.  Congratulations to all who applied. 

The winners are...

Tom Vacanti*

Martha Shkreli/Joann Battaglia

Mike Karp/Nick Lettieri

Suzanne Marks

Jen McCormack/Diana Hagan*

Ellen Mall-John*

Dan McCarthy*

Cathy Vitas

 (A * indicates teachers who were also awarded Student Response Systems two weeks ago.)