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Updates on the Status of Our Interactive Panel Rollout
Planned for 2023-24 school year:
- Classrooms at Arcadia and Odyssey will receive ViewSonic Interactive Panels, with Athena and Olympia happening the following school year. (We will be consulting with Phoenix Academy on a plan that works for them.)
- Secondary teachers can get started now with the myViewBoard software without having the panels.
- On a Windows device, it's the desktop icon that looks like this:
- If you don't already have it, you can go to the Software Center in Windows and install it yourself.
- There's also a "lite" version of the software for Chromebooks. To install it, go to the Play Store and click on the icon there.
- SMART Notebook is being retired by the vendor. We'll continue to make the software available, but eventually it will no longer work.
- If you still have SMART Notebook files, then there's good news: They will open in and convert to myViewBoard.
- Elementary classroom teachers can continue to go through Principals to request removal of SMART Boards if desired, but either way, the projectors will stay mounted. This will allow teachers to continue to project in one place, while also using the panel as an instructional display space.
- Please visit our help page on Interactive Panels and the accompanying myViewBoard software HERE.
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Have You Been Missing Emails from Your Students?
We've seen a significant uptick in the number of emails from GCSD students to GCSD staff members ending up in the staff member's Spam folder. We're working with Google to resolve this.
We highly recommend that all staff members, especially teachers, check their Spam folders now to see if there are any student emails in there. If there are, you can mark the email as Not Spam, which will send it to your inbox and keep future emails from that sender from going to spam.
We always encourage all users to regularly monitor your Spam folders to check for emails that you might want but were marked as Spam.
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Self-Paced, Instructional Technology PL, Anyone?
If you're in a position where you'd like to (or maybe need to) get some PL hours in before the end of the school year, or you're just a go-getter and want to learn something new, please check out our curated PL offering from our partner vendors HERE.
Make sure you scroll down on that page to see the links to sites to get certifications directly from companies such as Nearpod, Book Creator, and Kami.
The Book Creator certification HERE is very good. Plus, the vendor has promised to send us some swag if we get more of our teachers, by percentage, to get certified than their current leader, those know-it-all's in Kansas City Public Schools. It's a recently updated, media-heavy PL that will teach you all you need to know about this outstanding resource in less than two hours.
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For assistance with these topics, or anything else related to instructional technology, please click HERE to book an appointment with your building's ITT.
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