#EdTech Update May 2022

Monthly Newsletter from Instructional Services on the latest in EdTech

#EdTech Monthly Update 

If you haven't clicked over to Curriculum recently in Chalk check it out! You can now star/favorite your most relevant maps to curate your own quick list. Click on a map in the main search window, when the details appear to the right click on the blank star in the top right of the details box. That's it. It's now added to your starred list which you can navigate quickly to from the Starred link on the left side of Curriculum.

Here's a couple photos I shot with my Cell Phone and a Monoscope attachment.

<a href="https://read.bookcreator.com/lK8mnY5MnvOKyClc1c8FHYgd3693/lG6vPPmNSXOY_xZMZsLqQA">September E-Book</a>. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey-o9oSJtfA">September Video</a> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="https://read.bookcreator.com/lK8mnY5MnvOKyClc1c8FHYgd3693/e9Fr9HnnTAeqOQyuYFvl8Q">October E-Book</a>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aByDR4T5WQM">October Video</a> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="https://read.bookcreator.com/lK8mnY5MnvOKyClc1c8FHYgd3693/FKwv10YsSlS3uMdD1Z-dKA">November E-Book</a> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="https://youtu.be/03roCcq_tPA">November Video</a> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="https://read.bookcreator.com/lK8mnY5MnvOKyClc1c8FHYgd3693/in81r8TXRhqhFoXl-NbioQ">December E-Book</a> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT70-SeN-FQ">December Video</a> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="https://read.bookcreator.com/lK8mnY5MnvOKyClc1c8FHYgd3693/9uuYuP0nTqq70FMl5tqEqw">January E-Book</a> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz3D7P4un80">January Video</a> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . <a href="https://read.bookcreator.com/lK8mnY5MnvOKyClc1c8FHYgd3693/92hLPXT5QQSE8AKX-2JwGQ">February E-Book</a> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbWgaqespP8">February Video</a> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="https://read.bookcreator.com/lK8mnY5MnvOKyClc1c8FHYgd3693/yi_zHhDoToOS9isJj_4NtQ">April E-Book</a> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="https://youtu.be/tixuipE8j3I">April Video</a> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May E-Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June E-Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

As we get closer to the end of the school year it is clear we've made incredible gains in many domains. Your hard work and dedication to our students helped us begin our recovery from a very tumultuous time in education. The use of EdTech platforms remains strong despite our return to full in-person instruction and that is a very great thing. We shouldn't go digital on everything for its own sake, but what is going on in that space is excellent. Excellent use of digital tools to make lessons more creative, more collaborative, better communication, and more critical thinking in all domains academic and career. I hope you all have a wonderful month! Kind Regards, Dan Gallant

Schoolytics Teacher Update

When in the Student performance section you can now hit a button and automatically send positive reinforcement emails through a pre-built Mail Merge to all students above a specified grade.  

Schoolytics is committed to remaining free to teachers forever and is the most powerful upgrade to Google Classroom that is out there. They give weekly live webinars that you can attend and ask questions of the presenters. Its an excellent tool that all should be using in conjunction with their Google Classrooms. The video above is a recent recording of what's new on the platform.

Send Missing Assignment Reports Automatically

Generate Pre-built emails to all your students or specific students with the assignments they are missing automatically with the push of a button.  These emails include links straight to the assignments they are missing.  

Our Assessment partner, Edulastic, has put out a subject by subject panel of educators discussing how they use the Edulastic Assessment platform to inform their instruction and track student progress.  

Webinar: Edulastic for Math

Webinar: Edulastic for ELA

Webinar: Edulastic for Social Studies

Webinar: Edulastic for Science

Happy May to all! This month has a lot of Testing across all Campuses. Thank you to all who have and will help with that. AP Testing, NJSLA and more. Some of you have been asking about Lesson Plan Rollover. We will definitely be giving you that guidance so you can roll this year into next in Chalk. I will put that info in the next issue and send it out as it's own message as well. A number of other updates have come to our EdTech Platforms which we'll go into this issue of the EdTech Updates. - Dan Gallant

Chalk Planner Updates to Curriculum Some nice User Interface updates in Chalk in both the planner and curriculum sections Google Takeout Reminder to 12th Grade Students All graduating students should be told to transfer their content out of their student accounts into a personal account. Schoolytics Update - (Free to teachers) The Schoolytics Google Classroom Power Up Platform made some excellent improvements for you! Edulastic - Hear from Teachers in your Subjects Links to panel discussions by teachers from different subjects on how they use Edulastic

Chalk UI Update, Google Takeout, other updates

There is also now a Curriculum home page with updates and quick links to reports. You can run reports for yourself on Standards coverage and map comparisons. The Sticky Note feature in Planboard that is visible in the Daily View has been added to the Week view now as well. See more in <a href="https://www.chalk.com/resources/whats-new-at-chalk-may-2022/">Chalk's blog post What's New</a>.

Teacher of Seniors, please inform your graduating seniors that they should transfer all of their student Google content out by the end of the school year. As of September they will lose access to these accounts. There are two excellent tools provided by Google for this. Google Takeout Transfer is first. This will transfer all your gmail and drive files to a personal account. Google Takeout Download is second. This will create a zip file of all content across all parts of the Google Account that can be downloaded and unzipped into a personal account. Guides to both of these are in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBXet3by4SU">this YouTube Video</a>. Please post this video to your Google Classroom for Seniors and perhaps a reminder again when closer to graduation. Thanks!

Transfer your Gmail and Drive with Google Takeout for Schools

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