Highlights from the October 2016 Technology Newsletter: Connecting and Collaborating

Featured EdTech Resource:

Discovery Education 

Did you know that resources and assignments in Discovery Education can be shared directly with your students through Google Classroom? With just a click of a button, you can share:

• videos
• podcasts
• images
• interactive maps and games
• primary source documents (and more!) with your students.

Building multi-media text sets and finding resources to meet

a variety of learning styles has never been easier.

With Discovery Education, you can guide your students as they learn to navigate digital content as well as create their own collections of digital resources.

To get started, contact the Library Media Specialist in your building or Melissa Morris Inoa, Supervisor for Instructional Technology, for support in learning about using these resources from Discovery Education.

Here's a video with some of the new Discovery Education content just released this month:

You can also connect with the Discovery Eduction Community and join a supportive learning environment where you can share resources and collaborate on other educational ideas. Here's what other educators are saying about the Discovery Education Community:

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Digital Citizenship: 

Connecting and Collaborating Safely Online 

It's important for our students to learn how to connect and collaborate online with others. In this video, students share their own experiences communicating online and how they stay safe.

After watching this video, please share your thoughts on the video and ideas for discussing these topics with your students and their families in our Google+ Community. 

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NBPS Technology Academy

& other district resources 

NBPS Technology Academy - a collection of technology-related professional development resources for all NBPS faculty and staff. 

Technology Academy content is organized by individual projects, methods of instruction, or professional development opportunities and is updated periodically as materials change or new content becomes available. 

Shared Resource Folder

- a collection of files and resources for many of our district programs and technology resources. Add the file to your Drive so that you always have access to this content. 

Google+ Community - an online forum for NBPS staff to share resources, discuss ideas, make connections and collaborate. This is a private Google+ Community, and you must be logged in to your NBPSNJ Google account to access it. 

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Sharing & Collaborating in Google Docs

By design, the apps in the G Suite for Education (formerly known as Google Apps for Education) are collaborative. 

SHARING

Knowing how to share files with collaborators is the first step. This  resource from the  Goodwill Community Foundation  takes you step by step through sharing settings. 

We also have some helpful tips on sharing settings here in our NBPS Shared Resource Folder. 

COLLABORATING

Once you've shared a document with collaborators, the real important work can  begin. Here are some other resources and ideas for using Google Docs as a collaborative tool with colleagues and students. 

• "How to collaborate like a pro with Google Docs"
• Lesson idea: "Write collaboratively using Google Docs"
• "Collaborative Note-Taking with Google Docs"

Link to the original newsletter.