How to Prep Your Classroom Technology for Success Guide

Discover How to Prep Your Classroom Technology Effectively, Efficiently and Elegantly

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Now, you can stop being overwhelmed with technology!

We all know that excellent classroom management is essential in having a successful school year and management of technology is definitely a part of that. The way you manage your classroom technology can make or break your goals of integrating technology into the curriculum. This guide is designed to quickly help you and your students to develop good habits and skills in using technology more Effectively, Efficiently and Elegantly.

We created this guide for you in simple everyday language that goes straight to the point.  Your time is extremely valuable and there is no need for extra stuff. We want to get you up and running. 

Whether you have full class sets of iPads, Chromebooks, Windows machines or even just one device, we've included what to do with your situation.  We've compiled the best practices, and more importantly, our own real world classroom experiences into one place for you to refer to at any place at any time.  

This time-saving PDF guide will include:

Introduction

In this overview chapter, we’ll cover the goals and the mindset of using technology in your classroom.

1. Set Up for Success

We’ll cover the organizational processes that will give you and your students a positive learning experience with technology. You’ll learn how to set up a productive workflow with either individual, shared or 1:1 devices. 

2. What to Do When You Don’t Have Enough Devices

The goal here is collaboration and respect of user and class time. You'll learn how to determine student device equity. A template will be included with this chapter.

3. How to Keep Students From Getting Distracted with Technology

In this chapter, we’ll give you strategies that will improve student focus and productivity. This will include expectations and technical restrictions if and when needed.

4. Get Your Students to Type Better and Faster

The goal in this chapter is to get your students to type faster and more accurately. We’ll share with you the best practices on typing as well as free sites and how to practice off-line.

5. I Forgot My Password!

You’ll get strategies on how to save, store and call up your passwords when lost or forgotten.

6. How to Get Your Devices Ready Before You Need Them

We’ll give you a checklist to use when projects require the use of technology.

7. How to Speed up Slow Devices

You'll get the simple but useful tips to help improve computer speeds and processing power for your devices.

8. Tame Long Website Addresses

Learn how to get your students onto websites as fast as possible without the hassle of typing in long web addresses.

9. The Top Keyboard Shortcuts You and Your Students Need

We’ll give you a list of the most popular and useful shortcuts that will help you and your students become more efficient and productive.

10. Search Better and Smarter is the Key

Go beyond the default and use advanced Google Search so your students can become more proficient at searching.

11. Using Wise Restrictions

Filters and restrictions are not perfect. Will give you the best information on what to do that will empower your students so they can make wise choices.

12. What to do when the Wifi Connection Sucks

What happens when the connection is offline? The computers are still working, but they just don’t have access to the Internet. This chapter covers how to reconnect to the Internet and what  you can do when you cannot.

13. What to do when the sound isn’t working

Sometimes, when connecting devices to the projector or sound system, things don't always work.  We'll give you tips on how to solve this.

14. Vetting new apps and resources

As the classroom teacher, you will need to go and vet the links, sites, apps and any piece of technology that will be used by your students and to make sure it is appropriate for your curricular goals.

15. How to Manage Parent/Teacher Communication

We'll give you the top strategies on how to maximize parent communication with as little stress as possible.

This is designed for:

• New and veteran teachers and educators
• Teachers who want  the technology to work for them and their students
  
• Teachers who are willing to learn new skills
• School Technology Integrationists
• Librarians
• Digital Literacy instructors
  
  

What are the requirements?

• Basic computer knowledge
• Basic Internet knowledge
  
  

What am I going to get from this course?

• Learn how to effectively organize and manage classroom/school devices 
• Develop student independence using the technology tools
• Implement best practices with technology
• Identify how to do basic troubleshooting
• Design a smooth digital workflow 
• Discover how to empower your students with the 21st Century Skills

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There are two versions for you to choose to download: PDF for all devices and iBooks for the iPad and Macbooks