Technoflash

Bellevue Public Schools, Bellevue NE

September 12, 2014 Volume 4

New Teachers Tech Up in New Teacher Tech Training

Teachers became more proficient in the use of Power School tools, MAP data, building a classroom website, and digging deeper into Google Apps. Bellevue's new teachers receive four days of technology training throughout the school year. This group does an excellent job of taking advantage of these learning opportunities. It was wonderful working with so many positive teachers! If you see a new teacher after one of their trainings, ask them what they learned. We bet they would be able to teach others some new great tools!

iPad Academy Grows by Eleven!

We are pleased to announce the following people have been selected to join the #ipadacademy!

Blogs to Read

20 Things to Do with Google Classroom by Alice Keeler

Technology Learning Opportunities

Join the BPS Tech Trainers for a BPS Online CCU Course where learning takes place anywhere, anytime. One CCU is earned upon successful completion of the course. Session 2 begins September 20th, 2014. Check out the online course offerings this fall semester at

https://www.smore.com/9cp82 and sign up today!

Techie Tuesdays are back! Come over to Lewis and Clark Middle School and enjoy a day learning one of two topics this year: Google or Social Media Madness. Get your paperwork filled out today and join the BPS Tech Trainers for our first Techie Tuesday of the year on September 23rd. Details on the Techie Tuesdays are found here https://www.smore.com/xe0jx

What is new on Twitter?

OUR SCHOOLS!!! Yes! We have several schools now with Twitter accounts. Take a few moments to follow these schools in our district. @BLPanthers1, @TbirdEMPIRE, @BetzEagles, @BirchcrestTiger, @ChieftainNation, @LFWarriors, @TSWildcats, @WakeRobinElem. Here are some top tweets for the week from our schools! If your school has a twitter hashtag or a twitter handle that isn't listed above let us know by filling out this form.

School Twitter Form

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3 Great Places to Back up Your Content!

Between these three options, there is no reason to store any content on your hard drive. Why is this important? Because every now and then, your mac will need some tender loving care - or in other words be re-imaged. If all of your content is backed up then you can sleep soundly, knowing you can always get to your lessons, ideas, documents, and accounts.

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Dropbox

Dropbox Dropbox gives you more space as you share folders with other people. Dropbox will house photos, videos,and documents. You can also download the Dropbox drive for your mac and store all of your digital content there.

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Google Drive

When you work inside of Google all your documents are automatically saved to Google's Drive. You can also download Drive for you mac and when you drag your documents to Drive it is automatically in the Google cloud.

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iCloud

If you use a lot of Apple apps like Pages, Keynote, and Numbers iCloud is the best place to store your documents. This lets you access your documents from anywhere by logging into you iCloud.com account.