Bryce the Blog Edition

Keeping track of students through PowerTeacher Notes features. There is so much data that we should keep on each student in order to capture the whole picture and understand the needs of our kiddos.  Grades, standardized tests,  intelligence tests, hearing and vision screenings, special needs assessments, free and reduced lunch status, behavior issues, attendance count-all of these help teachers, counselors and administrators have a better understanding of the whole child.  However, the task of keeping up with all this data can be daunting and without a common place to store all the information, data can be fragmented. Fortunately, PowerSchool and PowerTeacher have built in features that help teachers keep track of additional information on students performance. Comments on Grades (public to parents and students) Sometimes we need to add additional information to a student's grade.  Comments such as "grades affected by attendance" or "incomplete work" offer data...

Hey Teacher Peeps:   PowerSchool is back.... Hold for applause...       The switch to the old version of powerschool happened this morning.  Unfortunately, none of your grades are there.  I am so sorry for this.  I know this creates some extra hours of work for you.  I feel terrible about all of this. But we are back to a gradebook system that WORKS and that provides the necessary data and reports that we need to effectively run our classrooms and school. A few things to note: You cannot use a ChromeBook for the old version, you need a PC or Mac. The PowerTeacher Pro Link is still found in the left side navigation pane... don't use it. To LAUNCH PowerTeacher: Choose the down arrow next to the Launch button towards the lower part of your screen and choose INSTALLER like in the pic below.    Once you click that button, a program file will download to your computer.  Click that downloaded file and the Installer will launch let it ...

Google Docs is an amazing tool for collaboration.  The ability to share documents through the cloud proves ueful time and time again.  However, as with most technology there is a learning curve and mistakes and misunderstandings are to had.  Writing out explicit instructions, making how to videos, or pointing users to Synergyse is helpful.  Learning shortcuts to help teachers and students is even more so.  One great short cut is using a FORCE COPY feature of Google Apps for Education. The idea is simple.  Create a link that forces every person who visits the link to create a  copy .  This can be done with any of the GAFE suite.  Here is how it works: copy   the link from the Create Sharable Link ... (example)  https://docs.google.com/a/ prescottschools.com/ spreadsheets/d/ 1bpHsjE28nHxdv3CMhCMu68d5lMlzh 78_f5tIvHavUYs/edit?usp= sharing remove the part that says edit?usp=sharing and change it to   copy https://docs.google.com/a/...

An email came in today from a teacher asking: After thinking about all the possible solutions, I offer this solution: HOW TO MANY ANY IMAGE CLICKABLE This method works in Google GMail, Sites, Docs, Drawings, et al.   The process is quite simple and the steps are easy to follow.  You will need a the URL of the website you would like to link the image to.  Text can also be linked. C opy the link of your Twitter profile page.  Here is m y profile link on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ms_Robyn_Bryce Now find or create an image that your want to use.  If you are using one from the internet be aware of the usage rights and be sure to give the author credit.  For our purposes we will be using a Twitter button (found here:  http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2794/4233520483_eb85d03abe_o.png ).   This image is a  .png image.  We use .png because they have transparent backgrounds so there is no framing box around the image.   Now highlight the ima...