GoogleDocs Outline feature

Sick of the Keychain message in Mac OS?

Are you sick of seeing the message asking for you to enter the keychain password? Usually you have it wrong or have forgotten it and then you try and close the dialogue box up to 20 times to get
rid of it.
The solution can be found in the following article from the TechRaptor site.

How to get rid of annoying Local Items Keychain box

Tech on Tap Presentations

Presentation	Description & Links	Contact Presenter
Post It app	https://www.post-it.com Video (free)	natalie.priest@seoulforeign.org
Canva	Canva is an easy and free way to make posters, flyers, presentations, etc.   https://www.canva.com/ (free but with some elements you can buy)	linda.an@seoulforeign.org
GoNoodle	GoNoodle, great for brain breaks and getting the kids moving https://www.gonoodle.com/ (free with pro account option)	jo.bigwood@seoulforeign.org
Headspace	A mindfulness and meditation app https://www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app (free with pro account option)	jessie.gochar@seoulforeign.org
LessonPix	Create Custom Learning Materials. It's a great tool for ELL and Learning Support teachers at all levels, World Language teachers, early childhood and elementary teachers, counselors, and even parents. http://lessonpix.com/ (Paid subscription. Can create a free account.)	holly.hitchcock@seoulforeign.org
Kidblog	“Kidblog empowers students to write with a meaningful purpose for a real audience. Connect with other classes down the hallway, across your district, or around the world. Students practice digital citizenship within a secure environment.” https://kidblog.org/home/ (Subscription per student. School and District options)	donna.youngblood@seoulforeign.org
QR Codes and Google Street View	https://www.google.com/streetview/ (Computer access) Downloadable from the App Store and Google Play (Free)	deborah.chu@seoulforeign.org
Toshl Finance	This is an app to help track spending and has a currency converter. https://toshl.com/ (free with pro account option)	lisa.adams@seoulforeign.org
Plotagraph app	“Tell your story in a fun and unique way with animated images that can now be shared on most of your favorite social media platforms as a looping video or Animated PNG” https://plotagraphs.com ($4.99 from the App Store)	david.beaty@seoulforeign.org
Digital Badges	https://openbadgefactory.com/ Open Badge Factory is a system that allows teachers to create, issue and manage digital badges. (SFS has a year’s subscription to the system)	alan.hoskin@seoulforeign.org

Embed PollEverywhere in Google Slides

Poll Everywhere is a tool that allows for live audience participation during lessons and presentations. Ask a question and you can immediately collect and display students' responses.  You'll know what they're thinking, and they'll see their peers' responses right away.

In addition to polls and open-ended responses, Poll Everywhere creates word clouds out of responses, hosts clickable images, surveys, and allows for priority ranking.

Poll Everywhere is a great check-in to see where your students are in their learning process, gives each student a voice, and integrates well with presentation tools. Check out this tutorial to see how to embed a Poll directly into Google Slides and give it a try!

VoiceThread Workshops for October and November 2017

Join us for our free workshops! If you are new to VoiceThread or just want some new ideas, we can help you with these interactive and hands-on workshops.

If there is a workshop you are particularly interested but can't make it, just let Alan know (alan.hoskin@seoulforeign.org) and he will see if he is available to record it for you.

See All Workshops

VoiceThread Basics 1 - Upload, Comment, and Share
October 17 at 7:00pm ET (8am Seoul Time) - Register here

Participants will learn how to upload media, comment and annotate on that media, and share it with others. This will be a slow paced, step-by-step, hands-on workshop. It is open to both VoiceThread license holders and free members.

VoiceThread Basics 2 - Groups and Secure Sharing​
October 24 at 7:00pm ET (8am Seoul Time) - Register here

We will begin to explore the features available to VoiceThreaders with a full license. Participants will learn how to create groups and subgroups, set sharing permissions within those groups, and privately share VoiceThreads with individuals.

VoiceThread Basics 3 - Moderating Comments, Private and Threaded Replies, and Copying
October 30 at 7:00pm ET (8am Seoul Time) - Register here

In our third workshop in the series, participants will learn how to use comment moderation to formatively assess student work, give private feedback, use threaded commenting, and copy VoiceThreads for use with multiple groups.

K-12 Language Arts with VoiceThread
November 7 at 7:00pm ET (8am Seoul Time) - Register here

In this workshop, our guest facilitators Mia Styles and Mary Ellen Davies will showcase a variety of VoiceThreads they have created to engage students in literature and poetry activities. Learn about their global read-alouds, book talks, poetry discussions, and more!

VoiceThread Basics 4 - VoiceThread and Your LMS
November 21 at 7:00pm ET (8am Seoul Time) - Register here

We will work on integrating VoiceThread into a learning management system. With LMS integration educators can create and share VoiceThreads and grade student work. Participants will learn how to use the assignment builder feature to assess student work during a hands-on segment.

About the Workshops

These workshops are completely free. The Basics workshops are led by our instructional designer and online educator George Haines.  George and our guest facilitators will share their expertise to help you get the most from VoiceThread.

Identity in a Digital World

This is a very good TED Talk by Alec Couros. He discusses important questions we need to think about in terms of our students in this digital age. He raises the issue of the changes that have taken place. In the past our online persona was private by default and public with effort. Now the paradigm has changed, public by default and private with effort.

 

 He finishes with a quote from Clay Shirky (2011). " We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other." How can we get our students to do that?

Alec Couros will be speaking at the 21st Century Learning Conference in Hong Kong,
January 19 - 20,  2018.

Ask the DLCs to find out more at dlc@seoulforeign.org

Forgot your iPad Passcode?

https://www.lifewire.com/fix-forgot-ipads-password-1994344

Even if you haven't turned on Find My iPad and you've never plugged your iPad into your PC, you can reset the iPad by going into recovery mode. However, you will need to plug it into a PC with iTunes. If you don't have a PC with iTunes, you can download it from Apple, and if you don't have a PC at all, you can always use a friend's computer.

Here's the trick:

1. Connect the Lightning-to-USB cable to your PC. This is the same cable you use to charge your iPad. (If you have an older iPad, it will be a 30-pin-to-USB cable.) Only plug it into your PC. Leave your iPad unplugged for now.

1. Turn off your iPad. You can do this by holding down the Sleep/Wake button at the top of the iPad until a red slider appears and then move the slider to power down the iPad.

1. Hold down the Home button. This is the button at the bottom of the iPad, just below the display.

1. While holding down the home button, connect the cable to your iPad.

This will put the iPad into recovery mode and you can restore it to factory default.