Finding Assessments in Mastery Connect

1. Log in to Mastery Connect

2. Open the tracker where you wish to add the assessment

You have the ability to add any assessment that has already been made in the district, unless a teacher has marked the assessment as "Private to Me." From the tracker you want to add an assessment to, click on the "Add Assessment" button

3. Click on "Find a Common Assessment.

4. Type in the name of the assessment here

If you know the name of the assessment, click in the SEARCH box. If you need to add additional filters, such as grade level, do so until you find the assessment you wish to add to your tracker

5. Once you have the correct assessment, click on +Add To Tracker

Once you add the assessment, it will show in your tracker on the far right end of the tracker, since it was the last assessment entered. You can move the assessment to the location you want by clicking on the handle on the title of the assessment and dragging to the location you wish the assessment to show. Questions, please contact your building MC support, or Dr. Bryan Williams

Mastery Connect Help

 The help documents and videos for Mastery Connect are all now on Howell Net, and here’s the link.

http://howellnet.sharpschool.net/workspaces/One.aspx?objectId=13699196&contextId=2671251&parentId=5730973

October Lunch and Learn Resources

 

Youtube link:  : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1USQG8Bw3I&feature=youtu.be

 

 

Slideshare Link: http://www.slideshare.net/aaronmanfull/google-apps-teachers-can-use-in-their-classroom

 

Tech Fest Resources

Check out the link below for all session resources:

          tinyurl.com/fhsdpd

See link below for FHN's Padlet with our takeaways:

         http://padlet.com/cjbirch/mo67aej29ffr
         

Edit photos online with Pixlr

Looking for a good tool to edit photos? Maybe you want to change the tones. Maybe you want to crop the photo. Maybe you want to size it down so it looks better on the web. For people who work with photos a lot, Adobe Photoshop is the go-to program. However, there is a photo program online that has most of the tools you need from Photoshop and looks very similar if you are familiar with the former. It's called Pixlr. Check it out there at the link.

If you'd like an online tutorial on how to use some of the features, search Youtube or even google as there are a variety of resources out there for you.

Secure Password Generator and Apps to Store Your Passwords

Looking to strengthen up your passwords. Here are a couple tips that can help.

1. Use a website like: https://identitysafe.norton.com/password-generator/ to generate your passwords. They will be much more complex than ABC123 and will be much more likely to keep your info safe.

2. While passwords like the ones generated from the link in #1 are great to have, they are not fun to memorize. Never fear, there are some tools out there like Dashlane and 1Password to help. Check out the applications and what they have to offer. If you have any questions, don't hesitate contacting me and I'll be glad to assist.

How to show CC on your SmartBoard with DVDs

From: Kehoe, Yvonne M.
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:37 PM
To: All FH North High Employees
Cc: Miller, Cynthia L.; Cobb, Deborah L.; Brewer, Lawanda Dawn; Kelly, Christine Elaine
Subject: Showing Closed Captioning

I had a representative from Schillers come out to help us with our closed captioning (CC) woes.  The Sign Language Interpreters informed me that some of you were having trouble getting CC on a DVD.  Here is my advice if you are showing a DVD:  play it through your computer and not your DVD/VHS player.  If you go through your computer (and your computer is hooked up to your SMART Board speakers), you should either have the option of selecting English subtitles or CC.  Here are the steps to follow:

1.                   Put the movie into the DVD drive on your computer and show it through your computer, not the DVD/VHS player.

2.                   Go through MY COMPUTER and click on the DVD symbol.  The movie should start showing on your computer screen.

3.                   On the Play Bar at the bottom of the screen (where you see the -> to play, the box to stop, and the || to pause), there will be the letters “DVD” in all caps to the left.  Click on that.

4.                   Select “special features”

5.                   Select “captions”

6.                   Select “closed captioned”

You do not have to go through the above steps if the movie has “Language” as an option on the movie menu; you can select it and find English subtitles (using your mouse) as an alternative.  If you are showing a movie that does not have English subtitles (and we found some that do exist), you should be able to follow the above instructions and get CC.

Let me know if you are having any difficulties after following the above steps.

As for showing VHS tapes and getting CC…we’re still working on that.  It looks like the only option for now is to:  a) find another, more update movie on a DVD with the same content, or b) hook up the cable from your VHS player to a TV/VCR combo as you have been doing.

Angie Gunnell just sent out an email pertaining to purchasing DVD’s to support your curriculum…perfect timing.  Take this as an opportunity to purchase those newer movies on DVD format (if available) that have CC.

As most of you are aware, equal access to all information is the law (ADA).  Call me or ask your friendly Sign Language Interpreter to assist you.

Thank you,

Yvonne Kehoe

Teacher of the Deaf/HH

Francis Howell North High School

September Tech Committee Notes

Tech Meeting

9/24/14

·         FHN Blog

o   Tagging the blog

o   Naming Protocol for easy searching

§  Using the “Labels” feature

·         IC

·         MC

·         Articles

·         Instructional tools

·         Sharpschool

·         Schoology

·         Google Accounts

·         Tutorials

·         Tech Updates

·         Tech Committee

·         Voicethread

§  Also can use the search tool

·         Updates from ITS/IWS meeting

o   Learned Schoology and Voicethread

o   Voicethread accounts are ready

·         Updates from IT meeting

·         Updates from Media Specialists

o   Hotspots are ready for checkout

o   Communicate this to all when student laptops are ready

·         Other Updates

o   Email messenger in IC

§  Will put in the blog

 

·         Possible Lunch and Learn Topics-Oct, Nov, Jan, Feb, Mar, April

o   Luigi and Raphael’s as possible vendor

o   Sharepoint-Birch or Ben will present 2^nd semester

o   FHSD Google Accounts/Google Docs-Aaron Manfull on 10/24

o   Creating a Schoology account for your class-11/14 with Gina Hartman

o   VoiceThread (we are getting a district subscription to this)-LMS

§  In December

 

·         Update from Tech site visit and Ray Eernisse

o   Mastery Connect

§  May be pushing out an upgrade district wide

§  Issues with scoring MC and writing tests put together

§  Bottom line-continue to use the curriculum maps to get assessments

§  There may be more MC training documents placed on Howellnet or other resource

o   Browser issues

§  IE 9/Chrome—suggested that you use Chrome as main browser…there may be something soon that will suggest which browser to use for each program

o   HP Audio/Video issues

§  HP is working on this and has fixed the audio with a filter device that plugs into the docking station

·         Audio filters

§  They are working on the video issue

o   New iPad 2 Cart from District budget request last year

o   Extra laptop cart w/ s-cards (request from Ray)

o   Extra former teacher laptops

o   Purchasing the replacement projectors and printers

o   AP for guidance/ Guidance will be getting new devices, etc.

o   Where are we with Sharepoint? Share drive may be gone by fall break?

o   Work order report once a month

o   Top 5 IT problems for data collection and survey feedback on work orders for next year

o   13-14,000 devices in district

o   How do we let parents know to encourage students to bring laptop/tablets to school

o   Eventually top websites will be monitored

o   Staff survey coming as well in 3^rd quarter

o   Copiers-get locations for all copiers (109 and main office)

o   Wiring for APs coming now and APs will be added as well by maybe end of the year

 

·         What other data could we use?

o   What percentage of our students have Smart Phones

Labels

Here is the list of labels to use for your blog entries:

Sharpschool Website

Instructional Tools

Articles

Tech Committee Information

Technology Updates

Gadgets

Tutorials

Infinite Campus

Mastery Connect

Google Accounts

Schoology