Teacher & Support Staff Resources

CURRENT CURRICULAR EVENTS

1. Terry Fox
2. Orange Shirt Day

Reference Links

1. District Resource Centre Catalog, SD83
2. World of Information
3. Daily Cafe  
4. Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap Society (LASS)
5. Provincial IRPs 
6. Provincial Learning Resource Catalog
7. Microsoft Education: Virtual Learning (i.e Skype Learning)
8. SD 83 Homepage
9. Bastion Elementary

Ongoing Themes

1.  Anti-Bullying Resources - DRC
2.  Reading & Writing Power - Adrienne Gear 

Twitter

1. @sd83drc  District Resource Centre - tweeting about new amazing resources ...
2. @sd83schools  School District 83, North Okanagan Shuswap
3. @Shannon_M1, Ardent Librarian, Shannon Murrells-Allaways PLN account
4. @_Murrells, Shannon Murrells-Allaway for parents, students, our Bastion elementary community

Facebook

1. Bastion Elementary Learning Commons, École Élémentaire Bastion Bibliothèque
2. School District No. 83 - North Okanagan-Shuswap

2018-19 School and District Themes

NOTE: send me various educational suggestions (apps, web sites, blogs, etc. and I can list them here "Teacher and Support Staff Resources" for one-stop shopping and professional networking smurrell@sd83.bc.ca.  Ask me about Twitter for more professional development and networking with peeps who share similar interests.

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2016-17 School and District Themes: Pro D & Other

Dec. 5th Pro D - Morning: Information on Windows 10, iPad Education Apps, Smart Board Tutorials
                            Afternoon "Play is the Way"

• Windows 10:
• Youtube tutorial by Sali Kaceli, overview (55:50)
• School Connect, LAN School with Windows 10 - shared Google doc created by Shannon and shared with "editing" status, so you can all flesh out those steps.
• Smart Boards:
• First Class "Smart Board Resources." Log in/Directory/All School Conferences/Smart Board Resources [click to open].  This sd83 tutorial package offers Word and PDF docs
• "SMART Board Tutorial" (5:34) covers how to plug into a computer and then how to use some of the basic features
• "5 Tips and Tricks for the SmartBoard" (4:11) focuses on how to use the Notebook Software (it's like using Word, but for the Smartboard and it's own bells & whistles)
• Pintrest Collation of Smartboard use and other themes (lots to wade through but some good items)
• Using Smart Ink 4 by Smart Support - tips from "the horses mouth" [the creators of these products]
• Warren Askew stellar instructions of how to connect Apple Products to Smartboards: see a FirstClass forward from me (Dec5th, 2016) with the subject Airserver (look for the search window top right that says "filter" & type Airserver and hit enter & it will sift through your emails and find just that topic for you
• iPad Educational Apps
• Resources for Using iPads in Grades K-2, Edutopia
• Resources for Using iPads in Grades 3-5, Edutopia
• iPad Math apps - suggested by AptGadget
• 20 iPad apps to Teach Elementary Reading
• Kathy Schrock's iPads4teaching
• SD83 Staff recommendations:
• ChatterPix Kids by Duck Duck Moose (free): "Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Then share your Pix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports [& storytelly]." Megan Weir, BAS, FI, 
• Play is the Way

2014-15 School Pro D Themes

Writing Continuum, Sandra Herbst and Anne Davies (Jan. 23rd, 2015, Bastion Pro D)

• connect2learning an online resource for educators
• Twitter Sandra Herbst