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November 12, 2025

1. Sign in and stow your phones out of sight. Log into a Chromebook and complete the WYAW activities.
   
   
2. The Personal Digital Story is DUE tonight before or by midnight. Please complete the form for your screening preferences: https://forms.gle/1QyoDaiTFdBgZQih9
   
   
3. Your PSAs.......
   
   
4. More with Google Classroom
   
• We'll do a NearPod activity together as a class with you in the role of students. NOTE: Students can also use teacher created NearPods on an individual, self-paced basis. Your While You Are Waiting on Tuesday will be to explore NearPod.
  
  
5. Communicating with Families
   TABLE GROUPS: What are some ways you can communicate with families using old or new technology?
   
   Old School Tool: Printed Newsletter
   
   Good Old Standby Tool: E-mail
   
   New Tools: Remind, Class Dojo, and (drum roll.....)
   SMORE (https://www.smore.com/)
1. Free tool limited to 3 publications total, 200 email "sends" but this refreshes each month with another 200 sends
2. Good for digital communication - email blasts
3. Affordable for educators ($99/year - see if your media specialist or principal will cover it or set up a donor's choose)
4. Let's check out a few things Smore can do:
   
   1. Choose from a limited number of backgrounds, colors, and fonts
   2. Add text to preformatted boxes
   3. Add images and embed video
   4. NOTE: To add images, you have to download and save them and then insert them into your flyer/newsletter
      
      
6. Here are some examples from past students. This may be a great way to introduce yourself to your kiddos in the Spring for Internship!
   • To introduce yourself:
• https://www.smore.com/m6xt5-meet-ms-white Ashlee
• https://www.smore.com/bvab8 Taylor
• https://www.smore.com/9q0z2 James
• https://www.smore.com/vd9nj Hannah
• https://www.smore.com/ctx23-meet-ms-o-dwyer Ashlee
• https://www.smore.com/e14rc-welcome-to-our-2nd-grade-class Bailey
• https://www.smore.com/wxt6m-meet-miss-teryn Teryn
  
  • For international outreach and information: https://www.smore.com/mv0y3-kenya-bound
  • To share or promote your organization: https://www.smore.com/xeb30-let-s-have-a-parade
  • It can be useful for personal events as well https://www.smore.com/33zxf
    
    
7. YOUR TASK:
   • Relevant text that is polished and grammatically correct;
   • At least 2 text blocks (with text only or with images)
     __ Text #1
     __ Text #2
     
   • One two or three image gallery
   • 1 embedded video
   • 1 event
   • Listing of sources (url is fine) at the bottom of the flyer/newsletter using a text block
     
8. STUDIO TIME: Work on your.....

• smore newsletter
  
  
• Personal Digital Story and/or reflection. NOTE the guidelines for the reflection. Don't mail it in, folks!
  
  
• Web 2.0 #4 Google Tour