Advanced+Schoolwires

Schoolwires Advanced Training for Classroom Teachers December 15, 2010 4-6 p.m.  North Penn High School, room K-024

**  Presenters:   ** franklep1@npenn.org System Support Specialist, NPSD Technology ESC ||  Scott Swindells swindesp@npenn.org Learning Coordinator for 7-12 Tech Integration ESC || **  Session Description: **  This advanced class is available to teachers who currently have a Schoolwires website and are actively updating content. This training will include nesting hierarchy, inserting tables, and the use of new features available – blogs, podcasts and photo galleries. **  Agenda:   ** 1) Acceptable Use Policy   a) Web Posting Guidelines b) Board Policy #6166a   c) Board Regulation #6166 d) Board Policy #6167   e) Copyright and Fair Use: The purpose of copyright protection is repeatedly and mistakenly reported to be for the protection of authors and others intellectual property owners. In fact, copyright has been always been for the purpose of benefiting society as a whole and particularly the institutions of education. Learning, or "science" in the language of the Enlightenment and the Constitution, was to be promoted by allowing authors and others rights for a limited time for their work. The first copyright act written into federal law was titled "The Education Act." Teachers in the classroom make the decisions closest to the field of instruction and it is teachers that have been the greatest rights---rights that even their districts do not have. This Copyright Chart was designed to inform teachers of what they may do under the law. [] 2) Hierarchy   a) Users must create the pages first, then organize them b) Turing hierarchy on and off   c) Why use hierarchy? 3) Tables   a) Edit a page and click on Insert Table icon. b) Draw table to fit desired size    c) Click “Edit Table/Cell” to edit a cell, edit table properties, or add or remove columns or rows 4) Photo Galleries   a) Tools > Files & Folders > Batch Upload – to upload pictures b) Tools > Files & Folders > Photo Gallery – to create and manage photo galleries   c) Edit a page > Insert Photo Gallery > Select gallery > Save 5) Active Blocks   a) Click the AcyiveBlocks icon. b) embedding simple content – for teachers who have sites in two buildings and want to mirror specific pages   6) E-Alerts – send a message to all subscribers when a page is updated a) How to subscribe – “Access My Info” (top right) > “Edit Subscriptions”   b) When editing any page, click “Create E-Alert” to send the message to subscribers 7) Blogs   a) Teachers must keep default settings so that only approved comments are posted b) This is a public site. Students must not use full names when posting.   c) Other options for blogging – MOODLE, Wikispaces. d) In Site Manager > Click “New Page” > Click “Blog”   8) Podcasts a) In Site Manager > Click “New Page” > Click “Podcast” b) Name the page c) Click “New Episode”   d) upload the audio file e) options for recording audio files  **   Notes:   **   Documentation is available in Site Manager.    Click Community & Support > Click Continue > Click Documentation (Centricity Resources)    Video Tutorials are available in Site Manager by clicking the "Tutorials" icon.
 * Eileen Franklin