Post #9: Survey, BrainPop, Hour of Code, Osmo

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Subscription Survey: As mentioned at the November staff, please take a few minutes to complete the 2015-16 Subscription Services Survey. Your input is imperative in ensuring that we support the curriculum tools that you use. Please help us to allocate our software budget appropriately. Please complete the survey by Wednesday, November 18th. Thank you for your help.

BrainPop Trial: Don't forget to give this a try. Our trial runs out soon.... Here is the login information. 

 username: happyhollowschool (no spaces, no capitals)
password: happyhollow (no spaces, no capitals)








Hour of Code: Hour of Code is the week of December 7th-13th. All computer classes will participate in programming activities for the month of December. We will begin earlier than December 7th to give all students an opportunity to explore several programming methods. If you'd like to implement code activities with your students and are looking for assistance, please let me know. There are a variety of online and offline activities.


Osmo for iPad Update: I am ordering 5 Osmo sets for us to explore. I will let you know when they arrive. 



Tech Committee: The Technology Committee met on Tuesday, November 10th. We had a great discussion around software selection, and budgeting for software needs. We also spent a few minutes discussing device goals per grade level. Here are our notes. If you have any questions, feel free to connect with your technology committee rep or myself. All are always welcome to our meetings. Next month we will look at the results of the subscription survey and brainstorm topics we'd like to learn more about this year.