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Choice Boards

Date September 6, 2018

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I love choice boards. These boards of choice give the students a stake in their education, and if presented well can motivate the unmotivatable (is that even a word?) You can customize these boards to adjust the activities or the number of squares. Make it however it will work best for you. You do not even have to make the choices tech oriented, but if you do, you have a reason to call me into your room. You can search for fancy templates or make your own. Please let me know if you need anything from me along the way.

Custom Eye Chart Maker

Date May 17, 2018

Posted by Tim Mangia

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For a fun way to sent messages to your students and colleagues try http://www.eyechartmaker.com/. It is free and easy, fast and fun. All you do is type in your 28 characters and click the “make the chart” button. Up comes your chart. Just use the clipping tool to save the image while omitting the website information on the bottom or copy and paste the image into a document. The more fun the message, the more in-tune your students will want to be in your room, present and ready to problem solve. Change the message weekly, daily or randomly to add to their excitement.

Office 365 School

Date March 20, 2018

Posted by Tim Mangia

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Even though Google seems to be taking over the world and in every nook and cranny of our lives, Monticello is still an Office 365 school. There are advantages to Google, but one of those is not their support. The allure of the Chromebook is ever-present and probably will not go away anytime soon because google is so big and a lot of what they do is free or free for a limited time. The truth is that Chromebooks do not last. They are however, easily replaceable and turnover is high.

Office 365 has support. Online support, in-person support, and countless videos online you can watch on Google owned Youtube. Part of that support are these hard copy paper tents of keyboard shortcuts I have attached to this post.

Hour of Code

Date November 18, 2015

Posted by Donna Meehan

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This is my 3rd year doing the hour of code with students and I’m so excited! RJK Middle School in Monticello, NY will participate in the Hour of Code Global Event. Here is a map showing over 107,000 events around the world.

The kids are super excited that Minecraft has been added as a tutorial.

Here is a great resource that gives step by step instructions to getting started.

Happy Coding

– Donna

Hour of Code