Wow and WOW.  A truly overlooked resource.  But what to use it for? Click on the Voyager (click on the helm!) Then the Education tab...​https://earth.google.com/ and take some time to browse.  Some obscure examples other than Geography include.   In Voyager we cannot search so you do HAVE to click and scroll.  So have at it.  Word of warning - Art history images do include some sculptures!

Education Tab

• The sculptures of Ruta de la Amistad
• WWII memorials around the world
• Discover France
• Football Stadiums
• The Geometry of Sustainable Architecture
• Poetry around the World
• Literary Locations in Real Life

Of course there are some cool even cooler trips too. 

• Hikes around the world
• Dangerous Races
• Old towns of the world
• Epic ski Jumps

Under the Nature Tab

• Timelapse in Google Earth.   From there you can search for a location such as the Great Salt Lake or Holladay and watch our school being be built!

Click the Quiz Tab and see what you know about

• Musical Instruments 
• US presidents
• Animal Calls
• Holiday Traditions
• Rock and Roll Icons
• Or play the unforgettable Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego!

Time to revisit and old favorite.  Making a Google Map with your own places on it.  Anything with a location can be put on a map!  Here is how to do it, we will come up with examples at the end.  Believe it or not there are a few ways to do it and there are differences! 
BE SURE YOU ARE LOGGED IN TO THE CORRECT G-MAIL ACCOUNT!  School or Personal?!

But wait!  Even better - Have your students do the hard work of getting the data! And answer some questions related to places.  Create a form with questions for students to answers.  Include a PLACE that can be mapped.  Ask a few more questions.  That form will create a spreadsheet.  That spreadsheet can fill your map!  Then you present it to the class.

How to get rid of any old ones or shared with you ones...​

• Places a character in a book visited and what they did there.
• Specific war battles
• Art collections and the museums they are in.
• Favorite or best sport teams..
• Famous Scientist/Mathematician hometowns
• The travels of an explorer.
• let your imagine go!

I keep thinking of it as a form for students to fill out with the data you want and YOU create the map.  BUT students could do this on their own too.  I WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY  to show them how.

The problem with teaching students is they get smart and curious and figure things out.  Well they figured out how to, as a few teachers put it... "hack the TV's".  So we just have a few simple things we need to change.

On the TV touch the arrow on the right or left side. then the blue settings box. (Teacher Control Center)

​In the Teacher Control Panel change

• Share Screen to = Need Authorization
• View, control... = Disable

These settings can easily be changed back.

Because of this... You will have to give
YOURSELF permission to view your computer on YOUR screen. Touch "Allow".

​If you do not recognize the computer name or not expecting anyone to be on your TV.  Deny them access!

It is not quite as robust as the original but has all that you will need to observe your students on their Chomebooks.  Allow, block and screenshots are the simplest and best tools you can use this for.  PLEASE let me know if you would like some help in getting starting with this.  I would happily come down to a class and show you how it works.  You still have to Start and End classes but students are NOT locked in anymore.
Click here for some on your own details

It is specifically for Chromebooks and does not replace the legacy wired version in labs.

Please let me know when you have submitted your site and I will put your SM link up on our school's Social Media webpage.

Sometimes the last thing you want are MORE e-mails.  BUT what if they WERE relevant to what you teach or are interested in... UEN hosts a large amount of education lists that you may be interest in.  Check it out here - ​https://lists.uen.org/mailmlists.uen.org/mailman/listinfo

Please don't forget that I (and the Library) are here for you and your students.  We have physical books, e-books, audiobooks, an old school computer lab, a poster printer, work tables, magazines. 

I can help teach your students about research, tech tools usage, Digital Literacy, library books.
​
If you ever need to send a student down please do so on a pass or note.

​Read what you need! Skip the rest!  (Trying to keep you updated - in as little wording as I can!)

1. SMART Software.   Click here if you need the license   
2. Google Drive error - To fix this please run “Security Scan”.  An update will fix it.
3. Outlook NOT connecting.  Re-install it yourself or put in a work order.
4. LanSchool (for Chromebooks) Is now running Via a website.  I will find out details later this week. But in order to get the website on your computer please… Run… “Security Scan”!
5. LanSchool in a computer Lab… No change.  But run SS anyway! 😉
6. To the best of my knowledge EVERY STAFF member is now getting the Morning Bulletin on their TEACHER computer(s).  If NOT Run… Security Scan. RESTART. 
   If it still does not show up - put in a work order.
7. Printers seem to be back in control.  FYI – HP had an update (last week) which caused most of the errors you are seeing.  Our NE has had to fix each one on the network.  Work orders are required!
8. It is getting close to being too late to cross-list classes in Canvas.  IF you need help send me an e-mail or c’mon down.
9. If you are one who is doing NON-PBL. YOU must set up your own Gradebook.  Please chose the “Canvas District Categories” when setting up your Gradebook.  Canvas Groups MUST = Gradebook Categories!
10. Student Passwords…. Seems like I have changed a “phewhundred!” (see what I did there?)  IF you change their PW,  PLEASE do NOT force them to change it again.  UNCHECK the box!  I have also noticed quite a few kids who have been sent down trying to log in with their @graniteschools.org acct. OR @granitesd.COM - Please do a quick looksee before sending them.
11. Clever.com is a one stop password portal for all of us.  Feel free to share these instructions with your students.  Works for you Too.  It’s pretty slick
12. That’s enough for one e-mail! 😉 Busy and hectic – but all is good!

 
Questions about any of it… Let me know with a response.

​“Techie Tuesday” is all about the Library this week!
Please do not forget you are more than welcome to bring your classes down to use your school’s library.
 
March Madness voting is here  There is a bracket in the library on the window, I did not hand out a fillable bracket as I was a smidge late on getting them printed.  BUT you can still vote!  Enjoy and please encourage your students to vote too.  Each week it will get narrowed down from the sweet 16 until we have a “Champion”.

 
Picturing Women Inventors
I have a set of these posters that will be hanging on the library windows.  There is a “student made” quiz that goes along with them if you would like to have your students take the quiz.  Or if you want to come down and take the quiz feel free.  The quiz is linked on the QR codes outside the window.  If you want student’s scores be sure they answer that question correctly!
 

Many places use a room calendar to sign-up for on your own, OR just to see if the room is available.  Here is how to find out.

Please also find and sign up for the Library this way!

1. From your Outlook Calendar toolbar... Click the dropdown arrow on the "Add Calendar" button and select 'From Room List'. (or  Shared Calendar.  Seems like they both go to the same place)
2. Click on Name, then search for, or start typing "Olympus Sr," to see what rooms we have.  Select the "...Media Lab' and click ok.
3. To sign up, click the date you want and type the period/day and your name at minimum!  Don't bother with times... Unless you need to!  If you just want to use the tables that is great too.  But type that in the box.
4. To sign up for a Textbook Check in (or out) please search for and use the Calendar "Olympus Sr, Book Schedule".  Then add your name and time you will be down. 
   Please sign up for TIMES, and not "All day".  Approx. 20 min. intervals.

Outlook may be trying to load a cached version... Try this in Outlook

1. Go to file -> Info
2. Account settings / Account settings
3. Double click your name/GSD account.
4. UN-check the box that says "Use a cached version..."
5. Next / Done / Close

Or watch the video below!

What do things like 

• The Great Gatsby, Macbeth
• Fredrick Douglas, The War, The Poetry Lounge, Carbs on Trial
• The Amazing Mole, Billy’s Bootcamp
• They Made America, The Heart of the Game.
• And a 100 (or so) more

 
all have in common?
 
They are all DVD’S that are going in the garbage on Thursday.  UNLESS you come and browse and take the ones you want!

I had a meeting with the turn it in sale rep today.  She said she ran our usage report 3 times as she was NOT sure of the data.  We, (YOU) are off the charts in usage!!!!  Hoorray!  Good job on the plagiarism pledge stuff.  That data also showed that you are using it as a "teaching tool" and not a "caught ya" tool.  More information next week.

Yes the portal was down more than it was up yesterday. PLEASE don’t let that stop you or your students from working!  Canvas, Gradebook and all the other sites were working fine.  I seldom use the portal so I did not know it was down.  All the links you need are on the school website or in the blue bar under… (drum roll…) Links!  And if one is missing – let me know so I can add it.

We (the Library) are proud owners of a 3D printer now.  While it is not for everyone and can take some time it is still available for you and students.  I am hoping we can get some 3D designs going and learn more about how to use it with classes for both design and content.  Check out some ideas and projects at https://www.thingiverse.com/  More 3D printer links are here - www.diigo.com/user/ksmedberg?query=%233d

A reminder to those who need it... (as of Monday 2:15 there are 50-ish of you!!! IOW 33 have sent in your links!)
Your zoom links should be ready and posted in Pick-a-Time as described and told to you earlier this week.  If parents do not have your link when they sign up tomorrow they will likely be calling the school secretaries for it!
LINK TO INSTRUCTIONS IS HERE  

These are always great - https://rumors.newslit.org/

Why yes there is one out there. Let me know if you are interesting in previewing it and I can send it to you.

Welcome back! Happy 2020 two (let’s hope not!)
 

1. Grade book is open for posting!  As always instructions are here - https://www.theolycenter.org/posting.html.  Please RUN YOUR REPORTS to see if there are any errors – it happens.  BUT give it… maybe 30 minutes AFTER you post your grades.  Many times some of you say you ARE posted but your report is red… Give it a little time for all the data to catch up.  Also since we are not doing Citizenship (we are doing CCLR) the Citizenship column may be all RED.  I do not know if this has been fixed and do not want to check right now.  Be sure to do your CCLR grading instead.  Those instructions are of course on the link above!  Ryan has also sent them and will inform us of any updated/changes/improvements.
   
   
2. Canvas Cross-listing and importing instructions will come soon!  That has not changed.  There is (or was) a big notice in Canvas about second semester classes.  Be sure to read it!
   
   
3. Copier/Printer in 200, the mailbox room.  Remember when we used to be able to print to the copier in room 200?  Two teachers came to me asking about why it does not work anymore.  The codes were removed from the copier.  BUT not if you need to print to it you need your code!  You can use mine if you need one.  It still needs to be set up that way so you do not interrupt another user standing at the machine.  Also, that copier has been moved to the teacher “lunchroom”.  I will get it renamed and instructions to you next week.
   
   
4. MONITORS!  Woohoo!  Your 24-inch monitors are in.  They were to be delivered in the summer with your laptop and dock, but Santa brought them instead!  We are in the process of unboxing and barcoding them.  If you would like yours ASAP please put in a work order.  Otherwise, they will be set up by dept, or hall or some other way that works for us!  Yes, you will be getting a dock and a monitor.
   
   
5. With the laptops… there were some issues with them not booting up or showing a black screen of death or date/time error.  This is because you have not plugged it in it has died a sad death.  Please put in work orders and we can have it revived.
   
   
6. Some of you always wait until you NEED something fixed (It’s human nature I know)  But the longer you wait the longer it takes! On that note… We “Lost” our Network Engineer (Evan moved on) and others are filling in and keeping us working.  Please keep putting in work orders.
   
   
7. Not techie (except that it is a website!) Don’t forget this is PUBLIC information – Go here and click on schools - https://coronavirus.utah.gov/case-counts/  :(
   
   
8. Screenbeams - Y’all are rockin’ those!   It is so cool to see so many of you teaching “wirelessly” from your room.  The only thing I would remind of is - If you are staying at your desk… You do not need to wear out your screenbeam, use your PC.  But you will love your dock!
   
   
9. New mics – ditto!  They’re G R E A T.  If you do not think so… you’re not using it!
   
   
10. I had another student bring me a yellow powercord.  PLEASE stop being nice!  (Yes, I know who you are - they’re engraved!) Those are for your ROOM - NOT to be given out to students.  They have a powercord or they can come get another one from mean ‘ol me!

 
You’re the best!!
 
Questions? Please respond!