Need Infinite Campus Grade Book help?

If you have questions or need assistance with your Grade Reporting here are a few things to try -

1. See the Infinite Campus Support and Report Card Information page for more directions (choose grade level at the top).
2. See your building IC Building Contact for help.
3. We have a Grade Reporting category in the SysAid Work Order system. Directions for submitting a Grade Reporting Work Order
4. Check out one of our Blogs - MMSD Grade Book Updates (Secondary) or Elementary Report Cards - MMSD
5. You could contact Stacy Smith or Tina Krouth with questions as well. 

Flipped Classroom Resources

For those of you that are looking for some Flipped Classroom Resources...here you go!!!

"Three Questions to Consider Before We All Flip"
Flipped Learning 
Flipping the Classroom

Tools
Educreations
Present.me
Knovio
HelloSlide

Withheld Student Information - Infinite Campus

The link below shows what the Infinite Campus page looks like with regard to student information. You will also see what the ad hoc report looks like when a teacher requests information about parent preferences for student confidentiality.

Witheld Student Information

Tips & Tricks for Students Conducting Online Research

Tips & Tricks for Students Conducting Online Research

There are fantastic examples to use to teach students how to effectively search for information!

Bloom's Taxonomy Complete with Activity Ideas

A new perspective. Please take a look and share as you wish:

Bloom's Taxonomy

Khan Academy - Featured on 60 Minutes

In case you missed out this on Sunday night.

60 Minutes - Khan Academy (3/11/12)

Khan Academy Website - Students and staff can login within our domain to use (not blocked).

Embedding A Photo Slide Show in Drupal

Drupal editors, here is a way to embed a photo slide show into a Drupal page.  Because our district has opened up Picasa for teachers (Google's photo storage application) we now have an easy way to embed photos that autoplay when you go to the page, like these:  
     https://staffdevweb.madison.k12.wi.us/node/426

     https://nuestromundoweb.madison.k12.wi.us/home

Here are the instructions:

CREATE A WEB ALBUM WITH YOUR PHOTOS:

1.  Open FIREFOX and log into your district Gmail account.
2.  Open a new tab and go to https://picasaweb.google.com/home.  NOTE: (If you are told to install anything, then you will have to go to the NAL and double click on "Download Picasa 3".  Follow the instructions from here.)
3.  Click UPLOAD.  You are about to create an album.
4.  Type in a name for your album.
5.  Click "SELECT PHOTOS FROM YOUR COMPUTER"
6.  Double click on the folder for your photos and select all of the photos. Click OPEN.  All of the photos will transfer over.
7.  Click OK when they're finished transferring.
8.  At the top left hand side of the webpage are three tabs called "HOME", "MY PHOTOS" and "EXPLORE". Click on HOME.
9.  Double click on the album you just created. It will show all of your new photos.
10.  On the right side-bar, click the "Click here to enter an album description" 
11.  Add the pertinent information in the album description.  At the bottom is a pull down menu called VISIBILITY.  Pull this down and choose LIMITED, ANYONE WITH A LINK.  Save your changes.
12. There should now be a new link on the right-hand side-bar called "LINK TO THIS ALBUM".  It's small, so look for it.  It has a chain-link icon next to it.
13. Now click "EMBED SLIDESHOW". 
14.  Select the largest slideshow size.  Make sure AUTOPLAY is checked.
15.  Copy the HTML embed code and click DONE.

NOW, EMBED THIS IN A DRUPAL PAGE:

1.  Create a new Drupal page now.
2.  Go to INPUT FORMAT and change the editor type to JAVASCRIPT.
3.  Now, paste all of the code you just copied.  Do not change anything and do not add any text. 
4.  Click save and revel in how awesome this looks.

Keep mind that when using student work or showing photos of students, you must adhere to the District guidelines for showing this type of information on the web. Check with your building secretary to run a list of students in IC that are not allowed to have their photographs published online.

If you run into any problems here, you are free to email me at jrwelborn@madison.k12.wi.us

Acceptable Use Policy

On December 19, 2011 the MMSD Board of Education voted to approved the revised Acceptable Use Policy.
Here is a link to this on our web site
https://techsvcweb.madison.k12.wi.us/node/237
In addition, here are links to what has been added/revised.
Revised Student AUP
Revised Staff AUP

Edit YouTube videos with TubeChop

I just ran across a way to pull an excerpt from a YouTube video. It's a web-based tool, so no download is necessary. The pdf below will give you some more details:

About TubeChop

Moving to a Blended Learning Model

If you're interested in moving your class to a blended learning model where there is a face to face component and an online component, consider using Moodle or another tool called Coursekit to organize your curriculum materials and promote collaboration within your classes. MMSD has a Moodle instance ready for you to use. If you would like a course shell set up for you, please contact Paula Srite. Coursekit is an online resource that is free for anyone to use.

Using Online Resources

There are several free online resources available to you and your students to use to supplement your curriculum. I'm sure by now many of you have heard of Khan Academy. Here are some others:
Mangahigh (games-based k-12 math teaching resource)
MIT Open Courseware
Purplemath
HippoCampus
OpenUW (Washington)

If you use others in your class, please share!