January 6th- January 10th

The perfect book trailer to kick off Digital Learning Day!

Digital Learning Day is coming on February 5th! In the next few weeks, we will begin planning how we can celebrate Digital Learning Day at Star Academy! Some of you had asked what this might look like with elementary students, so I'm sharing my post from last year's Digital Learning Day in my first grade class! Click here to check it out!

Dates and Details

January 6- NCS staff development day 9:00-11:30 in the library with PACT
January 8th- cadre meetings
January 9th- open lab tech time with Joe-- anything you need!
January 15th- no meeting
January 16th- tech time- connecting with authors via Skype and Twitter / Digital Learning Day

January 17 report cards sent home
January 22nd PIP Wednesday and Jennifer off campus visiting John Swett Elementary in Martinez, Julie teacher-in-charge
January 23rd- DLD planning at tech time

January 27th - ALA Awards broadcast! December and January: Mock Caldecott at Star Academy! Click here for the link to the live broadcast of the awards ceremony!
January 29th- no meetings 10:30 Pennies for Patients assembly

Tech Tips

Did you know you can create a PDF with any document just by selecting a different printer in your print window? This can be very helpful when you have a PDF that won't allow you to save what you've typed in. So, just type into your PDF and then click print. This window will pop up:

Just change your printer in "Local Destinations" to "Save as PDF" and voila, instead of printing it will save whatever you are working on as a pdf which you can then save to your computer and print out or attach. Easy!

Posting to Blogger via email: Check out these three posts for submitting blog posts via email! 

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/02/how-to-post-to-blogger-via-email.html 

or

https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/41452?hl=en 

or

http://bling4yrblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/posting-to-your-blog-with-email.html

Welcome back and have a great week!