iPad Tip: Adjust Google Classroom Notifications

If you're noticing a lot of "pings" due to Google Classroom notifications, you can customize this in the Settings app. Choose how you want to be notified and help your students do the same.

Watch this screencast to learn how (1:12 min).

iPads- Enable and Customize Assistive Touch Icon

Help your students follow you on your iPad and make your life a little easier. 

View this screencast to enable the Assistive Touch icon and customize available features so they're easier to get to. 

I would recommend adding screenshot, screen reader and lock rotation to the menu but the full list is below. 

Features available: 

• Home
• Notifications
• Custom
• Device
• Control Center
• Lock Screen
• Rotate Screen
• Volume Up
• Volume Down
• Gestures
• Accessibility Shortcut
• Shake
• App Switcher
• Screenshot
• Lock Rotation
• Pinch
• Double Tap
• Analytics
• Dock
• Restart
• Speak Screen
• Multitasking
• Touch
• Swipe

Find out more about assistive touch on Apple's support page. 

Reach out with any questions!

WVIZ PBS ideastream Updates - September & October 2019

Upcoming PD Events

Early Childhood Education Network Council

Be a part of this new professional network.

Link to Register

2019 ideastream Technology + Learning Conference
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Time: 8:30 - 3:30 PM
Location: IDEA Center at Playhouse Square
Link to Register

PBS TeacherLine 
Check out the list of self-paced online PD courses available for our busy schedules. You have the opportunity to earn graduate-level credit as well. 
Link to PD Courses 

Career Path Less Taken - A PBS Program worth watching! 

Production of WOSU Public Media, CET, and ideastream

"In Ohio and nationally, there’s a mismatch between in-demand jobs and workers trained to fill them."

Preview the Program

View the full program!

https://www.pbs.org/show/career-path-less-taken/ (26 min.)

Why watch it, show it to parents, and students? It addresses the skills gap with career and technical needs revealing paths beyond a 4-yr. college degree in the following areas:

• Informational Technology
• Health Care
• Advanced Manufacturing - automation/robotics
• Construction
• Supply Chain
• Cybersecurity

70% of Ohio college graduates leave with $30,000 in debt

Ohio is the 5th worst state for college debt

Also, view "Talking Jobs with CEOs"

https://www.ideastream.org/education/american-graduate/talking-jobs-with-ceos

These videos showcase interviews from CEOs to hear what they need and how we can help prepare our students. 

Building Digital Curriculum with INFOhio OER

Melissa Solema, INFOhio Instructional Team Specialist

Here is a link to Melissa’s Presentation

Link to Educator Tools

NEW this year! Open Space: A platform for standards-aligned OERs.

https://www.infohio.org/

Upcoming Literacy PD Opportunity through INFOhio

http://www.infohio.org/goto/literacypd

Monday, October 28, 2019, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.

ESC of Northeast Ohio

Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Stark County ESC

INFOhio is excited to partner with Scholastic, the ESC of Northeast Ohio, Stark County ESC, and Great Start for Great Futures Coalition to bring a full day of fee-free professional development to teachers, administrators, curriculum directors, school librarians, and other educational staff working with students in grades PreK-5.

Don’t miss Pam Allyn, Scholastic’s Vice President of Innovation and Development and the author of Every Child a Super Reader, as the opening keynote presenter. Participants will receive a copy of Ms. Allyn’s book, as well as a copy of a title included in one of Scholastic’s resources, BookFlix or Storia: Ohio’s 4th and 5th Grade eBook Collection, which are available to Ohio schools from INFOhio.

Read&Write on the iPad

With the renewal of our district premium subscription, I wanted to let you know that you and your students are now able to get Read&Write on your iPad. 

I've put together a set of instructions to install, use, and remove. It also contains the link to the Read&Write iPad Guide that I suggest you scroll through prior to installing to see if it will be beneficial for you. 

If you feel that it would be helpful for your students, please feel free to share the instructions with them as well. 

Although the iPad has some incredible accessibility features built-in, feel free to explore this resource as well to enhance your productivity and overall experience on the device.