CNN For Students

CNN Student News is a ten-minute, commercial-free, daily news program designed for middle and high school classes. It is produced by the journalists at CNN. This award-winning show and its companion website are available free of charge throughout the school year.

There is also an archive so you can find relevant topics. 

Check it out: http://www.cnn.com/studentnews 

Take a Virtual Tour of The White House

Using Google's Cultural Institute

Virtual Tour of the White House

https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/asset-viewer/the-white-house/jQGRSIlnzvE8_w?projectId=art-project

Keeping fingers and toes crossed!

Bring virtual reality field trips to your school with Google Expeditions

Starting today, we’re bringing this experience to thousands of schools around the world with the new Expeditions Pioneer Program. During the 2015/2016 school year, we’ll be bringing “kits” containing everything a teacher needs to run a virtual trip for their class: ASUS smartphones, a tablet for the teacher to direct the tour, a router that allows Expeditions to run without an Internet connection, and Google Cardboard viewers or Mattel View-Masters that turn phones into virtual reality headsets. Although nothing replaces hopping on the bus for a field trip, there are some places that are just out of reach (hello, Chichen Itza!). Virtual reality gives teachers a tool to take students places a school bus can't.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/bring-virtual-reality-field-trips-to.html 

Have you visited Google's "My Account" yet?

Google “My Account”

Control, protect, and secure your account, all in one place.  My Account gives you quick access to settings and tools that let you safeguard your data, protect your privacy, and decide how your information can make Google services work better for you.

I just went in and made some changes. There were a lot of things I didn't know about in there!  Especially helpful: Privacy Checkup and Security Checkup.

https://myaccount.google.com/

Homecoming Week!

I'm co-advisor for the Class of 2016 (Seniors!!!). They did an awesome job decorating their wall in the first event of Spirit Week leading up to our Homecoming pep rally/parade/football game on Friday. Can't wait to see if they take the trophy at the end. I'm hearing good plans for their float! The overall theme is "It's a Small World" and the seniors selected Africa.

NYSCATE Conference

A few Dansville employees were selected to present at the 50th Anniversary of the state NYSCATE Conference in November. NYS Association for Computers and Technologies in Education will host this state conference at the Riverside Convention Center in Rochester. Dansville Central Schools are committed to being leaders in technology for learning.

So excited!

It's like Christmas! We just got the Google Docs Voice Typing and the Google Sheets "explore" feature turned on today. Can't wait to see how our teachers are going to use these features.