Clever at Home & Prodigy Made Easy - Wk 05

Here are a few highlights from this week:

Week 5 (September 17 - September 21, 2018)

Giggles:                             Why did the scientist install a knocker on his door?

                                            To win the no-bell prize.

FREE/OPTIONAL Professional Development (PD):  Here’s a date to mark on your calendar.

DETAILS: Building a website is easier than you might think. Click. Drag. Adjust. Move. I’ll walk you through the steps to get you started. Or, maybe you have a website started, but you can’t quite figure out a few bits. If that’s you, come on over! Have an old Site? Did you know you can convert it to the new format? Yep! You can. Come and learn how to do that.
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Getting onto Clever at Home.  Are your students having problems getting into Clever at home?  Are parents emailing you?  Here’s a short video that will answer their questions.  Feel free to add this to your website to aid/assist parents/students with this process. LINK HERE

Prodigy. So there are two links now.  Which one do I use?  The previous button didn’t work.  This one does, but there’s one more important detail.  Watch and see.  LINK HERE.

Free Music.  Do you ever make videos for YouTube?  Or slideshows for your campus?  Athletics?  Yearbook?  Is it too costly to purchase music again and again?  Well, YouTube has free music.  Check out this link if you are in search of some background music for your video work.  LINK HERE.

Word Cloud. Back in April, I taught several of my classes how to use WordArt.com to build a Word Cloud.  If you are unfamiliar with this tool and would like to try it out, you can find a video that will show you how to do this HERE.  So, how do you (the teacher) have access to those finished files?  Glad you asked.  You can use this tutorial to see how to print those final projects.

Video Capture.  If you have the Windows 10 operating system on your computer, you have access to video capture software.  Use Windows + G.  This initial window will pop up.  Click Yes.    

When you are ready to start recording, click the red dot (image below).  Confirm that you are recording your microphone.  And, you are good.  By default the videos will be saved in the Videos folder.  You can choose the gear to select an alternative spot for saving those captured videos.

Here’s a blog with more info on how to get started.

Screen Orientation.  Have you ever faced this?  “Teacher, the screen is sideways!”  Here is an easy fix: Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow.  If you are in the locked screen mode, sign in while the screen is sideways and then do the above task.  This should remedy the problem.  Wait about 6 seconds after you perform that keystroke pattern for the orientation to right itself.

YouTube Face Blur.  So, what if you want to post something to YouTube, but there’s one person in the video who’s face should be blurred?  Or you want to blur out personal information of some kind (username, password, etc.)?  Ugh!  No worries.  YouTube will now let you blur that face/information easily.  Head over to the YouTube video editor space and check out those buttons.  Now that face is no longer public and your video is ready to launch.  VIDEO LINK HERE.

Image Credits: screen capture from video (link above).

Kindly,