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Brownsville Preparatory Institute

March 16, 2015

Volume 1, Issue 1

Show Off With Edmodo

When trying to keep up on
what a child is doing, parents
constantly are lost . Trying to
stay up to date on a childs
school life is a challenge for the
parents who are constantly
busy. Edmodo
offers a user
friendly accommodation for
the students as
well as the
parents. Having
a very similar
layout as some
popular social
media websites,
students are
already familiar
with where a
lot of the updates are found.

The students can communicate

as well as find their assignments and class announcements
on the home page. The teachers
are also able to award students
who have met a specific

Weebly
A great way to keep connection through students, parents and the teacher is to have a
classroom website. A teacher can post homework, updates and information relevant to the
class. A wonderful source to create a classroom website is Weebly.com It is a great way
to provide universal information that parents
need for the students. Parents can access what

achievement. Parents have their

own access into the website to
over see what is happening.
The teacher is also able to set
specific locks to control what
the students can and can not do
on the website. This
helps make the website more age appropriate for a wider variety of grades.

Special points of
interest:
Edmodo helps keep track
of your students current
progress.
Maintaining a class website using weebly.

the student is doing, what their schedule

is, and even weekly updates. The teacher
is responsible for what is uploaded and
maintained on the website but the teacher
is also responsible creating the website.
This means that the teacher can pick and
choose what to include into the construction of the site. The endless number of
benefits that derive from maintaining a
classroom website are numerous., for
teachers, parents and even students.

How to take precautions

to cyberbullying
Prezi offering new twists
on presentations.
More ideas by using
edshelf.

What is Lurking Behind the Keyboard

Almost every student has some sort of a
social media account. It is not uncommon to hear of some social incident that
arose from a dramatic Facebook situation. This is due to students crossing a
line of respect and posting hurtful things
that would not otherwise have been said
in person. When students do not understand the implications that arise from
antagonizing another member of a social
media website, that is when chaos begins. It is a parents responsibility to
watch over what their child is doing

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online. Parents as well as teachers,

should take on the roll of informing the
students of what is considered cyber bullying and how to handle it. Students
need to be informed of the dangers that
are lurking behind the keyboard. There
are countless websites that can provide
more information relevant to cyber bullying. They are provided below.

stopcybullying.gov

Cyberbullying.us

Stopcyberbullying.org

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Prezi, making a new way to present

A wonderful way to spice up
presentations is to create a Prezi.
Prezi is a very user friendly website that allows a creative twist to
the presentation. The creator can
choose a templet with a theme
they love and the outline is already provided. The creator can
obtain the info and plug it into the

provided places. The special effects are already incorporated into

the provided templet. This can
help users that are incapable of
adding extra effects to a presentation. Prezi will also save the project as it is completed. So in case
your computer malfunctions, you
can log back into the website and
continue from where you left off.

Once you finish the entire Prezi,

you can publish it and access it
from the provided account. Prezi
is also a very unique way to gain
attention during a presentation. It
is not the basic PowerPoint
demonstration. Prezi zooms in,
goes out, And Twists Up And
Down. There are also numerous
ways to add more effects and they

A teacher is a compass that activates the

magnets of curiosity, knowledge and wisdom .

Edshelf, offering leverage for educators

Educators often run out of ways to
keep organize or manage their
classroom. Ed shelf is a website
that have several categories that
are related to classroom structure.
You can choose one major category and the website will provide
serval apps. Each app has a page
that will let you preview a video
and even let other customers rate
the product. There are numerous

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apps that can make running a

classroom easier for an educator.
For example, one app located on
the website was Chalk. Chalk is a
way to keep
organized with
documents as
well as transferring important documents to parents. One twist

on this app is that you receive a

notification when a parent views
the document. This makes sending
newsletters, permission slips and
even referrals to parents more successful. This is just one of the millions of apps that are offered on
Edshelf. The entire website is created to help educate teachers on
apps that can make their job easier.

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Permission
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English
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Science
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homework

2 Parent 3

teacher
conference

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homework

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homework

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Math
test

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test

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homework

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homework

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PJ day
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Trip to
science
center

Class Pizza Party

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