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from Mr. Riley and Father Greg

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The Chromebook is valued at $350, including Chrome licensing.  The great news is that thanks to our CPTA and efforts to augment the school’s operating budget, St. Elizabeth School will fully fund this purchase.

We do ask that each learner in our 1:1 initiative (Grades 5-8) pay an annual $100 user fee to cover maintenance and support of this program. The form in the next item below for Grades 5-8 must be signed and returned.

PLEASE NOTE: Each learner will be responsible for any damages incurred to their assigned device that fall outside the warranty. Those costs will vary depending on the specific damages. Should the school or the manufacturer determine that the learner intentionally damaged the Chromebook, exhibited negligence, or experienced loss, the parents will be responsible for the repair fees (TBD) or full replacement cost ($350).

Families experiencing economic hardship will be resolved on a case by case basis.

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Technology - St. Elizabeth Catholic School

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Saint Elizabeth Catholic School provides a Christ-centered, child-focused learning environment where Catholic ideals and a tradition of excellence are instilled. The website for St. Elizabeth Catholic School will introduce new families to all we offer and provide additional information for current families.

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STE's Chromebook Initiative and Liability Form (Grades 5-8)

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STE's Chromebook Initiative and Liability Form (Grades 5-8)

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Please download, print, and sign that your family has read, reviewed, discussed, understands and is aware of the 2022-2023 policies, procedures, and guidelines for St. Elizabeth Catholic School. This form is returned to school prior to receiving the school device and all items.

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St. Elizabeth School reviews the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) annually to address any issues that are prompted by an ever-changing world and access to technology.

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Saint Elizabeth Catholic Church and School

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St. Elizabeth School Acceptable Use Policy (AUP REV 5-12-17).pdf

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Our community thrives when home and school work together in the best interests of our young people and their future success.

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Saint Elizabeth Catholic Church and School

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Questions arise on a daily basis. We hope to address questions with respect and clarity.

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1:1 Technology FAQs - St. Elizabeth Catholic School

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Saint Elizabeth Catholic School provides a Christ-centered, child-focused learning environment where Catholic ideals and a tradition of excellence are instilled. The website for St. Elizabeth Catholic School will introduce new families to all we offer and provide additional information for current families.

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Durability and Ruggedness:

Robust and reinforced rubber wrapped protective guard reduces the impact from any accidents.

Surpassed durability testing ensuring lasting durability and better reliability.

Easy grip design:
Two (2)  strategically placed grips provide better holding traction and reduce any slipping incident.

Seamless learning:

The 180-degree improved hinge allows a fully open Chromebook.

This is ideal for easy viewing, especially for group study or collaboration.

15% larger character-printed keys: Provides legibility for easier typing.

Anti-glare screen

360 degrees WIFI antenna

12 hours of battery life

Modular maintenance for easier fix solutions

2 USB

1 Combo Audio Jack

Web Camera

SD Card Reader

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ASUS is a leading company driven by innovation and commitment to quality for products that include notebooks, netbooks, motherboards, graphics cards, displays, desktop PCs, servers, wireless solutions, mobile phones and networking devices. ASUS ranks among BusinessWeek's InfoTech 100 for 12 consecutive years.

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NO bling, rhinestones, sequins, gems, sparkles, stickers, acrylic, emojis, markers, etching, sleeves, or designs.
Your St. Elizabeth Chromebook has a serial number and that number is assigned to you. Your case has a "business card" for identification.
PLEASE do not remove any identifying stickers!!

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Carry your Chromebook in your case AT ALL TIMES!

Be responsible!

Be aware!

Carry your Chromebook on top of books.

Do not drop books and Chromebook on floor at lockers, etc.

Charge device at night and on weekends at home WHEN IT NEEDS IT. Charging is not allowed at school in classrooms.

No food or drink! If there is a spill, immediately turn the device upside down to drain as much liquid as possible, then pat dry with a soft cloth. Inform tech!

Use clean hands.

Use a damp soft cloth to wipe the screen and keyboard when needed.

Roll your power cord properly.

Close (Zip it!) your case when device is inside.

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Tips for Getting the Most out of Your Chromebook

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Tips for Getting the Most out of Your Chromebook

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Here are just a few tips to help your Chrome and Chromebook experience.

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Some Tips to Improve Your ChromeBook Experience.pptx

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Some tips for Voice in Google Docs, Slides, etc.

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Create folders for each content area. When you bookmark websites, you can direct the URL to the folder. Right click on your Chrome "header" and scroll to "Add folder."

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Click on the ellipses (3 vertical dots in Chrome). Scroll to Help then to About Google Chrome. Your device should automatically search for and apply updates.
YOU should check for updates on a regular basis. THIS IS IMPORTANT!!

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Wit and Wisdom is our online resource for Reading. The textbook with a ton of electronic tools is available with your login. Once logged, you'll see your resources, assignments, assessments, etc. Your ELA teacher will direct you once you are in class.

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Science World is used in class to supplement the curriculum with current events and materials.

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Online textbook, resources, materials, assessments, assignments are found throughout your student account. Your 5th-8th grade Math and Science teacher will direct you in class.

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Desmos is an online graphing calculator with a ton of activities and resources. We will be installing this extension.

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Desmos offers best-in-class calculators, digital math activities, and curriculum to help every student love math and love learning math.

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Geogebra is an online tool to work through concepts in geometry. We will be installing this extension.

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GeoGebra - the world's favorite, free math tools used by over 100 million students and teachers

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Free digital tools for class activities, graphing, geometry, collaborative whiteboard and more

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Mr. Green facilitates learning for all 7th-8th grade Social Studies. This link is his "Padlet" (or curriculum). Bookmark this!

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Middle school social studies teacher. I believe Oswald acted alone.

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The Catholic Connections Handbook for Middle School is your religion textbook used with an abundance of additional resources. Bookmark this link and make a copy for your Google Drive later.

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The Catholic Connections Handbook for Middle Schoolers

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In grades 7-8, you may not receive direct instruction through the Library, but, you can use all the resources available to you!
Enjoy reading!

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Unable to locate a good book on campus, try the public library.

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Neighborhood librarians are ready to assist you. Discover media resources, learning opportunities, community activities and events. Join us in building a community of readers.

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Quill is an online resource to guide you to "better" writing. Your Language Arts teacher will direct you to this use.

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Set up your classroom, without IT

You can quickly and easily set up your classroom in Quill by inputting student names or providing students with a unique code. If you use Google Classroom or Clever, you can automatically set up your classroom with one click.

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Quill.org | Interactive Writing and Grammar

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Quill provides free writing and grammar activities for middle and high school students.

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Equatio is an extension that works to build, well, equations and other math or science expressions in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides.

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Easily create mathematical equations, formulas and quizzes. Intuitively type or handwrite, with no tricky math code to learn.

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An online design tool where you can create graphics, flyers, posters, infographics, and a ton of other interesting ways to make your school project creative and different.

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An online video recorder and editor for Chrome where you can create, edit, and then save to your Google Drive.

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Clipchamp - convert, compress, record video

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Convert & compress videos, record webcam videos. Get faster YouTube uploads. Free & secure.

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When you are learning virtually, you will need Zoom installed on your Chromebook. Install the Zoom extension and connect it to your school Google account, if prompted.

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This application will allow you to share your screen to the Clear Touch interactive panel. You will need a code from your teacher to enage the app.

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Clear Touch Collage app allows you to mirror your Chromebook to the Clear Touch Panel. Collage is a great tool for sharing your...

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A very nice screen video recorder for recording work on your screen to explain your process or to narrate Google slides.

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Screencastify is Chrome's simplest free screen recorder and video-creation platform, empowering anyone to become a better communicator by recording, editing, sharing, and assessing videos in seconds.

With Screencastify, use simple yet powerful screen recording tools to:

Record your desktop, browser tab, and/or webcam
Edit video from your browser
Share your video in multiple ways
Assess effectiveness with Interactive Questions and analytics
Request video submissions with Submit

Educators, professionals, and personal creators across the world use Screencastify screen recorder as a simple way to communicate more effectively through video.

🎬 Join a massive community of video creators
✔ Millions of weekly users
✔ Hundreds of millions of videos recorded
✔ Incredibly easy to learn and use

🎥 Create engaging videos with our easy-to-use screen recorder
▸ Record your browser tab, desktop, and/or your webcam
▸ Narrate with your microphone's audio
▸ Embed your webcam into the recording
▸ Annotate in real time to highlight key points

✂️ Simple video editing
▸ Trim the start and end of your videos
▸ Draw on your tab with the pen tool
▸ Merge, crop, and add text to videos

🚀 Share with your audience, wherever they are
▸ View and share videos on Google Drive
▸ Share to Google Classroom
▸ Export as MP4, animated GIF, or MP3
▸ See who has viewed your videos
▸ Add Interactive Questions to check viewer comprehension


👀Available free
▸ Create and store up to 10 videos free or upgrade for unlimited video creation
▸ Record and store videos up to 30 minutes for free

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How do people use Screencastify to communicate more effectively?

🎓 Education:
▸ Create instructional videos to engage your students whether they're university students or kindergarteners
▸ Create feedback videos to save time and increase your impact
▸ Embrace flipped classrooms or blended learning with video lessons
▸ Have your students practice foreign languages or public speaking
▸ Easily check for student comprehension with Interactive Questions

🏛️ At Work:
▸ Eliminate emails in favor of more effective, personalized communication
▸ Create performance review videos for coworkers
▸ Share engaging messages with your customers, users, and colleagues
▸ Create training and onboarding videos that captivate your employees
▸ Cancel meetings by sharing video instead

🌍 Everyday creators:
▸ With millions of weekly users, we've helped creators share countless ideas for videos to life - from professional YouTubers to personal trainers and attorneys to UFO hunters. What are you waiting for? Install Screencastify and inspire the world with your video communication.

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📝 Specs:
▸ Screencasts are captured as webm/vp8 files with ogg vorbis audio
▸ Videos can be saved to your local disk as various file types (GIF, MP4, etc), directly to your Google Drive, or you can simply share the link
▸ Screencastify screen recorder does not depend on any external software (like Java, Flash or other plugins) so it runs on Chrome OS, Chromebooks, and Chromeboxes
▸ Screen recording is a CPU intensive task. Older or weaker computers may lag if multiple programs and tabs are open at the same time as a screencast

📨 Info / Contact Us:
▸ Twitter:  @Screencastify
▸ Support Docs:  https://learn.screencastify.com
▸ Tech Support: support@screencastify.com

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The leading screen recorder for Chrome. Capture, edit and share videos in seconds.

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KAMI is great for opening that pdf (whether an assessment, study guide, or other reading material) you receive in class and then "marking" the pdf with answers, comments, and other types of annotations.

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Best PDF and Document Annotation and Markup Tool. Works with Google Drive and Google Classroom

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Adding Extensions also takes up space in your Chrome toolbars. You can move extensions and Hide them in Chrome or place them on your "shelf."

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For extensions you use a lot, right click and select "Add to shelf." This is a good idea for shortcuts to Mail, Calculator, Google Drive, Keep, etc. These will be located at all times in your shelf so you don't even have to launch Chrome!

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At the Array... (hint: the 9 dots next to your avatar)

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At the Array... (hint: the 9 dots next to your avatar)

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Let's check out the different tools you have with your Google account. You can organize the ones you use most by a click and drag to the top. Take time to play with them; do a little research to find out their value.

All the Google Apps, including Classroom

Keep

Earth

Kami

DocHub

Mind Mup

Sketch Up

GSuite Training

Blogger

Sites

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Found a webpage, image, or quote that you want to save for later? With the Google Keep Chrome Extension, easily save the things  you care about to Keep. Take notes for additional detail and add labels to quickly categorize your notes for later retrieval.
Click on your "array" and look for Keep. Or go to https://keep.google.com/.

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Organize your Google Drive with folders. Create a folder for the current school year. Within that folder, create a folders for each subject.
When you create files, make sure you add the file to the specific class subject as you NAME it!

TIP: Create a folder for past years and move all files into the proper folder. This will clean up your Google Drive and make everything more manageable and easier to locate.

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Want to know how to do something in your Google account? Click on the array and select an app. Once you get to that app, look next to your icon image for the "question mark." Click that image and search for whatever it is you want to know

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Looking at the toolbars, add-ons, and extensions, let's see what might help you with your work. Like Explore...

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Ongoing  and on-time support for faculty

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Ongoing  and on-time support for faculty

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A variety of professional development opportunities for faculty in conferences, individual sessions, small group sessions, large group session, on-call, and a Google Drive folder with step-by-step documentation, tips, tools, resources, and videos.

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Timely visits to classrooms to provide an extra pair of hands, face-to-face tutorials, or anything to support the active classroom.

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If any student accesses a website that is not available due to the filter, send an e-mail WITH the URL of the website, the reason for needing access, and the class for the resource to Ms. Moore (smoore@stekcschool.org).
The site may or may not be open for access depending on the request.

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Your tech support is as close and timely as you want. If something goes wrong or breaks, be honest and on-time with information to get the issue resolved.
E-mail or visit with your teacher(s) and/or Ms. Moore (smoore@stekcschool.org).
Ms. Moore's workspace is in the STEAM lab (next to the cafeteria).
Ask questions! Expect conversations and solutions, quickly.

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At St. Elizabeth School, we take seriously the role of setting expectations and following through to address behavior that affects the individual as well as the whole.

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Technology webpage: Go to www.stekcschool.org. At the Curriculum menu, click and select Technology.

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Technology - St. Elizabeth Catholic School

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Saint Elizabeth Catholic School provides a Christ-centered, child-focused learning environment where Catholic ideals and a tradition of excellence are instilled. The website for St. Elizabeth Catholic School will introduce new families to all we offer and provide additional information for current families.

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Common Lit is an additional reading resource for all genres and content areas, and topics, fiction and non-fiction for students. You can search the stories and read on your own. Your teacher will direct you to this use in class.

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For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your web browser.

World-class content

Access thousands of reading lessons and our comprehensive ELA curriculum, CommonLit 360.

Accessible for all learners

Tailor instruction to students' needs with text-to-speech, translation, and digital note-taking.

Actionable data

Track students' reading performance, set goals, and plan instructional next steps.

CommonLit
Digital Library

Discover thousands of free, supplemental lessons and quizzes in English and Spanish - all featuring great authors.

CommonLit
Assessment Series

Measure growth in reading comprehension with three benchmark assessments when you unlock our premium packages.

CommonLit 360 &
Professional Development

Support a successful rollout of our research-backed ELA curriculum with personalized webinars and on-demand trainings.

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CommonLit has made a tremendously positive impact on my teaching practice. I'm very proud to teach CommonLit!

Jennifer Lane ELA Teacher

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CommonLit definitely keeps me organized. It's easy for me to grade and it's easy for me to see students' reading growth increase throughout the year.

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The CommonLit assessment questions are aligned to our ELA standards, which is extremely helpful when prepping for the state exam.

Teachers trust CommonLit to foster students' reading comprehension

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CommonLit | Free Online Reading Passages and Literacy Resources

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CommonLit is a comprehensive literacy program with thousands of reading lessons, full-year ELA curriculum, benchmark assessments, and standards-based data for teachers.

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Your teacher will guide you in using ReadWorks for reading comprehension.

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ReadWorks | Award-Winning, EdTech Nonprofit Organization

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ReadWorks is an edtech nonprofit organization that is committed to helping to solve America’s reading comprehension crisis.

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Review this short video on "why" we MUST cite our sources!

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Not your typical A-B-C-D reading quiz! Quizzes on reading material that provide opportunity for greater writing skills, higher level thinking, and develops conversations about what you read! Provides incentives with an owl-vatar and points for pleasure reading. Provides assessment and skill feedback for teachers.

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I've used Whooo's Reading with my middle school students for just over a year now and absolutely love it! My students keep track of their independent reading and answer questions/take quizzes during class time. I can adjust the question level to differentiate for my lower readers, can set goals for students, and reward students who go beyond the requirements.

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Another reading site that focuses on current events. Sign in with your school Google account and/or listen to your teacher for instructions.

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Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject.

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Creating Citations and a Bibliography in Google Docs

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Creating Citations and a Bibliography in Google Docs

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Review this video that explains how to create citations and a bibliography in Google Docs.

Once the bibliography is created, you can copy and paste it into another file type.

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How to Cite Sources and Create a Bibliography in Google Docs

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Chromebooks and student accounts are profiled under a separate organizational unit than that of faculty, staff, and guests.
We provide three (3) levels of security for our students...Google Safe Search, Google Policy Organization in the School's G-Suite account, and settings in Lightspeed (https://www.lightspeedsystems.com/). The filter applies to access at school and at home.

If any student accesses a website that is not available due to the filter, the student should send an e-mail WITH the URL of the website, the reason for needing access, and the class/teacher for the resource to Ms. Moore (smoore@stekcschool.org).
The site may or may not be open for access depending on the request.
A reply will be prompt.

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This Padlet has been designed to inform and teach  attributes of the technology for the STE student. We distribute the device, collect the signed forms and fees, then educate and inform to all the expectations and resources for your use of the school Chromebook.

At the start of the 2022-2023 academic year, students will receive their school devices during the first days of school. All signed forms and fees (if applicable) are due prior to receiving the Chromebook , the 2-piece power cord, and protective case.

This instruction during class will provide the start to your learning experience to create the relationship between all at STE's who wish to deliver sound educational value and balance with technology.

This Padlet will be bookmarked in your Chrome browser for reference throughout your career at STE's.

Any questions, please contact Stephanie Moore at smoore@stekcschool.org.

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Learner Responsibilities

Mutual Expectations

Acceptable Use Policy

Tech Use

Family Pledge

FAQ’s

External ASUS

Our “Filter”

Turn on and login

Check Updates

Google Account: Organize and Add Extensions

Create and Organize Bookmarks /Folders

Contact for any and all support

Questions?

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Each productive Google App has a set of templates you can use. Take a look at templates through each App... Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, etc.
Just click on your array, select the App, look for the "Template Gallery" to the top right, click to view the available templates, select one, and begin editing. Make sure you name the file and save into the class or assignment folder. You can also create your own template. Templates can also be shared.

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Dear 5th-6th Grade Students: Bookmark this page!

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Dear 7th-8th Grade: Bookmark this page!

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Create an account with your school email and password. Begin to create citations / works cited with a quick, automatic and easy-to-use bibliography maker. You will choose MLA8 format

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We get it. Crafting citations can be painfully tedious. Put the hours spent creating them manually behind you. We're here to take the stress out of citations with our quick, automatic and easy-to-use bibliography maker. Whether you're prepping a simple or annotated bibliography, any project will be top-notch with our MLA, APA and Chicago citation generator.

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Fast and free way to automatically generate MLA, APA & Chicago citations, references and bibliographies. Supports In-text citations and multiple formats.