Did you know that all students K-12 in Granite School District have access to Microsoft’s Office 365 Education for Students? This includes several valuable tools and services: [Read more…] about Video: How Students Access Email
All staff and students in Granite School District have been provided with Google Apps for Education accounts on the granitesd.org domain. [Read more…] about Google Apps for Education in Granite School District
Did you know that all students K-12 in Granite School District have access to Microsoft’s Office 365 Education for Students? This includes several valuable tools and services: [Read more…] about Office 365 for Students
Granite’s SAFARI Montage digital media library has just been updated with new licensed content for the 2014-2015 school year. [Read more…] about New 2014-15 Content in SAFARI Montage
Whether you’ve been curious about AppSmashing or you’ve never heard the words ‘app’ and ‘smash’ used in the same sentence, it’s sure that AppSmashing is a fun way for students to learn and present content.
What’s an app smash, you ask? An app smash is when multiple apps are used to create a finished project. Your students might already be AppSmashing and not even know it! The most important app is already on your device – the ‘Photos’ app or camera roll is where you save each piece of the smash. Then, put them all together using a different app (like iMovie or ThingLink).
Check out these websites created by GSD School Technology Specialists for more information and resources:
Choose Your Own Appventure By Dani Sloan and Brittany Dimick (http://chooseyourownappventure.weebly.com/)
AppSmash for UCET By Brandi Gollinger, Jayanne Unander, and Kristen Johnson (http://appsmash4ucet.weebly.com/)
Hope you’ll have a smash!
Pioneer provides Utah students with a library of digital reference materials, tools, and resources for research, including EBSCO, Digital Science Online, NoodleTools, SIRS, Culturegrams, World Book Encyclopedia, Utah Digital Newspapers, and much more.
To obtain the student home access login information for Pioneer please contact a school or district library or technology staff member. You can also contact the Utah Education Network for help or additional information at resources@uen.org or 1-800-866-5852. (Pioneer is only accessible to students within the state of Utah so the login information cannot be shared on this public website.)
SAFARI Montage is an educational video library and digital content management system for students and teachers in Granite School District. It provides thousands of licensed educational videos that can be played in the classroom or accessed from home. It also provides the ability for teachers to upload their own video and other digital content to share with students or archive.
To watch SAFARI Montage videos on a home computer, a plugin program called the SAFARI Montage Media Player needs to be installed on the computer:
SAFARI Montage videos can be accessed on iOS and Android mobile devices with no plugin installation necessary.
You can find more resources and help for SAFARI Montage at http://granitemedia.org/safari.
Granite’s OverDrive Digital Library provides students and teachers with access to a large library of popular ebooks and audiobooks for independent, recreational, or teacher-assigned reading. These books can be read on a computer or checked out and downloaded to a wide array of mobile devices via the OverDrive Media Console apps. OverDrive is currently available to all students and teachers grades 7-12, and is also being piloted at several elementary schools for the 2014-15 school year. Students log in to OverDrive by choosing their school name and using their student number. Teachers and staff members log in by choosing “Teachers” as their school name and entering their district computer username and password.
Destiny is the library catalog system for all school libraries in Granite School District. To access Destiny, follow the link above and then choose your school from the list. Click on the Catalog tab to search for books and materials available your school’s library, as well as digital resources such as OverDrive ebooks and audiobooks, SAFARI Montage videos, information from online databases, and more.
When students and teachers log in with their district username and password, they can also place holds on materials, view their due dates and fines, create resource lists, post reviews, and recommend books to fellow students within in their school.
For more information and help with Destiny, please check out the resources below or ask your school librarian or media assistant:
Canvas is a learning management system used by all Granite students and teachers grades 7-12 as an online support and supplement for face-to-face classes. [Read more…] about Canvas
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