If you are a new staff in the ECSES department, or a staff that has been here forever it might seem:), are you aware of all the Instructional Technology resources that we can provide for our students and staff? In my role as Instructional Technology Specialist I am here to assist all professionals and paraprofessionals in the ECSES department on Instructional Tools to use in the classroom or IU13 online programs that we use for our students. I have created a document that shares IU13 purchased or piloted programs for our classrooms and how to get on them. Click here to view document. Also, we have over 150 iPads being used by teachers, students and/or itinerants, and over 150 Chromebooks being used by our students. This is not to mention the laptops for each para, PCA, itinerant, support staff and/or teacher. With all that technology and trying to get to our teachers lots of great instructional tools to use with our classrooms, I have hired an Help Desk Instructional Technology Assistant to help out with all this great stuff going on. Please welcome Hillary Holler to this new role. She is currently with the Speech and Language Department as their PA, and many of you have worked with her on ITT or IEPWriter issues in the past. Once she transitions to this new role, she will be your contact to help with problems you might have with ITT, IEPWriter, Chromebooks, or other Instructional Tools that we are using. Please know, I am not going away:) and you can continue to go to me; however, as more and more staff are using these tools I can't keep up with the emails in a fast enough way to help everyone out. To assist with helping you faster we will eventually be using the ticket system to help respond to your needs in a more timely manner. This process will come out once Hillary is in her new role. Nothing is changed now until her current position is filled. Again, please check out the Instructional Tools we have here at the IU13 to use with our students and join me in congratulating Hillary. Also, huge reminder to check out this blog at least once a month so you can see the fun stuff you can win for your classroom. Check out the right hand side pf the Blog for the items to win. I have already given away a complete OSMO kit, an OSMO Jam program, and an Ozobot to teachers and itinerants. Will you be the next to win??? You can "Subscribe" to this blog by going to the bottom right hand side and adding your email. You will get an email when I post something new on this blog. Stay warm!!!