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Student Training Overview

Student Training Overview

Welcome to Student Training! All of the information that teachers and students need for student training is located on this page > student training tab. Student training covers 8 major topics that will support students use of laptops in the classroom. Each topic on this page contains direction downloads, screencasts, and assessments. If you need [...]

Online Parent Training

Online Parent Training

To help parents understand the laptop initiative, every parent of a student new to HCPS Middle Schools is required to complete parent technology orientation.  Parents who have completed training for an older sibling or parents who are HCPS teachers are not required to attend training but are encouraged to attend. Please notify your school’s technology AP via the [...]

Teacher Training

Teacher Training

Tech Tips

Tech Tips

Welcome to the Tech Tips page. Check back here frequently to learn new time-saving shortcuts & tricks that you can use on your laptop.  We’ll cover everything from how to organize your files on your computer to merging photos in photoshop.

Google SketchUp – Adding and Manipulating Components

18 April 2012

In this post, you will learn how to add, rotate, scale, and paint components in Google SketchUp. Google SketchUp is a great 3-D drawing program that integrates with Google Earth! View models already created from the Google 3-D warehouse or create models from scratch. The Professional version of Google SketchUp is now installed on Henrico [...]

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Google SketchUp – Building Custom Objects

18 April 2012

In this post, you will learn how to build custom objects with specific dimensions in Google SketchUp. Google SketchUp is a great 3-D drawing program that integrates with Google Earth! View models already created from the Google 3-D warehouse or create models from scratch. The Professional version of Google SketchUp is now installed on Henrico [...]

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Google SketchUp – Custom Paint

18 April 2012

In this post, you will learn how to add custom paint from an image in Google SketchUp. Google SketchUp is a great 3-D drawing program that integrates with Google Earth! View models already created from the Google 3-D warehouse or create models from scratch. The Professional version of Google SketchUp is now installed on Henrico [...]

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Google Correlate

29 March 2012

“Google Correlate is a tool on Google Trends which enables you to find queries with a similar pattern to a target data series. The target can either be a real-world trend that you provide (e.g., a data set of event counts over time) or a query that you enter…Google Correlate finds search patterns which correspond [...]

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Google Public Data Explorer

29 March 2012

This is a tool that charts datasets over a specific period of time. http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory

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Google Docs- Form

Google Docs- Form

14 March 2012

Google Docs is a free, powerful, and online collaborative tool that can be utilized to help with productivity and to increase implementation of 21st century skills.   Create a form Distribute form to students or staff. Understand how to view data collected by the form. Gather ideas for using Google Docs in the classroom (handout). [...]

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Google Docs – Basics

07 March 2012

Google Docs is a free, powerful, and online collaborative tool that can be utilized to help with productivity and to increase implementation of 21st century skills. Create groups of teachers and students in Google Docs (handout). Add yourself as an owner to a Google Doc (vide0). Organize your Google Documents (video & handout). Gather ideas [...]

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List of Resources

21 February 2012

We will use this post to share a variety of Web 2.0 resource pages with you. Each page has a variety of Web 2.0 resources for teacher and student use. Cool Tools ICT Magic Web 2.0/21st Century Tools Web 2.0 Guru Web 2.0 Resources for Teachers and Students

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OneSearch

OneSearch

26 January 2012

OneSearch Google Directions OneSearch is a federated search tool that enables the user to search all HCPS electronic resources (databases, library catalog, e-journal, etc.) simultaneously from one interface. OneSearch provided citations and abstract, full-text articles, electronic books and records in HCPS library’s catalog.   You can access OneSearch using HCPS Library Webpage http://catalog.henrico/libhome.html or by [...]

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Entrenamiento para padres por internet.

Entrenamiento para padres por internet.

19 December 2011

To help parents understand the laptop initiative, every parent of a student new to HCPS Middle Schools is required to complete parent technology orientation.  Parents who have completed training for an older sibling or parents who are HCPS teachers are not required to attend training but are encouraged to attend. If you are in need of training, you [...]

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