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For
Teachers,
your User ID will be your Web Outlook email address with a
period instead of the @ symbol (ex. smartin.saisd.net).
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Password will be the 4-digit number of the month and day you
were born (ex. October 10th would be 1010). You will not be
able to change your password.
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Parents, your User ID will be the campusnameparent
(ex. lamarparent, or cooperparent). Your password is media.
For Students,
your User ID will be saisd###, where ### is the campus number.
Your password is media.
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| Movies
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Language titles in the AIMS DVDS system.
ITLS is working in collaboration with our SAISD Bilingual
director on ways to serve/support our bilingual population.
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Executive
Summary
of Digital Video Utilization Survey Results |
A study of
digital video use—conducted by Instructional Technology
and Library Media Services Offices—in San Antonio ISD
reveals that the digital video distribution system, approved
by the School Board in September, 2003, provides “wonderful
resources” that are “easily accessible” and
“great for sharing.” The study, completed in late
March 2004, surveyed a total of 334 campus instructional coordinators
(CIC), librarians, department heads, and academic coordinating
teachers (ACTs). One librarian wrote, “When they took
Region XX videos away, we were concerned. But this was a good
substitute.” One CIC wrote that AIMS Digital Curriculum
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- Assisted
in conveying specific content effectively
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Provided a useful resource for teachers.
- Broadened
the teachers’ creativity when presenting a lesson.
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Campus level professionals wrote that digital
video has served as a "great way for finding quick representations
when students don't understand a concept." One shares
that it "strengthens concept retention among students"
and offers a "different approach to concept matters."
LAUNCHING THE INITIATIVE
When the School Board approved the purchase of AIMS Digital
Curriculum (AIMS DC for short) in September, 2003, the Offices
of Instructional Technology and Library Media Services began
spreading the word. They set up presentations with Curriculum
& Instruction Department, required librarians at every
campus to attend training, invited campus instructional coordinators
to attend training, creating over 3000 user accounts in a
two-week period. This allowed for a quick roll-out to end-users.
Presentations were also made to the San Antonio
Alliance during Consultation Meetings, Health/Physical Education
teachers, parent liaisons at their monthly meetings, and to
campus principals. A total of 32 classes were made available
to campus instructional coordinators, department heads and
others to launch the initiative. In particular, librarians
were required to attend the training sessions. Those responding
to the survey found that 77.2% of respondents participated
in the training. Of them, 63.8% found the training to be sufficient
for implementation.
Respondents were also asked to rate whether
AIMS DC was effective or not effective in the teaching and
learning environment. Seventy-five percent of CICs responding
found it to be effective, followed by sixty-eight percent
librarians, and sixty-four percent of academic coordinating
teachers. Overall, they rated AIMS Digital Curriculum’s
effectiveness in the teaching and learning environment at
69.9% effective in its first year of implementation. Sample
of the benefits as perceived by respondents included the following:
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some videos have helped with teaching
and obtaining primary resources for social studies activities
... increased expository reading activities ... staff
has been motivated to integrate more technology into
their lessons ... available on demand ... easy to use
... students are engaged and interested in their learning,
and become aware of what may be learned on their own
... helped me improve my teaching strategies ... alignment
of curriculum to TEKS ... offers the visual approach
to reaching those students that that extra reinforcement
... although videos are old, many are useful ... students
stay on task, share with peer and get positive results
... easily accessible ... teach concepts that require
hard to get material ... adds variety to a lesson ...
high interest level from students ... active participation
from students.
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Additional workshops, presentations offered to campuses have
sought to maintain the momentum built. Overcoming the digital
gaps has been challenging, but has highlighted some needs that
must be addressed, both at the district and campus levels. |
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MS
Power Point and DC Movies |
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How
to insert your movies |
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How
to package your Presentation to run on another computer
(from MS Power Point Help) |
- Open
the presentation you want to package.
- If
you want to copy your packaged presentation to a floppy
disk, insert the disk.
- On
the File menu, click Pack and Go.
- On
the first wizard screen, click Next, and then select options
on each subsequent screen before clicking Next.
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If you want to include multiple presentations in the
package, select the Other presentation(s) check box
when prompted, click Browse, and then select several
presentations.
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If you plan to run the packaged presentation on a computer
that does not have Microsoft PowerPoint installed, include
the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer in the package.
How? On the fifth screen of the wizard, do one of the
following:
- If
the Viewer for Microsoft Windows option is available,
select it, and then continue through the wizard.
- If
the option isn't available, you need to install the
viewer. On the same screen, click Download the Viewer
to link to the Microsoft Office Web site and install
the viewer. Follow the instructions to complete the
download. When it's finished, close the browser window,
and then, in the wizard, select the Viewer for Microsoft
Windows option and continue through the wizard.
- On
the last screen, click Finish.
Notes
- To
view your presentation, you must go to the location you
copied the packaged file to and unpackage it.
- If
you package a Web presentation, it is unpackaged as a Microsoft
PowerPoint (.ppt) file rather than a Web (.htm) file.
- In
the wizard, if you choose to embed TrueType fonts, keep
in mind that the wizard cannot embed TrueType fonts that
have built-in copyright restrictions. It's a good idea to
preview your presentation before you show it to see if you
have all the fonts you wanted.
- The
viewer is not available for packaging if your presentation
is password-protected. You cannot run password-protected
presentations in the viewer.
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