PowerTeacher 1.6 has been released, and it features the ability to evaluate student progress toward standards. It also allows teachers to copy multiple assignments from one term or year to another. And finally, teachers will be given an alert if they type in an assignment score that exceeds the maximum points possible.
On Monday, June 15th, the ETC Consortium voted to switch from Discovery Streaming to the less expensive Learn 360 digital media content.
San Luis Coastal was the only district in the county to vote in favor of continuing with Discovery Streaming.
Discovery Streaming will be removed from the ETC Portal on October 31st, when our current contract runs out.
Below are some links that teachers might find useful as they prepare for final grades.
The following handout was created for middle school teachers who were preparing for Quarter Three grades, but it includes information on entering citizenship scores and report card comments appropriate for any term:
http://www.slcedtech.net/powerschool/prepforQ3Reportcards.pdf
This handout demonstrates the procedure for entering citizenship marks:
http://www.slcedtech.net/powerschool/citizenshipmarksPT.pdf
Our own nine-page PowerTeacher Gradebook instructions can be accessed by clicking on the following:
http://www.slcedtech.net/powerschool/PowerTeacherWebJune08.pdf
Near the top of your Scoresheet within PowerTeacher gradebook, you should see “Mode” followed by the buttons labeled Assignments and Final Grades. If you don’t see a Final Grades button, it is most likely because your screen resolution is set too low.
Here are instructions on changing your screen resolution:
http://www.slcedtech.net/powerschool/screen_resolution.pdf
More tutorials and PowerSchool information can be found by clicking the PowerSchool link at www.slcedtech.net.
Please feel free to contact Eric Jarvis if you need any assistance in using PowerTeacher Gradebook or PowerGrade to prepare for report cards.
The ETC Consortium meeting to decide the fate of Discovery Streaming is Monday, June 15th. On that date, 
representatives from each district in the county will be determining whether Discovery Streaming should be replaced with the less expensive content from Learn 360.
Check back here for official word on Monday’s decision.
I’ve been discoverying lots of great resources by following other educators on Twitter. The following are resources for new teachers, but I think experienced teachers will find them useful as well.
http://www.teachersfirst.com/20/getsource.cfm?id=9536
Thank you, Kelly Hines, for sharing this great resource.
After forty years, e-mail is going to finally be replaced products like GoogleWave.
For those of you accessing this from school: http://ttc.slcusd.org/safevideos/Video.aspx?id=v_UyVmITiYQ
