Tech Integration: Urban Planet for Classroom Teachers
Class 3: Urban Planet for TeachersClass 3: Urban Planet for Teachers
- Intro class objective
Get started with basic Urban Planet skills and building a student page. Find some skill links that you want your kids to practice tomorrow.- Example SPPS Urban Planet sites:
- Classroom page: Mrs. Madzo,
- Publishing student work: Ms. Xiong's 4th graders, Ms. Bongiovanni's 3rd graders
- Learning links page: Jackson Elem 3rd grade, Longfellow 4th grade
- Photo Gallery: Franklin 6th graders
- Movies: Mr. Tatlonghari's 4th graders,
- Blog: Ms. Barnes 6th graders (password: starlight), Mme. Lacey's 6th graders (password: Freddy)
- Form: Inventors Research
- Calendar: Mississippi Magnet
- Urban Planet Basics
- What is the Urban Planet tool
Web based content management system.- Access from home or wherever
- Which browser to choose?
- On PC, Internet Explorer
- On Mac, Firefox works best. Internet Explorer next.
- Log on
- simple username and password
- admin rights to your little piece of the school website. These can be expanded if you wish.
- Navigating to the correct starting spot
- click on + to expand list and see any subsections
- Your Classroom Website
- Basic section
- Turning your sections on and off
- Adding an item
- subsection vs. item, (leaf vs. branch) which to choose?
- Adding links
- related links
- imbedded links
- Adding images
- adding movies and document is similar
- Remember users have to have the same program to read the document. Saving as PDFthen uploading helps.
- Sidebars
- Creating a photo gallery
- step-by-step instructions
- Editing existing pages
- Create Student Page (instructions here)
You will walk everyone through this doing the exact same thing. 4 items: Math, Reading, Writing, and Social Studies- Starting at your "main" page, add subsection - Basic - easy name "Learning Links"
- Click Display and create a shortcut url
- Add items (math, writing, etc...)
- Finding Skill Building Activities
- Connect.spps.org/literacybldg.html
- Searching
- Other teacher's pages
- Turning things on/off
Save everything. At this point try View Site. Launch a new window and go to Teacher page. Find a worthwhile link. - Creating a video collection from Unitedstreaming
- United Streaming video quiz. (example)
- Tips
- For tips and troubleshooting see http://uphelp.spps.org
- Work with two windows open
- copy and paste links
- name links so kids will know what they are
- Never delete live links - Turn off instead
- Classroom management (SLS)
- set student page as the default on your browsers
- Use in Lab/laptop situation
- Advanced users
- Building forms
- Blogs
- Student access ( modify vs. publish)
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