ISPP Secondary Technology Support

Circles are not the same as friends and followers on other social media sites. With other social media there is an approval process. With Circles there is not. It is similar (but different) to Instagram, where you can accept followers without following them, and follow people without allowing them to follow you. It is unlike Facebook, where Friendship is mutual. Here's a haiku about Google+ Circles  Circles: they let you  control whose posts you see, and  who sees what you post. You can edit your Circle privacy here . You can control which circles are public and which circles are private . Follow the link above, or click on Profile, About, and Edit in the People box.  , ,  You can hide everyone in your circles by deselecting the tick box next to Show people in...  You can share some circles , just tick the Show people in... box and click on the down arrow next to it and  deselect circles you would like to hide . You ca...

Google can help you find times when you and the people you would like to meet with are available (provided, of course, that you and your colleagues enter your schedules in your calendar*). Click on the date and approximate time you would like to meet. Add a title for the meeting in the 'what' box and click edit event.  Enter the name(s) of the colleagues you would like to meet with in the 'Guests' box. Suggestions will load based on your contacts. Select and click 'Add'. You can either click on 'Suggested times' for a list of times you are all available  Or you can click on 'Find a time' to view your calendars.  Once you have found a time, you can set privacy, reminders, and other details. When you click save, you will be provided the opportunity to send invitations to guests.  *For teachers with a complicated schedule rotation, entering teaching schedules is too time consuming to make it worth it. We are working ...

Tired of going to the school website to see the school calendar? It's easy to add it to your Google calendar. Go to  https://www.google.com/calendar  (sign in as needed) Click the down arrow next to 'Other calendars'  Choose 'Add by URL'  Copy this URL ( U niversal R esource L ocator) and paste it in the box provided: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/marketingispp%40gmail.com/public/basic  You can now show or hide this calendar by clicking on it in your 'Other Calendars' list.

You can add subtitles in iMovie using the Titles option. Here is a short video that shows you how.

There are many options for setting your privacy in  These are found in the section of and in the section of Profile . Go to    (by hovering over the menu in the top left corner of Google + and scrolling down to settings) From the top center, make sure you are on settings, not audience  Change your settings for who can interact with you and your posts to International School of Phnom Penh . You can use a custom setting and select specific circles that you have created, or you can choose from the list. Extended circles means your circles and people who are in the circles of people in your circles.   If you want to be private, choose only you. If you choose custom, you can select specific circles. For your school account, choose "International School of Phnom Penh." Scroll to Photos and Videos . For the highest privacy, un-tick all of these.  Scroll to Profile . For highest privacy un-tick all of these.  The Tabs you sel...

We are introducing Minecraft Club in ISPP Secondary as a tool for developing collaboration, creativity, problem solving, and  making a difference . We hope to bring Minecraft to the Elementary in the near future. In most schools, you will find a history of debate about whether students should or should not be allowed to play games (computer games, that is).  Conversations will include passionate perspectives on the dangers (violence, addiction, inactivity) and benefits (collaboration, creativity, problem solving) of gaming. Our Minecraft Club will focus on both the dangers and the benefits to help our students develop healthy habits and discover the potential of this learning tool. On  violence  collaboration This is a topic that falls close to our hearts because we want a peaceful world for our children, and we worry that if our children play games that include violence, they will exhibit violent behaviors. While Minecraft does allow survival game modes in whic...

I've been getting great questions from fabulous teachers about how to control notifications. A few classes using comments as a feedback tool in docs could quickly turn your inbox into a mess. Our use of Google+ is loading some inboxes with notifications about posts and being added to circles. You can control this! In Google Docs: Click on Comments in the document, then click on notifications, then choose your preference. In Google Plus Communities: Go to Google Plus Go to Communities by hovering over Home (top left) and scrolling down to Communities   Click on the community and then click on Notifications at the top left to toggle (switch back and forth) between having notifications on and off. In Google Plus Settings Go to Google Plus Hover over Home in the top left and scroll down to Settings     You can change your notification delivery for phone and email. Scroll to receive notifications to control which notifications you receive....