Malchow's Tech Bytes~ Oct 31st 🍁🎃

 

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Malchow's Tech Bytes 10/24

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Malchow's Tech Bytes~ August

 Welcome back to a new year! New year's bring with them fresh starts and so let's start fresh with a new year of Tech Bytes!

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Malchow's Tech Bytes 👩🏻‍💻~ 2/7

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Malchow's Tech Bytes 👩🏻‍💻~ Jan 23

 

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Malchow's Tech Bytes~ January 3rd, 2022

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Malchow's Tech Bytes👩🏻‍💻📰📱~ December 6th

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Malchow's Tech Bytes👩🏻‍💻📰📱~ Nov 22nd

 

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Malchow's Tech Bytes~ Nov 15th 👩🏻‍💻📰📱

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Malchow's Tech Bytes~ Nov 8th 👩🏻‍💻📰📱

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Malchow's Tech Bytes~ Jan 4th, 2021

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Malchow's Tech Bytes~ October 12th

 

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Malchow's Tech Bytes 👩🏻‍💻 ~ October 4th

 Week 2 of CrAzY~ my 2nd building was informed last Sunday afternoon that we were shutting down and moving to virtual Monday morning. On Monday, we found out the entire district was shutting down as of Wednesday and moving to virtual (as had the majority of districts around us). Needless to say, WI is not in a good position right now and the sad realization is that the cases are not coming from the schools, it's community levels that are shutting us down. We are tentatively down for 3 weeks and crossing our fingers that we'll be back in our buildings with kids at that time. 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 (Everything crossed!) 

I hope there are some tips and tricks that you will find useful this week for whatever environment you are currently teaching in.

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Malchow's Tech Bytes 👩🏻‍💻~ Sept 7th

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Malchow's Tech Bytes~ Back to School edition! 👩🏻‍💻📚

 Hello all and welcome back to a new school year!! Malchow's Tech Bytes is back for a 4th straight year with an updated, brand new look! I hope as we venture into this new and crazy school year that you will find a resource or two here and there that you will find beneficial!

Each week I will post the current newsletter her on the main page of the blog. To access the links and view the deck in a larger format, simply click on the image below. 

Since the newsletter is done in Google Slides, you can easily scroll through the slides to access previous week's information as well. You will also find the newsletter on the Malchow's Tech Bytes page of this blog along with all of the previous years newsletters too! 

Malchow's Tech Bytes (Virtual Learning) Edition~ 4/20 👩🏻‍💻

Ahhhhh..... what a difference a week makes! Although it was still a super busy week with lots of techie things to do, I feel like I was able to breathe a little more easily and found a bit of time to get some of the things on my own to do list done! Sweet Success!!!! 

So with that said, this week brings both my normal Tech Bytes newsletter as well as the newsletter info that I am putting together for my colleagues. 
My building newsletter this week has tips to support using Google Meet for video conferences while my normal newsletter brings you integration ideas for remote learning. 

I hope you can find a resource of two to help you out this week! 

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both of this week's slides as well as all previous editions of my Tech Bytes newsletters.

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Malchow's (Virtual Learning) Tech Bytes

Whew! What a CrAzY MONTH it has been!

 I feel like I need to say that 10 times to get my point across, but my guess is that if you're reading this, I'm likely preaching to the choir! LOL  I've been on overdrive since March 13th when I was at a regularly scheduled Apple Core PD planning day. The day seemed to start normally with a bit of talk about what was going on in the world and that nasty 5 letter word, COVID, but within an hour, normal turned into disbelief as we found out that a school closing was likely imminent. At that point, our team shifted gears and spent the remainder of our day planning for how and when we would train staff in virtual learning. From there, the wheels just kept on spinning. There have been days that I'm not sure if I'm coming or going and the amount of hours I have put in have been extraordinary. My family's spring break ski trip to Colorado was cancelled and I spent the majority of that break planning, prepping and creating for teachers, students and parents. Needless to say, my normally scheduled projects such as my weekly Tech Bytes and monthly EpicPals projects have taken a back seat, not because I wanted them to, but simply because there hasn't been a spare hour in the day to work on them. 

My hope is that things will calm down a little in the next week or two (I keep saying that, but it has to happen, right?!?) and that I will be able to find a better balance of working from home and supporting my middle school & high school sons with their remote learning while also keeping my own sanity knowing that my husband is working on the frontline as a captain for the fire department and riding the rescue squad each shift. The threat of COVID is very real for my family and although we have a plan and will cross each bridge as we get to it, the possible scenarios honestly scare the he** out of me.... 'nuf said.

So, back to that balance.... over the course of the last week, I've revamped my normal Tech Bytes to take on a new objective and that is to support my K-5 teachers with our main technology initiatives (Seesaw and Google Meet). Rather than create two newsletters, I'm going to share pieces of what I am creating for my district teachers with you. I hope there will be things that you will find useful as you also navigate these unchartered waters. 

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

~ Sara

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Malchow's Tech Bytes 👩🏻‍💻~ Feb 24th

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Malchow's Tech Bytes 👩🏻‍💻 February 17th

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Malchow's Tech Bytes 👩🏻‍💻~ February 3rd 💖🌎📚

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Well, Bobby the groundhog saw his shadow here in NE Wisconsin, so we are in for another 6 weeks of winter. Personally, I'm ok with it as we haven't had much snow and fun yet. Bring it on!