Check Emails Often!

Starting today, check emails often and reply in a timely manner.  This is very important as this is how teachers will communicate with you on your classwork.

Student Tablet Hardware Demonstration

Click below to watch a demo of your new tablet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXFexk6k39M

Click below to watch informational ads about your new tool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrqihZdZkxg&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79HMPFK9mUs&feature=relmfu

E-Mail Ettiquette

Watch this video on sending emails . . . it will help your ideas come across as you would like them to!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9n9YWUFNGI

What is Naviance?

Naviance is an online software product that is new to CCHS.  You will be taught to login and use Naviance throughout the year, with assistance from Mrs. Egan and your Guidance Counselors.

Through self discovery and collaboration with parents, teachers and school counselors, Naviance helps students be better prepared for attending college and/or joining the workforce. The Naviance Family Connection portal provides students and families with a variety of tools designed to connect learning to life. 

Personalized Learning Plans

The path to college and career readiness begins with self discovery. Naviance lets students learn about their strengths and areas of interest, and matches those skills with college and career options that are the right fit for each student. Working directly with their school counselors, students can set personalized learning goals and manage all the tasks needed for post-secondary success.

Career & Course Planning

Once students have an understanding of who they are, Naviance empowers them to learn about what they want to be and how to get there. Naviance offers a series of career assessments that help students discover multiple career options, and plan their career paths based on general areas of interest, and the level of education and training required to achieve their individual goals and objectives.

NAVIANCE COURSE PLANNER

Naviance Course Planner helps students plan which courses they need to take to meet their college and career goals. Plus, it gives schools additional tools to help students identify areas where they can increase academic rigor, and find the right courses to help bridge the gap between college eligibility and college readiness.

College Search & Admissions

Naviance makes college research easy. Whether it's matching colleges to a student's career interests, or comparing admissions rates at a student's top college choices, our college planning tools allow students and families to make informed decisions about their options by comparing colleges and universities, exploring scholarship opportunities, tracking college applications, and accessing a variety of other college research materials.

What is Digital Citizenship?

Be a Good Digital Citizen: Tips for Teens and Parents

Safe and responsible online behavior means being a good cyber citizen.

by Caroline Knorr | Dec. 13, 2010 | Digital citizenship

Omaha Town Hall Highlights

watch video

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5 Essential Facts of Digital Life

• Kids are the creators. It’s all about participating; communicating; making music, images, and videos; and posting written content. And the content that’s there? Kids must be able to know whether it’s credible or not.
• Everything happens in front of a vast, invisible, and often anonymous audience.
• Once something is out there, it lasts for a long time. Everything leaves a digital footprint.
• Information cannot be controlled. Anything can be copied, changed, and shared instantly.
• Distance and anonymity separate actions and consequences. Kids think they can get away with unethical or unacceptable behavior because they don’t see immediate consequences.

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Advice & Answers

With Power Comes Responsibility
Digital Citizenship Tips for Teens
Digital Citizenship Tips for Parents and Teachers 

With Power Comes Responsibility

In fall 2010, Common Sense Media brought its digital citizenship campaign to Omaha, Neb., in the first of many joint town hall events with MTV and the Family Violence Prevention Fund. Combining MTV's "A Thin Line" campaign with the Family Violence Prevention Fund's "That's Not Cool" initiative, the town halls are designed to generate honest discussion and open the lines of communication between parents and teens about the issues at play when growing up in a digital world. In Omaha, a panel of teens, a teacher, and a parent discussed the challenges and opportunities of living in a public and powerful online world and what it means to be a good digital citizen.

Nothing was off-limits: The panel covered everything from privacy and cyberbullying to protecting online reputation and how digital communication affects a teen’s everyday relationships.

In the video above, Omaha teens express what they love about their digital lives -- as well as what they struggle with. The Internet, texting, social networking -- these are the realities of teen life today. And while all of these things can be misused, they also have the potential for being powerful tools when used responsibly.

Digital Citizenship Tips for Teens

For teens, we offer five simple rules of digital citizenship to help them create a world they can be proud of -- and inspire others to do the same.

Think before you post or text -- a bad reputation could be just a click away. Before you press the "send" button, imagine the last person in the world that you’d want seeing what you post.

What goes around comes around. If you want your privacy respected, respect others' privacy. Posting an embarrassing photo or forwarding a friend’s private text without asking can cause unintended hurt or damage to others.

Spread heart, not hurt. If you wouldn’t say it in person, don’t say it online. Stand up for those who are bullied or harassed, and let them know that you’re there for them.

Give and get credit. We’re all proud of what we create. Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people’s stuff may be easy, but that doesn’t make it right. You have the responsibility to respect other people’s creative work -- and the right to have your own work respected.

Make this a world you want to live in. Spread the good stuff. Create, share, tag, comment, and contribute to the online world in positive ways.

Cafeteria $$ on Student ID

1Nutrikids - is the Point of Sale program for Carmel’s cafeteria

Parents will receive a Nutrikids logon ID via E-Mail just before the start of school, along with an explanation of what Nutrikids is and how to use it.  Nutrikids use is not mandatory. 

With Nutrikids you can add money to your student's account which he or she can access to purchase items from the cafeteria.  

With this software you can pull reports to view what your student has purchased.  You have all received activation codes and instructions in your folders.  Carmel uploads money several times a day, so if you put money in your student's account in the morning, it will be available to him or her by lunch.

Of course, the students can always pay for food with actual money if you prefer not to use this system.

If you choose not to use this system, students can pay with cash or bring a lunch from home.

Extend Battery Life

How to maximize battery life on your Android phone or tablet

 February 2, 2012 By Mike Dunn 

Frustrated by how quickly your favorite mobile gadgets die? Follow these simple tips to get longer battery life out of your Android phone or tablet.

Almost everything about Android phones is getting bigger and better. The screens, processors, and antennas are larger and faster but one thing just can’t keep up with the rest – the battery. Batteries are being taxed further and further with all of these new technologies, and they haven’t quite caught up.

Here’s a quick guide to make sure that you get the most out of your Android’s battery so your phone spends less time plugged into a wall.

Multitasking

One of the great features on Android phones is being able to run multiple apps at the same time.

The drawback is that running multiple apps in the background eats up tons of precious battery life. The Android Market features several app manager applications, but the most effective way to keep tabs on applications is already built into the operating system.

By going into the settings menu you can see what apps are currently running, and how much processing power they consume. To do this go into the settings menu and tap “applications.” Then hit “manage applications.” Shut down applications you aren’t using, or ones that are eating up battery life, by clicking on the name of the app and then tapping the “stop” button.

If you own an Android device built by HTC, Motorola, or Samsung you most likely have a useful customized version of the built-in application manager. For example, Samsung’s TouchWiz features a widget that shows how many apps you currently have running, and will allow you to close apps one by one, or all apps at once with a single click.

It sounds overly simple, but ensuring that you don’t have apps running in the background when you don’t need them will save your battery. Each application might be taking up a very small amount of power, but it adds up over time.

Take Control

One surefire way to waste battery life is leaving hardware that isn’t being used turned on. Examples include leaving GPS and Bluetooth on all day, instead of only when needed.

Nearly all recent Android phones – Android version 2.1 and newer – have a widget called “power control.” Its sole function is to save battery life.

This handy widget enables you to turn on or off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and Sync with the touch of a single button. It also enables to you reduce the brightness of your screen. Unless you are directly using the Wi-Fi, et al, there is no reason to leave it on.

However, Sync and auto-brightness for your screen are handy features. It’s up to you if you want to turn those off or down.

Unfortunately, if your phone came with a custom skin it is possible the “power control” widget is not included on your phone. Most likely, though, the device should have a very similar widget or feature.

Some of the new 4G phones offer a 4G toggle switch to turn off the power-hungry 4G antenna. It’s better to have it off until you start consuming tons of data. Keeping on top of all these features throughout the day should prolong battery life.

Fade to black

This tip will only help those of you who have an AMOLED screen, essentially this refers to any recent devices from Samsung. We’ll skip the lesson about how screen technology works, and just say that AMOLED screens don’t use power to display black pixels.

If you keep the screen’s background as black as possible you will save a massive amount of power. Screens are one of the most power hungry aspects of phones, by reducing the power that the screen needs to operate you will drastically improve battery life.

Wrap it up!

Android gets a bad rap for being a power hungry operating system, and it can be if left unchecked. However, by shutting off applications that aren’t in use and only turning on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or GPS functions when needed you’ll be amazed at how much longer the battery lasts.

Under average usage your device should easily last all day, and maybe then some. Of course, if you stream Netflix all day then bets are off.

Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/how-to/how-to-maximize-battery-life-on-your-android-phone-or-tablet/#ixzz22OMihBI9

Edline Activation

You will receive your Edline activation code your first day of homeroom.  At that time, refer to these instructions to activate your Edline account.

EDLINE ACTIVATION

INSTRUCTION SHEET

For Students:

-       Type www.edline.net in the address bar of your web browser

-       A “grey rectangle” will show up on the screen

-       In the lower left corner click on the words “Click here” in red underneath Activate an Account

-       Enter in the activation code given to you for your name                            (ex. FDXY-VPPM-MTRF)  (enter the dashes)

-       Click ENTER

-       Make sure your name appears correctly, if it does not, stop and send an email to edline@carmelhs.org

-       Click on “Activate this Code”

-       Read the entire PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS

-       Click on “I Agree”

-       Click on “New Account”

-       Pick a UNIQUE Screen name (combine words and numbers)

-       Type in a password and repeat

-       Click “Continue”

-       Type in a valid e-mail address (you will not receive SPAM from this)

-       Under Email Notice Preferences, select the radio button next to “Notify me of all new reports that are posted to edline.

-       Proceed to Security Question section

-       Click on the drop down arrow to the right of the <List Of Suggested Questions>, then pick an appropriate question

-       Type the answer (not case sensitive)

-       Click on “Update”

-       View any User Guides you would like, then click DONE in upper right corner of the window

-       You will now see your CCHS Edline Home Page