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Digital Citizenship Week

Happy Digital Citizenship Week! This week is an opportunity for Teachers and Parents/Guardians to help students learn how to use technology safely and responsibly. Over the past few months many schools and families have transitioned to online learning, and this…

Login Processes for Westside Services

As part of our goal of streamlining access to Westside technology services, we’ve updated the process to log into several Westside services. We are working to also keep your username and password synced across services. What are my credentials? –…

Does the iPad prepare students for the business world?

One question we often get: “Does having an iPad prepare students for the business world?” This is a perfectly valid question. Westside seeks to provide students with the best tools for real-world experiences. As a technology department, we believe that…

Book Creator & Adobe Spark: A Powerful App-Smash

Book Creator has made quite a name for itself amongst educators with its simple yet powerful interface to allow even the youngest of students to make, read, and share their own digital stories, poetry books, and journals just to name…

A Note about Permissions and Google Drive

September 2019 Did you know Westside staff and students have created almost 60,000 documents using Google? On top of the documents created in Google, another 300,000 have been shared via Google Drive. That’s a lot! With this level of usage,…

Reflections from NETA 2019

2019 NETA Reflections This year, 35 Westside teachers and administrators joined over 2,000 others at the 2019 NETA conference. This year also marks my last on the NETA board. At the spring conference, I finished out my term as Past-President…

The Dual Mandate of Technology

By Matt Lee, Ph.D. and Paul Lindgren, Ph.D. Note: This article first appeared in the November issue of the NETA Newsletter. Stay with me here… Ask any communications expert and they’ll most likely tell you that writing an article to…

Reflections from NETA 2018

NETA 2018 Reflections On April 20 & 21st, 30 Westside Teachers were able to attend NETA, the Nebraska Education Technology association. This year was important to me-it was the year I served as President of NETA. Last year as conference…

The Power of Story

“Let me tell you a story.” I LOVE those words. Don’t you? From childhood tales around a campfire, to friends sharing a recent weekend event, those six words spark your interest. You are instantly engaged and want to know more.…

Leaders, eMerge! Growing Your Own Technology Leaders

Looking to engineer foundational, long-lasting change within your buildings? Grow your own instructional technology leadership. Hear how one district launched a teacher-centered professional learning program to help classroom teachers eMerge as embedded technology coaches in their own buildings. Click here…