September 2022 Content

director's message a message from the etis director, william carr welcome to the 2022-23 school year.  i am pleased to present our quarterly, etis newsletter.  each quarter we will report on various accomplishments, projects, technology tips and new ideas that can be used in both the classroom and workspace.  this year i am excited about two new projects, our district’s private lte network and drones.  etis is building out its very own private lte network that will provide internet service to our students who do not currently have access to any internet service at home.  we currently have five locations deployed which are; landau tower, edward wenzlaff tower, vista del monte tower,  the district office and palm springs high tower.  we plan on starting the student and parent information nights in october, with a focus of providing new lte devices to those students assigned a t-mobile hotspot.  etis will deploy an additional five locations this school year to add and expand coverage to the desert hot springs, thousand palms and cathedral city areas. also this year, in partnership with the foundation and camp of champions, etis will be hosting four drone bootcamps.  these camps will be focused on steam engineering as well as all things drones which will include fpv racing, cinematography, search and rescue, agriculture and infrastructure inspection.  students will also learn the process of building, repairing and programing of drones.  in addition to the bootcamps, we are also be piloting two middle school drone programs called “the art of drones”  which are being hosted at desert springs middle school and nellie n. coffman middle school.  after the pilot we plan on expanding these programs to all middle schools and add a high school variation as well for the 2023-24 school year. i hope you all have a great 2022-23 school year and as always please reach out if you need any technology support or would like to discuss educational technology i

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UDL with Common Tech Tools Digital Tools for Engagement

provide options for perceptions offer ways of customizing the display of information command + or control + to zoom when projecting to the students. offer alternatives for visual information use immersive reader in tools that have built in text-to-speech reader. promote understanding across languages  both google docs and word have built-in translation tools. facilitate managing information and resources both docs and word have built-in dictionaries. tools like this should be second nature. no need to leave the page and search in google for a definition.  false

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Google Tools Chrome

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