All students in grades 3-12 are encouraged to participate!
Directions: Click on your school name to visit the survey website for your school.
* To find your school faster, type your school name in the search box directly above the table.
Now available for your convenience, Clever and Pearson EasyBridge are now part of the Student Website Login Links page. These websites are not accessible to all students. If you need to access one of these websites and you are having problems, please let your teacher know.
P.S. – The links are also available when you hover your mouse over Links on the menubar.
Enjoy! 🙂
The school wireless network has been designed to allow for all EVSC students and staff to connect their personal devices to the Internet.
Simply attach to the “EVSC-Secure” wireless network and use your Window’s login credentials to attach.
Some students have configured their devices for EVSC-Staff or EVSC-Student. These networks are designed for EVSC devices only. Be aware that any non-EVSC devices on these networks will be blocked and not allowed back on the network.
Please assist us with providing the best school wireless experience we can for your school!
Thanks,
Office of Technology
What’s going on with Google and YouTube?Students and teachers recently reported an issue with Window’s devices when visiting Google websites using Google Chrome browser. This was affecting Gmail, Drive, YouTube, and other Google sites. When visiting these sites, they were presented with an error message instead of the website. (see pic right)
Technology Support has resolved the issue and has pushed out a software update for all Window’s computers. To get the update, students and staff need to restart their computers while at school. Please do this at a time when it’s convenient to leave the computer turned on.
To restart your computer, click on the Window’s Start button and then choose Restart in the bottom-right of the menu.
Here’s some quick tips you can use to troubleshoot issues that may occur with your Lenovo ThinkPad.
Try disconnecting the charger 2-pieces (the cord that plugs into the rectangular block piece) and put them back together again. Sometimes this often fixes the issue.
Bring your ThinkPad to the school’s Tech Office to get a new battery.
Part of the fix that we had to put in place for last year’s ISTEP test caused those buttons to no longer work. To control the volume you will need to use the volume control down by the clock in Windows.
All EVSC high school students were prompted to change their computer passwords when they first signed into their ThinkPads this school year. As a result, student passwords for Gmail, Google Apps, and itslearning changed to match this newly set password as entered by the student.
Students need to be aware of this fact when attempting to sign in to Gmail, Google Apps, and/or itslearning. Simply using the student ID number as the password for these programs will not work if the password was changed to something different upon first sign on to the ThinkPad.
Click on Change Password
To change your password, simply press the Ctrl, Alt, and Delete keys at the same time to launch the Windows Lock Screen.
Next, click the Change Password button and then follow the prompts to enter your username, old password, and the new password (entered twice).
Once you finish entering in all your information, click the arrow button to save the changes.
Remember that once you do this, your password has changed on your computer, Gmail, Google Apps, and itslearning.
Enter your username, old password, and new password (twice) and then click the arrow button to save.
Worth Ave. Group is pleased to offer a discount to members of EVSC to insure school-issued laptops given to students and faculty. Insurance with Worth Ave. Group will protect the device against: Theft, Fire, Flood, Natural Disasters, Power Surge and Vandalism. This insurance policy will provide full replacement cost coverage and will protect the item worldwide (on and off school grounds). There is no limit to the number of claims that can be filed during the term of the policy and the policy is transferable to a replacement unit.
For more information or to purchase the insurance, download the form below.
What digital skills should every student have to be ready for their future? No matter what you want to do after high school, digital skills have become a necessity. Try to think of a career where some kind of digital skills aren’t needed!
You may have years before you’re finished with school, or you may be graduating in the new few months, but I bet you have used technology to communicate, create something, or collaborate with someone else. Which do you think is the most important? Here’s a hint – the answer is all of them!
The ability to communicate, create, and collaborate with others is a lifelong skill you will need no matter what you want to be when you grow up. You need to be able to do these things when you work with people face to face AND online. You need to practice these skills, just like you would practice to become better at a sport or a hobby. Are your teachers giving you plenty of opportunities to do this?
Here are some ideas of ways you can practice your “digital 3”:
Remember, the time for you to begin getting good at these 3 important digital skills is NOW! They’re great digital skills not only to use in school, but in life!
How do you collaborate, create and communicate in your daily life? How can you use these skills more?
At the bottom of each day’s post, you will find a dialog box for leaving a comment. When you click in the comment box, you will be asked to supply a name and email address. Use your first name and your EVSC gmail address ([email protected]).
Only students who provide their name and EVSC email will have their comments posted. Comments will be screened before going live on the blog – this might take a little time, be patient, they will appear.
We are looking for comments that add to the conversation and make us think. Feel free to ask the author of the post questions, add your own ideas and resources, and share your experiences related to the topic.
Is Social Media the Mirror to YOUR Soul?We talk a lot about respect on my team at EVSC. It’s a big concept. Most agree that you can have respect for people that you have never met or places that you have not experienced first-hand. But, this respect often stems from your perceptions, or ideas that you have based on the world around you. Perceptions are often formed based on the world around us, the opinions of others and how you may agree or disagree with them. One common place you see the information that helps form your perceptions is through social media.
The leaders in the EVSC also discuss respect as it relates to other broad concepts such as value (the worth of something) and relevance, (usefulness to us as it relates to something else). I believe that we tend to value people and places based upon the relevance they have to us.
So, in a world where there is nearly instant feedback available via social media, has respect simply become a matter of perceptions that have been formed – rather than on facts?
I often wonder if the posts and comments we make on social media have more to say about ourselves than we realize. Those that react to something they have read instantly, without investigation or thought, can only be reacting based on the perceived relevance of the subject matter to them.
As an example, let’s look at the recent conversations on social media regarding the proposed snow make up days. There were many students and parents who commented within less than five minutes about how they would not participate in any of the options available to the EVSC because of one thing or another that was happening in their lives. That is a reaction based on relevance.
From the EVSC’s perspective, the decision that would be made would need to be based on what will help students the most educationally – not just to comply with the law. That is EVSC’s relevance to the subject matter.
So, could we indeed say that often times postings and comments on social media are only a reflection of the relevance of the subject matter to the individual?
Should writing with respect for the subject matter – or the person behind the subject matter be factored in? Is that important?
What do you think?
Tell us what you think! Are postings and comments on social media only a reflection of the relevance of the subject to the individual? Should we consider respect for subject matter or the person behind the subject matter when we post? Is this important?
At the bottom of each day’s post, you will find a dialog box for leaving a comment. When you click in the comment box, you will be asked to supply a name and email address. Use your first name and your EVSC gmail address ([email protected]).
Only students who provide their name and EVSC email will have their comments posted. Comments will be screened before going live on the blog – this might take a little time, be patient, they will appear.
We are looking for comments that add to the conversation and make us think. Feel free to ask the author of the post questions, add your own ideas and resources, and share your experiences related to the topic.
Thomas A. Edison said, “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” Edison’s words were likely said more than a century ago – before anyone could even conceive of how interconnected the world would be today.
How has this connectedness enhanced our capabilities? At a recent conference, a speaker said, “today’s teens have more ability to organize people than a Middle Age king.”
Today’s students can connect instantly, with people of all ages, from anywhere in the world. We can promote understanding, share beautiful moments with others, learn about the hopes and dreams of someone from a different culture, or develop a tool that makes a difference in the lives of others. I have seen countless examples of teens in the world who are already doing each of these things.
How do you want to use technology?
The digital heroes of tomorrow will choose to use technology for kindness. It’s in our DNA, and it’s already in our technologies. The iPhone, iPad, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, 3D Printing, etc. were all created so we can connect with and learn from each other, find information, improve lives, and indeed, change the world.
To use technology for lesser purposes is to squander the extraordinary opportunity we all have. No other generation has had as much power as yours to change the world. This is not only an opportunity – it is your obligation. You matter. You are a genius, and the world needs your contribution.
Fortunately, your generation understands this far better than those that came before you. You believe in the future. You believe that one person can make a difference. Listening to you speak about the world gives me hope and inspiration.
Protect your optimism because the future demands it. Protect your sense of possibility. Without it, we despair, and it’s hard to change the world from despair. You are more conscious and conscientious than my generation was at your age. You see problems in the world – globally and locally – and strive to understand, learn and discover instead of waiting for others to do something about them.
Technologies won’t change the world. The manner in which we use technology is changing the world, for good.
How will you use technology to change the world?
Explain how you will use technology to change the world.
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At the bottom of each day’s post, you will find a dialog box for leaving a comment. When you click in the comment box, you will be asked to supply a name and email address. Use your first name and your EVSC gmail address ([email protected]).
Only students who provide their name and EVSC email will have their comments posted. Comments will be screened before going live on the blog – this might take a little time, be patient, they will appear.
We are looking for comments that add to the conversation and make us think. Feel free to ask the author of the post questions, add your own ideas and resources, and share your experiences related to the topic.