2nd Annual Richland Two Film Festival - Accepting Applications NOW

We are excited to announce the release of our 2nd Annual Richland Two Film Festival. Richland School District Two, in partnership with WeVideo, is hosting the 2nd annual Film Festival! 

We encourage Richland Two students and employees to participate in this event! This is your chance to show off all your creativity! The deadline for applying is March 26! Get your application in today and start creating.

Learn more about the film festival on their webpage.

Here are some tips on creating a digital story and recording better video.

Technology Spotlight, Tiffany Hawthorne, Lonnie B. Nelson Elementary

Tiffany Hawthorne is working closely with Dawnn Turner, the Technology and Learning Coach at Lonnie B. Nelson Elementary through peer coaching. During the time she and Mrs. Turner have worked together Tiffany has increased student use of the technology with her daily lessons. Tiffany is very eager to add a variety of teaching strategies to ensure her students are involved with technology in all of the content areas. Her students are very excited to be using Chromebooks. Tiffany's students are becoming very confident using technology and the students are excited to share what they are doing with the Chromebooks. Tiffany is using SMART Notebook along with a variety of Google Apps for Education tools. She was also the first person to show interest in planning for the hour of code. Tiffany works with her students to create Google Draw and Slides. Most recently the students created their own version of a Thanksgiving plate in Google Draw. Then wrote a description of the drawing.

Tiffany is in her 7th year teaching and is currently teaching 3-5th grade at Lonnie B. Nelson Elementary. She recently was named National Board certified.

-Submitted by Dawnn Turner

Learn about the Belk Service Challenge and Network with your Colleagues!

The Belk Service Learning Challenge is back! 

Join Discovery Education and Richland School District Two to learn more about this exciting service-learning challenge for students in grades 6-8. Let’s collaborate to share the details of the 2015 challenge, brainstorm ideas for meaningful classroom use, and kick things off over a meal. Dinner is on us!

The Belk Service Learning Challenge, is a way for middle school students to apply what they learn in their core subjects to their communities. Help your students apply science, technology and social studies concepts to their local area with this new video challenge. Students will create a 1-2 minute video that tells their service learning story for their chance to earn $10,000.

REGISTER HERE 

December 4, 2014

6:00 – 7:30 PM

Longleaf Middle School 

1160 Longreen Parkway

Columbia, SC 29229

Multipurpose Room

Share the Positive - #RichlandTwo

When sharing on Twitter use #RichlandTwo

Starting the new year with a shot of excitement? Is your professional learning getting you ready for the student's arrival next Wednesday? Is your school, creating an atmosphere of collaboration and communication? Are you just super excited to work for an amazing district? Have you learned new ways to engage your students and you want to share it with the world? Are you looking for new ways to utilize technology in your classroom and grow as a 1TWO1 teacher? If you said yes to any of these questions, you need to tweet about it and use the hashtag; #RichlandTwo

Why would you want to use Twitter? 
Twitter is the number one sharing and professional learning tool for teachers worldwide. Share what is going on with your class and learn at the same time. If you are new to Twitter, find out how to get started here.
Let's build an atmosphere of collaboration and learning through social media. Check out what is happening in the district below or go to twitter and follow the hashtag #RichlandTwo. If you want to follow other Richland Two employees add your name to this spreadsheet and it will populate at the bottom of this post.

Need help with Twitter, contact your school level Technology and Learning Coach. 

Let's get the word out about how amazing Richland School District Two and your home school really are! 

#RichlandTwo Tweets

The 1TWO1 Digital Starter Kit gets a face lift

We have updated the 1TWO1 Digital Starter Kit! The updates include new websites for use in your classrooms as well as a new "quick view" sheet you can print off and keep handy. The list you are accustomed to starts on page 4 of the 1TWO1 Digital Starter Kit.

Remember this is just a place to start with digital projects! 

George Couros Speaks with Richland Two Leaders

Day 2 of the Administrative Inservice was kicked off with a keynote by George Couros, the Division Principal for Parkland School Division and an Innovative Teaching, Learning, and Leadership consultant.  He challenged our administrators to communicate, share, and transform what is going on at their schools. 

Here are a few tweets of the morning. Head on over to Twitter and check out the #RichlandTwo Discussion.