Safari Montage Live 5

SAFARI Montage® Live-5! is the ideal solution for providing reliable school-to-school or school-to-home education for many applications, including AP classes, distance education for homebound students, professional development for teachers at school or at home, and virtual field trips to remote locations.

Other uses include:

Large meetings - faculty, school board, superintendent address, professional development.

Small meetings - teams, collaborative groups, student led conferences.

One to One meetings - evaluations, peer collaboration, parent teacher conferences.

Instruction - online, blended, virtual trips, expert discussion panels.

Intrigued? Watch this video explaining how the system works!

Have an idea for SML5 use in your classroom? Let me come and help you get started!

Gaggle

Gaggle is a student learning program that Commerce ISD utilizes. It encompasses many blended learning pieces including the following:

• Email: Gaggle Email includes extensive text filtering, inappropriate image detection and human monitoring.
• GaggleTube - Allow safe searching of YouTube videos even when YouTube is blocked by your district filters. All YouTube access is logged, filtered and monitored. Teachers can also upload videos, and saved videos can be shared, embedded and linked in multiple ways.
• Assignment Drop Boxes - Enable teachers to easily create, assign and collect assignments for a truly paperless classroom. Assignment Drop Boxes are integrated with Google Apps and GaggleTube for a full, rich media learning experience.
• Digital Lockers - Provide online file storage with integrated editing of Word documents, spreadsheets, photos and more.   Individual files and folders can be shared with specific students, classes or the entire school or district. All files are filtered for appropriate content and accessible from school or at home.
• Discussion Boards - Support curriculum and extend learning with ongoing classroom discussions. Teachers can create discussion boards restricted to specified students and classes.
• Social Wall - Provides profile-based connections with sharing, similar to the most popular social networking experiences.

Plus, there's an app for that!

The latest addition is the integration of Google Docs. Students can use their Gaggle login to log into Google Drive where they have access to all of the Google Apps for Education. Google Drive is a wonderful resource for students to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Their work auto-saves and is web based for access across any device and even offline editing. 

The good news is that EVERY STUDENT and TEACHER already have a Gaggle account! All logins follow this 

Username: firstname.lastname@cisdtigers.org

Password: network login

Happy Gaggling!

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