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Monday, March 27, 2017

Free Technology Curriculum from Google

Looking for Lesson Plans to Teach Google to Secondary Students? 

CS-First from Google has the answer


CS-First from Google has recently published video-based lessons for teaching Google to grades 7-12 students. This course uses instructional videos and creative projects to teach students how to use G Suite applications. Students will develop digital literacy through creative projects.

Getting Started as a Teacher:


  • Click this link CS-First from Google to sign up.
  • Click on Get Started 
  • You need to sign in as a Teacher first.
  • You will be prompted to connect to your Google account (use your @aurorak12.org) and school. 
  • Next you will create a class and be given a class code for students.


Benefits and Features:

  • Prepares students for future careers. Prepare them with practices like communication, collaboration, and research
  • Contains project-based curriculum that allows students to apply their new skills to real, relevant problems.
  • Teaches students to behave ethically online. Digital citizenship is embedded in the lessons and encourages student to use technology tools safely and responsibly.
  • Utilize the videos for a blended learning model in order to give individualized attention and foster student growth.
  • Personalizes learning for students by giving them the opportunity to explore their interests, use their strengths, and develop important skills and ideas.
  • Students gain computational thinking and programming skills along with creative problems solving.
  • Lessons are more than "how-to" use an application. Students express ideas, collaborate with others, analyze and solve problems, and create.

Monday, March 13, 2017

Last Call for Film Submissions to the 2nd Annual Aurora Borealis Film Festival

Today at 11:59pm MDT marks the deadline for all student film submissions to the 2017 Aurora Borealis Film Festival.  The festival is open to any APS student in middle or high school grades. Students do not have to be enrolled or taking a film class to be eligible and they can submit films they've created on their own.  The maximum time limit for all films is 5 minutes, they can be as short as 30 seconds if a students wants to send a quick message.


For more information, the Aurora Borealis Website has all the details and it can be easily accessed at: http://bit.lyapsfilm2017 from any device with an internet connection. There are a few rules and restrictions to take note of as well as opportunities to view the accepted submissions from 2016. Any submissions for the 2017 festival can be entered through the website until 11:59pm MDT today.

The 2017 Aurora Borealis Film Festival will take place on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 with a start time at 5pm MDT.  The location for the 2017 festival will be the Sie Film Center at 2510 East Colfax Avenue in Denver, CO. which is home to the Denver Film Society.  The festival is open to anyone and is free of charge so feel free to come join us if you are interested in seeing the student films.



If you have questions or need information not contained on the website, you can email the film festival team at apsfilmfestival@gmail.com. We hope to see you there!