1. SWIFT A DVANCED T RAINING Summer, 2013 District Technology Facilitators: Chris Allen Dustin Foster Thomas Suttle John Hardy Please log in to your SWIFT site [ RSD-Internet Portal Homepage  SWIFT 2.0 + ] RSD-Internet Portal Homepage If you need assistance with your username or password, please ask

2. C OURSE O BJECTIVES Participants will extend their SWIFT skills beyond the set of topics covered in the SWIFT-Basic class. Skills covered will include: Menu Link Discussion Page Blog Page Event Calendar Quiz Collection page Using Contact Page to enable submission of digital assignments (using rules-based Outlook folders) Using passwords to restrict access to portions of SWIFT site Participants will apply their newly learned skills and techniques to their existing SWIFT sites.

3. SWIFT-B ASIC COURSE – QUICK REVIEW Navigation (including getting to other SWIFT sites) http://www.rentonschools.us/start/ vs http://staff.rentonschools.us/ Overview of SWIFT dashboard (Site Manager page) Overview of Editor toolbar (Rich Text Editor) Side bar menu Site menu Diskquota indicator Top menu Page menu Management area

4. SWIFT-B ASIC COURSE – QUICK REVIEW Page types covered: Static Content page (e.g., Homepage) File Collection page

5. SWIFT-B ASIC COURSE – QUICK REVIEW Page types covered: Links Collection page Contact Form:

6. H OW WILL YOU USE YOUR SWIFT SITE ? Who is the target audience? Students? Parents? Community at large? What is the site’s purpose? Display student work and/or assignments? Communicate with parents? Instructional materials repository? Keep efficiency in mind Minimize additional workload How often will you update?

7. M ENU L INKS Appear in the Site Menu, along with other site pages, but are not actually pages at all. Enable site visitors to quickly jump to another website. The “School Website” entry on every staff member’s SWIFT site is a Menu Link.

8. M ENU L INKS From your SWIFT dashboard page, click on the create page button (Side Bar menu). In the pop-up window, give your Menu Link a title and, using the dropdown Page Type menu, select Menu Link (beneath the Basic header).

9. M ENU L INKS Select “Unpublished” for the time being and then click on the button. In the Edit Page Details window that appears, enter the URL for the web page you are linking to: Make your Link Target selection ( Same Window or New Window ) and then click on the button.

10. M ENU L INKS After you’re sure the URL to your linked page is accurate, click on the button (upper left). In the Side Bar menu, click on the name of your site to go to your SWIFT dashboard: From the dashboard, click on the Visit Site button (Top menu) to see how your new Menu Link looks to site visitors:

11. Blogs are like a keynote speech one-to-many communication speaker (blogger) is in control of the discussion questions and comments from the audience are allowed like a journal authored by an individual (sometimes teams) Forums are like social mixers many-to-many communication everyone is at equal level, milling about, discussing with others anyone can start a topic and anyone to respond to one content is usually segmented by topic rather than by people B LOGS & D ISCUSSIONS - W HAT ’ S THE D IFFERENCE ?

12. D ISCUSSION P AGE – C REATING /E DITING - or -

13. D ISCUSSION P AGE – C REATING /E DITING !!!

14. D ISCUSSION P AGE – V ISITOR ’ S V IEW

15. B LOG P AGE – C REATING /E DITING - or -

16. B LOG P AGE – C REATING /E DITING

17. B LOG P AGE – V ISITOR ’ S V IEW

18. E VENT C ALENDAR – C REATING /E DITING - or -

19. !!! E VENT C ALENDAR – C REATING /E DITING

20. E VENT C ALENDAR – V ISITOR ’ S V IEW

21. Q UIZ C OLLECTION Great for practice (reviewing skills) Not really for HW/scoring Results can be emailed in (no login required) Another Option Skyward Online Assignments

22. - or - Q UIZ C OLLECTION – C REATING /E DITING

27. Q UIZ C OLLECTION – V ISITOR ’ S V IEW At bottom of quiz:

28. D ROP B OXES FOR S TUDENT A SSIGNMENTS Students turn work in via SWIFT Teacher creates rules in Outlook to organize this work Emails from students are automatically filed into Outlook folders:

29. D ROP B OXES FOR S TUDENT A SSIGNMENTS Assignments from Period 2

30. D ROP B OXES FOR S TUDENT A SSIGNMENTS – V ISITOR ’ S V IEW

31. T HE O UTLOOK SIDE OF D ROP B OXES 1 2 3 4 5 6

32. 1 Move message with specific words in the Subject to a folder 2 3 4 5

33. T HE O UTLOOK SIDE OF D ROP B OXES 1 2 3 4

35. R ESTRICT A CCESS TO P ORTIONS OF S ITE You can password protect...... your entire SWIFT site... individual site pages... individual items on a page. Passwords can then be shared with individual students, groups of students, parents, colleagues, etc. And don’t forget Publish & Unpublish Entire site - or - individual pages Begin work on a page & “hide” it until ready. Prepare content in advance and publish it later. Unpublish older files or individual items no longer needed (rather than deleting them).

36. R ESTRICT A CCESS TO P ORTIONS OF S ITE 1 2 3 4

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