Digital Backpack

Uses for a Digital Backpack

Connecting to TSD-Student

Connecting to Stoneware

Keeping Your Devices Secure

Tech Support

Purchasing Recommendations

Acceptable Use Policy

FAQs

• Look up information online / conduct research
• Use standard tools such as dictionaries, calculators, sound recorders, etc. all in one place
• Take notes / write papers – most people can type faster than they can write
• Organize notes, assignments, and projects into folders on a computer
• Use collaboration tools like Google Wave to co-create products in real-time
• Use video conferencing to communicate with “experts” and real-world people
• Send in assignments from anywhere
• Complete online homework (for classes where teachers use an online homework tool)
• Check grades
• Keep a calendar
• Get visuals of concepts that aren't making sense
• Practice for using computers the same way adults do in their jobs
• Access quizzes / study guides / tutorials / "how to" videos
• Transfer documents between home and school
• Use programs that aren't available on the school's network
• Decrease the number of students per computer in the classroom

Have a use that should be added to this list? Email Ethan Smith at esmith@tahomasd.us

• Ask a student to look something up when a question arises no one knows how to answer
• Display student products using a projector
• Provide differentiated instruction
• Ask a student to search for resources that would help their peers master a concept
• Allow students to choose the medium for a product
• Have students email the group's work to all of its members

Have a use that should be added to this list? Email Ethan Smith at esmith@tahomasd.us