Falcon Apps

Falcon Apps can be accessed at http://www.salisburysd.org. Each student and staff member has a unique login and password. Contact your building computer technician if you need login assistance.

Falcon Apps (Google Apps for education) is a set of online tools for communication, collaboration, time-management, and document storage. Provided by Google at no cost to the District, these tools include:

• Gmail: a fully functioning e-mail program
• Calendar: a customizable calendar and to-do list
• Contacts: an address book
• GoogleDocs/Drive: a word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing program that allows multi-user access and editing
• Sites: a web-page design tool
• Video portal: a place for students and teachers to store and share video projects
• Groups: a fully functioning threaded discussion tool
• Aviary: a set of image and audio creation and editing tools
• EasyBib: Bibliography Creator
• BrainPop: Animated curricular videos
• Most other Google Tools!

The District’s primary reasons for supplying these tools to students are:

• To provide our students with practice in using current technology applications and tools, including e-mail, word processing, spreadsheet use, survey development, graphics use and slide show creation
• To provide students with planning and time management tools to develop 21st century skills
• To facilitate “paperless” communication and transfer of work between students and teachers
• To provide adequate (25 GB) long-term storage space for student work
• To help students work collaboratively, engage in peer-editing of documents, and publishing for a wider audience

Additional Resources

Contact Randy Ziegenfuss (rziegenfuss@stsd.org) with questions.