2022-2023 Building Tech Series for Secondary

We've updated and made some changes to the BTS so read below to get the details. Ed Tech is offering regular opportunities for training on a variety of tech tools this year. These sessions will offer overviews of the tools and the features that support powerful learning.   These will take place on Zoom and each ...

ISD STEM Explorations Canvas Course (6-12 Focus)

Interested in STEM hours for your certificate renewal?  Interested in additional options to use your remaining Ed Tech pay over the summer?   ISD has created an asynchronous STEM Canvas course that can be completed at your own pace outside of contract time.  Register via True North here.   Course is 100% asynchronous and completed through ISD's Canvas ...

Elementary Ed Tech Summer Learning Opportunities

  Join us this summer for an online Zoom Ed Tech series! July 18: 9-11am: Creation Tools Deep Dive and/or 1-3pm: Advanced Book Creator  July 19: 9-11am: Exploring Databases  July 20: 9-11am: Microsoft Teams  Register on True North Logic (Course #11757).   Not able to attend these live sessions? There are many other online learning ...

Seesaw’s Elementary Summer Resources

The end of the school year will be here before we know it, and you may be getting questions about student access to online resources over the summer. Clever and all connected apps will be available to students until August 3rd, when rostering begins for the next year.   Seesaw has put together a great ...

Come Play with AI Tools and Explore the Possibilities

In November of 2022, a company called OpenAI released version 3.0 of its Chatbot called ChatGPT. Within days, claims of seismic change were being declared by thought leaders and TikTokers. There were also cries of alarm about the impact on careers, education, and society. Since that time Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and 1000s of other ...

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Actively Learn Transition to Free Version

As ISD transitions from the Prime version of Actively Learn to the Free version, we'd like to offer support and tips on how to be prepared and to make sure that you have access to the content you need from the district library or shared content. We have created a general guide, which is included ...

Dyknow: Spotlighting Student Learning in the classroom

This school year across the district, many staff and students have been using the DyKnow classroom monitoring software to enhance student learning. This software supports student learning by providing the opportunities for staff to gather data on what applications and websites are being visited by students on a classroom level, as well as create plans ...

Canvas Integrations & Apps

As our comfort using Canvas increases, we might be ready to explore some of the integrations available either at the district level or school level. You may want to bookmark this post for future reference as it will give you the ABCs of Canvas apps that are available (district or school) and how best to ...

Technology and SEL

As a district, we have focused on socioemotional learning (SEL) for quite some time, and there are several new tools that can support this! Technology is a great way to facilitate emotional check-ins and teach students to track their own emotional regulation.   For primary grades, Kahoot has partnered with Microsoft Reflect to create SEL lessons. ...

Coming Soon: AI Playground

UPDATE We have zeroed in on the week of May 22 for our first round of AI Playground. Exact dates, locations and times coming later this week. Interested in exploring more around Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and recent trends? Please join us at the AI Playground in May. We will offer a few AI Playground ...

Laptops Opening Up Worlds

Issaquah School District's Academy for Community Transition (ACT) has been a vital part of helping prepare individuals with disabilities connect to and integrate into the community following their time in school. Now, thanks to the district's 1:1 program, students are getting an even deeper and more authentic experience that connects them to tools and processes ...

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