Month: April 2019
Block Download of Shared OneDrive Files
Ever wanted to share something with your students or parents but don't want them to download it? OneDrive now makes it easy to block download of OneDrive files you've shared. With a simple toggle, you can set those file so that if you share them, the viewers won't be able to download a copy of ...
Teacher Feature: Teams & Global Collaboration
Holly Stipe's 8th-grade Advanced Language Arts students at Issaquah Middle School along with Amy Krohn and Anne Miller's 4th and 5th grade Science Technology class at Briarwood teamed up for a Global Collaboration this spring. The unit crossed miles to discuss the theme in their respective novels using Microsoft Teams as their gateway for collaboration. ITP participants (Stipe and Krohn) ...
New Actively Learn Extra Help and Teacher Features
A beta version of suggested grading is now available. You can opt-in and it will suggest based on historical data of a similar question whether the answer is basic, proficient, etc. Whiteout is now able to block out videos and photos with "White Out Above." An eraser will appear in teacher view while students won't ...
100 Ways Students Use Seesaw
Seesaw is a terrific way for teachers to showcase student academic growth, strengthen the home/school connection, and educate students about digital citizenship in authentic ways. But there is so much more that you can do with Seesaw and the challenge is to continue to find authentic ways that students can ...
A Question About BrainPOP
Dear Instructional Technology TOSAs, I love BrainPOP, but I feel like my kids are just consuming more and more video content these days. Do you have a suggestion for me to engage them in a way that encourages them to create vs just consume media? Thanks, A Very Techie Teacher Dear Techie Teacher, ...
Let Teams Grade For You (or How to Use Forms in Teams Assignments)
A couple weeks back, we showed you how to use Teams to create assignments. However we glossed over another option in Assignments, which is to use Microsoft's Forms. This can be a powerful option for quick formative assessments that, if objective, will automatically score them and give those results back to students. Read below to ...
Classkick: Simple, Effective Strategies
With so many interesting technology tools to choose from, I often find real-life examples helpful. For that reason, I look for specific teaching strategies when attempting to tackle a new idea. Speaking of which, this is why the Bits & Pieces is working to highlight more of our own ISD teachers using tech in engaging ...
Poetry Month & Actively Learn
April showers bring May flowers and a celebration of poetry Create or appreciate, April poetry month is in full bloom Actively Learn casts rays of sunshine on inspirational poets Questions to ponder, notes to guide, abundant styles Lyric Narrative Descriptive Elegy Epic A poem to appreciate singularly or in a set By grade level ...
Move Your Desktop to the Cloud
So I've been living in the cloud (digitally speaking) for over a decade now but I'm still saving a lot of things locally to my desktop. These are mostly things I'm working on or haven't decided where to put. Most of the time this works well for me and when I'm ready to work on ...
Using Actively Learn For Classroom Research
Primary sources, secondary sources, and the ability to create and collaborate are reasons why Actively Learn is a great space to encourage classroom research. Teachers can assign primary sources to their classes and work through note-taking using the "highlight and take a note" option. Questions can be embedded (many are already included), but teachers can modify ...