Teams: Use Insights to Get Data on Student Engagement
Microsoft Teams is great for interacting and engaging with students but it can be a little hard to know how much they are interacting and using Teams. Sure there are some obvious ways to check on how engaged your students are in Teams (cough, cough Assignments) but those are proxies at best. Fortunately, Microsoft ...
Embed Learning Checks into Stream Videos
When I was growing up there was great anxiety about the so-called idiot-box (aka TV) and how it put viewers into a total passive consumptive state (not saying I disagree.) The argument was that all you did was watch and that there wasn't really an interaction and or active participation. Well now we find ourselves ...
Use Stream to Record Your Screen
We think Microsoft Stream is pretty great but today it got even better by adding the ability to record your screen and create screen casts. Previously you had to use a different tool (like Teams) to record your screen and this created some workflow issues (like how to make sure your students didn't pop in ...
New Features in Teams
More Video Feeds Microsoft has begun rolling out some new features for Microsoft Teams. As you can see above, one of those new features is that Teams will now support up to 9 video feeds! This is the first step in moving beyond the 2 X 2 grid that Teams was limited to previously. ...
Dipping a Toe in Microsoft Stream
Confession: I'm not an influencer or a big YouTube star. I'm not even that big of YouTube user (though man it is a great place to find out how to cut up all your vegetables and fix your washing machine.) So, when Microsoft released Stream into the Office 365 suite of tools, I didn't exactly ...
Remote Learning Guide
At Bits & Pieces we understand that our current time of quarantine presents a number of unique challenges for teaching and learning. We now find ourselves in a modality that relies almost entirely on teaching remotely, and for teachers and students alike, you need time, training and support to build your capacity to engage your ...
My Week with Meetings in Teams
Over the past couple of weeks, all of us have found ourselves learning new ways to do the things we used to do. That is certainly the case for how we meet and work together now. Since schools closed, all of us have been scrambling to find ways to continue our collaborative efforts with colleagues ...
Your Guide to Bits & Pieces
As all of us are working hard to figure out how to best support learning in the new normal during The Great Disruption, we are reposting our Welcome Guide to Bits & Pieces. We have a ton of resources that can help support your educational technology needs. To help you navigate both The BNP and ...
Quick Start with Teams
If you haven't tried Teams and are interested in trying now, check out the Quick Start Guide below. Teams lets you share files easily, have rich discussions around those files and comes with a bunch of other features that are great for the digital classroom, including an end-to-end assignments tool (distribute and collect assignments digitally) ...
Everything You Need to Know About ITP 2020-2021
ITP is a great opportunity for teachers to learn about and bring new technology into their classrooms. Applications for the 2020-2021 ITP cohort will open on February 14 and close on March 30th. Below you will find all the information you need to know about the program and the application process. Additionally, over the next ...
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