Teacher Feature: Readers Workshop & Actively Learn
Actively Learn once again is being featured from a PCMS classroom, this time Erin Kwok, who used it for 8th grade Readers Workshop. Groups were able to choose from a variety of novels and then were asked to participate in their discussion using Actively Learn. One group, who chose the novel The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, were able ...
More tips and tricks with Outlook
Ready for some more tips for Outlook? Previously we posted about an introduction to Outlook Calendar, but here are some more advanced options for Outlook Calendar. Scheduling Assistant will help avoid asking when everyone might be available for an appointment. First, create a new appointment: Then choose Scheduling Assistant and add your colleagues. You will now be ...
Flipping the Classroom and Actively Learn
Time has become a precious commodity for classroom teachers, so more and more, the classroom is being flipped to provide more hand's on learning during class and less direct instruction. A flipped classroom in a science class might require students to review a video on the periodic table in EdPuzzle, read an article on Actively Learn, ...
Spice up PPT with active hyperlinks, add-ins, and animations!
Ready to take PowerPoint to the next level? Try incorporating more interactive elements such as hyperlinks (Jeopardy anyone?). By editing your PowerPoint in the desktop version, you can add links right within the presentation to other slides. Templates are often available (for free or purchase) but may not have the game or content you are ...
Engaged Readers with Actively Learn
As we strive to create active readers who can engage with a complex text, it is important that we develop a joy for reading at the same time. Reluctant readers will often disengage from the content, but Actively Learn blogger Dr. Natalie Saaris offers some practical tips in her blog post, "5 Ways to Make Rigorous Content Motivating to Students," to ...
Flipgrid and your Office 365 Classroom
Perhaps you have taken the dive into your Office 365 with Class Notebook, One Note, and maybe have even started to explore Teams. You are sharing docs, your students are collaborating and writing in their Notebook, but are you ready to have them share their ideas vocally. Or maybe you are looking to add a new ...
Actively Learn: Where did their class go?
You have the perfect lesson prepared, most students are happily engaged and working, and then pops up a hand! "I can't see the class." And you can't find it either! It's not you, their class likely did "disappear." Perhaps they have disappeared from your roster of students or even more confusing, they are still showing on ...
Ready for some Office updates!
Immersive Reader, already a great tool in its own right has received some updates making it even better. The translator option is now available in Word, OneNote, Outlook online, Teams and Flipgrid. In addition to translating into languages by word or whole text, Immersive Reader is now able to speak the language of math. After selecting an equation, launching the math button will give ...
Teacher Feature: Actively Learn with Heidi Fielden
One of our secondary school Ed Tech programs is the Digital Learning Workshop. This January, we were able to host one at Pacific Cascade Middle School where we had the pleasure of visiting Heidi Fielden's 7th grade English Language Arts classroom to observe how she incorporates Actively Learn as both a collaborative classroom discussion as well ...
Hacking STEM: Microsoft Lesson Library
Ready to bring a STEM activity for your classroom? Check out the Hacking STEM Library presented by Microsoft. As Microsoft states, "Browse our library for downloadable, hands-on, teacher-tested projects and activities that use everyday materials to make STEM affordable, accessible, and fun for everyone." Each activity includes the title of the lesson, approximate time to complete the activity, age group, materials, cost per student, ...
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