Category: Announcements
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 ...
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 ...
Leveraging Book Creator: Universal Design for Learning
As part of Universal Design for Learning, we want to highlight the many ways that students can engage with reading and writing. After all, reading also includes text, audio, images, and video (not just printed text) and we want students to have exposure interacting with all of these digital tools. For students where writing is ...
New K-2 Lessons from Common Sense Education!
Common Sense Education just launched new K-2 lessons on digital citizenship! Each of these lessons introduces one of the digital citizenship characters (head, heart, arms, guts, legs, and feet) with a short, engaging video-based lesson and reflection activity. The 15-minute lessons are a perfect way to integrate these important concepts into your classroom in a ...
LockDown Browser is Back
Good news for those of you looking for a way to securely quiz your students using Canvas. ISD is bringing LockDown Browser back. This tool allows teachers to create a quiz in Canvas that will keep the students in the quiz, and prevent them from opening other windows or apps on the computer while taking ...
Celebrate Computer Science Education Week with Seesaw
It’s time to celebrate Computer Science Education, and it’s even better when we have core tools to do so! Seesaw is offering several live webinars for classrooms to tune into this week (see below) as well as extensive collections of computer science related activities. Explore Computer Science Collections and Resources Seesaw has ready-made lessons and ...
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 ...
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