Category: Announcements
Inspiration for Your Innovation
Did you know that Flipgrid has "Innovation Leads" that provide inspiration and support for using Flipgrid in classrooms? These Innovation Leads have compiled Integration Docs that have links to documents that are organized by grade band and content area. Once in the document, there are typically three lessons created for each level and/or topic. If ...
Seesaw Gets Drafty
Seesaw seems to always be looking for ways to help students show their learning. They are also really good at listening to feedback from teachers, students, and parents when they have ideas for improving an already awesome tool. One of the most often requested feature over the last few years is Drafts. This featuer would ...
ISD STEMposium 2020
Save the date for this year's STEMposium on 2/13/20 at Issaquah High School. More details and sign-ups coming soon.
Actively Learn Professional Learning
When using Actively Learn, our first thought is our students learning, but did you know that Actively Learn has Professional Learning opportunities as well? Under "Professional Learning," you can select several different topics that can help increase your Actively Learn teaching skills such as Activate Thinking, Support Thinking, and Reveal Thinking. Within each of these ...
Making Learning Concrete: Add a Rubric to Flipgrid!
Are students sharing their writing via Flipgrid? Are they orally reporting on something that they have researched? Would you like students to give peer feedback, leaning on language from a rubric? Consider adding a rubric to a Flipgrid topic! There are numerous reasons why you might consider adding a rubric as a resource to Flipgrid. ...
It’s Almost November Which Means It’s Almost Time for the Young Writers Program – National Novel Writing Month
Reposting our annual reminder about the great tool created by the folks at NANOWRIMO to support teachers and student writing. Let us know if you and your students are participating. We'd love to come out and see y'all at work. November is National Novel Writing Month, which is an internet based effort to encourage and ...
Reflect Quickly With Seesaw’s Chrome Extension
Being able to reflect on their learning in Seesaw can be very powerful. Seesaw has some great creative tools like the drawing and highlighter tools, voice or video to explain something, or importing pictures or other files. There is so much that can be done in Seesaw for students to reflect on their work. If ...
Actively Learn Easy Sign-on
Did you know that you and your students can access Actively Learn directly from Classlink or Clever and signs in automatically? Often, we are afraid to try a new product because getting there and getting in poses a challenge. Having Actively Learn conveniently available through the apps students are already using, makes it that much ...
Teacher Feature: Using Teams & Class Notebook
It's the beginning of a new school year and that often means the start of a new classroom management strategy, trying a new technology tool, or putting a twist on a tried and true procedure. This year, Mrs. Caroline Dwyer-Sanik has taken the dive into Teams and Class Notebook for the first time and I had ...
Rethinking Class Newsletters With Seesaw
Do you spend an hour or more creating a class newsletter to inform your families about the goings on in your class? Do you wonder if your families are even seeing or reading your newsletters? Would you like to save time, get out important information about your class and know who has and hasn't received ...