Category: Announcements
How to Create Channels in Teams
Editors Note: This fortnight's Toolbit for OneDrive is being replaced by another Toolbit for Teams. We were unable to keep our regular cadence with Teams due to the delay in deploying it and want to get caught up. If you are missing your OneDrive Toolbit fix, check out this resource from Microsoft. The next Toolbit ...
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 ...
Did You Miss the ITP Webinar? You Can Catch It Right Here
Did you miss the ITP Webinars? Have no fear. We have posted a recording of the webinar below, for you to view at your leisure. If that's you and you are ready to watch, you will need to be logged into your ISD Office 365 account to see the video (if you're not signed in, ...
Teams Is Now Available
Teams is now available for teacher and student use! Teams is a platform that works inside of Office 365 to help you connect and work with staff and students around documents and files. It allows users to create teams, invite people to join and then chat around and share documents easily. Within in each team, ...
ITP Webinar Tomorrow
We will be having our first two ITP webinars tomorrow at 7:30 AM and then again at 4:00 PM. For directions on joining the webinar, check your email. For info on applying to ITP, check out our application page.
Book Club & Literature Circles with Actively Learn
A common ELA classroom practice is literature circles, but management can be tricky and it is hard to determine if all students are working to their best ability or participating equally. Actively Learn takes the guesswork out of the equation since students will need to respond to the Q&A and actively work with their group ...
Learn About ITP
We are hosting three webinars about ITP and the application process on Wednesday, January 9 at 7:30 AM & 4:00 PM, and on January 16 at 8:00 AM. Ed Tech will be hosting the webinars so that teachers can learn about ITP, ask questions about the application process and examine what makes a good application. ...
Teacher Feature: Classkick with Michelle Moon’s Class
For our first "teacher feature" of this school year, I had the pleasure of visiting Mrs. Moon's fourth grade class at Discovery Elementary to see how her students are using Classkick to demonstrate their mathematical thinking! In math workshop, students are in three differentiated stations: one group works on Classkick/Zearn using iPads independently, a second ...
Make Your Own Seesaw Activities Look Awesome With Activity Icon Shortcuts
Seesaw Activities Library has taken off like crazy. There are so many activities to choose from by grade level and content area. And you can take those activities and edit them as your own or even start from scratch something that goes perfectly with what your students learning. But how do those pre-made activities get ...