Category: Announcements
Hour of Code – Content Connections
Want to participate in Hour of Code but worried about taking time away from core content? Why not integrate it! Here are some connections to our ISD Curriculum: SeeSaw has many activities in their library that combine coding and core content. Check out these examples that integrate with science, healthy choices, or reading. The ...
Set Printouts/Pictures as Background
Do you like to have your students annotate on documents or pictures inserted into OneNote? Do you get frustrated with those docs or pics getting moved around? OneNote allows you to work around that problem by setting any document printout or picture as a background object. This basically locks into the page and won't allow ...
Seesaw To Have Class Webinars During Computer Science Week
Computer Science week is just around the corner from December 3-9, 2018 . If you are looking for a way to help your students learn about topics in computer science from experts in the field, check out Seesaw's lineup of 15-20 minute webinars. As they say on their recent post about the event, "See and ...
Hour of Code 2018
Since 2009 Computer Science Education Week has been celebrated during the week of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper’s birthday on December 9. The week began as a call to action to raise awareness and elevate computer science education at all levels, including K-5, and underscore the critical role of computing in all careers. In 2013 Code.org organized ...
Do You Widget?
Classroom Screen is a simple, accessible, and (hopefully) useful tool to keep in your back pocket. It is a website where you can have all of your widgets on one screen and manipulate them with ease. You don't need an account, login, or anything other than a browser to use Classroom Screen. One downside is ...
Our Follow Drive winner is…
Joel Petersen, who teaches Spanish at Issaquah High School. We had over 200 teachers sign up for email updates, and over 1200 entries through our hidden bonus forms. Maple Hills had the highest percentage of teachers sign-up (nice work!) Thank you all for checking out The BNP. We hope you continue to read and check ...
Sway it!
Sway is a digital presentation and storytelling tool that can be used as an alternative to PowerPoint. Since it is an app, it is available across platforms and we have free access to it with our Office 365 accounts! Sway is meant to make it easier and quicker to communicate information. Unlike PowerPoint, Sway is designed to be interactive and ...
Differentiating Instruction & Feedback through Classkick
Classkick allows students to receive work, complete, and turn in assignments completely online. Using the free app, students work at their own pace and get help instantly without interrupting the flow or having students wait for the teacher to assist them. Students access the Classkick assignments through a simple code. One elementary teacher who uses ...
Version Control in OneDrive
One of the benefits of saving everything to the cloud is the ability to go back and review or restore previous versions of a document or file. Read below to find out how. Restore a previous version of a file in OneDrive SharePoint Server 2016 SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise OneDrive for Business More... With online version history, you ...
Add Another Chance To Win a Laptop For Your Classroom
It's the final week to sign-up to follow Bit's and Pieces. We are eager to have everyone receiving email updates. So, as the end of the drive approaches, we are adding another incentive for people to sign-up. We will give three extra entries to the everyone from the building with the highest percentage of staff ...