Category: Announcements
Win a Laptop for Your Classroom
We're having a drawing to give a classroom laptop to a lucky teacher this month. Read on to find out how you can be entered into the drawing. Bits & Pieces is becoming a more powerful resource for teachers all the time. However, keeping up with all of the new stuff we are putting on ...
Win a Laptop for Your Classroom
We're having a drawing to give a classroom laptop to a lucky teacher this month. Read on to find out how you can be entered into the drawing. Bits & Pieces is becoming a more powerful resource for teachers all the time. However, keeping up with all of the new stuff we are putting on ...
ABC’s of Microsoft Forms
Are you ready to try Forms? It is a great way to digitize and grade a quiz, survey or poll students, or even create a submission for gathering digital projects or work. Here are some of the ABC's of Microsoft Forms: A: Add a picture or logo to format your header and theme. B: Branching options ...
What’s New to Actively Learn
Features: Have you logged into Actively Learn lately? There were some interface changes as of August including an updated Workspace, a search feature for navigating your content and the Actively Learn content, importing options including Google Docs and PDFs, a new options menu (three dots) for editing and updating current assignments, as well as the ability ...
Flipgrid: Technology & the Writing Workshop
Last week, new elementary teachers attended a writing professional development day with Matt Glover as part of an ongoing residency within ISD. As with most professional development days, important learning occurred, as well as conversations about how this learning could be extended. How can we build on our experiences in meaningful ways, even between professional ...
Technology as an Access Point for ELL Students
Common Sense Education continues to be a key resource in teaching digital citizenship to students (our focus throughout October), but did you know that the resources it offers are more comprehensive than that? As we move into November at the end of next week, we transition our focus from "Digital Citizenship" to "Creative Communicator" - ...
It’s Digital Citizenship Week!
This is a perfect opportunity to reinvigorate and celebrate your school’s commitment to digital citizenship in an increasingly online world. As technology continues to be fully integrated into the lives of our students (both inside and outside of school), equipping them with the tools to be confident, safe, and respectful online is more important than ...
Office 365 Immersive Reader Dyslexia Awareness Month
Immersive Reader is a part of the Office Learning Tools meant to support students with dyslexia and dysgraphia. Word (online) and One Note allow students to read in the Immersive Reader view, which offers a full-screen reading experience with additional visual options. In the online version of both Word and One Note select the “View” ...
Classkick: Giving Feedback in Real Time
Classkick is an app that shows teachers what students are doing in real time, allowing them to receive help instantly and for teachers to offer immediate support to students. Within Classkick, there are also options to share assignments with your team – making collaboration a breeze. What is Classkick? In Classkick, you can view your ...
Actively Learn for Visual and Hearing Accommodations
As teachers, we are often looking for technology to help us address the individual needs of our students or that offer easy to use support strategies for students with accommodations. Actively Learn can support students in a variety of ways. Students can choose specific sections of a text to have read aloud or even use ...