Category: Announcements
Digital Citizenship Week – Secondary Edition
Digital Citizenship Week is October 15-19! Nicole Kreuger is a freelance writer and has a great piece on the ISTE blog right now titled It's Time to Commit to Digital Citizenship. "Unfortunately, many educators still mistakenly conflate digital citizenship with online safety. While teaching kids to craft strong passwords and refrain from posting inappropriate pictures ...
Digital Citizenship Week – Elementary Edition
October 15-19 is Digital Citizenship Week Wondering how to get started? Try one of these activities from Common Sense Media with your students. Grades K-2 Share the Pause & Think Online video with younger elementary school students to spark a discussion about how their digital world is connected to their real world. Once your students ...
Outlook Calendar: An Introduction
Outlook Calendar offers a variety of ways to support organization and planning. It can be used for your personal (school) use, or you could use it as a communication tool with your colleagues. The Calendar can be accessed directly from your Outlook whether using the desktop version or online version. Some of the features that ...
Common Sense Education & Digital Citizenship
One of Issaquah School District’s core tools, Common Sense Education, is being continually developed in efforts to address the growing presence of social media and news media in the lives of students. One of the new priorities of Common Sense Education is to help students understand that they are not just responsible for themselves online, ...
Introducing Tool Bits
This week, we are starting a new (and hopefully useful) type of post here on The BNP. We are calling them Tool Bits. Tool Bits will be short, bite-size posts that detail how to use a tech tool. These won't tell you all the ways you can use the tool, instead we will focus on ...
Digital Citizenship in Action
Secondary teachers are invited to participate in a book study designed specifically with 6-12 educators in mind. Digital Citizenship in Action: Empowering Students to Engage in Online Communities by Kristen Mattson. In her book, Mattson creates a road map for moving from the traditional sense of "don't do this" and "marketing yourself for college" to ...
Keyboarding Resources for Summer
As summer approaches, here are some free keyboarding resources you can pass along to students/families. Keyboarding Resources The following keyboarding programs are designed to introduce keyboarding and to build fluency. Students will want to spend time within the programs to learn the typing basics. Purpose: To develop typing skills https://www.typing.com/ Create a login Includes ...
Time to Update
Make sure you have access to all of the great Office 2016 features such as Office Mix and One Drive. Ask your Tech Specialist to update your computers ASAP! Tech Kickoff will be a BYOD event and many of the courses offered will utilize features available only in Office 2013 or 2016. If you are ...
You Requested…. Recap Delivered
Recap gives teachers a fun new way to collect video evidence of their students' learning. We mentioned this app in November's blog post Five Ways to Summarize Student Learning, and would like to share some updates Recap made to improve your experience. First, how does Recap work? Teachers create written or video question(s), for students ...
Follow-Drive Winner
Sarah Ealey, who teaches science at Beaver Lake Middle School, is the winner of this year's Follow-Drive, and she will receive an iPad for use in her classroom. We're happy to announce that our Follow-Drive was a success, and we're grateful to all of you who signed-up to follow Bits & Pieces. We are excited to ...