Category: Announcements
Secondary Ed Tech PD Opportunity
Interested in more Ed Tech PD before the school year begins? On August 21st and 24th, there will be optional training designed to help you go deeper in understanding how to use Canvas to support learning remotely. Each day is split into two three-hour sessions - attend one or all four! Want to Attend? Remember ...
Elementary Ed Tech PD Opportunity
Interested in more Ed Tech PD before the school year begins? On August 21st and 24th, there will be optional training designed to help you go deeper in understanding how to use Clever, Seesaw and Teams to support learning remotely. Each day is split into two three-hour sessions - attend one or all four! August ...
Ed Tech Summer Camp 2020
Ed Tech Summer Camp Get ready to get your learning on this summer. Ed Tech Summer Camp will be offered July 28-31 with two sections available per day. Morning sessions will run from 8:30-11:30 and PM sessions from 12:30-3:30. Elementary Courses: July 28 & 29: Focus on Seesaw and how to use it in your ...
PD Opportunity: Reimagine Your Course Online
Issaquah School District's secondary Science, ELA, and GLAD Specialists have collaborated on a summer PD opportunity for teachers who would like to dig into best-practices for putting course materials into an online platform. Are you: wondering how to cultivate a sense of community in a remote setting? pondering ways to make online learning more engaging? ...
Flipgrid, Microsoft, and Global Learning Week!
Save the date - next week is Global Learning Week! This is a collaboration between Microsoft, Minecraft, and Flipgrid. It's a series of free professional development sessions that will feature success stories and tips from technology-passionate teachers. It's an excellent way to receive professional development as we close out this school year and look intentionally ...
Your Clever Teacher Page
Clever is the one-stop-shop for our elementary students to access apps and programs used in their classrooms. Customizing your Teacher Page will simplify the experience for our students will help organize their work. Every teacher has two teacher pages already created, one is only visible for just the teacher which is a great place to ...
Flipgrid’s Creative Updates
Flipgrid has some creative updates! If you're familiar with Flipgrid, you know that it is a platform that allows you to create projects with video, text, digital inking, and emojis. Now, there are even more tools to explore! This gives both teachers and students the ability to record simple videos, as well as much more ...
What to do with those pesky PDFs?
As we have moved to a remote learning environment, you may be straddled with a curriculum full of PDFs. Unfortunately, these are not as easy to navigate in the online world without a hefty knowledge of Adobe. Well, we have some awesome workarounds for getting students to interact with those pesky PDFs. Option 1: Convert ...
Giving Feedback to Students in Seesaw
In this time of distance learning, giving feedback to students has become a bit different because much of it has to be done remotely. There is no one-to-one personal conferencing. And families may be having a challenging time at home navigating all the online assignments. It has become vital to give quick but meaningful feedback ...
Flipgrid Shorts and Wakelet
A common frustration from my colleagues in Issaquah and from many global educators on the Facebook and Twitter groups that I belong is how to put all of the instructional stuff together in a neat little package. How can I put all these great Ed Tech tools in one spot for my students, and perhaps, ...