Category: Announcements
Roundup: Actively Learn
Actively Learn is a district-wide tool available to teachers and students. Elementary teachers and students will access Actively Learn through their Clever accounts while secondary teachers and students will access it through Classlink or directly from activelylearn.com As you might be looking for ready-made reading material or a place to upload content, Actively Learn might ...
Flipgrid Roundup: Getting Started
Are you interested in using Flipgrid as a way to communicate and engage students? We've got you covered. This roundup will outline the basics for getting started and offer a curation of links for more information. (For previous BNP posts on Flipgrid, click here). Flipgrid Basics Create a "grid" for your "classroom" Share your classroom ...
BrainPOP- It’s Come A Long Way Baby
When I was in the classroom, I used BrainPOP videos mostly as sub plans. The videos were an easy way to give my students a solid review of what we had already learned in class. It was simple, kids liked it, and the 10 question quiz kept them accountable for paying attention in my absence. ...
Quick Start with Teams
If you haven't tried Teams and are interested in trying now, check out the Quick Start Guide below. Teams lets you share files easily, have rich discussions around those files and comes with a bunch of other features that are great for the digital classroom, including an end-to-end assignments tool (distribute and collect assignments digitally) ...
More on Differentiating with Actively Learn
Actively Learn offers several ways for classroom teachers to differentiate for their students in order to increase text comprehension and student engagement. First, the extra-help tool offers additional support by identifying students who need extra help in the class roster with just a click. When creating questions or comments, the teacher can add the extra-help ...
Flipgrid’s Appsmash Madness
You know by now that Flipgrid is a tool to help students share their voices, experiences, and learning. By "app smashing," you can help students create engaging, creative, and interesting projects. Each of the highlighted grids shows a brief tutorial for how Flipgrid can be layered on top of other apps to produce engaging digital ...
Hack STEM with Digital Reflections
Did you know that next year will be the 20th anniversary of humans living on the International Space Station? Flipgrid, Microsoft Education and NASA's STEM on Station team are teaming up to create awesome content for students as part of their Hacking STEM series (by the way, there are other topics available too)! For secondary ...
Gathering Notes in Actively Learn
Your student has been diligently writing notes in their Actively Learn text and now it is time for them to write their analysis. Students can easily access all their notes with the Notes Summary option located under the Notebook icon. Here students can select "View notes" to see all class notes or they can select ...
Everything You Need to Know About ITP 2020-2021
ITP is a great opportunity for teachers to learn about and bring new technology into their classrooms. Applications for the 2020-2021 ITP cohort will open on February 14 and close on March 30th. Below you will find all the information you need to know about the program and the application process. Additionally, over the next ...
Collect Files in Forms
A great new feature has been added to Microsoft Forms, you can now collect files! Many teachers have had students submit links to files, but this new feature means that students can now submit their completed files as an attachment directly to a folder in your own One Drive. Here is a quick video to ...