Category: Creative Communicator
Leveraging Book Creator: Universal Design for Learning
As part of Universal Design for Learning, we want to highlight the many ways that students can engage with reading and writing. After all, reading also includes text, audio, images, and video (not just printed text) and we want students to have exposure interacting with all of these digital tools. For students where writing is ...
Informational Research: A Curated Approach with Padlet and Book Creator
Are you looking for a simple way to curate research materials for your students and scaffold the process of independent research? Using Padlet to Organize Informational Text Resources Consider using Padlet as a tool to organize resources for your students. By linking to informational databases, videos, articles, and other resources, Padlet offers the right balance ...
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 ...
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 ...
Book Creator
Want to make books for your students to read? Book Creator is an online or iOS program that you may use to create your own stories. Here is one I created on keeping our laptops clean and safe. Each teacher gets 1 library with 40 books for free when you sign in at app.bookcreator.com, Issaquah ...
Celebrate National Poetry Month
Next week kicks off Poetry Month! This is a perfect invitation to be creative and reflective. Here are just a few of the ways that you can celebrate. One way to celebrate is to share a focus poem for the day! You can either share one of your own, or visit Favorite Poem Project, ...
Supports For Using Seesaw at School And at Home
Seesaw is an Issaquah School District (ISD) supported tool available to teachers and students. Elementary teachers and students at school can access Seesaw for Schools (Seesaw's paid school service) through their Clever accounts or by using the class QR code in the Class App and at web.seesaw.me. Secondary teachers and students can access Seesaw's free ...
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. ...
Take Seesaw To The Next “Level”
So you have been using Seesaw since the beginning of the year. You have gotten your parents connected and they are able to see some of the wonderful learning that is going on in your classroom. But maybe you as the teacher have been doing all the posting. You have been really good at taking ...
Seesaw Adds The “Send Back” Feature For Teachers.
(Edit: This feature will actually not be available until January 22, 2020) Seesaw recently rolled out a new feature that finally allows teachers to send a student's post back to them to re-edit if needed. This has been a feature request for some time and is finally here! But... there is a catch. First, this feature ...