Category: Global Collaborator
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 ...
Collaboration with #GridPals
ISTE's Global Collaborator Standard calls for students to broaden their perspectives by working with others at the local and global level. This means leveraging digital tools and resources to connect with others across their school, community, and world. Technology is a perfect platform for fostering relationships beyond the classroom walls… think of it as having ...
Teacher Feature: Teams & Global Collaboration
Holly Stipe's 8th-grade Advanced Language Arts students at Issaquah Middle School along with Amy Krohn and Anne Miller's 4th and 5th grade Science Technology class at Briarwood teamed up for a Global Collaboration this spring. The unit crossed miles to discuss the theme in their respective novels using Microsoft Teams as their gateway for collaboration. ITP participants (Stipe and Krohn) ...
100 Ways Students Use Seesaw
Seesaw is a terrific way for teachers to showcase student academic growth, strengthen the home/school connection, and educate students about digital citizenship in authentic ways. But there is so much more that you can do with Seesaw and the challenge is to continue to find authentic ways that students can ...
Teacher Feature: Global Collaboration Project & Spark
What do collaboration, personal narratives, and videos all have in common? Adobe Spark! This year, Issaquah Technology Program (ITP) participants were asked to work on the Global Collaboration standard by pairing up in elementary/secondary teams. I had the pleasure of seeing parts of this collaborative effort in Erin Kwok's 6th grade Digital Photography class (PCMS) ...
Queen Debuts Her First Instagram Post
Educators use Twitter as a professional learning community to engage with others around topics important to them. Today Twitter is a buzz with news that Queen Elizabeth II made her first Instagram post from London's Science Museum. The Queen is a long time supporter of digital communication tools and made her first Tweet in 2014 ...
Global Collaboration with Common Sense Education
Our February and March ISTE focus is on Global Collaborator! This standard calls students to collaborate both locally (within their own classroom context), as well as beyond. Using technology to access and share information, students will learn from diverse perspectives and work on complex problems with peers. In response to this ISTE standard, Common ...
The Fine Art of Conversations In Teams
One of the things that makes Teams great is the ability to have conversations around the various files and documents shared to a channel. You can just post messages (great for questions or brainstorming) or you can add files and build conversations around those files. Files uploaded are automatically added to the Files tab in ...
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 ...
Web Chat With Us on Friday!
Issaquah classrooms are invited to join us this Friday to chat with Computer Science students and professionals via Zoom Meeting. The Educational Technology department is hosting 20 minute sessions where students can ask questions and interact with people learning or working in the field of Computer Science. If you would like to sign-up your class ...
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