Category: PD
ISD STEM Explorations Canvas Course (6-12 Focus)
Interested in STEM hours for your certificate renewal? Interested in additional options to use your remaining Ed Tech pay over the summer? ISD has created an asynchronous STEM Canvas course that can be completed at your own pace outside of contract time. Register via True North here. Course is 100% asynchronous and completed through ISD's Canvas ...
Coming Soon: AI Playground
UPDATE We have zeroed in on the week of May 22 for our first round of AI Playground. Exact dates, locations and times coming later this week. Interested in exploring more around Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and recent trends? Please join us at the AI Playground in May. We will offer a few AI Playground ...
Seesaw PD Pathways
Did you know that Seesaw has many on-demand training opportunities? As one of our core tools, there are many opportunities to leverage Seesaw in your instruction. Live Events Interested in attending a live webinar? There are a few coming up next month! The Power of Making Thinking Visible (April 5th) The Aerodynamics ...
Secondary Building Tech Series Trainings – Now Available on Kyte Learning
As part of the Ed Tech Professional Development Plan and the ISD's Building Tech Series this year, we are offering PD in a variety of formats including live synchronous trainings via in-person and Zoom sessions, as well as asynchronous sessions, via Kyte Learning. Our first training on Flip.com is now posted to the Kyte Learning ...
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? ...
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 ...
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, ...
New Features in Teams
More Video Feeds Microsoft has begun rolling out some new features for Microsoft Teams. As you can see above, one of those new features is that Teams will now support up to 9 video feeds! This is the first step in moving beyond the 2 X 2 grid that Teams was limited to previously. ...
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. ...
K-5 Code.org Workshops
Did you students love their experience with Hour of Code? Are you ready to learn more? Join the over 80,000 teachers who have participated in the CS Fundamentals workshops. The majority of attendees say, 'It's the best professional development I've ever attended.' In fact, 98% of attendees would recommend it to other teachers. Teachers are ...
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