Category: Tool Bits
Flipgrid + Immersive Reader = Access for All!
Flipgrid is taking on the ISTE standard of "Empowered Learner" to an entirely new level, by incorporating Microsoft's Immersive Reader tool. This way, not only are students encouraged to use their voices to post their own videos, but there are built-in supports for them to listen to the initial prompt. By incorporating Immersive Reader ...
Using Seesaw to Showcase Student Learning During Conferences
Hey, Elementary Teachers. You may not want to hear this yet, but... CONFERENCES ARE COMING! It will be here before you know it and you may be trying to think of some ways to show parents all the great things your students have learned so far since the beginning of the school year. Last year, ...
Microsoft Inclusive Math Tools
One Note (Class Notebook) offers several inclusive features to support student learning including Math Tools. This inclusive feature allows students to solve math problems, see how the problem was solved, graph the problem, and interact with the graph. They can also create their own practice quiz, use the Immersive Reader tool to read the problem aloud, ...
Student Goals using Actively Learn
As teachers, we are intentional with the use of data to help us support our students. We can find data points in various ways, even in Actively Learn regarding our students reading. But what if we made our students responsible for their own data? Students can easily create reading goals using their own data in ...
Turnitin.com Originality Checker Now Available Within Teams
Woot! You can now have Teams check for plagiarism using Turnitin.com's powerful originality checker. Read below to find out how. How To Use Turnitin's Originality Checker In Teams Open teams and click into the Assignments tab. Enter all of your normal information (Title, instructions, etc.) and then scroll to the bottom of the card. There ...
Inspiration for Your Innovation
Did you know that Flipgrid has "Innovation Leads" that provide inspiration and support for using Flipgrid in classrooms? These Innovation Leads have compiled Integration Docs that have links to documents that are organized by grade band and content area. Once in the document, there are typically three lessons created for each level and/or topic. If ...
Seesaw Gets Drafty
Seesaw seems to always be looking for ways to help students show their learning. They are also really good at listening to feedback from teachers, students, and parents when they have ideas for improving an already awesome tool. One of the most often requested feature over the last few years is Drafts. This featuer would ...
Actively Learn Professional Learning
When using Actively Learn, our first thought is our students learning, but did you know that Actively Learn has Professional Learning opportunities as well? Under "Professional Learning," you can select several different topics that can help increase your Actively Learn teaching skills such as Activate Thinking, Support Thinking, and Reveal Thinking. Within each of these ...
You Can Now Add Files From Any of Your Teams In Teams Assignments
Making, distributing and collecting assignments in Teams is easy-peasy. However, it hasn't been super easy to pull files you've created in a different team and pull them into an assignment. Prior to a new feature rolled out today, you had to go and create a copy of the file and move it to the team ...
Making Learning Concrete: Add a Rubric to Flipgrid!
Are students sharing their writing via Flipgrid? Are they orally reporting on something that they have researched? Would you like students to give peer feedback, leaning on language from a rubric? Consider adding a rubric to a Flipgrid topic! There are numerous reasons why you might consider adding a rubric as a resource to Flipgrid. ...