Category: Tool Bits
Support Teacher-Parent Communication Through Seesaw
With Seesaw, home-to-school communication is centered on students and their learning. From video reflections to hands-on group projects, students of all ages are empowered to add work to their journal where family members can see it and leave comments of encouragement. With some recent updates, connecting with families on Seesaw is now even easier than ...
Personalizing your O365 Dashboard
Office 365 allows several ways to personalize your dashboard (launcher), whether through changing the theme or adding apps. First, to personalize your dashboard use the settings icon (gear) in the upper right corner when you are logged in to Office 365. Choosing this will immediately show different theme options. Recently added are more elaborate themes ...
Creating a Text Set in Actively Learn
While Actively Learn offers a variety of knowledge sets for ELA, Social Studies, and Science, you can also create your own text sets with your uploaded content. Do you have a few articles or some student samples that you'd like to share? Uploading them into your content will allow you to then create a text ...
Private Channels Are Here
Teams has been (and continues to be) a great tool for supporting easy, and seamless group work. However, let's be honest, it has been kind of difficult when it comes to small group work in the classroom. Why? Because it used to be the case that anything and everything was accessible to the entirety ...
New to Flipgrid? Check out the Disco Library!
There are almost 10,000 "Topics" in Flipgrid's Disco Library - plenty to explore and consider. Within Flipgrid, a "Grid" is your class or content area, and the "Topic" is the project or assignment. The Disco Library has two main sections: Weekly Hits: these are quick templates that you can add to any of your ...
Digital Collaboration on Presentations
The Scenario Your students are working in small groups on a cooperative learning project. The end product requires each of them contribute to making a presentation that showcases their work. Each student in the group has a particular expertise and something to contribute to the final presentation. It makes the most sense for each student ...
Seesaw: Go Big And Go Multi
Seesaw Has Gone Big! And by big, I mean it has made it's Creative Canvas full screen. With this increase in space, the canvas allows for a ton of layering with the new expressive drawing tools, the photo tool that now allows you to add and move up to 25 photos freely, the label tool ...
Video Lessons in Actively Learn
Ready to take Actively Learn to the next level of media? You can now upload videos from YouTube or your Google Drive into Actively Learn. From your "My Imports," choose "Add Content" and "Import Video." Actively Learn offers a tutorial on how to add your videos. The best part is, you can embed questions throughout the ...
Technology to Foster Classroom Relationships
As a new school year begins, teachers are building relationships with students and fostering positive classroom communities, which inherently means learning student names. As Issaquah's school community becomes more diverse, learning student names accurately is arguably becoming more important than ever. As all teachers know, names matter, and are central to a student's identity. This ...
Welcome Back
At Bits & Pieces we are excited to start another year supporting all of your educational technology needs. To help you navigate both The BNP and the bigger waters of educational technology, we've put together this handy guide to all things Bits and Pieces. Read on to find out all that it can do. Using ...