Category: Tool Bits
Move Your Desktop to the Cloud
So I've been living in the cloud (digitally speaking) for over a decade now but I'm still saving a lot of things locally to my desktop. These are mostly things I'm working on or haven't decided where to put. Most of the time this works well for me and when I'm ready to work on ...
Using Actively Learn For Classroom Research
Primary sources, secondary sources, and the ability to create and collaborate are reasons why Actively Learn is a great space to encourage classroom research. Teachers can assign primary sources to their classes and work through note-taking using the "highlight and take a note" option. Questions can be embedded (many are already included), but teachers can modify ...
Create Assignments In Teams
Teams is great for collaboration and makes it super easy to get students working together on something. However, it is also great for creating work that students can complete individually. Using the Assignments features in Teams is easy and is baked into any Classes Teams you've created. You can upload documents created in Word, Excel ...
Common Sense Education: Exciting Updates Coming this Fall!
Last month, our ed tech team attended the NCCE (Northwest Council for Computer Education) Conference, where several sessions were offered around digital citizenship topics. As our digital world continues to evolve, Common Sense Education has done due diligence in ensuring that their curriculum and resources keep up with these important shifts. At NCCE, I attended ...
Create New Files Right From OneDrive
Do you sometimes have trouble remembering where your documents or files are saved? If so, you should try making new documents right in OneDrive online. They make it easy and it has the benefit of storing that file in whatever folder you are looking at in OneDrive. It's so easy, that you just may want ...
Actively Learn Features Make Learning Interactive & Differentiated
Calling all Science teachers, what is new in Actively Learn – PhET! PhET is a series of interactive simulations that includes virtual science experiments, demonstrations, and visualizations for math and science. It not only integrates into PowerPoint as an add-in, but it is now available in Actively Learn. Currently, five of the PhET simulations are available and include Energy Skatepark, Forces ...
Research, Technology, & Diversity: Teacher Feature with Julie Hembree
To help fully integrate and celebrate the diversity of her school, teacher-librarian Julie Hembree at Cougar Ridge Elementary is utilizing technology, research, and literacy in an interesting and student-centered way! Cougar Ridge had purchased 120 flags from around the world, which hang proudly and prominently around the school. Julie wanted to move a celebration of ...
Teacher Feature: Readers Workshop & Actively Learn
Actively Learn once again is being featured from a PCMS classroom, this time Erin Kwok, who used it for 8th grade Readers Workshop. Groups were able to choose from a variety of novels and then were asked to participate in their discussion using Actively Learn. One group, who chose the novel The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, were able ...
I’m a Specialist And I Want to Use Seesaw
So, you’re a music, physical education, or library specialist. You have heard about Seesaw from general education teachers in your buildings or maybe you have gone to a Seesaw training. You think you are ready to try using it in your classes but are not sure the best way to go about it. “How many ...
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 ...