Category: Tool Bits
Exploring Classkick’s Assignment Library
In addition to providing interesting templates for teachers to use in designing many different assignments/tasks, Classkick has an Assignment Library where other teachers have uploaded sample assignments (if you're familiar with Seesaw, it functions similarly to the "activity library"). This is an amazing resource if you are looking for templates, assignments that already match your ...
How to Create Channels in Teams
Editors Note: This fortnight's Toolbit for OneDrive is being replaced by another Toolbit for Teams. We were unable to keep our regular cadence with Teams due to the delay in deploying it and want to get caught up. If you are missing your OneDrive Toolbit fix, check out this resource from Microsoft. The next Toolbit ...
Ready for some Office updates!
Immersive Reader, already a great tool in its own right has received some updates making it even better. The translator option is now available in Word, OneNote, Outlook online, Teams and Flipgrid. In addition to translating into languages by word or whole text, Immersive Reader is now able to speak the language of math. After selecting an equation, launching the math button will give ...
Teacher Feature: Actively Learn with Heidi Fielden
One of our secondary school Ed Tech programs is the Digital Learning Workshop. This January, we were able to host one at Pacific Cascade Middle School where we had the pleasure of visiting Heidi Fielden's 7th grade English Language Arts classroom to observe how she incorporates Actively Learn as both a collaborative classroom discussion as well ...
Set Up a Team for Your Classroom
Editors Note: This fortnight's Toolbit for Class Notebook is being replaced by another Toolbit for Teams. We were unable to keep our regular cadence with Teams due to the delay in deploying it and want to get caught up. If you are missing your OneDrive Toolbit fix, check out this resource from Microsoft. The next ...
Teams Is Now Available
Teams is now available for teacher and student use! Teams is a platform that works inside of Office 365 to help you connect and work with staff and students around documents and files. It allows users to create teams, invite people to join and then chat around and share documents easily. Within in each team, ...
Common Sense Education: A Curation of Digital Resources
Do you want to integrate more technology into your teaching, but aren't sure where to find new resources? Common Sense, an incredible resource for teaching digital citizenship, also supports teachers in finding quality digital resources to support curriculum across content areas. In a "top picks" section, Common Sense outlines curated lists of instructional tech tools. ...
Seesaw Wow Work: Giving Students Choice and Voice
Learning is not a passive process. Teachers cannot assume they will have each students' attention all the time simply by standing in the front of the room and talking. Having engaging visuals and interactive elements within a lesson can help to keep students interested, but to be an effective teacher, we need to help our ...
Hacking STEM: Microsoft Lesson Library
Ready to bring a STEM activity for your classroom? Check out the Hacking STEM Library presented by Microsoft. As Microsoft states, "Browse our library for downloadable, hands-on, teacher-tested projects and activities that use everyday materials to make STEM affordable, accessible, and fun for everyone." Each activity includes the title of the lesson, approximate time to complete the activity, age group, materials, cost per student, ...
Book Club & Literature Circles with Actively Learn
A common ELA classroom practice is literature circles, but management can be tricky and it is hard to determine if all students are working to their best ability or participating equally. Actively Learn takes the guesswork out of the equation since students will need to respond to the Q&A and actively work with their group ...