Category: Tool Bits
Teacher Feature: Classkick with Michelle Moon’s Class
For our first "teacher feature" of this school year, I had the pleasure of visiting Mrs. Moon's fourth grade class at Discovery Elementary to see how her students are using Classkick to demonstrate their mathematical thinking! In math workshop, students are in three differentiated stations: one group works on Classkick/Zearn using iPads independently, a second ...
What All Those Sharing Options In OneDrive Really Mean
Let's be honest. Sharing is complicated. It shouldn't be but in this day and age, the technology companies are trying to be all things to all people and so they give us lots of options. OneDrive is no different. There are a ton of options when you are ready to share. Read below to help ...
Make Your Own Seesaw Activities Look Awesome With Activity Icon Shortcuts
Seesaw Activities Library has taken off like crazy. There are so many activities to choose from by grade level and content area. And you can take those activities and edit them as your own or even start from scratch something that goes perfectly with what your students learning. But how do those pre-made activities get ...
Office 365, Making Collaboration a Reality
Despite the fact that student emails are not available for communication, students can still collaborate and share documents with just a few workaround steps. Sharing a collaborative document is as easy as grabbing the Share link for the document, posting it on your website or in a Class Notebook and allowing students to work together on ...
Jigsaw with Actively Learn
One of the best parts of Actively Learn is the flexibility in assigning material to your students. You can choose to assign to individual students, small groups, or the whole class. This is a great feature to utilize for your next Jigsaw activity. First, decide which articles you'd like to use or if you need ...
Common Sense Education’s Professional Development Library
Common Sense Education is known for their extensive resources for classroom teachers, but did you know that it also has an entire professional development side? Included in this bank of resources are short educator videos, longer webinars, a professional development blog, and case studies of districts that have found success with Common Sense Education. Offering ...
Restore Deleted Files in OneDrive
Ever deleted a file and wished you could have it back? OneDrive makes it easy to get those files back (if you change your mind within 30 days.) Read below to find out how. Restore a deleted file in OneDrive Go to the OneDrive website.You might need to sign in with your Microsoft account, or your ...
Set Printouts/Pictures as Background
Do you like to have your students annotate on documents or pictures inserted into OneNote? Do you get frustrated with those docs or pics getting moved around? OneNote allows you to work around that problem by setting any document printout or picture as a background object. This basically locks into the page and won't allow ...
Seesaw To Have Class Webinars During Computer Science Week
Computer Science week is just around the corner from December 3-9, 2018 . If you are looking for a way to help your students learn about topics in computer science from experts in the field, check out Seesaw's lineup of 15-20 minute webinars. As they say on their recent post about the event, "See and ...
Getting Ready For Conferences With Seesaw
Parent/Student/Teacher conferences may be just around the corner. Are you ready? Do you want to unleash your superpowers this conference season? Check out this post from Seesaw to help you save time in preparing for conferences, give students a voice in the process, and engage families throughout the year. Unleash Your Superpowers This Conference Season ...