Category: Tool Bits
Actively Learn for Visual and Hearing Accommodations
As teachers, we are often looking for technology to help us address the individual needs of our students or that offer easy to use support strategies for students with accommodations. Actively Learn can support students in a variety of ways. Students can choose specific sections of a text to have read aloud or even use ...
Sync OneDrive Files So You Can Work Offline
Using OneDrive but tired of having to log into Office 365 and use the browser interface? Or maybe you're worried you'll be stuck somewhere without access to the interwebs? Or do you prefer using Window's File Explorer to organize and view your files? Well those are all good reasons to give the OneDrive sync client ...
Open a Class Notebook in OneNote 2016
OneNote Online is awesome and all, and perfectly functional for many of the tasks you or your students do in OneNote/Class Notebook. However, having the full power of the desktop version of OneNote 2016* is also awesome. Whether it's the more skeuomorphic layout or the more powerful table options, the full application offers a different ...
Seesaw Activities Library & Activity Sharing
Seesaw is a great tool for students to digitally document their learning in a variety of ways such as by using photos, videos, voice recordings, file uploads, and even drawings. Seesaw recently introduced something called "Activities" which enabled teachers to create assignments within Seesaw for their students to complete and post. This new Activities Feature ...
Outlook Calendar: An Introduction
Outlook Calendar offers a variety of ways to support organization and planning. It can be used for your personal (school) use, or you could use it as a communication tool with your colleagues. The Calendar can be accessed directly from your Outlook whether using the desktop version or online version. Some of the features that ...
Close Read with Actively Learn
Here is a new way to use Actively Learn to develop complex Close Reading skills. First, duplicate an assignment. Then on each version, embed different notes and questions to support each round of reading. On round one, students can look for words they do not understand and define them as you read the text with ...
Use Teams To Support Your Team
Getting together and sharing resources as a team or a department is essential to powerful learning. However it can be difficult due to the constraints of time and space. While Teams won' t give you the ability time travel (at least not yet) it does make it easier to share documents, collaborate and have conversations ...
Common Sense Education & Digital Citizenship
One of Issaquah School District’s core tools, Common Sense Education, is being continually developed in efforts to address the growing presence of social media and news media in the lives of students. One of the new priorities of Common Sense Education is to help students understand that they are not just responsible for themselves online, ...
Share Documents and Folders With OneDrive
OneDrive makes it easy to share documents with other staff and students for collaboration or just to look at. With OneDrive, you no longer have to store documents and files on the network, and can get to them from any device connected to the internet. And, if you choose to collaborate using OneDrive, you can ...
Introducing Tool Bits
This week, we are starting a new (and hopefully useful) type of post here on The BNP. We are calling them Tool Bits. Tool Bits will be short, bite-size posts that detail how to use a tech tool. These won't tell you all the ways you can use the tool, instead we will focus on ...