Tackling AI with Socratic Seminar
In the past few years, educators have continually been challenged ...
Progress for Seesaw
Seesaw is making Progress! A new and exciting feature was just made available for our Seesaw for Schools accounts. You may have noticed recently that there is a new tab on your Seesaw teacher dashboard called Progress. Progress is a great way for teachers to quickly track students’ activities throughout the week. Progress can even help teachers monitor student progress surrounding a specific ...
Access to Books and Learning During Hybrid and Remote Learning: Highlighting our Teacher-Librarians
As School Library Month draws to a close, it’s an opportune time to highlight the behind-the-scenes work that our teacher-librarians have been doing to ensure that students have access to books and literacy experiences, despite distanced learning. Learn more about School Library Month here. Curbside checkout (or an “outside library”) is a term that our Issaquah teacher-librarians have coined for the process of ...
Canvas New Analytics, Data at Your Fingertips
Canvas New Analytics is available at the course level in Canvas. In order to enable this, you will need to open your course, open settings, and then choose "navigation." From there, you will want to enable New Analytics (remember to SAVE). It can also be accessed from the course home dashboard. New Analytics offers some ...
Celebrate School Library Month!
“The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors...” - Libba Bray A talented librarian serves as a cornerstone of ...
Speech Recognition
Universal Design for Learning, otherwise known as UDL, has become a major buzzword across the education system. The core principles of the UDL framework include providing multiple means of engagement, representation, action & expression for students to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding. With more students and educators accessing technology now than ever, what better time ...
Adding Multiple Voice Files to Seesaw: A Powerful Student Support
As educators, we know the power of including audio and visual scaffolds for students. Seesaw is one of our core tools that makes this process simple. As many teachers have found, there is the ability to record captions on a Seesaw canvas page (appears at the bottom of the page), as well as record an audio file ...
Canvas Submission Updates: Webcam & Reassign
Two new features have been made available in Canvas that you might have noticed. First is the option to reassign work to your students, the other (which you may not see on your end) is the ability for students to submit using their webcam. Webcam Submissions Students who have been trying to submit images of ...
Virtual Field Trips with Flipgrid
Are you looking to liven up your virtual teaching with different experiences? Consider integrating virtual field trips into your instruction, with the possibility for students to respond, collaborate, and wonder. Flipgrid has you covered! Why Flipgrid for Virtual Field Trips? Many of the topics compile various links, information, and videos so that you don’t need ...
Canvas + Betterizer = Better Comments Faster
So, first a shout out to Camille Wright, teacher and Skyward guru extraordinaire at Maywood Middle School for sharing this with our team. Betterizer is a Chrome extension that works with Speedgrader in Canvas to help with stored comments. You can easily write five comments of your choice and with a quick click add them ...
Teacher Feature: Zoom Breakouts
Great teaching is happening around our district, whether it is online, hybrid, or in-person. As a TOSA, I have not been able to observe this teaching as often as I have in the past. I might get into a classroom to help solve a tech problem, which I am happy to do, but that often ...