Tackling AI with Socratic Seminar
In the past few years, educators have continually been challenged ...
Canvas Group Sets for Assignments
Canvas allows the creation of Group Sets for a variety of purposes...one being group work. But in the greater scheme of assigning work to your students, you can also assign by group sets...what does this mean? When you create an assignment, you then check it as a group assignment (grade individually), this then allows you ...
Teaching in Small Groups? Use Zoom Breakout Rooms!
Small group instruction is paramount to developing relationships, differentiating instruction, and progress monitoring for students. Luckily, this is still very possible in a remote teaching setting! Enter, Breakout Rooms in Zoom (yes, these are coming in Teams as well, so stay tuned!). Think partner reading, small group conferences, think-pair-share, and more! Breakout Rooms are also ...
Canvas and Actively Learn
For all my friends who love Actively Learn, it now integrates into Canvas and will offer some benefits when you do. First, it will roster your students from Canvas, no need for codes anymore. Second, when you create an assignment in Actively Learn and sync it to Canvas, it will appear in your Canvas assignment ...
Canvas Office Cloud Assignment Tips
For those of you who love Teams and the ease of creating cloud assignments for your students, never fear, Canvas has a similar ability. Here are some of tips I've gathered from working with you all the past few weeks. You asked, we are answering, here are some tips for using Office in Canvas Question: ...
Canvas External Tools Rubric Workaround
You want the best of both worlds - to use an external tool integration for your assignment, but to grade it with a rubric! I am hoping with voting up, this will soon become a seamless work path in Canvas, but until then, there is a workaround. Thank your summer instructors Erin Kwok and Chris ...
Using Flipgrid in Canvas
Getting Flipgrid set up in Canvas Are you ready to get your Flipgrid on? Before you do, here are the pros and cons of adding it to Canvas. Pros: It is easy to access from your course for both you and your students It will automatically register your students in your Flipgrid group (previously grid) ...
Give Yourself a Break and Outfit Your Teach-From-Home Set-Up
School is almost here and we are still in a Remote Learning mode. You have probably spent a lot of time thinking about, learning about and working about improving the experience for your students. However, it is also important to think about your space at home (if you are teaching from home) and what it ...
Ed Tech Summer Training Resources (Elementary)
Did you attend any of the ed tech summer training sessions, and want access to the resources from those courses? Look no further! Use this Padlet Link to find presentation slides, examples, and other resources galore. Suggestion: open the link in a browser window and begin scrolling up/down, and left/right to find what you need. ...
Secondary Ed Tech PD Opportunity
Interested in more Ed Tech PD before the school year begins? On August 21st and 24th, there will be optional training designed to help you go deeper in understanding how to use Canvas to support learning remotely. Each day is split into two three-hour sessions - attend one or all four! Want to Attend? Remember ...
Elementary Ed Tech PD Opportunity
Interested in more Ed Tech PD before the school year begins? On August 21st and 24th, there will be optional training designed to help you go deeper in understanding how to use Clever, Seesaw and Teams to support learning remotely. Each day is split into two three-hour sessions - attend one or all four! August ...