I was looking for a fun and interactive way to connect and engage my students during online distance learning. I started hosting a digital trivia competition using Google Meet and… Continue reading "Connect and Engage Your Students with a Digital Trivia Competition"
Does it feel like you are pulling teeth trying to get students to complete work? Do you feel like you spend all day working on planning the next assignment instead… Continue reading "Using Choice Board to Engage and Empower"
New Analytics has a lot of new interesting features that let you track what your students have or have not been doing in a course. We’ve already written about messaging… Continue reading "Message Students from Canvas by Course Activity"
How many of your students are not keeping up with their Seesaw assignments? How many parents actually know which assignments their student still needs to turn in? Since Seesaw isn’t designed to… Continue reading "Motivational Reward and Progress Charts in Seesaw"
This week, we’re going to change up the PD and PLC process slightly from weeks past. Kat and I have noticed a shift in the questions we’re getting and in… Continue reading "PD and PLCs, Week of April 27th"
We all understand that we need to use our devices to conduct a lot of the instruction and assessments during this crisis learning situation. We also need to be considerate of… Continue reading "Engaging Assessment Strategies That Don’t Need Screens"
Creating instructional videos for students is one effective method for working with students during distance learning. Streaming videos is bandwidth heavy and students with low speed Internet (or mobile Internet… Continue reading "How to Compress Videos with iMovie"
If you are like me, you are using Announcements in Canvas frequently to keep students up to date on important information. They’re great because students are notified whenever one is… Continue reading "Add Canvas Course Announcements to your Home Page"
Google Meet offers a way to call phone numbers from a meeting in progress for people who cannot join by video. This is also a way to make phone calls… Continue reading "Call a Phone from a Google Meet"
A little-known trick for communicating is sending a text message to an email address. Cell carriers will deliver that message to the email account from the phone. Plus, when the… Continue reading "Easily Send a Text to an Email Address"
The Canvas course menu is a powerful tool at your disposal for helping students navigate. You have the ability to customize which options are visible to students, which is helpful… Continue reading "Customize Your Canvas Course Menu"
Research has shown that in order for feedback to be most effective it needs to be given immediately rather than days, weeks or months later. Fully-online feedback can often be repetitive… Continue reading "Streamlining Feedback for Students"