Welcome back to school! We’re excited to be back and learn with everyone this year. If you’re wondering who to contact for ideas, tips, or tricks in instruction this year,… Continue reading "2020-21 Technology Ambassadors"
Virtual teaching is hard. It’s especially difficult when you’re starting from scratch with students. When we moved to virtual instruction last spring, we at least had six months of work… Continue reading "Building Relationships in Virtual Teaching"
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"
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"
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"
Each week, Kat and Brian are working to provide a number of choices for PD, PLC discussions, and other support options each week. Our goal is to make sure you… Continue reading "PD, PLCs, and Support, Oh My!"
The Canvas gradebook allows you to create quick email lists of students who don’t complete an assignment or score below a certain threshold. You can do the same but at… Continue reading "Message Students by Overall Course Grade in Canvas"
There are a couple of different ways you can organize your classes in Seesaw. One is by utilizing the unique classes already created through your PowerSchool accounts like Math and… Continue reading "Organize Seesaw Activities and Student Responses into Folders"
As we wrap week one of being an online school, the biggest concern we’re hearing from teachers is that boundaries are much more difficult to define and keep. I’m going… Continue reading "Setting Healthy Boundaries for Online Learning"
A blank white canvas is nice sometimes, but if you’re asking for student responses in video form, it can be helpful to have some kind of template for their response.… Continue reading "Creating Templates for Explain Edu Videos"