Canvas makes it easy to allow students to submit multiple times to the same assignment. This helps you move away from completion and compliance for student work toward a feedback… Continue reading "Focus on Feedback in Canvas"
We’re online for the long haul. Even with hybrid teaching, our students are working in a virtual classroom, through Seesaw or Canvas, three days a week. As teachers, a pandemic… Continue reading "Using Video in Online Classes"
To support all high school classes moving online again, the Tech Ambassadors have helped compile a virtual teaching toolkit to help staff get back in the swing of online teaching.… Continue reading "Virtual Teaching Toolkit"
Jamboard is a collaborative whiteboard tool within your Google account. All students in the district have access at this point and in this post, we’re going to share three ways… Continue reading "Three Ways to Use Jamboard with Students"
Station rotations can be a great way to help students engage with topics or ideas. This post curates some ideas and resources to help you get started.
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"