October 16 Update: Canvas has now made immersive reader available in more areas, not just pages. Read more below. Our students enter our classrooms with different life experiences. This is… Continue reading "Using Immersive Reader and New Quizzes to Build Background in Canvas"
After completing Module 18 in SIOP, I’ve been thinking a lot about student engagement. Obviously, we all do our very best to engage students, but sometimes it is very difficult… Continue reading "Keep Early Finishers Engaged with Anchor Activities"
No two students enter our classroom with the same life experiences. This is especially true when you have English language learners as members of your classroom community. To help counter… Continue reading "Building Background with Seesaw"
Gmail template is a great tool to send emails you continually type up faster and more efficient. Below is a quick video on how to set up templates and utilize… Continue reading "Gmail Templates"
Apple Classroom is a tool that every teacher can find useful. Need to quickly navigate all students to one location on Safari or navigate to an app? Want to project… Continue reading "Apple Classroom: A Teacher Super Power!"
Use labels to organize your emails so your inbox is fully clean! This is a useful tool in gmail that allows you to keep the important emails hidden instead of… Continue reading "Why Labels Are Your Best Friend in Gmail"
Creating and using common behavioral and academic language across grade levels within our schools increases success and accessibility through repetition and consistency. SIOP has taught us that visual cues provide needed support… Continue reading "Using Common Icons in Seesaw"
Are you looking for some back to school activities that introduce the iPad and/or Seesaw to your students? Look no further. Below you can find a small collection of activities that… Continue reading "Back to School Activities with iPad"
As the end of the year draws near, are you looking for a way to keep your students engaged and excited about doing their Seesaw activities? Or in some cases,… Continue reading "Spotlight Activities on Seesaw!"
April 22 is one of my favorite days of the year. Each year, Earth Day reminds me to personally refocus my connection with our Earth and the impact I am… Continue reading "Engage with Creativity: Earth Day 2021"
This post focuses on how to manually add a rubric to a Quiz in Canvas. The difficulty in writing a post like this is giving clear directions of how to… Continue reading "Using Rubrics on Quizzes in Canvas"
Growing up, I always enjoyed scratching off my parents scratch lotto tickets. When looking for a way to recreate this for students, I found Scratch and Solve activities! You can… Continue reading "Scratch Away Activities on Seesaw"