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"
One unique twist on this well liked read aloud activity is to incorporate a mystery reader into your routine. Just like you are missing your students faces, they are missing the faces of all the teachers and staff that they used to see every week. Here is a great way to combine read aloud books, a fun mystery, and the sharing of love.
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"
By now everyone has more than likely either used Kahoot in their classrooms or been a part of one in a PD. Did you know there is a new feature… Continue reading "Using the New Kahoot Single Player Mode"
Holding kids accountable for their reading at home (or even in class) is always a challenge. Kids are getting better and better at “fake reading” and are often unfocused. Even… Continue reading "Supporting Independent Reading with Book Talks"
Now, more than ever, it’s important that we encourage executive functioning in our students. Thankfully, Canvas has a number of features that can help facilitate these skills. For many people, a… Continue reading "Using Canvas Modules as Checklists for Students"
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"
There are many ways to share information with students through Canvas. One strategy that is easy and seamless is to allow students to annotate over documents in Canvas. This allows… Continue reading "Edit PDFs in Canvas Assignments"