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"
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"
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!"
All accommodations are focused on one thing: how do we make the content accessible to the student? Several years ago, I was challenged to think about an educational Hippocratic Oath.… Continue reading "Low Barrier, High Impact Accommodations"
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"
At Elkhart, putting students first is at the heart of everything we do. One way to ensure all students learn is to be very intentional that every student can access… Continue reading "Starting the Year Strong with Accessible Learning"
In its most recent update, Seesaw has provided users more functionality with its voice and audio features. These updates provide a more robust learning experience by offering more flexibility with… Continue reading "Making Learning Accessible on Seesaw: Attaching Voice to ALL Objects"
Accessibility has been a main theme this year in our resources and Chrome has added a great new tool to expand usability on websites with the addition of Live Captions.… Continue reading "Enable Live Captions in Chrome"
We know that our students all have different needs, and we are daily making modifications to ensure that we are meeting the needs of all of our learners. But at… Continue reading "Making the Internet Accessible to All"
The Seesaw video tool is a great way to model and break down or “chunk” your instruction for virtual assignments. Chunking instruction is when you are intentionally pacing instruction to deliver… Continue reading "Using Video as a Chunking Tool on Seesaw"
In this post we will show you a variety of features and apps that you can use to customize a student's iPad to best meet their needs and to scaffold your instruction.