Instructional Goals-Goal setting is upon us! While your goal doesn't need to be tech specific, it does need to be learning focused and include how tech will be a resource. For this goal, make sure you are able to collect some form of data. Set up an appointment with me to hone your goal and craft it in such a way that it is specific enough for actionable data to be collected.
AirDrop with Apple Classroom-Did you know that you can airdrop items from your iPad to the students in your class through Apple Classroom? You can airdrop anything where the 'sharrow' button appears. Is a student having trouble opening a document on Schoology, but the rest of the class can? Have them submit a tech ticket and use airdrop to get them the doc in the meantime. Google Calendar-I like to double check my committee dates to make sure that I have accurately put them all into my Google Calendar. To look at all of the events on one screen, I use the search bar to pull up all meetings with that keyword. In the example below, I searched TLT to generate a list of all of my meeting dates and then compared it with the D23 Committee Information Doc!
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1. FlipGrid-FlipGrid announced this summer that they would be opening up their entire platform for free to all users! This is great news as it now allows us to use previously 'premium' features! Check out this updates page to learn more. Some of my favorites are GridPals and teacher vibes! They also put together an educator eBook to help you get started and learn about everything this platform has to offer! I attached it below.
2. Book Creator-Book Creator also had some updates over the summer! The biggest change is that you can now embed all sorts of media into a book. FlipGrids, Google Docs/Sheets/Slides, Explain Everything, you name it! Book Creator for Chrome was released last year and has continued to improve! The best feature of Book Creator for Chrome is that you can create a Library and have students upload their books for the rest of the class to view. You can create 1 Library and upload up to 40 books (you can also archive books to make room for new ones). This is perfect for sharing student work! 3. Rearrange Schoology Courses-Rearrange your Schoology courses so that they are in chronological order! Follow the steps below. 4. FastBridge & Apple Classroom-FastBridge testing starts next week! Get prepared by setting up your Apple Classrooms! Follow this tutorial (pages 2-5) to set up your class. If you need help, please contact me! 5. PowerSchool & Schoology-Reminder that it is my personal goal to get all Schoology gradebooks synced to PowerSchool! If you need help, please set up an appointment with me!
1. Rearrange Classes in Apple Classroom-Apple Classroom pulls our course names from PowerSchool, so we can't make edits to the names. In order to keep track of your classes, you can rearrange them to match your schedule. In Apple Classroom, click on 'Edit' in the top right-hand corner. The classes will wiggle (similar to apps on your iPad) and you can tap and drag them in order.
2. Quizlet-Quizlet has come out with two new features this summer. The first is the Learn Feature. This feature is an adaptive practice that responds to correct and incorrect answers. It focuses on student mastery of the content. The second feature allows teachers to label a diagram. This can be used in almost every subject! 3. Google Calendar Search-Searching in Google Calendar is a super quick way to find meetings! Just type your keywords into the search bar and let Google do the rest! It will generate a list view of any events that match your search. You can even use the drop down arrow to filter your search results. Check out the pictures below! |
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