All around the district, Dearborn students and staff are utilizing Google Hangouts. So what, exactly, IS a Google Hangout? What you can do with Hangouts? Send messages Make video calls Share photos, locations, and stickers And more! So what have people around the district been doing with Google Hangouts? The Tech Coaches hosted a…
“Teachers often view technology glitches as reasons to stop planned lessons. Yet when glitches happen in a lesson without technology, teachers rarely give up. No activity or computer experience is so vital to one day’s learning that it cannot be adjusted or accomplished at a another time. Modeling flexibility and problem solving will teach students…
Today, students in Diane Pas and Teresa Masiarczyk’s science classes at Smith began working on their Mahara ePortfolio pages for their Earth Science unit. Ms. Pas & Ms. Masiarczyk began by introducing students to Mahara with a Google Doc posted on their Google Classroom. Students worked through the steps to create their pages and upload a…
Due to the popular demand of the digital annotation strategy, the Tech Coaches have updated the step sheet for the process of digital close reading. You can find it on the “How Do I?” page, at the bottom, under “Other Tools.” We have also added a step sheet for saving only certain pages of PDFs….
Because Moodle is the most versatile tool available in allowing teachers to make resources available and to allow students to interact with the content digitally, many teachers are now using Moodle (iLearn) as their online launch pad. One teacher who is maximizing the capabilities of Moodle is Stout 7th Grade Science teacher Pete Bloye. Mr. Bloye has…
Yesterday, the Tech Coaches went live online with our first Tech Coaches’ Corner on Air. This will be an ongoing segment of our recurring Tech Coaches’ Corner sessions. This mode comes with a few benefits: teachers can participate without having to go anywhere, and the session is recorded so those who are unable to tune in can…
One of my favorite features of iLearn (Moodle) is the ability to use rubrics for grading pretty much any type of assignment. Once an assignment is created, teachers can create a rubric of their own or adopt one of the several already-published rubrics available. They can even edit a published rubric to their liking. Once…
You’re invited to join us for the LIVE stream of the next Coaches’ Corner session this coming Tuesday 3/8 at 2:30 and 3:30! Learn how to use Google Docs and Google Drive from the comforts of your own classroom (or from home if you drive fast) as the Tech Coaches walk you through the process of creating,…
What is Close Reading? The latest strategy in reading comprehension is called “Close reading,” or annotating text. The idea is that students read a selection with a pen, making annotations (notes) to help them better understand the text. Because students are expected to write ON the text, making copies of the text has been the norm,…
Yesterday, I met with a team of ELA teachers from Woodworth Middle School who wanted to make M-Step practice easier and and more accessible to their students on iLearn (Moodle). These teachers, including Suria Ali-Ahmed, Dr. Mona Jalloul, and Salwa Mawari learned how to take published M-Step practice tests and convert them to a format…
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