Since you will be meeting with students regularly, and since many schools are meeting on A day and B day schedules, one way to make your life easier when it comes to scheduling Zoom meetings is this: schedule your Zoom meeting for a given classchoose Recurring...
Bob Harrison
Resources for Digital Citizenship and Student Norms (Secondary)
Amy and I have been furiously working to create resources to help establish norms and expectations for digital citizenship. The resources for secondary students are now available. This is version 1 of what will be a set of resources that can be continually updated....
Setting Digital Norms
As we get started using our various new tools, one thing that will be of utmost importance for teachers will be establishing some digital norms. Where do I find the link for the meeting? Will it be on my email? Will it be on Schoology? And will it be the same link every time?
Getting Ready for Schoology
As you may be aware, the technology re-opening committee voted to adopt Schoology as the district's new LMS (learning management system). For teachers who are familiar with other LMSes, like Moodle or Canvas, many of your skills are transferable. You might be familiar...
Beating Cheating in Online Assessment: The Remix
Sometimes information is so good, it needs to be shared multiple times. This article, originally written and posted by Bob Harrison in May of 2016, has been updated and remixed with some new information. Enjoy!
Standards Based Assessment
In case you haven't heard, I am back working with my own set of students on a regular basis, leaving Amy as the only full-time Tech Coach in our district. This has given me the opportunity to try out some of the things I've been supporting teachers in doing over the...