by Amy Gwizdz | Apr 13, 2020 | Transforming Education
You heard that right- the Tech Coach is offering virtual appointments that you can take advantage of, right from the comforts of your home! Many teachers have taken advantage of the trainings offered by the District in iLearn (Moodle), Google Classroom, Screencastify,...
by Amy Gwizdz | Mar 24, 2020 | Transforming Education, Transforming Learning
“Collaborative annotation can help connect students and teachers while they keep their distance to safeguard their health during the current crisis. Reading alongside and interacting with each other using Hypothesis is about as close to a seminar-style...
by Amy Gwizdz | Feb 7, 2020 | Moodle, Transforming Education, Transforming Learning
One of my most favorite EdTech people, Matt Miller, author of Ditch that Textbook, recently wrote a blog post about the “gotcha” game on tests and quizzes. He describes the “gotcha” game as one where the test or the teacher is trying to catch...
by Amy Gwizdz | Jan 28, 2020 | Read Seed, Transforming Education
A guest post by Elton LaClare- Read Seed Developer Running records are a valuable tool for monitoring progress and identifying error patterns in student reading. Although it’s often difficult to find the time to take them on a regular basis, teachers using Read Seed...
by Amy Gwizdz | Dec 11, 2019 | Moodle, Transforming Education
Keeping track of your students’ reading progress can seem like a full-time job on its own, but for teachers using Read Seed with their iLearn courses there are a few shortcuts that can make things a whole lot easier… Each time students complete a Read Seed activity,...
by Amy Gwizdz | Oct 29, 2019 | Moodle, Transforming Education, Transforming Learning
We all know that progress monitoring is an essential tool for teaching. The information gathered from a running record is extremely valuable to drive our reading instruction. The problem is that it requires the one thing teachers are always short on– time....
