Thinking about taking your classroom online? Google Classroom is ready to use! Watch this short video to see what Google Classroom can do for you. If you are interested, contact a Tech Coach and we will support you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K26iyyQMp_g
I have been working with students in the Dearborn Magnet High School and teacher Laurie Locascio to begin creating their digital My Learning Plans on Mahara, Dearborn’s ePortfolio platform. Using the data and artifacts they have gathered over the past semesters, students have begun creating a polished, professional digital version of their MLPs. But most have…
Over the past several years, the Biology Team at Edsel Ford High School (Lorraine O’Brien, David Mayoros, Christina West, Michael MacPherson, and this author) has been using iLearn, Dearborn’s Moodle Courseware, to assess student understanding and make instructional decisions based on the data. The team gives nearly all of their assessments on iLearn. Giving quizzes on iLearn…
Attention all teachers: Next Wednesday (November 11), the Tech Coaches will be holding their first regular “Coaches Corner” session from 3pm to 5pm in the Fordson High School Media Center. This session is designed to introduce you to Google Docs, how it works, and some features that will be beneficial to you as a teacher….
Kindergarteners at William Ford and Haigh are sharpening their computing skills by learning how to master the keyboard and the mouse! Kindergarteners are logging in by themselves, which is a HUGE task for little fingers, and learning mouse skills through interactive websites like Starfall. A special thanks to Amy Vann at William Ford and Dorene…
On Friday, I had the chance to work with the Pre-K teachers across the district to set up and customize their iBlogs. Teachers got a hands-on experience setting up, customizing, and updating their iBlogs. They exchanged ideas for making their blogs more interactive for students and informative for parents. Everyone left the experience with their…
This semester, several teachers have begun administering assessments on iLearn. One of these teachers is Ms. Kelley Murphy, science teacher at Bryant. Kelley uses iLearn to create quizzes that involve color pictures, drag-and-drop fill-in-the-blank questions, and labeling diagrams. Thus far, she has created assessments that not only fairly offer students the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery,…
Students in Mrs. Jedrzejowski’s Spanish classes at O. L. Smith this semester have been using Chromebooks and the Screencastify extension for Google Chrome to record their conversations with their peers. Students are first given their task and are then invited to find a spot somewhere in the common areas of the school in which to set up…
This week, Woodworth Social Studies teacher Scott Apple and his students practiced their writing craft with an exercise on iLearn based on the Declaration of Independence. The iLearn workshop module used here incorporates several phases, through which students prepare their writing, submit their writing, provide and receive peer feedback and assessment based on the rubric,…
At Miller Elementary, Shelly Klan and Iman Hammoud have their classrooms up and running using Google Classroom. Shelly’s first graders made science predictions using the question module, while Iman’s third graders used the assignment module to complete a writing assignment comparing fiction and non-fiction. Both teachers marveled at how easy it is to create activities…
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