Stout Middle School language arts teacher Marla Wiacek, together with co-teacher Nicole West and student teacher Ikram Alhassan, has begun using iLearn to help students learn writing skills in 7th grade language arts. Wiacek uses iLearn to make available an organized set of resources for students to use, including class notes, tutorials in video format,…
Model Courses on iLearn have begun to grow exponentially. Over the past 2 weeks, the Tech Coaches have been creating model activities using their own pedagogical expertise, as well as content that has been imported into the Dearborn Educational Curriculum, or DEC. Thus far, Model Courses have been started for each of the following Dearborn…
Over the past couple weeks, the Tech Coaches have helped teacher Sara Pniewski from Dearborn High School find ways to use technology to accommodate some of her students with reading and writing needs. Using the Voice Typing feature of Google Docs, Mrs. Pniewski has students speaking their written work into a Google Doc, which they…
Over the next year, the Tech Coaches will be assembling model iLearn courses for several disciplines and grade levels. The model courses will showcase the wealth of activities created by Dearborn teachers, as well as custom activities created by the Tech Coaches themselves. These courses will be repositories of some of the best, classroom-tested and innovative…
Bob and I were fortunate enough to spend some quality time with a new interactive projector. This projector has the capability to turn any whiteboard into an interactive whiteboard! These will take the place of the old Activboards. Coming soon, to a classroom near you!
Teacher leader Hebat Abdelbaki at Salina Intermediate created her blog today. She will be using the blog to communicate with parents, as well as to allow students to record Acts of Kindness they witness within the school. By clicking on a link from the menu on Mrs. Abdelbaki’s page, students can bring up a Google form…
Lots of good things are happening at Henry Ford! In Mrs. Hammoud’s 3rd grade class, students are using Google Classroom to complete writing assignments. In Mrs. Hetu’s 1st grade class, students are using flipcharts created by their teacher to practice building words during Daily 5. Mrs. Hetu used the “Drag a Copy” feature on her…
In Mrs. Gutierrez’s 2/3 class, students are experiencing writing conferences using Google Docs and the “Comment” feature. The teacher can remotely log into a student’s document, read it, and provide immediate feedback while the student is working. The students can also reply back to the teacher, or mark a comment as resolved. Both students and…
Forensic Science teacher Michelle Wachholz from Edsel Ford recently created an argumentative writing assignment that students worked on using district laptops. Mrs. Wachholz began by creating the assignment on iLearn. She utilized one of the shared 6 + 1 Writing Traits Rubrics on iLearn to communicate the expectations for the assignment to her students before….
Yesterday, teachers Gihan Fradi and Christina West, who co-teach a chemistry class at Edsel Ford used a short, 4-question iLearn quiz to gather data on student understanding, which they then used to break the class into groups to work on their progress, since all students were at different points in their understanding. This is just…
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