Q-Tip: Exploring Some of H5P’s Interactive Tools
Did you know that H5P offers dozens of interactive activities for you to use with your students? Read about it here!
Using iLearn (Moodle) to Help Quell the “Gotcha Game” on Tests and Quizzes
Here are four ideas for unique, student-centered question types to include in your next assessment.
Saturdays with Moodle Series
The Dearborn Public Schools Technology Department is excited to announce a professional development opportunity for teachers: the Saturdays with Moodle series!
Keeping Track of Reading Progress with iLearn and Read Seed
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…
Hypothesis- The Tool You Didn’t Know You Needed
Often times I am asked how teachers can have students annotate text on a webpage or PDF. And now, I have a definitive answer: Hypothesis.
A New Reading Practice and Progress Monitoring Tool for iLearn (Moodle)
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. That’s where Read Seed comes in. For the 2019/20 school year, all teachers…
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 last 4 years, and…
Peer Assessment of the Video Kind
As we’ve posed many times before, the Workshop is one of the best ways to allow students to peer assess with some accountability. Now, Ms. Cheryl Airgood, American Sign Language teacher at Dearborn High, has taken the Workshop to a new level with video. [Read time: 1 min]
Tech Tip Tuesday: Build in Feedback (Teach While you Test)
One thing that is contributing to the sense of despair students feel in the midst of all the testing is the fact that they are on to us: they know that most of the testing they’re doing just allows us to gather data on them without having much immediate impact on their lives. [Read time: 1.5 min]
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