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Data-Driven Instruction with Moodle
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…
Coaches’ Corner: A Google Docs Session
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…
Getting Kinders Ready for 21st Century Learning!
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…
iBlog Training for Pre-K Teachers
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,…
Revolutionizing Assessment with iLearn
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…
Video Conversations in Spanish
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…