January 2018

January 24- Seesaw Sharing Activities

Schools around the country are on a roll with sharing Seesaw Activities! Several schools have combined their resources into a storehouse of Seesaw Activity links broken down by subject and grade level.

Billings, Pulaski, Beaverton, Over 900 Shared Activities

When you find an activity you like, click the link click "Save Activity" to add it to your library. If you find yourself utilizing these resources, take a minute and send a shout out to the creators to thank them for sharing all their hard work! Also, remember that when you create an activity from your own Seesaw Activity library, if you toggle the switch on for Seesaw for Schools sharing, it will be accessible to anyone in your school!

January 18th- Breakout!

Starting this week we have had trainings (Cormier and Valley View) on how to create your own breakout (next week Pioneer)! Using your curriculum to create clues can give your classroom a fun, engaging and creative way to not only address the standards but give kids a chance to problem solve, use teamwork and work diligently in a time crunch. Many older students may also have fun creating breakouts for their peers to help review content in an area. On the ASD Breakout website, you will find resources, templates, links to ASD breakouts and information on how to create traditional and digital breakouts. I would be happy to help you create one, do one or cheer you on after you do one. Let me know how I can help you with this innovative project!

January 10th- New Google Calendar

This month your Google Calendar (tutorial video) will automatically update to the new version. This is not nearly as scary as it sounds. It will look a little more new age and have all the same features plus many more. My new favorite feature (for my OCD color coding habit), however, is that you can easily color code events by right-clicking on them and selecting a color instead of going in to edit the event. Here is a quick guide for you to find all the answers to your questions.

January 3rd- VoiceIn Voice Typing

Install - Chrome web extension link

One of the best features in Google is "Voice Typing". This feature is available in Google Docs, Google search and Google Slides speaker notes section. When you aren't assessing keyboarding skills and you want students to be able to quickly put information into a Google Doc, Slide or search bar, the voice typing tool can take the typing frustration out of play for students who get stuck on the lack of typing speed.

Wouldn't it be great if students could do that outside of those places? Think of all the other places that your students have to type and stuck on the typing: when filling out a Google Form, typing information into a website or using other websites like Seesaw. For those students that need a little extra support to get past the typing hurdle, there is "VoiceIn Voice Typing".

Install the extension above and click inside of any text entry box.
Right-click and choose "Start recording" or click on the extension.
Talk and the VoiceIn extension will type what you say.
Click the icon again to stop the speech to text.

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