Resources & webtool UPdates

Ms. Irizarry's Google Classroom

Click on the above icon. This will give you access to my google classroom. If this is your first time checking it out, it will ask you to confirm that you want to join my class.

Here you will find a tremendous amount of resources, organized by topic. If you have any questions, please be sure to reach out to me.

Ed Law 2D

Info on the use of apps/tools/sites in our district

List of approved free tools & Paid tools

edpuzzle

Add audio response as an option

Check out how you can set this up, here, in my google classroom.

go Guardian

Easy access to Google Classroom posts within the GoGuardian session

This is a feature from earlier this year (2021), but in case you missed it, check out this video to see what it looks like when you are running a session that has been imported through Google Classroom.

Setting up scenes looks a bit different this year.

Watch this video to see how you can set up a scene in GG, as it looks a bit different than before.

Kami

Recap of Kami updates from 2020-early 2021:

  • The Annotation Bank: A crowd favorite; this is like your personalized pocket of useful comments, notes, and recordings that can be repeated across any number of students’ assignments. This is to save you time when providing rich and detailed feedback for every student

  • Delete All Annotations: Now remove all annotations on your documents in just one click – keeping whiteboard documents fresh and ready for your next lesson. For smaller tweaks, we’ll also be making it possible to delete individual annotations in the coming weeks.

  • Faster Grading: We’ve leveled up our grading, making it work faster through our Chrome extension. Loading documents is now a lot quicker on Google Classroom, too.

  • Feature Restrictions: When using a Kami Assignment in Google Classroom you can restrict features available for use for your students and just allow a few that they will need. This will help them focus.

  • Turn In button: Our ‘Turn In’ button now shows up in more places for Google Classroom.

New Updates as of July 2021:

  • Photo to PDF: Student-submitted photo files will now auto-upload as PDF files, once you’re done annotating in Kami, so students without Kami can see all your markups!

  • Push Changes: Stress no more – Push Changes is a new way to push out live changes to an assignment after it’s been sent. We’ve got your back! THIS ONE IS HUGE!

Coming soon in a few months!

  • word count

  • new color palette

  • new stickers

  • new paper types

Lumio (formerly SLSO)

Lumio - the online version of SMART Learning Suite

You can log into Lumio with your shufsd.org account and get access to the online version. While it does look different, and does not have all of the Notebook features (yet), it offers other features that SMART does not. If you have any questions, please let me know.

SMART Notebook for your personal devices

By following these steps, you can get the SMART Notebook software to your personal Windows or Mac device.

peardeck

Review and Reflect (Feedback)

Check out this post to see how you can add feedback to students' responses after a session is over and then show the students how to see that feedback.

Features that have been added to Peardeck in recent months

If you are new to using Peardeck, and you are curious about its major features added over the months, check out these old posts to see the old "new" features.

screencastify

Interactive Questions New! (10/25)

You can now add interactive questions, much like Edpuzzle. But if you have a ton of videos made through screencastify and have never used Edpuzzle, you can start here and add some interactivity. Watch this video to see what you can do.