With content for grades 6-12 (but also some fun things for younger students), Mathigon functions much the same as a classic math textbook in the content it covers, but it presents the materials in a new, engaging, and exciting way for students. Teachers can use it to supplement their lessons (like a typical textbook), to highlight foundational subjects for students who may have gaps, to assign additional readings to those who want to learn more than what's in the curriculum, or to brush up on their own knowledge. 

Elementary teachers may find the PolyPad useful.

Digital Escape Rooms use a series of clues and puzzles to engage students with content or learn concepts. You can borrow one that someone else has created, or make them for yourselves. 

How to make an Escape Room

Escape Rooms for various content areas and ages

Escape rooms (grades 6-12) for Math, Science, ELA, Social Studies

Ever wanted to know how to: 

• Unsend an email

• Have Google add closed captioning to a Slides presentation

• Insert images into a cell on a spreadsheet

• Hide a page of a spreadsheet

• Check the revision history of a file to see every change that has been made

• or hundreds of other things?

This website has videos, almost all less that a minute long, that can teach you how to just about anything when it comes to Google's Suite of tools. You can search by keyword or the tool you want to learn about.

Vallivue School District does many things to support its staff. 

My job is to help you implement technology in your classroom to be effective and impactful for your students. 

Please contact me with your tech questions or help requests. If I don't know the answer I can always find one, or point you in the direction of someone who can.

Since we know that many of our students can get their point across in 140 characters or less, why not use those powers for the force of good rather than evil?

iFaketextmessage.com is a site that lets the user, without an account or login, create text messages to get their point across. 

It could be 

• steps in a math problem

• a conversation between two characters in a book

• historical figures debating an issue

• something science-ish (come on, I don't know every way you folks could possibly use these things)

Look for your chance to win in the October monthly newsletter. 

There will be a clue you need to look for somewhere in the newsletter, and by replying to that with an answer your name will be put into a prize drawing!