BACK TO SCHOOL WITH SEESAW!
Check out this Blog post with 10 Helpful Teacher Resources For Back To School From Seesaw.
From engaging activities to practical tools, these resources are designed to make your classroom more interactive and to save you time.
Standards-based grading is easier than ever with standards available NOW in Seesaw! Check out our latest video to show you how to streamline your grading process and track student progress toward standards: https://bit.ly/3Wg8Mxh
Please check out this white paper: Context is Everything: Reimagining Edtech for Early Learners.
It aims to discuss the balance between online and hands-on learning as it relates to young learners and their use of technology.
What’s New?
- 📚 Library: Check out this month's featured collections, including our First Days of School Collection to help you create fun, engaging activities for the start of the new school year. Share the August Classroom Dailies.
- 👱🏻💻 Seesaw Connect: Join Seesaw Connect on August 2nd and 3rd. Attend live virtual sessions or register and watch the recordings later on. We promise you’ll leave feeling energized and full of new ideas for the school year. Don't forget to register here.
- 📊 Engagement Dashboards: Check out Seesaw’s new Engagement Dashboard! Now, all school admins have direct access to data dashboards where they can track usage metrics, identify areas of growth, and celebrate learning. Learn more here.
Next step:
- 🍎 Getting Started: Review our new Getting Started page, which has helpful resources for both administrators and teachers.
- 👱🏻🏫 Professional Learning: Set your teachers up for a successful year on Seesaw with Seesaw Professional Learning. We can train your teachers on Seesaw’s newest features, work with you to align our library to your scope & sequence, and more. Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to learn about our different offerings.
Brisk Teaching
Brisk is the #1 AI Chrome Extension 1️⃣ Start by pinning Brisk to your toolbar by clicking that 📌, and then head to our YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@Briskteaching. 2️⃣ You can also become a Brisk AI Professional Level 1 to learn more about Brisk by heading here: https://briskteaching.com/community Your life is about to CHANGE! Get ready for 10+ hours back every single week...
Diffit for Teachers
Check out all the options in @diffitapp AND you can adapt texts and primary sources to different reading levels and languages! Head to http://app.diffit.me to try it out!
Want to explore all the Student Activity Templates available on Diffit? Take a look here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Z99hIWHno18-KBlT7v3lYmzmnL3tV5kM2ZoexwCrgM/edit?usp=sharing
Curripod
Create interactive lessons filled with reflection, curiosity and creativity with AI in seconds @ curipod.com
Check out their super engaging collections of customizable lessons on:
🧡 Reading & Writing
🧡 Inferences
🧡 Vocab Practice
🧡 Evidence
🧡 Arugmentative & Informational Writing
Padlet
If you haven't used Padlet lately you will love all of the changes they have been making. It was a great tool before but it turning into one of those can't go without tools.
They have created an alternative to Jamboard called Padlet Sandbox http://sandbox.new It's a beautiful way to create classroom activities and games with drawings and links.
Padlet also has a new AI image generator and you can use within the sandbox or within a Padlet itself. Check this back to school idea from @famerfaubs - Video or check out the KarAIoke link above in the AI section for some cool ways to use this feature.
You can also now convert any padlet into an auto-designed slideshow with just one click? 🤯 Try out Slideshow today!
What will they add next? 🤷🏻♂️
Control Alt Achieve
20 YouTube Channels for Social Studies http://controlaltachieve.com/2016/09/social-studies-youtube-channels.html… #controlaltachieve & @ericcurts
Quizizz
Quizizz is celebraring the #Olympics 🏊♀️🤾🏽♂️ and making it easy to take your lessons to gold medal levels of fun by adding memes from our customizable set from
@canva 🏅
Learn how to use these customizable memes : https://ow.ly/J88o50Shhtr
Playbrary
Playbrary is a free AI-powered tool that uses this idea to bring new life and interest into classic literature.
- First you choose a book from a list or type in one of thousands of public domain works.
- Then the AI then turns it into an interactive "Choose Your Own Adventure" story
Wakelet
11 ways Teachers can use Wakelet!
https://alicekeeler.com/2023/02/05/11-ways-teachers-can-use-wakelet/…
Adobe Podcast Studio
Adobe Podcast Studio is now available for everyone. It simplifies and enhances the process of recording and editing. ⏺️ Record in Chrome 👥 Invite guests 🎶 Insert music 📢 Enhance speech 💬 Transcribe ✂️ Edit speech by deleting words in the transcript https://podcast.adobe.com
Genially
Help your students or your team memorize a story or process and have fun at the same time. With this drag-and-drop game, any timeline is a piece of cake: https://genially.com/template/timeline-game/
SO COOL.....
1. MusiQuest - MusiQuest's mission is to give every kid in the world access to music. By combining hands-on music making, dynamic instruction, and rich stories, MusiQuest's lessons feel fully "alive" to students. Privacy Policy. Grades 1-8
2. Pixton believes that storytelling is the world’s most powerful force for communication and change. Pixton is a comic creation platform that enables people of all ages and abilities to develop storytelling skills, enhance writing and visual communication, demonstrate learning, and celebrate identity and culture through personalized avatars. Privacy Policy. Grades 1-12
3. ClassHook
ClassHook is a discussion platform with a curated library of over 7,400 educational videos from relatable media that students will recognize. Videos are short (1 - 5 minutes) and organized by standards, grade level, and topic. ClassHook is a time saver for busy teachers and librarians who want to better engage students, pique their curiosity, and rekindle their passion for learning. ClassHook exposes students to realistic scenarios that are difficult to showcase with traditional curriculum, helping them apply their learning to real-world situations. Privacy Policy. Grades K-12
4. EarSketch - EarSketch introduces coding and music technology to students in a highly engaging, creative manner that has been shown to engage diverse student populations. Privacy Policy. Grades 6-12
5. Masters of Tradition: A Cultural Journey Across America
Masters of Tradition is an interactive story map that allows students to explore the great diversity of cultures, communities, and artistic traditions that enrich the United States. Through abundant photographs, audio, video, short text, and first-person quotes, the story map addresses a variety of key themes, including immigration, migration, identity, heritage, and community. Privacy Policy. Grades 5-12
Apple Professional Learning Specialist
Apple Professional Learning Live Explore helpful resources, practice new skills, and reflect on ways Apple technology can support great learning and teaching. These hands-on virtual sessions run for approximately 60 minutes and are offered twice daily.
- Visit apple.co/apl to learn more and register.
💥NEW!!! 💥- Apple has launched a new professional learning hub for educators called the Apple Education Community, which expands on the resources previously hosted on the Apple Teacher Learning Center and adds a brand new educator Forum, now live in beta.
EUGENE 4J RESOURCES TO HELP YOU GET THE YEAR STARTED!
Curriculum Administrator - Educational Technology
Email: huntley_ju@4j.lane.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/huntley-edtech/justin-huntley
Location: 200 North Monroe Street, Eugene, OR, USA
Phone: 541-790-7587
Twitter: @JustinHuntley
SERVICES: In Class Support, Co-Lesson Design + Delivery, Demonstrations, Individual-Group-School Professional Development, Research, Whatever it takes to support your edtech use!