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Weekly Tech Update 3/29 to 4/1
WCSD 2021 March Madness EdTech Champion
Play, Stop, Rewind, Play It Again
Have you ever had to YouTube something to figure out how to do something? I know I do it all the time! In fact, I did it last night to learn how to save the elements you see in my videos so I don’t have to recreate them every time. Where am I going with this? It got me thinking, what if we could provide our students with the same opportunities that we take advantage of? If our lessons (or at least the main instructional portion) were recorded, they would be able to stop, start, pause, or rewind the lesson to help them with the acquisition of the content. With EdPuzzle, this would be really easy to insert a check for understanding question into the video. Turn on ‘Prevent Skipping’ and assign it to your class in Google Classroom. The students could access the content for reference and progress through the video at their own speed! Check out the research and data from this article in the ViewSonic Library titled “The Benefits of Video in a Digital Classroom.”
🚨Special InstaStrategies This Wednesday🚨
What do you do when a month has 5 Wednesdays and you only have 4 topics that we’ve been focusing on? You hold a special InstaStrategy session to keep the momentum going!!!
This Wednesday’s theme will be a “Bring and Brag” session. We would like you to Bring and Brag your best or favorite Ed Tech strategy and share it with your colleagues. Some topics to consider, but certainly not limited to are student engagement, norms, and protocols, digital citizenship, formative assessments, content delivery, reading strategies, vocabulary, etc.
To join the meeting this Wednesday, click HERE for the 12 o'clock session or HERE for the 1 o'clock session, or email me and I will send you the Zoom link directly. If you would like, you can register for each session below, and I will email you the link on Wednesday so that you don't have to search very far for links. See registration buttons below.
IMPORTANT: Make sure you are signed in with your district Zoom account or you will not be admitted from the waiting room. Sorry, I'd rather be safe than sorry!
No Bitmoji, No Problem! Welcome Pixton
People often inquire about alternative sites that function similarly to Bitmoji. If you are looking for an Ed Tech tool that is Ed Law 2D compliant, and students & staff can personalize their own caricature, then give Pixton a try. Pixton will allow you to customize your creation and export, share, or download the creation to your device.
Screencastify Users Have an Update
New Entrants = Update Online Sites
Join The InstaStragies Google Classrom
🚨 Who Got Caught? 🚨
Has anyone noticed the new “I Caught” option on the Empower website? If you haven’t, head on over and check it out. The “I Caught…” form is courtesy of the Cyclone Learning Zone. I’m not going to spoil it, you’ll have to check it out. Here’s the link.
Tutorial(s)
Put Agenda/Objectives in Zoom Background with Canva
Update Sites Connected to Google Classroom
Tech Tool(s) of The WEEK
In search of a graphic design website to create graphics, presentations, posters, documents, and other visual content? Canva could be that site for you. Canva has pre-made templates that are fully customizable for a wide variety of projects. We all loved those Microsoft Publisher templates, right? Canva can help fill that void. See it in action with the Agenda Virtual Background tutorial above.
Here is a link to upgrade your account for free for all educators. All you will need is a copy of your teaching license or certification to upload. A screenshot of TEACH online will not work, I already tried that :) Canva for EDU is Ed Law 2D compliant.--------------------------------------------------
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