Educational Technology
Update April 6, 2020
Wishing you the best,
Bethann, Beth and Alexis
Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display. Responses can be interactive for classmates to respond or kept private for only the teacher to see.
Getting started Guide http://blog.flipgrid.com/gettingstarted
Scoutlier by Aecern, locally based in Falmouth, is a web based tool that allows you to quickly author and create easy-to-follow activities that your students can complete independently on any device by taking or adding pictures, video, audio, as well as entering text and numerical data. You can choose to have your students share their work and collaborate with the whole class, or you can use the activity to assess individual learning. In either case, you can track all of your students' work and coach them in real-time.
Since many of our students are following different pathways for learning during the closure this is a good tool to have them check in with what they are working on. If your students are participating in project based learning, building, or making it is a great tool to see their progress.
When creating an account choose, sign in with Google Classroom. Scoutlier integrates well with classroom. Using Schoology, no worries, just paste the assignment code for the Scoutlier activity you created in Schoology.
Scoutlier was free before the school closure and will be free after the closure. To learn more and get started check it out.
SeeSaw has been used by some K-5 teachers across the district as a way to collect work samples.
Seesaw allows teachers to create class assignments, record directions, provide student feedback and send family communications. Seesaw allows students to “show what they know” using photos, videos, drawings, text, and links.
The Activity Library hosts a variety of standard based activities for all grade levels, and the Help Center provides lots of support.
Seesaw’s step-by-step grade-specific Get Started Guides have everything you need to introduce Seesaw to your students.Ed Tech Webinars
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If you are experiencing difficulties using web resources, please fill out the Google Form in full to request assistance from the Ed Tech Team, we will do our best to help you as quickly as possible.
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