Looking for ideas on how to best organize your folders for students? Check out the videos below to see two different teachers share what is working best for them.
Submitted by Ashley Wiedman at Central Middle
Submitted by Melissa Gebhard at South High
Whiteboard.fi is a simple tool that can be used instantly.
Everyone will get an individual digital whiteboard, where they can draw, write text, make notations on images, add math equations, and more!
You as a teacher see all your students' whiteboards in real time, so you can follow their progress, while the students only see their own whiteboard and the teacher's.
Engage your entire class, include every student and let everybody answer.
visit whiteboard.fi
For more information contact: kharms@parkwayschools.net
If you want to create a new Google Doc, Slide, or Sheet, type in doc.new, slides.new, or sheets.new (respectively) in Chrome and it will appear immediately! This shortcut encourages students to create their own inspirations quickly because it eliminates the extra step of going to Google Drive. To organize the document in Google Drive, click on the folder next to the document’s name and place it in the appropriate folder. Check out this 1-minute video or the gif tweeted by Google below.
Introducing a ✨ .new ✨ time-saving trick for users. Type any of these .new domains to instantly create Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites or Forms ↓ pic.twitter.com/erMTHOsdyH
— Google Docs (@googledocs) October 25, 2018
written by Kristen Harms/ posted by Elegan Kramer
Knowing how to follow the norms of an online community is important because it's part of being a good digital citizen. A digital citizen is someone who uses technology responsibly to learn, create, and participate. That means you get the rewards of being online -- like seeing cool videos and playing fun games -- without the negatives like people being mean or disrespectful to the community. (Commonsense.org)
What is one area you and your child can focus on this week?
Have students in class pass a stuffed animal (or pencil) in Zoom. This is a fun community-building activity that encourages everyone in the class to turn on their cameras and to work together. Or have students create a Zoom profile image of them passing an object. You can time it to make it competitive or to see if the class improves with practice. To do this, rearrange the videos in Zoom and then turn on “Follow Host’s Video Order.” For the best results, everyone should uncheck “Mirror my video” under video settings. Otherwise, everyone passes things the wrong way.
How to Rearrange the videos? Simply click and drag the videos to the position you want them in the Gallery view, and this will stay in place until released.
Turn on Follow Host’s Video Order As the host, in the top right, click View and then click Follow Host’s Video Order. The participants will see the videos displayed in the same order as you the host. (video instructions)
Uncheck “Mirror my video” To do this, go to the gear of the Zoom app, choose Video and uncheck “Mirror my video.” Parents may need to help younger students with this setting. (video instructions)
Zoom - Share a “Portion of Screen”
This tip is from Joey Kneer, Assistant Principal from Henry Elementary School - Thanks Joey!
You can now share only a "portion" of your screen to make things larger for the viewer or to focus the viewer's attention.
You go to screen share as you normally would and then click on advanced. Click the icon for "Portion of Screen." A green box will appear. You can drag and resize this throughout the zoom for whatever you wish the viewer to see.
This tip is from Alicia Kilpatrick at Wren Hallow/Elementary Virtual Campus - posted by Elegan Kramer
Are you curious about using the Zoom annotation and the snipping tool to save? Watch this 2-minute video to learn more!
If you’re still fumbling around with sharing your (AverMedia) document camera during Zoom, you can use the program Sphere to make the transition smoother. This may be especially helpful if you’re teaching in-person and videoconferenced students simultaneously.
The advantages of using the Sphere program are:
it streamlines the transition to sharing the document camera
the camera’s field of view is much larger, and
it is also much easier to zoom in and zoom out.
Here is Charlie’s 1-minute video highlighting the difference between Zoom’s Advanced settings and Sphere.
It is easy for parents and guardians to inadvertently tell children the answers. Over time, telling your children the answer when they’re stuck can contribute to learned helplessness. Instead, use a guided approach when your child gets stuck on an assignment or task.
When your child is stuck, ask what they know and don’t know. Their incorrect answer might have a lot of correct inside of it.
Ask questions to spark their thinking. Ask them what they know about the problem and what they are trying to solve. These questions can be in the form of the 5 Ws: Who? What? When? Where? Why?
Prompt thinking by asking about background knowledge. Prompts are reminders of skills needed to complete the task. A writing assignment, for example, may have a checklist or rubric that the teacher has used before. It may be enough to say “Let’s look at the rubric to see what you might be missing.”
Use cues to shift attention. You might suggest, “Can you reread that second paragraph? I think you’ll find your answer there.” Or ask them to look back at a diagram or a glossary in their textbook.
If they still don’t know, explain your thinking as you provide them with the correct answer. If you don’t know the answer yourself, don’t be afraid to say so. Instead, ask them what they might do the next time they talk with the teacher.
The mission of the Parkway School District is to ensure all students are capable, curious, caring, and confident learners who understand and respond to the challenges of an ever-changing world. Even though the information and resources change over time, we can teach our children to be lifelong learners.
If you are semi-flexible with your curriculum and time, you can use the data in Schoology to decide when to present certain content or when students’ materials are due. You can also use this data to reach out and collaborate with other teachers - connect ideas across content to make student learning interdisciplinary and meaningful.
In a Schoology course, on the left select Workload Planning. You can filter by Student Workload and the week. It will display the total number of students in your class with that student workload and give you a student breakdown. If you select the materials icon, it will display what Schoology materials are due for that student on that particular day.
Instructions:
In your Google Drive, add a new Google Jamboard in order to make a Jamboard (‘whiteboard’) for each student. You can also use this set of 12 Valentine Jamboards to help you get started! (it will force you to make a copy of the Jamboards).
To make a copy of a Jamboard, click on the ‘snowman’ of the Jamboard and select duplicate.
After customizing the Jamboards for your class, change the share settings so that all students can edit. To do this, click the blue Share button at the top right-hand corner. Change the sharing to Parkway Schools and Editor. Click Copy link.
Share the Jamboard link with your students and have students leave sticky notes for their classmates. The sticky note tool is in the middle of the left toolbar.
On the day of the Valentine exchange, have students look at their Jamboard to see what others wrote.
Jerusalema is a popular song and dance created by South African artists DJ Master KG and his sister Nomcebo Zikode. This is about bringing unity throughout the masses by song and dance with people of all walks of life. Play this video during a short break and dance with your kids! This is a fun way to get some movement during class and to build community. You don’t need a dance background. All you need to do is let the song and beat move you.
