Ideas, Activities and Resources for Bend-La Pine Schools
Looking for summer PD related to STEM? With everything from NASA Earth-Space Science, to Solar Energy, to AP Computer Science, the Central Oregon STEM Hub has it all! Many of their workshops provide project pay and lunch. Register soon as Continue reading STEM Summer PD
This is the perfect time of year to clean up your Google Drive whether you’re staff or a student. I like to think of it as the equivalent of cleaning out your desk. As the year (or years) goes by Continue reading Cleaning up Google Drive
I was helping a fourth grader free up iPad storage when he deleted nearly 2,000 unwanted photos. He showed his buddies and they all took to purging the blurry, the duplicates, and the outdated screenshots. This is a skill our Continue reading Cleaning Up Photos
This Earth Day, let’s look at our Home Sweet Home with Google Earth. Learning about climate change? Check out these Timelapse Videos Explore America’s National Parks and introduce Every Kid Outdoors, the NPS program that offers free park admission to Continue reading Google Earth for Earth Day
Throughout the year students are researching, but it seems like this is often the time of year when culminating research projects are happening. We thought this would be a good time to focus on all the tools we have at Continue reading Tools for Researching
iPads can be used in creative and meaningful ways in Bend-La Pine classrooms. To help encourage best practices around technology use, let’s reflect on how iPads can best be used during the school day. Below are ideas to help prevent Continue reading Prevent Passive iPad Time
After a long day at work I sometimes snuggle up on the couch and get lost in the land of Instagram Reels. As the sun sets and the room darkens, I realize the endless scrolling took more time than I’d Continue reading Making Screen Time Work For You
As of today, we now have over 1800 comics and graphic novel titles that were just added to Sora! This is a new package and the best part is that they are all simultaneous use which means that students and Continue reading Comics are Live in Sora!