Ideas, Activities and Resources for Bend-La Pine Schools
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Integrated Portland 2019 conference which I highly recommend. I had so many great takeaways that I’m hoping to share with you. The first one is just a simple tool called Flip Continue reading Flip a Coin
Melinda Brown is the ELL specialist at Elk Meadow Elementary. She uses the quiz builder tool Socrative to manage the large amounts of data that she and the rest of her team gather when working with students. One of the Continue reading Innovation Spotlight – Academic Language Acquisition Using Socrative
Classroom management is a learned skill. Sure it comes easier to some, but there’s always room for improvement for all of us. Thankfully, we never stop learning! I just came across the Smart Classroom Management site founded by Michael Linsin. Continue reading Classroom Management
One of my favorite things about my job is getting to work with our fantastic staff across the district. Lately, I’ve noticed that many have a crazy search engine on their Chrome browser. When they create a new tab a Continue reading Does Your Chrome Homepage or Search Engine Keep Changing?
Students are now able to use the Screen Time iPad settings when they update to iOS 12. The set up is easy. Open the settings menu > Select Screen Time > Throw the switch to “On”. Once enabled, the iPad Continue reading Screen Time and App Time Limits
It was recently brought to my attention that our staff, who are using Outlook Mail through the web (OWA), have Reply All as their default setting. This may cause annoyance if you’re in a hurry and accidentally reply to everyone in the Continue reading Changing Reply Settings in OWA
This year we received several requests to activate Siri on all student iPads so we decided to have the Advisory Committee weigh in on the decision. Representatives from each level at almost all schools discussed the pros and cons of Continue reading Siri Activation on All iPads
Many of the (free) dictionary apps in Apple’s App Store have very low privacy scores and we are unable to add them to Self Service as a result. As we continue to search and work with app developers to find Continue reading Turning on Your iPad’s Dictionary