Ideas, Activities and Resources for Bend-La Pine Schools
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
Stephanie Morrison and Fred Kent, two science teachers from High Desert Middle School, recently shared an interesting way to explore plant cells using Sphero robots. The objective of the lesson required students to create a large scale map (model) of Continue reading Innovation Spotlight – Plant Cell Tour Using Sphero Robots
Tomorrow is Safer Internet Day. Roy Fuller, our Lead IT Technician, shared a cool little game made by Google called Interland on their Be Internet Awesome site. We can’t think of a more perfect day to play it than tomorrow. Continue reading Be Internet Awesome
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
Apple Classroom is a great tool to manage iPads in the classroom. One feature is that it enables you to see your student’s iPad screens at the same time so you can see what each of your students is working Continue reading Apple Classroom Tip
This weekend I just read about a new Google shortcut that is pretty slick that I think many of you will find handy. You can now create a new Google Doc by simply typing in doc.new for the URL and Continue reading New Google Shortcut