We’re getting ready to launch a digital teaching and learning course for staff that is based on the TPACK framework. A few years ago, we started our 1:1 training by coaching teachers through using SAMR to design lessons which really use the technology in new ways. This time, we’re having teachers do more metacognitive reflection… Read More »
This is a revisit to a post I wrote four years ago in which we used a spreadsheet and Google’s nifty little hidden JSON data endpoint to serve data to a Chrome extension. Without going too deep, the extension needed to be updated. I took this chance to refactor using modern Javascript rather tha jQuery… Read More »
We started our school year today. We have a split group of teachers who are fully online and a group who is hybrid, two days in school and three days online. To make our support manageable, my counterpart and I have worked to infuse systems that support both 100% online and the hybrid model of… Read More »
This fall, I started to revisit my personal productivity habits. We lost a team member last spring and we won’t be replacing that role, which means I have more to keep track of day to day as we absorb some of those responsibilities. I’ve written before about using plaintext for productivity, which was great. I… Read More »
My district is entering a phase where students are in one of two situations: fully online or a hybrid with two days in person and three days online. The goal of this structure is to provide a safe space for students who need it without mandating that all students come back to the building and… Read More »
It was a busy July, working full time on the house. At the end of the month, we were nearly dried in and have started to shift our focus toward prepping the interior for mechanical work (HVAC, plumbing, and electrical). The house is really taking shape now that the roof is in the building. Much… Read More »
Last month, my family broke ground on a new house. Step 1: Dig a really big hole. Less than a year ago, we were just toying with the idea of building a house, and now we’re actually in the process of building. It’s surreal to think back on the original discussion and consider where we’ve… Read More »
My small team relies on automation to make things run. Part of our PD process is a Google Form workflow that kicks off calendar events, document creation, and email notifications. Since we’ve moved to online learning, we wanted to update that process to automatically add a Google Meet link for any PD that doesn’t have… Read More »
In a Canvas course, you can quickly check the number of missing assignments for single students relatively quickly. You can also message groups of students missing specific assignments from the analytics page (or the gradebook). What you can’t do is get a list of all students in a course and their missing assignments in a… Read More »
While schools are closed, we’ve moved much of our long term staff development material into Canvas. We have one long-running course with all staff split into site-based sections that has worked as a model for others. We needed a way to essentially duplicate the template course enrollments into new training courses. Ignorance is bliss (sometimes)… Read More »
