School Closure Support Resources from BrainPop

BrainPop has a webinar, resources to make assignments, build assessments, and manage student learning remotely. In the webinar, they outline integrations with various Learning Management Systems, such as Google Classroom and Canvas, providing suggestions for both synchronous and asynchronous approaches to online learning. Source: Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: School Closure Support Resources from BrainPop […]

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Project Based Learning in your Virtual Classroom

With all of the talk about distance learning and how are teachers going to manage classrooms and instruction for the next 3-4 weeks, people are too focused on trying to do what is done in the classroom virtually. We can’t repackage what is already done into a digital format. That is a recipe for disaster. […]

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Teaching Kindergarten from home

Below then you will find a list of suggestions that align with our kindergarten classroom program, the Kindergarten Program Document, and the needs and interests of our students. Source: Kindergarten From Home: Here Are My Suggestions. What Are Yours? | Living Avivaloca […]

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Installing the new Cricut software on your Macbook

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The new Cricut software can be installed on your Macbook without the administrator password. Download the application from Cricut and it will show a window to drag the Cricut application to Applications. This will not work. To install the application it needs to be put in your Applications folder, not the machine’s. Using the Go menu at […]

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Shortening web addresses with go.kcs.me

A URL shortener is a service that takes a long web address and makes it shorter and easier to share. If you’ve every used or seen bit.ly or tinyurl.com, you’ve used an URL shortener. I had written an URL shortener several years ago, and remnants of it still exist under kcs.me. It worked ok, but […]

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Spice up your Google Slides with templates from Slides Carnival

Source: SlidesCarnival – Free Powerpoint templates for presentations, Google Slides themes and Canva templates Sure, Google Slides is pretty powerful, but it seems like Google Slides presentations start to look alike after awhile. So, spice up your presentations with SlidesCarnival! After navigating to SlidesCarnival, you can browse through the templates on the front page, or […]

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