New Staff Essentials – Teachers.Technology

Digital Flashcards in GoodNotes

Named the Apple iPad App of the year, GoodNotes is a great tool to engage your students in limitless digital note-taking. This App is equipped with a variety of digital papers, handwriting recognition, drawing tools, and easy organization via folders.…

Movies in the Classroom…Is it Legal?

Sharing a documentary, TV show, or movie can be a great way to engage students, drive deeper learning, and boost critical thinking. But doing so requires us as educators to first be well-informed about copyright laws, and aware of school…

Grammarly for Education

Westside students (Grades 5-12) and all staff have access to Grammarly for Education! If you aren’t familiar with Grammarly, it’s a tool to help improve your writing by checking for spelling, grammar, word choice, sentence structure, tone, and more! Great…

Westside iPad Apps

When deciding on a default set of applications for students and teachers to use, the technology team, along with curriculum leaders and a focus group of classroom teachers had to balance many factors. We wanted to give teachers as many…

2022-23 Back To School Technology Opportunities

Welcome to the 2022-23 school year! The technology integration department is happy to provide support, coaching and professional learning sessions to help get you ready for the school year. Please take a look at our offerings for Back to School…

Send it Later with Google Gmail

Working late but don’t want an email to go out until morning? Planning ahead and need to compose a reminder email that needs to go out next week? Google has you covered! With the ‘Schedule send’ feature, you can send…

Getting Started with Apple Classroom

Classroom turns your iPad into a powerful teaching assistant, helping a teacher guide students through a lesson, see their progress, and keep them on track. With Classroom, you can easily launch the same app on every student device at the…

New Kahoot Features!

You may already know Kahoot for its ability to create energizing and engaging learning games on any topic, in any language. But Kahoot has taken steps to become even more dynamic, by implementing a variety of new features such as…

Adobe Spark Quick Start Guides

When you’re starting off getting familiar with the Adobe Spark tools, it might feel a bit overwhelming. There are so many possibilities and ideas to explore but never enough time to learn all the ins and outs of this powerful…

Apps To Develop Critical Thinking Skills

As Educators we recognize the importance of developing strong critical thinking skills for our students. Once developed students are better equipped to problem solve, communicate, and confidently separate fact from fiction. Over the next few weeks we will examine four…