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…
Category: New Staff Essentials
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…
Social Emotional Learning Activities
The transition from a traditional classroom to remote learning has been no easy feat. Yet, despite the challenges, teachers across the country, and within our very own district rose to the challenge and made what seemed an impossible feat, happen.…
What’s New with Flipgrid?
How do you get input from your students, or check for understanding? In the classroom do you use a “Fist to Five”? Or in your remote delivery classrooms do you use “Discussion Boards,” or digital Exit tickets? Enter Flipgrid, you…
Seesaw Teacher Guides
So you’ve setup your Seesaw class, assigned work and your students are moving right along. But what about all those notifications that are now showing up in your email? How do you manage these effectively? Or did you decide you’d…
Login Processes for Westside Services
As part of our goal of streamlining access to Westside technology services, we’ve updated the process to log into several Westside services. We are working to also keep your username and password synced across services. What are my credentials? –…
Tips for Increasing AirPlay Reliability
AirPlay is a technology from Apple that allows you to wirelessly mirror your iPad or MacBook’s screen to an AppleTV and Projector. Typically this works seamlessly – you select the Airplay icon on the Mac, or Screen Mirroring on iPadOS.…
Book Creator & Adobe Spark: A Powerful App-Smash
Book Creator has made quite a name for itself amongst educators with its simple yet powerful interface to allow even the youngest of students to make, read, and share their own digital stories, poetry books, and journals just to name…