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Featured Resource: Screencastify

December 2020Josh Whiting

Screencastify (https://www.screencastify.com/) is an extension for recording and editing videos. Students and staff in Granite School District now have unlimited recording and editing when they sign in to Screencastify with their @granitesd.org Google accounts.

[Read more…] about Featured Resource: Screencastify

Filed Under: Digital Learning ResourcesTagged With: Blended Learning, Distance Learning, Screencastify, Screencasting, Student Resources, Teacher Resources, Video Creation Tools, Video Editing, Video Resources

Presentation: Intro to Tech Tools – Basics

October 2020Josh Whiting

Looking for easy technology tools for distance learning? This presentation, first shared as part of the professional development menu for Granite teachers at the beginning of the school year, introduces several great options and ideas for connecting with and engaging your students.

Tools covered include:

  • Screencastify
  • Loom
  • Nearpod
  • Quizizz
  • Google Meet
  • Whiteboard.fi
  • Flipgrid
  • Edpuzzle
[Read more…] about Presentation: Intro to Tech Tools – Basics

Filed Under: Digital Learning Resources, News, Professional DevelopmentTagged With: Blended Learning, Distance Learning, EDpuzzle, Flipgrid, Google Meet, Heidi Meenen, James Ballif, Loom, Nearpod, Professional Development Presentations, Quizizz, Rebecca Baggett, Screencastify, Teacher Resources, Whiteboard.fi

Aaron Kammerman’s Video Ideas

April 2020Josh Whiting

Aaron Kammerman, School Technology Specialist at Hartvigsen School and The Jones Center, has been busy these last few weeks creating instructional videos for his teachers, as well as encouraging his teachers to make videos for their students. He recently compiled this inspiring list of ideas and reasons for teachers to make videos, and we are excited to share it with you!


Yesterday, I created a selfie video for my teachers, praising them for their efforts and encouraging them to reach out to me for continued support.  In that video I made a passionate plea that they make MORE VIDEOS.  I explained that kids are not missing out on the CONTENT as much as they are missing the CONTACT.

I followed up with this list of video ideas. My list of ideas is geared toward special ed students, but you get the idea. In case this is helpful, I pass it along to you!

[Read more…] about Aaron Kammerman’s Video Ideas

Filed Under: Digital Learning Resources, Professional Development, Teacher Spotlights, Technology TipsTagged With: Aaron Kammerman, Chromebooks, Connecting with Students, Distance Learning, Google Slides, Hartvigsen School, Screencastify, Teacher Resources, The Jones Center, Video Creation Tools, Video Resources

Highlights from the First GSD Tech Meet, April 21, 2020

April 2020Josh Whiting

Over 100 Granite educators joined us for our first GSD Tech Meet, a live virtual meeting for teachers held in Google Meet on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The meet was facilitated by Kacie O’Maley, School Technology Specialist at Upland Terrace Elementary and an incoming Team Leader for our department next year. In this first session, Kacie introduced the meet as a collaborative space for teachers to connect and share with one another, putting forth discussion questions that encouraged participants to share successes, ideas, and solutions they have developed during the distance learning period.

[Read more…] about Highlights from the First GSD Tech Meet, April 21, 2020

Filed Under: Digital Learning Resources, News, Professional Development, Technology TipsTagged With: Carissa Mudrow, ClassDojo, Distance Learning, Flipgrid, Google Classroom, Google Meet, Google Translate, GSD Tech Meet, Julia Henkes, Kacie O'Maley, Kristine Handley, Loom, Microsoft Teams, Mysti Hedquist, Nearpod, Screencastify, Valerie Turner, Wonders

Teacher Spotlight: Ashley Moore, Diamond Ridge Elementary

October 2017Josh Whiting

Diamond Ridge Elementary School - Exterior

Blended Learning at Diamond Ridge Elementary

Diamond Ridge has one Chromebook for every student in all grade levels this year. Their School Technology Specialist, Ashley Moore, works with teachers and students in the classroom to help them integrate the technology in fun and meaningful ways.

On this visit to Diamond Ridge, Ashley pushed into a fifth grade class with Mrs. George and a first grade class with Mrs. Harbaugh.

Cindy George, 5th Grade

Mrs. George’s 5th graders learned about using onomatopoeia in their writing and picked up some new tech skills along the way.

Students write poems with onomatopoeia words in Google Slides
Students write poems with onomatopoeia words in Google Slides

Her students drafted poems using Google Slides. After writing their poems, students used the Screencastify Chrome extension to video record themselves reading their poems.

Students record themselves reading their poems using the Screencastify Chrome Extension
Students record themselves reading their poems using the Screencastify Chrome Extension

They then posted their poems to a shared wall using Padlet, where all the poems could be enjoyed by the whole class.

Stephanie Harbaugh, 1st Grade

Mrs. Harbaugh’s 1st graders learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin and practiced using the Chromebook trackpad.

Trackpad practice with plant life cycles
Trackpad practice with plant life cycles

Ashley taught Mrs. Harbaugh how to use LanSchool with her students, so that getting websites and documents out to her little learners is easy.

Ashley Moore and Stephanie Harbaugh set up LanSchool, a classroom computer management tool
Ashley Moore and Stephanie Harbaugh set up LanSchool, a classroom computer management tool

Many thanks to Mrs. Moore, Mrs. George, Mrs. Harbaugh, and their students at Diamond Ridge Elementary for allowing us a peek into their blended learning classroom activities.

Spotlight Created by Teresa Bruin, Educational Technology Specialist and Team Leader.

Filed Under: Teacher SpotlightsTagged With: 5th Grade, Ashley Moore, Blended Learning, Chromebooks, Cindy George, Diamond Ridge Elementary, First Grade, Google Slides, Lanschool, Padlet, Screencastify, Stephanie Harbaugh, Teresa Bruin, Writing Tools

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