Last week I had the awesome opportunity to listen to two fabulous Coquitlam School District teachers take us through the Minecraft world they designed with Microsoft, and of course, I couldn’t wait to share it with you! In “A Pacific Northwest Coastal Experience” students travel back in time to visit a kʷikʷəƛəm village. Here they meet the Elders in the […]
Just a reminder that if you have any problems with your computer, printer, laptop or other techie equipment, you can email ITHelpdesk@sd71.bc.ca or put the ticket in yourself which is much faster: open this link in your browser- https://ithelpdesk.sd71.bc.ca/ login using your district email address and password, then simply fill out the request form as detailed as you […]
I hope everyone had a fabulous long weekend. Today I am happy to share a site I was introduced to a few weeks ago (thanks Josh for today’s tip 😊). This site is designed to help teachers figure out if “fair dealing” permits classroom use of print materials, works of art, or audiovisual materials without first getting copyright […]
We are super excited that we now have access to Pebble Go and Pebble Go Next. We have purchased four modules for grades K-2: Animals, Science, Social Studies, Health and for Pebble Go Next (Grades 3-5) we have the Science module. Pebble Go is an online resource designed for young students, offering age-appropriate content on various subjects. It features easy-to-read articles, […]
I am super excited to share that Reading Progress now allows you to add comprehension questions that will self-mark to go with the reading passages that you choose. At this point you must make the questions yourself, but this could change in the future. Reading Progress is an excellent tool to use to help your students practice their reading […]
I sure wish I knew this Tech Tip before the Code Quest Arcade last month when our students were frantically searching for images with no background that they could use for their characters in their games. I used to tell people to add “transparent background” in the Google search when they wanted this but I […]
Do you have a lot of files in your Teams in Microsoft Teams that you would like an easy way to access all in one place? Today is your lucky day! You can have access to all the Files sections from your Teams in File Explorer on your computer. If you make add, delete or change something […]
Most teachers now have some kind of projector (Brightlink/Smartboard) in their classroom and they all seem to come with the same remote. I just discovered some cool things that you can do with it and of course, I wanted to share! Freeze – Press the Freeze button to freeze the image on the screen. Then you […]
A picture is worth a thousand words! We are posting pictures and using images that we find online everyday to enhance our multimedia presentations. It is important to teach students to respect copyright and the work that people post on line. Students should be encouraged to use images that are licensed as Creative Commons or public domain. […]
I will readily admit to anyone that I love Artificial Intelligence (AI) and find it fascinating. AI is a very hot topic and it is changing so fast it is hard to keep up! While ChatGPT is an amazing tool for us and our students to use, there are some scary, more nefarious uses for it as well. Please read […]