Learning in the Lou

For students who struggle with reading, having assignments and tests read aloud may remove a barrier to learning. These universal supports are available to all students. To make any modification successful, take time to teach the student how to use the technology so they can access it independently in the future and make it work for them. Here are some strategies to use: Strategy: Take a video of someone reading the assignment out loud and post it to Canvas or YouTube (each Lindbergh gmail account has a YouTube account connected) - email or post the link for students to access Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZ8Sw6Jwc4 Tip: This is helpful for worksheets or paper copies that can't be accessed in a web browser. Teach students how to watch instructional videos - pausing the video in between questions for "think time", pausing to ask clarifying questions, following along on paper as they watch and rewinding to listen to something again or clicking on the gear ...

We asked some of the impact study students what they missed about the iPads and two ideas kept coming up. Most really missed having a split-screen and talking to Siri. This post will show you how to do those two tasks on a Chromebook. Ok Google Kids miss asking Siri whatever is on their mind and getting an instant response. Did you know you can do something very similar on the Chromebooks? I have found Google gives me better results than my Amazon Echo. The Echo gives better results than Siri. I would imagine this tip will be super helpful to many of the kids. Open Chrome. Click the small microphone and ask your question. I clicked and asked what the weather will be like tomorrow in St. Louis. This is the result. It did not speak back, just presented what I needed. I was disappointed with the result, I was hoping for something slightly snowier and more snowdayish. I asked what the average snowfall for St. Louis in December, this time it started talki...

We have been using FimoraGo for the past few years to create video projects in the classrooms. There are a ton of choices in each app store but this is one that we have found to work on iOS and Android devices. This post was used in a FACS classroom at the high school. The ideas presented could be adapted to be used in any subject or grade. WARNING! We would advise you to have a  minimum  of one gig of free storage on your device before you start creating your project. Trust us, we learned the hard way. Use  Google Photos  to back all your images and videos to free up device space. It is also the easiest way to back up all your FACS videos. Do not delete any files off your device  until the project has been uploaded YouTube and submitted for a final grade. WARNING! Pumpkin Pie Bread Pudding We watched this short Tasty video twice. The first time we just watched without context. For the second viewing, we broke up into small focu...

Did you know you can access these Apple tools at home WITHOUT an iPad?!?! This post will show you how it works on the iPad at school and how to continue that work at home. Note: This is subject to change as things are updated on the iPads. iPad - At School Your first step is logging into iCloud. If you do not log into iCloud this will not work. Click on the Settings app. Click Sign In in the upper left. Add your district email. Click Continue . Enter your school google account password. It will take a few seconds to log in. Sync your data. Once you see your name you are fully logged into iCloud. Open the file you are working on.  For this example, I am working with a Numbers document. I added some insightful information.  The device will save it. If this is a shared iPad (middle/high), then you need to make sure to sign out of iCloud before you leave class. To log out, click settings. Once you click ...

Have you seen some of the homepages people are building in Canvas? Ever wonder how they created these clickable images? Check out this process to turn your page up to 11. Note: Make sure you can prove that the images you are using have the proper creative commons license. Using an image you found with a Google search might not be legal for you to use. Start with Google I start with a simple Google search for the image I want to use. I searched for tree . I then clicked on Images . 1. Click Tools on the far right. 2. Click one of the four options below Not filtered by license . By choosing a different option you will be shown images you can use freely without worrying of unfortunate things happening like it did to this teacher . Here is how Google defines the Labeled for... categories. 3. Download the image. Open Your Canvas Course Click on Files on the left side navigation of your course. 1. Click +Folder 2. Name the folder, be speci...