Kami's explain feature - Empower Students today!

 Did you catch this new feature in our EdTech connect?

Empower students to recognize when they don't understand

and DO something about it with Kami's new Explain feature!

💬 😌 February break series - Student Feedback, made easy! - Kami 💬 😌

 Welcome to our February break series - Student Feedback, made easy! Our featured tool today is all the amazing kinds of comments as well as a comment bank in KAMI. Check it out today!

💃🏽 Kami resources for Hispanic Heritage Month - September 15th - October 15th, 2023 💃🏽

 

Kami has templates and activities featuring Hispanic Heritage Month. (September 15th - October 15th). Check them out via the extension on your device today!

https://www.kamiapp.com/blog/activities-for-hispanic-month/

Kami has the comments of your dreams

Save this for later! Kami makes formative feedback comments QUICK, EASY, and ACCESSIBLE for all your students.

#ECSDEdTech #Kami #Comments #FormativeFeedback

Social Media Posts - April 23rd - 29th, 2023

 Support learning by grounding history in geography with History Maps! Check out the variety of time periods, locations, and topics, all available for FREE.

https://history-maps.com/

#ECSDEdTech #HistoryMaps #Free #GeographythroughHistory #HistorythroughGeography #InteractiveMaps

Have a pair of bunny ears in that group photo from your field trip you wish you could erase?

Now you can! Canva has a new feature called Magic Eraser that allows you to remove unwanted parts of your photos. Try it out by selecting a photo, click on edit image, and then click Magic Eraser. (Video credit to Canva.com) #ECSDEdTech #Canva #NewFeature #MagicEraser #PixelOwnersAlreadyKnew

Ready to mix up your writing assignments? Need a quick writing re-assessment idea? Use the RAFT components - Role, Audience, Format, and Topic to design a prompt. For example, you are the CEO of a car company (role) who is speaking to the employees (audience) in a quarterly announcement (format) about all the progress the company has made this year to combat global warming. (topic). What's your prompt idea? #ECSDEdTech #RAFT #WritingAssignment

Looking for a FRESH way to get your students prioritizing, communicating, and justifying their ideas? Look no further than the Tier List activity from Eric Curtis over at ContorlAltAchieve.com. He's got a Google slide deck AND form all ready to go! https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2023/03/google-slides-tier-list-activity.html #ECSDEdTech @EricCurtis #EricCurtis #ControlAltAchieve #TierListActivity

Check out the hidden Kami app 💎gem💎in Schoology in order to access some of Kami's latest features...including the ability to control what features students have access to in their Kami assignments. Don't forget to check out one of our virtual Cache and Cookies offerings this month. #ECSDEdTech #Kami #Cache&Cookies #Schoology #KamiAppinSchoology

Writer's block? Introducing Magic Write in Canva. Think of it as a little ChatGPT (AI) built right into your favorite design platform. Let Magic Write get you started and then finesse the language for your needs! From the Canva editor, click on the stars in the lower right-hand corner of the screen to begin your search. ✨ (Video credit to Canva.com) #ECSDEdTech #Canva #CanvaNewFeature #MagicWrite #ChatGPTinCanva

Kami has the comment features of your dreams. 💤 💜 Did you see them in action during one of our Cache and Cookie sessions? Happy to schedule a 1 on 1 session if you are curious! #ECSDEdTechTeam #Cache&Cookies #LunchLearning #Kami #KamiComments

Social Media Posts - April 1st - 8th, 2023

 

Just because Cache and Cookies is VIRTUAL doesn't mean you don't get your cookies! These are on their way to our Elementary participants as we speak. 

#ECSDEdTech #Cache&Cookies #Kami

Spreadsheets getting a bit unruly? 😵‍💫 Group and hide columns or rows with this Google Spreadsheet feature. Don't worry, they will still be there if you need to reference them! #ECSDEdTech #GoogleSpreadsheets #SpreadsheetGeek #Groupcolumnsandrows

Headed to secondary inboxes in April - Same great content, more accessible format! Look for an email to sign up, log in, and join your friendly EdTech team as we provide a cache of information on KAMI. So much more than editable PDFs! (And don't worry...we will deliver your cookies!🍪🍪🍪) #Cache&Cookies #Kami #LunchLearning #ECSDEdTech

Social Media Posts - March 19th - 25th, 2023

  

Mission US, by Public Media Project, allows your students to become members of history. Think of it as a Choose Your Own Adventure or I Survived for different periods of history. (Western Expansion, WWII, The Great Depression, etc.) You will not want to miss these resources!

#MissionUS #HistoryAlive #publicmediaproject

Check out Banzai to address Financial Literacy standards. FREE, easy-to-use, self-grading, gamified learning experiences in brackets for students ages 8-12 (Banzai Junior), 13-16 (Banzai Teen), and 16+ (Banzai Plus) with activities in English AND Spanish. Check it out today! https://banzai.org/

#FinancialLiteracy #Banzai #Free #SelfGrading

Same great content, more accessible format! Look for an email to sign up, log in, and join your friendly EdTech team as we provide a cache of information on KAMI. So much more than editable PDFs! And don't worry...we will deliver your cookies!🍪🍪🍪 #Cache&Cookies #Kami #LunchLearning #ECSDEdTech

Be sure to check out our latest featured teacher - Spencer Schwede at Berry Creek Middle School. He uses WeVideo to encourage student voice by creating a 10-15 minute BCMS News episode monthly. Check out the details of his student broadcast journey on our blog today!

https://technology.eagleschools.net/blog

#ECSDEdTech #BCMS #WeVideo #StudentNewscast #TeacherFeature #ECSDEdTechConnect #EdTechConnect

Level-up Your Teaching with Kami as a Digital Whiteboard

Did you know you can use Kami as a digital whiteboard that you can collaboratively share with your class?  

Well, you can and here is just some of what you can do:

This video from Oliver R. Tingling, a math teacher who started Sharks Online School, has some great ideas for using Kami as a Digital Whiteboard tool in a math classroom, but his ideas can be applied to any content area or grade level.  Even kindergarten can use his ideas with the use of Kami's audio and video tools. 

The video is 18:14 minutes long but I recommend FFing to either 5:50 or 9:45 to get the 'meat' of the content.  

PRO TIP:

Remember you can watch any YouTube video at 2X's the speed by clicking on the gear icon in and changing the playback speed.

Kami's New Library of Instructional Templates

Kami recently unveiled the all new Kami Library, which contains hundreds of customizable templates that you can use at your will!  You can filter by grade level, content area, and resource type (graphic organizer, brain break, classroom management, etc). Watch this video to learn more!