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The 2020 Heathcote Poetry Festival is almost here. Students have been working on their poetry and now they are beginning to add art to it. Every class has a Padlet poetry wall. In grades K-1 students may be uploading pictures of poems they write, or they may be creating using Wixie. 2nd graders maybe might…
3rd and 4th graders now have access to their @scarsdaleschools.org GMail inboxes. 5th graders were given access at the start of 2020. Email in 3rd through 5th grade is designed to streamline communication. Teachers and students will still use Drive, Docs, Classroom, Kami, etc to leave each other comments on specifics pieces of work, but…
Kami is an Extension teachers and students can use in Chrome. Kami has impressive list of features such as: Kami Toolbar: • Select Text: Hand Tool, Select Annotations • Dictionary • Text to Speech: Loop, Read Page, Change Voice, and Speed • Markup: Text Highlight, Box Highlight, Strikethrough, Underline • Comment: Text, Voice, Video and…
Using Google’s Chrome browser is the #1 recommendation for any work associated with @scarsdaleschools.org users. Staff and Students within Scarsdale Schools all have Google accounts. These Google accounts end in @scarsdaleschools.org and have similar features and functions as a standard @gmail.com Google account, but are managed by Scarsdale Schools and have limitations, as well as…
Matholia is a great resource, but some of the site still uses Flash. Flash doesn’t always work. But there is a solution… Here is a step-by-step tutorial on getting Flash to work in Matholia Here is a 1-pager with the same steps.. So, if Flash isn’t working go to Settings and make sure…