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October 24-28 is Digital Citizenship Week. At Heathcote we talk about digital citizenship, and digital leadership, across all lessons and projects. We discuss such things as keeping passwords private, limiting identifiable information, making thoughtful decisions online, being purposeful about looking for the good (and not the garbage) and much more. We weave all these concepts…
I often get asked about headphones for students. It’s a difficult question to answer on many fronts. Price is one concern, but so is durability. A microphone is an important consideration since students use apps like Seesaw to record their learning and record voice overs for movies using apps like WeVideo and Adobe Creative cloud.…
Students and Parents, We have begun to roll out devices to students. As of 9/9/2022 all 3rd, 4th and 5th graders have had the Responsible Use Policy lesson. All of 4th, 5th, and half of 3rd grade have also had an initial Chromebook login lesson. During the week of 9/12 the rest of 3rd grade…
Toy Theater is over! It was a wild ride. This was a brand new project based on an existing unit of study, but done differently. Students looked at various events from the American Revolution; Boston Massacre, Declaration of Independence, from various perspectives. The research and project wasn’t just a straight rehash of data but rather…
Once again the 5th graders were amazing and rocked the CapCon! Capstone event. The students documented the process on their own blogs. The blogs can be accessed via the classroom teacher’s blogs (look for the “My class” menu on the sidebar). Ms. Boyer Ms. Cooper Ms. Edwards Ms. Robert Check out all of…
Toy Theater is a unit of study in the 4th grade. Students research topics and create plays using puppets based on their research. Traditionally, Toy Theater has been done using the American Revolution as the baseline topic, with the plays being depictions of historical events. This year we decided to try something different. Instead of…
It’s Capstone season, and that means CapCon! is getting closer. CapCon! is the annual Capstone Learning Conference where students share the stories of their learning. The Capstone support section of the HeathcoteGateway is up. Use it to get inspiration from previous years, guide your thinking on final presentation format, reference the project guidelines, request support,…
The 2022 Heathcote Art and Poetry Festival is almost here! Students have been working on their art and poetry and now they are preparing to share it for the festival. As has been the last two years, the 2022 Art and Poetry Festival is a virtual one. Every class has it’s own Padlet for sharing…
Before you go any further make sure you have tried your best to find images within Drive, WeVideo, etc. Apps like Docs, Slides, and Drawing have an “Insert -> Images -> Search the web” option that will give you high quality, free to use images. Always start there. WeVideo has a built-in library of thousands…
As of 2/28/2022 there is a new way to log in to IXL. You can still find the link and instructions on the HeathcoteGateway, but this blog post includes them as well. Go to https://www.ixl.com/signin/sufsd Click the “Sign in with Single Sign-On” button we are no longer using the username and password field After…