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Zoom is still a big part of this new e-learning world we’re living in. For the 2020-2021 school year we have a new way of signing in for ALL students, K-12, and all staff members. We are NOT logging in with the student Google account.This year, ALL ScarsdaleSchools.org account holders will log in to Zoom…
Mesh. Mesh is the word. A mesh network is a more reliable, stronger home wifi network, and a key asset in 2020. What is a mesh network? A mesh network is multiple wifi access points for your home to ensure fewer dead zones, faster connection, and overall better reliability You mean like a network extender?…
Welcome to the 2020-2021 school year! A lot has changed, and we are working through the growing pains of this new reality. There are tech quirks and updates still being pushed out. A few quick points of note: Chromebooks if you get an error when connecting to home wifi, log out once you…
Once again the 5th graders were amazing and rocked the CapCon! Capstone event. And CapCon! 2020 was like no other… at home, virtual school, fully remote due to the Covid-19 pandemic… and they still created amazing stories of their learning. Check out all of their speeches and movies here: CapCon! a capstone learning conference…
4th graders, You are working on PSA projects. You’ve had lessons about picking a topic, researching aspects, and writing a narrative. As you approach the point where you’re taking that narrative and revising it into a script, here are a few examples of PSAs to watch. Some are 4th graders from previous years. Some are…
Specials, such as Spanish and Music in 2nd grade, have their own Seesaw classes. Since students are logging in with their @scarsdaleschools.org Google accounts, they can access multiple classes form within the single Seesaw class interface… For more information on accessing Seesaw check out this previous blog post.
The Poetry Festival is an annual tradition at Heathcote School. 2020 has kept the tradition going… In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, school closure, and e-learning, the Heathcote community of students and teachers forged ahead, studied poetry, talked poetry, wrote poetry, and in the end, created an amazing collection of student poetry, with a…
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…