Rolling out assistive technology in a school environment
29th August 2017 -This week we have a guest blog post from Randy Lyseng, an assistant principal and Certified Google Education Trainer responsible for a wide variety of technology PD and tools.
As a seasoned educator with over 25 years public school experience as a teacher, university facilitator, and educational technology consultant for a district of approximately 5,000 teachers, we turned to Randy to get his expertise on rolling out assistive technology school-wide.
If you are planning on using assistive technology or other education technology across your school or district this school year, you won't want to miss Randy's best practices.
Continue ReadingDifferentiate Your Classroom From Day One
25th August 2017 -This week we have a guest blog post from Katie Spear, an upper elementary school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you are thinking about differentiating your classroom as part of your #BackToSchool plan, you won't want to miss Katie's 4 strategies that you can implement on the first day of school!
Continue ReadingTop 4 Reasons to use Fluency Tutor with Students
24th August 2017 -Originally posted on the EdTechTeam blog.
“Where do I find the time?” I’m sure you say this almost every day as a teacher. New initiatives, parent-teacher conferences, and dare I say, the dreaded fire drill. Each day comes with different challenges for which we may or may not be prepared. Sometimes we have a plan and sometimes we scramble but, either way, we are able to show off our superpowers and make something out of nothing.
Continue ReadingSupporting Dyslexia
19th July 2017 -Originally published by National Police Autism Association as a guest blog, Texthelper Janice offers advice on how to be more dyslexia-friendly and connect with existing staff.
Continue Reading5 MORE Ways to Use Equatio
27th June 2017 -Originally posted on the EdTechTeam blog.
Have you heard?! Equatio, by Texthelp, now works in all of your favorite Google Workspace for Education Tools: Docs, Forms, Sheets, Slides and Drawings! Back in April 2017, we shared with you five ways to get started using Equatio in your classroom and we are back with five more.
Continue ReadingIntroducing Rubrics for WriQ!
27th April 2017 -Over the Summer last year Texthelp started about creating a new vision for writing support software. We wanted to develop a product that would allow teachers to easily assess student writing, track progress over time, and eventually provide access to a new writing metric that could help teachers identify how well a student’s writing is progressing, and be able to easily compare it to others in the school, district, or even state.
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