Winter in Minnesota. We love it? We hate it? We love to hate it? However one feels about winter, this winter isn’t bringing quite the winter Minnesota historically experiences. In case you and/or your students are missing winter, today’s post explores three fun ways, books, virtual tours, and interactives, to bring back the snow. ❄️ […]
Category: Chromebooks
A Chromebook is a laptop which allows you to do anything online (like view websites, check your email, watch online videos, and so on).
You can’t install traditional Windows software, like Microsoft Word or Excel. Chromebooks work great with online Google software, like Google Docs or Sheets.
Empowering Multilingual Classrooms: Tech Tools and Resources
Hey there! 🎉 As we wrap up 2023, we’re throwing a virtual high-five to all you rockstar educators. We’re excited about all the fantastic work in tech integration happening in MPS classrooms, and we’re thrilled to share some of our latest adventures! On December 8th, the MPS Technology Integration Team had the privilege of hanging […]
Google Arts & Culture: Bringing the World of Art to a Classroom Near You
The first draft for this post was: “Google Arts & Culture. It is amazing. Go there. You’ll lose yourself in learning and fun.” While that is true, I thought a little more context might be helpful. 🙂 This fall our team has been collaborating with many teachers and sites in support of students who do […]
Taming The Tabs
Hi there! Welcome back to another week of MPS Tech Diaries! By now you are deep into teaching and learning for the year. Hopefully, our blog is helping you discover some new technology and ways to do things. Today, Ben shares a couple of ways that you can manage the many, many tabs you probably […]
The Hour of Code is Coming!
Welcome back, MPS! I’m so excited, I’ve been busy thinking about how I’m going to decorate my space for Computer Science Week, December 5-11. I love this week because it is a great opportunity for teachers that may not normally do anything with computer science in their subject areas to help students make powerful connections […]
Happy Digital Citizenship Week!
Hi everybody! We are so excited to be celebrating Digital Citizenship Week with you! The internet can be such a great place when we are all being good citizens on it. In fact, one of our amazing Library/Media Specialists is thinking about just that in this week’s featured letter… Hi Mx. K – Thank you […]
Two Cents Tuesday: Chrome Shortcuts!
Hey Everyone! Joey here. Welcome back to the blog. Today is our first “Two Cents” Tuesday! Every Tuesday one of the Tech Integration Specialists passes along a smaller, bite sized technology tip. Today, Wendy is sharing about quick keyboard shortcuts that can save time when navigating Chrome and other Google products. We hope you find […]
Building Writing Skills with Technology Tools!
June is finally here! Hopefully everyone had a restful long weekend to gear up for these last few weeks in the classroom. This week an MPS Elementary teacher asked our Tech Integration Specialists how to support writing using technology; let’s see what they have to say! Dear MPS Tech Diaries- What technology tools can I […]
Creative ways for Screencastify to Support your Classroom
Hi everyone! We’ve got just a little over a month left of school before summer break! This week’s question comes from a teacher asking about a free software approved by MPS called Screencastify. Dear Tech Integration Specialists, What is Screencastify? Is it just for recording videos? Sincerely, Chris Hey Chris, Thanks for your question. A […]
Accessibility for All: Google Read&Write
Hi everyone, hope everyone’s enjoying the beautiful Spring weather! This week we’ve got a great question today from an MPS ELL teacher that I know you will all love. Hi Tech Integration Specialists, I know there are technology tools that can help make things more accessible for students, but I’m really not sure where to […]
