April 24, 2024 | Educational Technology

You may have noticed some new updates to our district Nearpod license. If you have not yet seen these, read on. Below is a list of the new features we now have access to in Nearpod. The highlights include the ability to annotate live on-the-fly, live student-paced mode, and co-teaching. And coming soon in early 2022, we will have enhancement to the collaborate board activity. Take a look at the videos below to see these in more detail.

Live Annotation during a Live Lesson

With Live Annotation, you can address misconceptions or model skills for students and write directly on slides and …

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The Class Teams Assignment builder just got an upgrade. What’s new you ask? You can now use video recording and whiteboard as platforms for students to submit work. And, you can now have the assignments post to your students’ calendars. The video recording aspect runs on the Stream platform and can be used by the students to record themselves explaining their work or responding to a prompt. In addition, the teacher can use it to record themselves explaining the task or new concepts for the students.

The whiteboard feature utilizes Microsoft Whiteboard, which we have seen as a stand-alone app …

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The Microsoft Edge browser, formerly known as Internet Explorer, has received multiple new features that you may not be aware of just yet. Some of the highlights include vertical tabs, web capture, collections, read aloud, and more. Although Google Chrome tends to get the most love, it is time to turn our focus over to Microsoft Edge and discover some new magic. In the video below, our very own EdTech Evangelist outlines these great Edge features and demonstrates how they work. Watch it now below…

Month: December 2021

New Nearpod Updates

New Teams Assignment Features

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