Month: February 2022

New Reading Progress Features

Posted on February 18, 2022 by in Classroom Tech
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Reading Progress is an incredible new part of Microsoft Teams Assignments and can be used to support reading fluency for early learners, English learners and any student who wishes to practice their speaking skills. We are excited to share some new features of this fluency tool, now available to all teachers. These new features include a library of passages to use in your assignment and the ability to return the full results of the reading analysis to your students. Our very own EdTech Evangelist took some time to create a quick tutorial of these new features and even demonstrates how …

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Blended Learning in FUSD

Posted on February 11, 2022 by in Pedagogy
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Have you been hearing the term Blended Learning more and more lately? Are you wondering exactly how it works or how to implement this type of pedagogical strategy? Well, keep on reading, because this is post will knock your socks off.

The term Blended Learning refers to the practice of blending both face-to-face and digital instruction. Within our district Personalized Learning Initiative, we have been supporting teachers in blending the use of analog (paper, pencil) and digital tools across whole-group, targeted small-group, independent, and collaborative settings. One of the key benefits of Blended Learning is that it allows teachers to move into more …

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How to Use Search in Teams

Posted on February 04, 2022 by in Productivity
teams search

Do you have too many Teams in your Teams app to the point where you cannot find them anymore? Do wish there was an easy way to find older conversations and files across all of your Teams? Well, you are in luck. Microsoft Teams has a search feature built right into the app. You can search for a Team or Channel and jump right to it. Or you can search by keyword to locate that file or message that seemed to be lost in the Teams cavern of content.

How do you use the search feature in Teams, you ask? Well …

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