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Students Collaborate-Write-Present-Publish with FFT
If your school has one of those very limited LMSs or just an SIS and no actual LMS, a Canvas FFT can allow you to get your students using their technology at a higher, more professional level. Tech in education should be about so much more than digitized worksheets and a digitized typewriter. If you have to use your…
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Exploring Question Banks
I'm trying to make a module for learning the addition facts. I work with grownups who discreetly are still counting (either on their fingers or in their heads) or using calculators for everything. My experience has been that described in this blog post by Michael Pershan Missing Factors: On Learning What You Don’t Know –…
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We Used FFT Accounts To Enable Highest SAMR Levels
When school opened in August, we knew we were going to be up against one obstacle that would be a source of stress for every student, teacher, and administrator in our school: the loss of our previous LMS. We still had a district-wide SIS, and a very small and very limited LMS, but we would be without the robust LMS on…
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I hit publish...
Back when this "service learning" course I'm wrapping up was active (it ended 12/6, but we can finalize our submissions and submit 'til 12/31) I tried to let another person peek at the Canvas course I'm mucking about with as the "extra credit" part of the course. Seems we had to invite each other to be TA's to look at the…
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Working on first quiz!
Easily found the nice How do I create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions? and I like that the "alt tag" is right there on the front to prompt me to write what my image is. Since the answers *are* images, that's important. Realized I'd forgotten one of my cute number bar images but looks like I have to…
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Using FFT Canvas to track scout rank advancement
I have been a 11 year-old scout leader for almost 2 years now and have been looking for an easier way to track what my scouts have accomplished along their pathway to rank advancement. I have looked at a few other tracking systems in the past, but the cost of the system, though not particularly steep, seemed to be the…
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Beginning again :)
I've got two Canvas accounts -- one associated with the college where I work and then the Free for Teachers that I've gotten through "Instructional Design Service Course: Gain Experience for Good" here on Canvas... so I'm abandoning the college one to be consistent (and because the college has nothing to do with the course…
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Have I told you lately that I love you?
Oh, Canvas FFT, it is all coming together beautifully...did you know? I now have a mark book that produces a current grade average automatically...I can see who are the top performers and those that need more support and scaffolding... differentiation for class tasks and prep is now not only feasible but evidenced. Did I…
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Like
Like Don Bryn, I want a way to get students into a "course" so they can do things online -- before they're students, and/or independent from our "system." I anticipate the same unfamiliarity w/ Canvas and, thus, necessity for "track down to contact" measures. I work with students who want to build math & reading skills to…
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My vision for this next year
How does FFT inspire you to be creative in the ways you leverage Canvas? I want to shift roles right now. Professionally, I work in higher education and my institution utilizes Canvas. However, on Monday my daughter starts the second grade at a school that doesn't even have an LMS. It is a top rated school in Florida (a…
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The three mistakes I won't make next year in my flipped, blended classroom
1. Have absolutely no plan ready when the internet fails, the motherboard on the classroom computer dies (yes, that happened right at the start of a lesson), or there is a power outage. Instead, have at least three back up lesson plans that you can use at any stage in the year regardless of where you are in the syllabus.…
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Free-For-Teachers opened my eyes to the possibilities
What ways do you use Canvas Free-for-Teacher? As I've outlined in a K12 blog post (Students who say, "just tell me what to memorise," and how to serve them), discovering Canvas was extremely exciting. I spent the Christmas holidays investigating all the tools, making content, and got ready to wow my students with this…
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Solved a problem, evangelized Canvas, empowered students
For an graduate-level educational technology course I took in the summer of 2014, my final project requirement was to create an online unit around an educational topic, via some type of web page or other web-based presence. This project also needed to be accessible to all other members of my class, as well as the…
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The benefit of free-for-teachers
"What ways you use Canvas Free-for-Teacher? How does FFT inspire you to be creative in the ways you leverage Canvas?" There have been some great blogs about the benefit of free-for-teachers in Canvas, but for me the benefit of free-for-teachers somehwat echoes that of stefaniesandersFree for Teachers: Training made easy.…
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Free for Teachers Fun & CanvasHacks Demo Course
lauramaewojo I saw that you mentioned developing some PD for your more adventurous faculty, and I just wanted to let you know that the content in the CanvasHacks course came from my local "Do Not Fear the Code" workshop that I have now run for just that purpose at my own school twice, and at another school once with…