We are so excited to say that our first Virtual STEM lessons are occurring this week. We have 9 IU13 classes registered to participate from AS, ES, MDS and Itinerant AS. We are looking forward to this new venture with our students and teachers. We want to give out a big         to those nine staff members for jumping into this with us. We can’t wait for the experience.

Hi, I hope your week is off to a good start. In our blog this past Monday, Giovanna and I shared about our ECSES- STEM Makerspace opportunities, and a little bit about the upcoming live STEM lessons. We want to talk about this exciting opportunity for you and your class to join our live lessons.

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This summer, Giovanna and I offered several online Professional Development (PD) sessions using courses in Schoology. I have taken these courses and updated them to remove all the assignments and discussion posts and just provide the training videos and resources for instruction. If you did not attend a session this summer, but would like to learn more about

This week Giovanna and I are focusing on teaching staff how students can annotate on PDFs. Yesterday our teaching was focused on students using iPads to annotate on PDFs and submit back to the teacher. Today I am focusing on students using Chromebooks. There is a instructional tool called Kami. There is a free version that we are going to be discussing. Teachers can get a Pro version for a free trial, but we are not recommending that so it does not confuse you students once the Pro version expires. Giovanna and I created a document with links to our video recordings on:

Many of our students are using iPads for instruction both at home and at school. There is a way to have students "mark up" documents either by using an app called PDF Cabinet if the teacher is using Schoology, or by the built in features of Google Classroom. Giovanna has made two videos to assist with this process. Annotating PDFs in Google Classroom as assignments and PDF Cabinet App-Demonstration Video