Lancaster-Lebanon IU 13 Instructional Media Services (19)

Kami September Updates

Posted by IU13 IMS on Thu, Sep 9, 2021

Kami Rewards - If you haven’t seen it already, we have launched a referral program

Invite your teacher friends to Kami and get rewarded for sharing the love. Check this out in your acco
unt drop-down within Kami.

Elementary Experience with Schoology - Kami will soon be able to integrate with Schoology’s new Elementary feature. Stay tuned!

BUG FIXES

Drawing saving issue- We have released a fix for an issue causing drawings not to save or being delayed when switching tabs.

iOS Chrome bug - There is now a workaround for the iOS Chrome bug where registering a service worker will cause loading issues. To fix this, you will need to delete the Chrome app and reinstall it.

Real-time collaboration - We will be rolling out some changes to our real-time collaboration infrastructure. It would be awesome if people could let us know if they experience any issu

es with this in the upcoming week.

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What is Personalized Learning?

Posted by Ken Zimmerman on Wed, Mar 4, 2020

Personalized Learning has become quite a buzz word in educational circles right now as the focus turns to how we can provide deeper and more meaningful experiences for our students to reach them in ways that we perhaps have been unable to reach in prior years. Some people confuse personalized learning with forms of blended learning, although implementing a form of blended learning is indeed a stepping stone to help us move to creating more personalized learning environments for our students.

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Topics: Personalized Learning, Personalized Learning Academy

Remember the #WholeTeacher

Posted by Ken Zimmerman on Thu, Feb 27, 2020

photo-of-woman-teaching As we continue on our journey in supporting districts to create personalized learning environments for their students, I have been continually reminded about the need to build, support, develop, cherish, and encourage our teachers in the process. In a personalized learning environment, we focus so much on the "learner" and try to make all our decisions based on what is best for learning and the learner in the process. We focus on how can the learner help co-design the lesson, units, progressions, activities, etc. and what form of assessments are best for the learner to demonstrate mastery.

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Topics: IU13PLA, Personalized Learning, WholeTeacher, WholeChild

IMS 2017-2020

Posted by Ken Zimmerman on Tue, May 7, 2019

IMSthumbnail It is hard to believe that we are already finishing our second year of this current iteration of the IMS @IU13! As we continue to support the current version of the IMS, we are starting onsite meetings with districts to review current IMS data usage as well as all the tools/resources that are currently included with this version of the IMS. We are looking forward to district feedback on how the IMS needs changed, revised, or altered in order to continually align with district needs and initiatives for the next cycle 2020-2025! Currently the IU13 IMS includes the following: