Discovery Education, LIttle Things, Shared With Me

Student Accounts for Discovery Education

BISD subscribes to Discovery Education, which offers powerful content to engage students in inquiry and supports teachers in inspiring students. Content can be searched by TEK, subject, grade level, and format. And resources can be downloaded, shared in Google Classroom, or shared by link. Discovery Education also provides professional development resources. 

Students and teachers can create digital boards that contain text, images, and videos. Think posterboard project on steroids!  Discovery Education provides ideas for using their Board Builder as well as support for building, assigning, and sharing boards.

Student accounts have been created for BISD secondary students. See your campus librarian for login credentials. If you have not created your teacher account yet, see your campus librarian for your campus access code.  Need assistance getting started? Your campus librarian is ready to help!

It's the little things!

This week was filled with conversations that reminded me that it's the little things that matter in life.
Here are some technology-related little-thing highlights that brought big smiles to students and teachers this week.

• CTRL Z (Chromebook) or Command Z (Mac) is undo. (You mean I didn't lose that clip I just deleted in iMovie? Yippee!)

• Use two fingers on your mousepad to scroll up and down the screen on both Chromebooks & Macbooks. (I don't have to use that little gray scroll bar to move up and down the screen? Awesome!)

• Adjust the brightness on your screen on your Chromebook or Macbook using the keys in the screen shots below. (Wow! I can see the screen better!)

None of these are life-changers, but they sure do make working on the computer a little easier!

Shared With Me Folder Driving You Crazy?

Opening your Shared With Me folder in Google Drive can be a stressful experience! The "most-recent-shared-file-first" organization doesn't work for many of us.

Enter the "Add to Drive" option, which allows you to add the shared files to your Drive and organize them without losing the file's original properties.  If you were to "Make a Copy" and the file was later edited by the person who shared it with you, the copy would not change; however, if you add the file to your Drive and it is subsequently edited by other collaborators, you will see the changes when you access the file. 

The Teaching Forward blog offers some great tips and a short video to help you organize shared files in your Drive.