Tag: LMS

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Aligning Your LMS

Oh No! How am I going to teach my students this year using an LMS that will be effective?

If you are a teacher of 22 years, 15 years, 3 years, or have just been hired, then this is what you all have in common – you are all first-year teachers. And being that this is a statewide decision to teach our children virtually, we are all in this together and that includes the administration.

An article posted on Edutopia “How to Align Your LMS With the Science of Learning” is a good read and definitely worth 5 minutes of your time to help you focus on what makes an LMS effective.

You will learn how to:

  • USE YOUR LMS TO SUPPORT EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
  • AVOID “SET IT AND FORGET IT” COURSES
  • DO NO HARM—REDUCE EXTRANEOUS COGNITIVE LOAD
  • BUILD STRONG FEEDBACK CYCLES DIRECTLY INTO THE LMS
  • INCORPORATE RETRIEVAL PRACTICE, SPACED PRACTICE, AND INTERLEAVED PRACTICE
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Wizer for Blended Worksheets

Think of Wizer Worksheets as digital hyperdocs or online blended worksheets and you will provide a new way to assign students an assignment using a learning management system.

Create engaging, interactive worksheets that includes video, audio, images and a variety of question types that includes technology enhanced items (TEI). Audio features allow you to record your voice for differentiation.  Easily assign to students in any learning management system like Schoology, Google Classroom, or Edmodo.  You can also share your activity by embedding or providing a link or PIN.

Don’t have time to create your own Wizer?  Explore the collection of free resources created by other educators.  Use as-is or copy and edit them to suit your needs.

The free-forever Wizer Lite account gives you the worksheet creator, ability to assign worksheets via URL or LMS, access to thousands of worksheets in the collection, and one classroom roster.

The Moon Phases worksheet below is something I created on the fly in 30-40 minutes. Give it try.  It’s only a sampling of what you get with Wizer.