Teams new Webinar feature is the ultimate collaborative experience

Product manager Mike Tholfsen of Microsoft Teams and Education provides a brief tutorial on Microsoft Teams new feature. The New built in webinar feature in Teams allows users to connect, collaborate, and share ideas to other Teams user or non users. Like a traditional webinar setup, Webinar in Teams allows cohosts, host up to 1,000…

Prioritizing Student’s Mental Health With Reflect By Microsoft Teams

Taking care of one’s mental health is extremely important. In the classroom, sometimes we tend to forget that we need to also check in on our student’s mental health. Teachers can now collaborate with Reflect by Microsoft teams, which is an emotional check-in app. To keep a positive environment in our classrooms, we must make…

Collaborating with Students Using Microsoft Whiteboard

Microsoft Whiteboard is essentially a collaborative digital canvas within Microsoft 365 made for meetings and effective learning. There are many features within Whiteboard that make learning seamless, even when being physically together is not possible. Microsoft Whiteboard is already a helpful tool for any setting, but especially useful within a classroom setting. This being said,…

Collaboration in the classroom is essential

Collaboration is when two or more people come together and work to produce something. Having students collaborate and work with their peers can improve a lot of different aspects in the students life. This article allowed me to delve deeper and understand why collaboration is so important for students. One of the most important things…

Collaboration tools to use in online learning

It seems as though virtual learning is our new normal, it is crazy to think we would be at a place like this so soon. Collaborating with students and having students collaborate with each other can be very difficult through a computer screen. This article shows a variety of different web and collaboration tools that…

Out of Eden Walk

The Out of Eden Walk can be explored on the National Geographic website, this is a great way of learning about global collaboration in your classroom and for yourself. Global collaboration is extremely important for all students to learn about, and this site is a great place to start. In this first section of the…

Out of Eden Walk

By: Tara Giandomenico Global collaboration in the classroom is so important. If you visit the National Geographic website, there is an Out of Eden Walk that can be explored yourself, with your classroom, business purposes, etc. If you want to visit the website click HERE. This section of the website is from a storyteller who…

The Importance of Collaboration

The information I got for this blog post comes from the book: Sail the 7 Cs with Microsoft Education by Becky Keene and Kathi Kersznowski What are some technological ways we as teachers can collaborate with other teachers? Recently, I learned about something called TweetMeets. These are Twitter chats that anyone around the world can…