Malchow's Tech Bytes~ Back to School edition! 👩🏻‍💻📚

 Hello all and welcome back to a new school year!! Malchow's Tech Bytes is back for a 4th straight year with an updated, brand new look! I hope as we venture into this new and crazy school year that you will find a resource or two here and there that you will find beneficial!

Each week I will post the current newsletter her on the main page of the blog. To access the links and view the deck in a larger format, simply click on the image below. 

Since the newsletter is done in Google Slides, you can easily scroll through the slides to access previous week's information as well. You will also find the newsletter on the Malchow's Tech Bytes page of this blog along with all of the previous years newsletters too! 

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Malchow's Tech Bytes 4/27

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Malchow's Tech Bytes (Virtual Learning) Edition~ 4/20 👩🏻‍💻

Ahhhhh..... what a difference a week makes! Although it was still a super busy week with lots of techie things to do, I feel like I was able to breathe a little more easily and found a bit of time to get some of the things on my own to do list done! Sweet Success!!!! 

So with that said, this week brings both my normal Tech Bytes newsletter as well as the newsletter info that I am putting together for my colleagues. 
My building newsletter this week has tips to support using Google Meet for video conferences while my normal newsletter brings you integration ideas for remote learning. 

I hope you can find a resource of two to help you out this week! 

Simply click either of the pictures to go to the Google slidedeck where you will find 

both of this week's slides as well as all previous editions of my Tech Bytes newsletters.

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Sharing Book Creator Projects to Seesaw 📝 📫

Well now that you've sent your Book Creator Project out to students, you're probably wondering...

"How do they get their completed Book Creator project back to me?"

 Here's a video that's made for Kids, to show them how to upload their project to Seesaw. It also walks them through a few formatting tips such as making sure they don't have any extra pages (and how to delete them if they do) and how to make sure their text boxes fit on the page.

Want a written workflow? 
Here's a pdf file you can share with written directions and screenshots.

Creating Choice Boards

Remote learning brings with it lots of challenges including how to get content to students in an easy format and on one platform if possible. When I started creating choice boards it was simply to give students choice, but with the new learning landscape that we are all in, they've helped to solve other problems- getting info out that:

• is in an easy to use format 
• provides easy to access links to multiple resources 
• parents can easily help their child with AND...
• located on one platform (Seesaw for our K-5 kiddos)

If you're looking to find a way to conquer any or all of the issues above, you may want to try creating one! It's easier than you may think! The video below will walk you through the basics so you'll be able to confidently create your own that can align with your grade level content.

Want to see a few examples? Click here or here to see two different ones that I created. Feel free to download and use if you'd like. 

Have fun!!

Remote Learning, Choice Boards and Seesaw

With so many of us moving to remote learning, you many find yourself in the position of needing to offer your students choice in a different format. Choice boards if you've not heard of them are graphic organizers that are comprised of different squares, each with a different activity. Each activity helps students to learn or practice a concept while allowing choice. You can ask your students to complete 1 or several of the activities and they can complete them in an organized fashion or in random order. I guess there's a reason that they're call choice boards! 

Here is a choice board that I created for Read Across America week that may be a useful extra in our new, ever-changing learning landscape. These are great when uploaded to Seesaw.

For the links to be live, the board which is saved as a pdf, needs to be uploaded as a file, NOT as a link. You'll need to download this file first (click the image to access the file) Nexrt, watch the embedded video below for directions on how to make it work in Seesaw.

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Malchow's Tech Bytes 👩🏻‍💻~ February 3rd 💖🌎📚

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Well, Bobby the groundhog saw his shadow here in NE Wisconsin, so we are in for another 6 weeks of winter. Personally, I'm ok with it as we haven't had much snow and fun yet. Bring it on!

Malchow's Tech Bytes! 👩🏻‍💻 Jan 27th

Malchow's Tech Bytes~ January 13th 👩🏻‍💻

Happy New Year!!! I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday break and found some time to relax and rejuvenate! This week's Tech Bytes has resources for Martin Luther King Jr Day which is next week Monday.

Malchow's Tech Bytes 👩🏻‍💻~ Nov 18th

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Malchow's Tech Bytes👩🏻‍💻~ Oct 28th

Malchow's Tech Bytes~ October 28th- click image above for clickable links! 

👩🏻‍💻 Malchow's Tech Bytes~ October 21st!~ 🍁Fall / Halloween🎃 Edition

The weather is changing here in Wisconsin and the days are getting cooler! Yahoo!!! I love this time of year and the color changes that take place, especially the Sugar Maple trees! Absolutely stunning!

This week's Tech Bytes has several resources that you may find helpful as we venture into this new season. 

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4 Seesaw activities in 1 for 🚒 Fire Prevention Week!

Being a firefighter's wife, Fire Prevention Week is near and dear to my heart. I created a 4 page Seesaw Mulitpage Activity to help your students reflect on their learning this week. 

The first 3 pages are all drag and drop activities ~ labeling a firefighter, labeling a firetruck, and sliding labels to show what you should/shouldn't do if you see smoke/fire. The last page asks children to draw and share a fire safety tip using the new creative tools. 

You can find this activity on my author page in the Seesaw library or click on this link

Malchow's Tech Bytes~ Oct 7th 🚒

Hard to believe it's October already~ WOW! Fire Prevention Week is this week. Check out a variety of resources below and if you're a Seesaw user, be sure to check out the activity library for other Fire Safety activities to enrich your curriculum!

Malchow's Tech Bytes~ October 7th

Malchow's Tech Bytes 👩🏻‍💻~ Sept 23rd (Global Read Aloud Edition) 🌎📚

This week's edition of Malchow's Tech Bytes has a variety of resources for your to investigate if you will be participating in The Global Read Aloud (#GRA19). 

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Malchow's Tech Bytes~ Sept 16th (ish) 👩🏻‍💻

A variety of great resources to enhance your Dot Day celebration this week! Everything from a video of the story to a Seesaw activity to a great BreakoutEdu game.... and more!!!

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Malchow's Tech Bytes 👩🏻‍💻~ Earth Day edition 🌎

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Malchow's Tech Bytes~ St. Patrick's Day Edition 🍀🌈

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Malchow's Tech Bytes~ Read Across America Edition

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