IHMS Tech Tips

I did a blog post last year about our video streaming service, Learn360.  Click here to read all about it.  Learn360 has thousands and thousands of video available to you for use in the classroom. You can search by grade level, content area, keyword, producers (ex. A&E), etc.  These videos are a great way to supplement lessons, use as an extension activity, or to leave as a lesson for a substitute.  A new feature that Learn360 has added is a seamless way to add videos to Google Classroom. To use this new feature, first visit Learn360 on the web. 1. Log in using our school generic login (see email from today's Tech Tip of the Week for username/password).  Remember that this is a school-wide login, so please don't try and reset the password. ;) 2. After you've logged in, search for a video you'd like to use in your classroom.  Below that video, choose "Share." 3. Select Google Classroom, then choose which class you'd like. 4. Decid...

It's getting to be the end of the year and thus, I'm not going to throw a bunch of new stuff at you.  I'm sure you've heard me try to get you to use Learn360 in the past, and here I am again!  Our district has purchased this streaming service for us so we should put it to good use.  Learn360 has thousands upon thousands of multimedia assets at our fingertips.  If you aren't using it yet, here's how: First, you will need to log in.  I sent the username and password with this week's email so check back for that.  There is a teacher log-in and a student log-in.  Once you've logged in, it can be a bit overwhelming.  You can certainly just search for a topic in the search bar, much like YouTube, but there are many more aspects of this service. When searching, you can search by subject, producer, or even by standard. Next to your search query, you will see the number of results.  Learn360 used to be only video, but not anymore! I did a ...