Harry Wong! Where Are You?: Teaching Kami and PowerSchool to Your Students

Harry Wong used to be my best friend for the first two weeks of school. This is the first year that I have taught that his book is essentially irrelevant.  So taking a lot of his ideas, I have been creating lessons to teach students how to do our new blended and remote learning class set ups.  The one that I will be doing in class tomorrow with students will be about teaching the kids how to use PowerSchool and how to use basic kami tools.

In order you to teach students these skills, I decided to create videos on left showing students how to do the specific skills and put the skill practice on the right hand side.  For example, the second video is a video on how to use the LMS poll, then on the right the students take an actual poll.  The post essential skills that I decided to teach students are:
1. How to Take Attendance
2. PowerSchool Learning Polls
3. Navigating PowerSchool Learning
4. Using a PowerSchool Learning Discussion Tool
5. Using Kami Tools
6. Turning in Kami Assignments

Teaching students how to use PowerSchool Remotely was a challenge.  I created a google form to assess student's understanding of the page. You are more than welcome to click the link below and use the same google form in your classroom. To use the form, just click on the url and click on copy.  It will save it to your google drive.


The other way I decided to teach students how to use kami was by creating a practice kami document.  This document will have the students using what I deemed to be the most essential kami tools.  In order to use the document, click on the link.  Then make a copy.  From there you will upload it into kami.  You can then give your students the link.


Hopefully these tools will help you out.  If there are any specific tools that you would like to know more about please fill out this google form!

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