Mr. van Sloten

TDSB Virtual Teacher

[Mr. van Sloten @mrV_toronto]

Yikes. No period at the end of that last sentence. Did that on purpose. 🤔

[Mr. van Sloten @mrV_toronto]

Congratulations to my amazing Grade 3 students. You guys are all awesome! I can't believe how lucky I am to be your teacher #amazingstudents #amazingparents

[Mr. van Sloten @mrV_toronto]

Week 1: Virtual School. Reading assessments all day today. Amazing patience by students and parents. We have launched, cleared the atmosphere, looking for a good orbit - better make it asynchronous. 😀

[Mr. van Sloten @mrV_toronto]

@BrightspaceHelp Hi, I love the feature where I toggle between the Teacher and Student view.

When I sent out an email that would typically be sent to a test student, I realized I'd missed some info.

With a test student, I'd have caught the error.

I need a Test Student. Help?

[Mr. van Sloten @mrV_toronto]

@TDSB_DLL I'm seeing ixl on a lot of Nav Bars in webinars ... but I'm not seeing ixl on any approved list of software for the tdsb.

What is the board view on ixl ???

Thanks!

[Mr. van Sloten @mrV_toronto]

@BrightspaceHelp How am I able to create a Test Student? I'd like to see what things are looking like from the student's perspective before a roll-out of items I've prepared.

Is there a way to toggle to a 'students view' in BrightSpace?

[Mr. van Sloten @mrV_toronto]

@KevBradbeer @TDSB_DLL Thanks, Kevin. Appreciate the clarification.

[Mr. van Sloten @mrV_toronto]

@TDSB_DLL Hi, a Primary/Junior teacher. I won't be ready to use BrightSpace/Google Apps for Thursday. Will I have the Board's support to use ClassDojo/Google Apps so that I can hit the ground running on Thursday?

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[Mr. van Sloten @mrV_toronto]

@TDSB_DLL Finally, my background is engineering, hardware engineering, software development with IBM, P&G, Bell Canada, CGI.

I am not afraid of tech. We need to be smart about roll-out, we need to be flexible with utilities chosen and used.

Lawyers shouldn't spoil this.

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[Mr. van Sloten @mrV_toronto]

@TDSB_DLL BrightSpace is great - all high school/University Profs should be using it. It's a sledge hammer. ClassDojo, better privacy than Google, is a hammer.
I don't need the sledge hammer. It's unwieldy. Please, let me go with what will work.

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