Category Archives: Tips & Resources

Flip Your Mind By Flipping Your Classroom

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Sometimes things make more sense upside down or inside out. Or rather, sometimes greater understanding comes from changing perspective and rethinking traditional approaches. (Perhaps even “Thinking Thoughts No One Has Thunk.”) As it relates to teaching and learning, Knewton’s Flipped Classroom Infographic clearly shows how shifting in- and out-of-class emphases can make a huge difference.
The Flipped Classroom

Created by Knewton and Column Five Media

This type of innovation is what Haiku LMS was born to enable. It’s why our LMS encourages teachers to post rich media like videos and podcasts, and why ePortfolios and WikiProjects are cornerstones of the Haiku experience. And when your flip calls for tools we don’t have on hand yet, you’re welcome to bring your own along through Embed the Web and MiniSites.

As you innovate and educate, how are you flipping?

3 Keys to SEE’s Successful Project-based Learning

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Project-based learning holds so much possibility for students and teachers, yet it also presents an overwhelming amount of software and services to choose from. Enter the expertise of the Haiku user community and Sweat Equity Education (SEE), whose project-based learning program pairs education with entrepreneurship.

SEE  has generously shared part of the secret to their success: the seamless integration of Haiku LMS with the Aviary Design Suite and Google Apps™. In this short (approximately 4-minute) video, Tiffany Burnette of SEE demonstrates how students and teachers easily create images in Aviary, store them in Google Apps™ and incorporate them into their Haiku LMS class.

SCORM 101: The Basics & Benefits of Shareable Content in Haiku LMS

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You may have heard about SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model). You may know that it’s a set of technical standards. You may already use SCORM-compliant content creation tools in your classroom and not know it! You may want to know more, and that’s where our recorded presentation “All About SCORM: A webinar on SCORM and its use in Haiku LMS” will help.

Learn from the Pros

SCORM expert Tim Martin of Rustici Software walked and talked webinar participants through the less technical side of SCORM, explaining the benefits SCORM-compliant content offers educators.Without further ado, here’s the link to our recorded session:

Go to the recording >> (We recommend starting approximately 3 minutes into the session to jump right into the presentation.)

Homework Annotator: Over 25,000 Documents Graded!

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That’s right! In the three short months since we released the homework annotator – Haiku LMS users have already processed over 25,000 documents. That’s a lot of grading!

How Does it Work?

Here’s the thing, it is so incredibly easy to use the homework annotator. Those who tried it have figured that out. Consider this scenario: Student submits homework using the dropbox in Haiku LMS. Teacher opens homework document in Haiku LMS. Teacher annotates homework assignment in Haiku LMS. Teacher closes document and returns to student via the dropbox in Haiku LMS. See the theme here? That’s right – it’s all done in Haiku LMS. No downloading, opening, updating, saving, uploading… “Now where did I put that?” required.

What Kind of Docs Can I Annotate?

Using the annotator, you can write on top of Word documents, Excel documents and even PDF’s. And again, all of this is done right within your browser – using Haiku LMS. This works nicely with the Google Docs integration that we’ve already told you about. Students can seamlessly pull in their Google documents and teachers can annotate until their hearts desire.

Math & Science Homework, Too?

Oh yes, if you are a math or science teacher you will love the annotator! Our friends at TutorTrove have done a terrific job making it easy to use symbols and formulas as well. “We saw math and science teachers trying to make other annotators fit their needs.” says Eli Luberoff, Founder and CEO of TutorTrove. “We are pleased to fix this pain with the powerful math and science tools we’ve brought to the annotator in the Haiku LMS.” Once you know a few tips and tricks you can easily add and edit those seemingly difficult symbols.  

In Conclusion.

It’s worth your time to give it a try if you have not already done so. “Combining the homework annotator with the ability to seamlessly use Google Docs in Haiku LMS is going to save teachers and students an amazing amount of time,” says Bryan Falcón, Haiku Learning’s CEO. “That means we are doing our job.” 

Get Started.

If you’re already a user, check out our video to see how you can begin using the homework annotator. If you really want to dig in, you can view our recorded Webinar where TutorTrove explains the annotator in detail. New users can create a free account and set up your own Haiku class to try the homework annotator and all our other features!

This is a recording: Annotator tips & tricks webinar is available online.

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If you missed yesterday’s webinar “Not Quite Rocket Science: Annotator Tips and Tricks for Math and Science Teachers,” you missed a fruitful conversation and a chance to see the little touches that make graphing and writing equations in Haiku LMS a breeze. You also missed a chance to see what’s coming down the line.

Now for the good news: a recording is available online!

Math and science teachers will find this particularly helpful because, thanks to the excellent work by Tutor Trove, using symbols and annotations directly in Haiku LMS is so simple!

Go to the recording >>