Import Your Favorite Interactive Lessons to OKTOPUS

Sep 18, 2019 | New Features

Change can, at times, be a challenge especially if we’ve become used to doing things a certain way or using a specific program or tool for years. But change can also lead to a “reinvigoration” of strategies and techniques we’ve grown accustomed to. Remember the first...

On Your Mark, Get Set…It’s a New School Year!

Aug 19, 2019 | Lessons

On Your Mark, Get Set…It’s a New School Year! Do you feel that? The anticipation of another school year beginning, a fresh start with up-to-date class displays and bulletin boards, new students ready to reveal their personalities, and a full bag of “teacher tricks” to...

Math Workshop – Your Students Will Thank You

May 1, 2019 | Best Practices

Math has been the bane of my educational career, starting from kindergarten (“Count what?”) to when I was studying to get my teaching credential and had to take an Educational Foundations of Math class (“There’s a difference between concept and skill?!”). Teaching...

OKTOPUS Premium Interactive Whiteboard Lessons

May 1, 2019 | Lessons

As educators, we are constantly on the hunt for activities and plans that can add to our repertoire of lessons. This is probably done more when we’re preparing our students for state standardized assessments. Besides using released sample questions and practice tests,...

The Trouble with Fractions

May 1, 2019 | New Features

Fractions can be the most frustrating concept to teach! I struggled with making sure my students understood that in order to do anything with fractions (compare, add, subtract, etc), the fractions themselves had to have equal-sized parts. Can’t compare fractions with...