Remote Tools For Collaboration & Engagement

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Tools for Learning & Collaboration

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Best Student-Collaboration Tools | Common Sense EducationGreat collaboration apps, games, and websites that help students help each other. Explore this Best Student-Collaboration Tools Top Picks list of 35 tools curated by Common Sense Education editors to find relevant and engaging edtech solutions for your classroom.

Tips for Great Group Work in the Classroom | Common Sense Education

Best Interactive Video Apps and Websites | Common Sense EducationCheck out these top tools for creating videos, plus a few more for video annotation and remix. Explore this Best Interactive Video Apps and Websites Top Picks list of 24 tools curated by Common Sense Education editors to find relevant and engaging edtech solutions for your classroom.

Nearpod

Nearpod Tutorial with new 2020 features to help teachers enhance student engagement during remote learning, face to face learning or virtual teaching.

Assigning & Accessing Free Online Books

Using BookShare (available in Clever), books can be assigned individually with the Assign & Read feature, or in groups of books at one time via Reading Lists. You can create custom Reading Lists for one student or a group of students and/or create lists by class, topic, or interest. You can also subscribe to and/or copy Reading Lists from other Sponsors in your organization as well as Bookshare’s ready-made Reading Lists. Teachers must first set up a free account.

Learn how to assign a single book quickly and easily.

Learn how to save and assign multiple books.

Seesaw

Zoom Tools

Zoom: Live Audio or Audio + Video Conferencing

Getting Started with live video meetings, classes, recordings

Getting started with Zoom (in 2 mins)

Zoom Basics!

Creating break-out rooms

Setting up a live POLL with students or staff

Zoom Video Tutorials

Polling Tools

Poll Everywhere: Live Q&A Tool with multiple response formats

Multiple choice, open response, multi-select, word cloud (and more), with instant assessment results, grading, and graphs of responses.

Overview (Quick Tutorial / Refresher)

(Start Here) --> App Set-Up

How to embed Poll Everywhere into your Google Slides: Example in ELA Classroom

Polling with Zoom: Live Q&A Tool with multiple choice responses

Instant Assessment, Quick Grading, Instant Graphs of Student Responses:

Support for Zoom and GoogleClassroom

Idea Sharing Tools

Whiteboard.fi: See Your Whole Class' Virtual Dry-Erase Boards

When we are in class and each student has an individual whiteboard so we can ask a question and get a quick formative check on if they are understanding is now digital. These whiteboards do NOT live outside of your live session.

This site is FREE. It seems that the developer made this as a hobby so it’s not feature rich which may be the best part. It’s a simple quick way to have students visually share their thinking while in a live session. Period.

There is no download option so take a screenshot if you need to keep it. There are no teacher logins or student logins. This makes it wicked fast to create and join a class. You’re not giving up your data either. On the downside, no saving.

Padlet – https://padlet.com/

Padlet is a technology that has been around for a long, long while — but it has really started to pick up educational users during our recent efforts to teach remotely. Here’s why: Padlet allows teachers to create simple pages on the web that students can post content to in a variety of ways.

Students can record video or audio responses on a Padlet. They can also embed pictures or search for Gifs to add to a Padlet. Finally, students can link to documents, record their desktop or write text responses on a Padlet.

Think about how important that versatility is.

Have students who struggle with written responses to your questions? Use Padlet and let them record audio responses. Want students to create videos as evidence of mastery of performance tasks? Use Padlet to host all of those demonstrations of mastery in one place at one time. Want to model effective writing for your students? Use Padlet to record your desktop while you demonstrate your expectations. - Bill Ferriter

Get the support you need

The Padlet support center has a ton of resources to help you get started. Take a tour of the app. View example padlets in the gallery. Watch tutorials on our YouTube channel. And contact our amazing support team anytime at hello@padlet.com.

Install a browser extension

Insert web links onto Padlet with one click. Install extension

Download the App

Available for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Download app

Padlet: You are beautifulFrom your hobby to your career, your class notes to your final exam, your mood board to your runway show, padlets help you organize your life.

Screencastify: Students & Teachers Can Create Audio or Video Recordings Over Docs, Slides or Projects

SUPER EASY & EFFECTIVE: SCREENCASTIFY

Add teacher narration and/or video of directions & content, or have students create videos / narration of their learning!

Step 1: In Google, go to "add-ons" and select the free add-on: Screencastify

Step 2: Open the pink arrow image on the top right of your Chrome Browser.

Step 3: Click "record audio" or "record video"

Step 4: Click "share to Google Classroom" or "share link to drive."

TIP: Videos longer than 15 minutes can cause issues of slow downloading and learner distraction. If you have more to say, record two or three short videos.

Tips, Resources & Sites

Click the links to see apps / programs that provide opportunities for student collaboration and encourage student-to-student communication.

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Teach from HomeA temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.

Online Learning: Designing for Engagement and Collaboration In service of inspiration, we wanted to share some of the things we think about when designing human-centered online learning experiences. At IDEO U, teaching online has always been our reality—we’ve never coexisted in a physical space with our global community. We hope that some of the things we’ve learned along the way can help you teach whatever it is you need to teach in a virtual setting, and find creative joy in a new set of constraints.

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