Remote Learning
Resources
Resource Links
9-12 Virtual Learning Resources - List of virtual learning resources published by Kristen Hebert, Director of Teaching and Learning
Online Learning Ideas - Helping educators make sense of online learning
Google Training Resources for tools to use during School Closure
Google's Teach from Home suggestions (Using Google tools!, of course )
Best Practices for Remote Learning
Aspen
Creating Special Codes in Aspen for Distance Learning
Click here for text-based directions to create special codes in Aspen to track assignments during Distance Learning.
Optional: Deleting Special Codes
Did you already create some special codes for Distance Learning? It's important we use the same ones K-12! Watch the video above to learn how to delete those obsolete special codes!
Optional: Creating a Distance Learning Category
Don't like assigning Distance Learning assignments to your existing categories like Homework, Tests, etc? Create a Distance Learning Category that does not impact grades!
Screencasting
Screencasting Resources
Use the slide deck to the left to learn how to use your laptop (Command + Shift + 5), Quicktime Player (app on every CCHS Mac) or Screencastify (Chrome web extension) to create video resources for your students.
Apple Help Center for Keystroke Screen Recording or using QuickTime Player
Virtual Meetings/Video Conferences
Using Zoom
Zoom videoconferencing software helps teachers stay in touch with their students and provides the type of human connection and conversation needed during social distancing.
Zoom for Education: Top 10 Frequently Asked Questions
Recommended Recording and Chat settings in Zoom
Zoom Waiting Rooms Enabled Automatically
Beginning April 5th 2020, Waiting Rooms will be automatically turned on. While you can turn them off in each meeting you create, or turn them off in your web settings, they can be useful for ensuring Zoom security from intruders.
Zoom Breakout Rooms
Some of us have already discovered the beauty of Zoom Breakout rooms. They allow us to use Think-Pair-Share or social learning strategies with our students in Zoom meetings. Create breakout rooms by clicking Breakout Rooms found on your bottom toolbar.
Be sure to remove students from your Google Meet before you leave. Click the People icon and remove remaining students before you go.
It is CRITICAL that you are the first person in your Google Meet. The first person in the Meet controls the Meet. This video shows you how to ensure you are first, while students can access.
Google Meet and Google Classroom!
You can now use Google Classroom to create your Google Meet. This provides protection from intruders outside your domain.
Google Classroom
Google Classroom 101
First Day of Google Classroom - video training from Google
How to Use Google Classroom - Control Alt Achieve
This video series by Eric Curts provides everything you need to know about using Google Classroom.
- How to Create a Classroom (3 minutes)
- How to Add Students (3 minutes)
- How to Post to the Stream (4 minutes)
- How to Add Materials to the Classwork Page (4 minutes)
- How to Create an Assignment on the Classwork Page (7 minutes)
- How Students Complete Assignments (5 minutes)
- How to Grade Assignments (5 minutes)
Getting Started with Google Classroom - Alice Keeler
If you haven't used Google Classroom much or at all, this YouTube playlist by the fabulous Alice Keeler divides the tasks into mini steps to support your learning. She is short and to the point.
Other Tools
Check out these pre-made templates for Instagram, Comic Strips, TikTok, Graphic organizers, and more for student creation!
Using Kahoot! Remotely
Alice Keeler is a great resource for practical, effective teaching strategies. She had a few small technical difficulties in the webinar, which just goes to show you that we are all learning! (30 Minutes)
Using Google Read & Write, Equatio, and WriQ
This seminar covers three fabulous tools that are free through June. Google Read & Write provides outstanding tools for SPED and EL students to access text. Equatio allows for easy equation creation for teachers and students with their built in editor. (It even creates equations when you speak!). WriQ provides fast feedback about student writing and alleviates the tedium of assessing written work. Check them out.
Click here for the accompanying slide deck.
Many companies that provide tools to support home or distance learning have opened their premium resources up to educators for free during school closures. While this isn't the time to try NEW tools with students, you may have used the freemium version of tools and would like to see what extras are offered with the premium version.
Using a Document Camera with Zoom
How to connect a document camera to your device and show it on Zoom.