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Essential Questions:
How can you create resources to share with your students?
Do you want to create your own instructional videos?
How can you interact with your students asynchronously?
What tools can help me interact with my students "face-to-face" and hold class?
Screencastify is a Chrome browser extension that records your screen, face, voice, and more. To use Screencastify, find its icon in the Chrome toolbar and choose among the recording options: record a single tab in your web browser, capture all screen activity, or use your webcam to record or insert a video of yourself. While recording, use the tools to write, draw, erase, keep time, restart, or spotlight a section on the screen.
Introduction to Screencastify (video)
Teachers can use Explain Everything Whiteboard to present information to students in a visually engaging way that students could revisit individually when needed. Uses such as this could make it a staple in a flipped classroom. An even more exciting part of this app is helping your students learn to create, present, and share with it -- individually or on group projects.
Presentation with student engagement component. Teachers can use google slides and embed different types of questions to measure understanding and have students share their thinking digitally.
Nearpod is the go-to tool for interactive presentations and assessments. Teachers use the site to create original multimedia presentations or draw from an extensive, growing library of pre-made offerings (many CCSS-aligned and some at a cost). Teachers can upload videos, images, audio clips, and PDF files as well as embed multiple-choice quizzes and polls. Draw Its (students write directly on a slide), collaboration boards, and open-ended questions provide plenty of variety to liven up presentations.
Zoom offers robust collaboration and engagement tools as part of its standard free license, including the ability to connect using VoIP or via traditional phone when internet is not available. Administrators, teachers, parents, and students also have access to:
Unlimited meetings for up to 100 participants
HD audio and video
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