Getting Started with Remote Teaching and Learning

25 Best Virtual Field Trips

https://www.weareteachers.com/best-virtual-field-trips/?utm_source=WAT_MDR&utm_medium=Enews&utm_campaign=WAT_CVEnews03212020 Field trip out of the question? Think again. Thanks to technology, it’s now possible for kids to visit all kinds of places from the comfort of their classroom (or home!).This is a list of the best virtual field trips for you, so enjoy your “visit”!

Adobe

https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/kb/covid-19-education-labs.html
Adobe is offering free access to Creative Cloud tools through May for home use by students attending schools that currently only provide lab access through May.

Discovery Education

www.discoveryeducation.com

standards-based digital curriculum resources for K–12 classrooms worldwide

Discovery Education is offering schools and school systems not currently using our digital services free access to Discovery Education Experience in the event of a closure. Schools accepting this offer will have access to K-12 learning platform and its ready-to-use digital lesson plans, activities, and standards-aligned resources through the remainder of the school year.

EdPuzzle

https://edpuzzle.com/

Platform for personalizing videos and tracking student progress. Check if students are watching your videos, how many times they're watching each section, and if they're understanding the content. Introduce students to self-paced learning with interactive video lessons. It's easy to add your own voice narration and questions! Use videos from YouTube, Khan Academy, Crash Course and more. If you'd rather record and upload your own video, go for it! Basic subscription is free.

Educreations

https://www.educreations.com/login/?next=/pro/covid-upgrade/

iPad app is an interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool that you can use to create whiteboard-style videos that your students can watch on their computers, tablets, and phones.

Company is offering free Educreations Pro upgrades to teachers through May 1, 2020. This offer is not available for current Educreations Pro subscribers.

Flipgrid

https://info.flipgrid.com/

Teachers create grids (classrooms) with topics. Grids are the meeting place for your classroom, your school, your department or any learning community to discuss your Topics. Flipgrid Educator’s Guide

FriEd Technology Transition to Teaching Learning Online

From FriEd Tech: Teaching Online Crash Course: Schools all over the nation and world are moving to online learning, and we're hearing from teachers that there is a knowledge gap that needs filling immediately. That's why this week we're starting a series of free webinars with the top questions we've been asked. Please pass this along to friends and colleagues who may share your concerns about online teaching and learning.

See the schedule slide with live links by clicking here.

Internet Service for those in Suddenlink Service Areas

https://www.setda.org/priorities/equity-of-access/digital-equity/programs/

IXL

Here’s a link for a free trial for the rest of the school year: https://www.ixl.com/membership/teachers/trial/closure

We have a number of resources available to support teachers in the event of a school closure here: https://blog.ixl.com/2020/03/11/ixl-strategies-for-school-closures/. We are also offering a free webinar series to help teachers keep students engaged and learning while they are at home.

Kahoot!

From Kahoot!: While our free version enables distance learning, we want to make sure educators have all the tools they need to fully engage students outside of the classroom.

That’s why we’ve put together a guide to distance learning and why we’re providing schools affected by the coronavirus with free access to Kahoot! Premium for the remaining months of the academic year.

With Kahoot! Premium, educators can use advanced question types, collaborate with colleagues, and access in-depth reports, which can be used for formative assessment.

To access Kahoot! Premium for free, please click here.

Kami

https://www.kamiapp.com/

Integrates with Google Classroom, Canvas, and Schoology. Kami allows teachers and students to transform PDFs.. You can use the screen capture comment tool to record your screen and your voice explaining the PDF that you are sending out to your students. While recording, you can demonstrate the various features of Kami that you would like your students to use in the assignment. Kami offers its users a wide variety of accessibility tools that can help students of all ages and abilities to remain engaged with their content. Kami is offering our complete digital classroom solution, free of charge until April 30th for all schools affected by COVID-19 closures.

Loom

https://www.loom.com/ Screencasting tool to capture lessons on screen

COVID-19 Response: Cutting prices, removing limits, free for education. Learn more

Nearpod

https://nearpod.com/

Create interactive lessons in minutes. Save prep time by importing existing lessons (pdfs, jpegs, ppts) and adding Virtual Field Trips, Collaborate boards, Quizzes, Polls, Matching Pairs activities + more. Choose from thousands of free or paid lessons from expert educators and our educational partners. Customize any lesson to fit your students’ needs. Energize the classroom with rigorous yet fun game-based lessons. It is temporarily free to school districts and teachers.

Office Lens App

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/office-lens/9wzdncrfj3t8?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

Office Lens trims, enhances, and makes pictures of whiteboards and docs readable. You can use Office Lens to convert images to PDF, Word and PowerPoint files, and you can even save images to OneNote, OneDrive, or Google Drive.

Peardeck

https://www.peardeck.com/stay-connected

Platform for creating interactive activities and formative assessments. It includes resources for emergency school closures. Teachers can request a 90-day access to premium features.

Quizlet

https://quizlet.com/

Tool for creating flashcards, games, and study tools for your students.

Quizizz

https://quizizz.com/

Build a quiz or use from the vast library!

Scholastic

https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html

From Scholastic: This free resource provides all students with 20* days’ worth of exciting learning journeys that span the content areas created by our editors to keep your students actively engaged in learning while school is closed. Your students will have access to approximately three hours of meaningful learning opportunities per day, including projects based on articles and stories, virtual field trips, reading and geography challenges, and so much more.

Screencastify

https://www.screencastify.com/ Screencasting tool to capture lessons on screen

https://www.screencastify.com/elearning

In January, we began working closely with hundreds of schools that have closed due to coronavirus. This page is meant to collect, distill, and share the best practices that have been implemented by those educators.

Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA)

TCEA is offering a free membership for the year. If you are interested you can register at the link below.

https://blog.tcea.org/free-membership-remote-learning/

Texas Gateway

https://www.texasgateway.org/

Texas Instruments

Software – TI software can be used to demo functionality, have students interact with activities, create videos for your students, etc. Curriculum Alignment – TI has aligned all of our FREE resources to the TEKS. Use the attached documents to download activities ready for teachers and students to use to explore the mathematics.

TI-84 Smartview Software – 90 Day Trial

TI-Nspire Premium Teacher Software – 90 Day Trial

TI-Nspire Student Software – 30 Day Trial (Next week they will offer a 90 day, but wanted to get this out for now)

Virtual FieldTrips

https://www.weareteachers.com/best-virtual-field-trips/?utm_source=WAT_MDR&utm_medium=Enews&utm_campaign=WAT_CVEnews03212020

Wakelet

Link: https://learn.wakelet.com/

Wakelet is the easy way to capture, organize and share multi-media resources with students.