Digital Tools

Stay visually connected with your students using this engaging video response platform Flipgrid. Even better it is FREE for everyone!

To get started check out the Educator’s Guide.

The Flipgrid team and community are very responsive. Reach out any time at support@flipgrid.com or follow @Flipgrid on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Check out this recent blog post on March 10, 2020 Higher Ed Remote Learning with Flipgrid

Wakelet is a FREE online curation tool to save, organize, share, and collaborate with others in real time. Download this remote learning guide to get started.

Ways to Use Wakelet

• Interactive lesson plans

• Resources for students

• Backchannels and reflection boards

• Student choice boards

• Resources for colleagues

• Newsletters

Flipgrid Shorts

The Shorts Camera functions as a video recorder, screen recorder, interactive whiteboard, and video editing tool!

With the Flipgrid Shorts camera, you can:

• Create, trim, and rearrange your video segments. You can also upload videos from your device.

• Activate Whiteboard Mode and use Live Inking to add context.

• Overlay photos from your camera roll, emoji, and text as Stickers on your video.

• Apply unique video Filters to set the tone.

Screencast-O-Matic

With Screencast-O-Matic you can create tutorials or lessons for classroom instruction. Share videos with students so they can learn on their own. Engage students with video conversations. Have students record their ideas or thoughts about a classroom topic or help them communicate with you on a deeper level. Drive the conversation and use video to enhance the learning experience. Connect and build relationships with video. Create screencast videos with a fast, free and easy to use screen capture tool! Capture your screen, add a webcam and use narration to customize your video.

Create a YouTube channel and make content for your students using YouTube studio.

Why you should create a YouTube channel

• Personalize learning with engaging content

• Create an authentic learning experience

• Access to instruction to be review and replayed anytime and anywhere

• Build playlists

• Easy to share

• Reuse videos each semester

Edpuzzle is an easy-to-use platform where you can make any video your lesson. With just one click, you can find video lessons created by other teachers, including formative assessment! Another click and you can adapt that video by embedding your own questions or audio. With the final click, assign it to your students and get beautiful hassle-free analytics: see who watched the video, who didn't understand the lesson and who did a good job. Students can re-watch the video as many times as they need at their own pace, while you can easily check their progress from your account.

Applied Digital Skills is a FREE, self-paced, video based, online currciulum that not only teaches important digital skills, but provide immediate real life applications.

The videos will guide students through project based learning assignments that will prepare them for the jobs of today and tomorrow. Currently over 129 lessons are available and with teacher resources like customizable lesson plans, rubrics, and certificates of completion. Educators have the ability to easily monitor student progress as they move through the lesson and provide immediate feedback.

HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom. With strong educational philosophies built into each one, HyperDocs have the potential to shift the way you instruct with technology. It’s not about teaching technology, it’s about using technology to TEACH. We want students to be creative, collaborative, critical thinkers, and communicators. Then we ask them to sit quietly, while we explain everything, and tell them exactly how it’s to be done. It doesn’t have to be that way. Students are curious by nature, we just need to provide opportunities for them to be curious.