Blended Learning Resources

Hi Teachers! Thank you for all that you do! Please take advantage of this page and all the resources. Please tell me what you need from me!

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Blooket

Currently, Greenville County Schools does not have a Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) with Blooket on file; however, in the meantime a workaround has been developed to allow for the use of Blooket to continue. Students only have access to https://play.blooket.com/play which does not collect ANY student information; the option for students to login or create an account has been blocked and students can only enter a ‘Game ID’ on this webpage. Students are blocked from accessing https://www.blooket.com/. Teachers access Blooket at https://www.blooket.com/ and create their Blookets and generate their Game IDs.

Accessing Kahoot

Students can only access https://kahoot.it which does not collect ANY student information. If a student goes to https://kahoot.com, it will be blocked for them.

1. Once a student access the student version of Kahoot, they enter a Game PIN.
2. Once prompted, students will enter their first name or initials.

Teachers can access https://kahoot.com which allows them to create Kahoots and generate the Game PINs.

RECORDING LESSONS:

Screencastify

Add the extension and sign in with your greenvilleschools.us account. An unlimited account costs $29/year but you can create videos up to 10 minutes long for free.

Loom

The district has purchased this product for us.

PRESENTATION TOOLS:

Nearpod

Pear Deck

Pear Deck has a YouTube channel full of TUTORIALS!

EdPuzzle

Note: If a student has transferred in and you haven't done an Edpuzzle since they transferred to your class and they cannot access the Edpuzzles. If the teacher hits the "import students" button they will then be added to the class and can then access.

ACTIVITIES:

Brainpop

offers free access

Newsela

Licenses are now live for your entire learning community through June 30th, with Newsela ELA, Newsela Social Studies, Newsela Science and Social Emotional Learning.

A couple of notes:

· Teachers will see that their existing accounts are automatically updated when they log in – no action necessary for active users

· Teachers that do not have any type of existing license linked to your district, please direct them to the immediate links below to get started. Please note that we have activated @greenvilleschools.us email domain as well as @greenville.k12.sc.us email domain so teachers and students can access.

· Instant access for non-licensed teachers (LINK HERE)

· Getting Started with Newsela toolkit (LINK HERE)

Quick tips:

1. Find Content HERE

2. Text Set Assigning:

· Teachers can assign the entire collection/text set to their classes (not just individual texts!)

· Support articles/links on assigning/using text sets here:

· Newsela Class Text Set for Elementary Students

· Teach with Newsela: Text Sets (video)

· Text Sets and Collections

3. Tutorials to get started:

· Newsela ELA