Helpful Links and Tools
Videos that can help with Instruction!
How to make an attendance slide with daily question to reuse for attendance. (Thanks for sharing, Kathie!)
How to make your Google Slide a separate assignment to see who has completed in GC (so you would not have to necessarily look at Google Sheet). (Thanks for sharing, Jeremy!)
You can use a Google Form each day to check attendance/ engagement with your content daily.
o Video Step One: Creating a Google Form and Spreadsheet
o Video Step Two: Creating Multiple Forms and One Spreadsheet
o Video Step Three: Using GF and SS for multiple days
Google Meets - Office Hours: Generate a Meet Code from your first class.
· Here’s an example of how Team 8-3 has set up their Google Meets (Office Hours).
· You will be able to use this link for ALL of your GMs throughout the year.
· The GM will not open until the teacher is present.
· Teacher will need to end the meeting for the day. (Once ended, students can’t get back in.)
· Notice Link in Virtual Classroom to Virtual Office Hours for teacher and team and Google Meet on computer; cool idea Team 8-3, and thanks, Ms. Randall, for sharing.
Google Classrooms for Teams: Cool idea for teams - Make a Google Classroom for your Team (see team Meet at bottom) to use for announcements and for your Friday Google Meet time.
District Support Apps through Staff Backpack
School Wide Apps
Nearpod specializes in multimedia displays to make discussions more engaging. One of their top tools for teachers is Nearpod VR, an affordable virtual reality headset that lets teachers explore different concepts in 3D. There are more than 450 VR tutorials, broken down by subject and grade level. Take your students to explore volcanoes or for a historic look at the Taj Mahal. This technology inspires curiosity about the world and student engagement in lessons.
This digital platform works with the Carnegie Math curriculum to support students through a differentiated set of of math practice work spaces.
Text and videos for ELA, Science, and Social Studies with scaffolds and higher-order questions to help support, engage and build student stamina.
Do you wish classroom discussion could continue after the bell rings? Do you wish you could encourage quiet students to speak their minds without feeling intimidated? With FlipGrid, teachers create discussion topics and students can respond with video recordings. Their peers can respond to keep the discussion going. This tool helps students formulate their ideas in a pre-recorded setting, which means no one gets talked over or ignored by louder voices.
Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics.
Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology featuring short movie clips to help student understand their world.
Gimkit is a game show for the classroom that requires knowledge, collaboration, and strategy to win.
Screencastify is the #1 free screen recorder for Chrome. No download required. Record, edit and share videos in seconds. Videos autosave to your Google Account.