• How to turn your phone or tablet into a document camera - Thanks to Chriss Hexter for sharing this article.

• Quickly Create Online Whiteboards for Your Students (Richard Byrne) - free tool

• Easy Ways to Make Whiteboard Videos (Richard Byrne)

• How to Create Whiteboard Videos in Flipgrid and Wakelet, Richard Byrne

  • Flipgrid Video (Sept 2019)

  • Wakelet Video (Sept 2019)

  • Wakelet - curate videos, pictures, documents, etc. to share with others.

• 4 Ideas for Building Relationships During Remote Learning (George Curous)

• Tips and Resources to Help Teachers Navigate Remote Teaching due to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Sarah Martinez - LISD, Wakelet)

• Virtual Teambuilding for Teachers (Greg Glover, LISD)

• Icebreakers - This is a culmination of icebreakers I've started curating. It's in no way an exhaustive list but a place to start!

• Best Digital Icebreakers David Kapuler

• Online Icebreaker Using Frayer Model (Catlin Tucker)

  • TONS of Icebreaker Questions

• Padlet Selfie Icebreaker (Catlin Tucker) - This is a great way to get to know your students, to put a name with a face, and for students to learn more about their classmates.

• About Me Slide Activity & Templates (Nadira King, CPHS)

• 8 Ideas Designed to Engage Students In Active Learning Online (Catlin Tucker)

• 9 Ways Online Teaching Should be Different from Face-to-Face (Jennifer Gonzalez, Cult of Pedagogy)

• Bitmoji Virtual Classroom --> See more here!

As of May 1, 2020: All staff and students in LISD now have access to the premium version of TextHelp’s Read&Write toolbar. The toolbar provides students required accommodations such as speech-to-text, text-speech, word prediction and translation features as well as additional customization tools (e.g., vocabulary supports, picture dictionaries, research tools) that will benefit students with and without disabilities. To learn more about the Read&Write toolbar, check out our LISD Knowledge Base. The special education team leads, resource/inclusion teachers, and dyslexia specialists have been trained on the toolbar.

• Creating templates in Google Docs & Slides (Matt Miller)

• Encourage students to create complete or elaborate sentences through Response Validation in Google Forms (Richard Byrne)

• Timed Quizzes in Google Forms (Richard Byrne) - Video Link

• Google Documents URL Tricks (Tony Vincent) - These URL tricks are useful when sharing documents, slides, sheets, etc. so you don't lose your original copy.

• Remove background from images (Richard Byrne) - 3 free tools

• Blur faces & objects in videos (Richard Byrne)

• Google Slides Icon Boards (Matt Miller)

  • Google Slides for Infographics - time lapse video (Matt Miller)

  • Icons -

    • The Noun Project - free icons for everything

    • Flat Icon - free vector icons

• Flipgrid has some awesome updates for Teacher Appreciation May 2020

• 5 Google Drawings features you (probably) don’t know about , Ditch that Textbook, Matt Miller

• How to Grant Guest Access to a Flipgrid Topic (video), Richard Byrne

• How to Use Flipgrid to Make Screencast Videos, YouTube video by Richard Byrne - Practical Ed Tech

• How to Quickly Turn Your Slides Into Narrated Videos, Richard Byrne

• Pear Deck users - Newly added Audio feature! (4/28/2020)

• Screencastify + Edpuzzle - Are now a team! (4/24/2020) - Check out my video on how to enable EdPuzzle.