An outline of common challenges and quick tips for implementing distance learning with Google Apps technology. This one is more in-depth (but excellent). If you have never provided online/distance instruction, watching this will help you avoid some of the common pitfalls and successfully integrate tools that will help you create an engaging remote learning environment. Claim an hour of PD time for it!
Google Sites provides a simple website building tool for teachers to use to organize information and make resources available to their students. It is also a great tool to keep parents up to date with what is happening in your remote learning environments.
This is an excellent video tutorial. The method shown in it is perfect for a class where you want to create a Site for each of your students, which would provide a way for them to archive evidence of their learning. It also provides a full overview of how to use Google Sites.
This is another comprehensive tutorial on how create, publish, and maintain a Google Site.
Google Classroom provide a simple learning management system (LMS) for your class(s) where you can post announcements, share resources, create assignments and allow students to submit assignments online. There is also a simple grading feature that could be repurposed to provide additional feedback to students.
Google Meet allows you meet with students or fellow teachers synchronously. You can record your meeting sessions and share those recordings with people that were not able to attend the live sessions.
Google Drive provides a foundation for creating, publishing, and sharing documents, presentations, and files with your students and fellow teachers. It make sharing and collaborating easy. You can embed or attach files from your Drive in your Google Sites or Google Classrooms.
Google Calendar is another foundation tool that allows you to schedule events, invite students or colleagues to Google Meet sessions, and allow people to schedule Office Hours appointments with you.
Screencastify is a great tool for recording screen-capture tutorials or recording yourself (or both). Record assignment directions, mini-lectures, how-to guides ...
Quicktime Player is installed on your laptop (look in your Applications folder). Quicktime Player plays video and audio files that are saved on your laptop, but it also allows you to create Movies, Screen Recording, and Audio Recordings. Those recordings could be uploaded to YouTube or Google Drive and shared with students via your Unified Classroom Class Pages or Google Classroom, or class Google Sites to help engage students in learning.
YouTube can provide two important components to support distance learning:
Post and share videos your own (lectures, directions, class recordings ...)
Share and embed content videos to engage learners
YouTube is a vast video resource, much of it not useful for structured learning, but still it contains a goldmine of educational content. Below are a couple of places to start to find videos that will support your curriculum ...