How to Teach Content Online (a slide deck offering strategies and suggestions for teachers at all levels of tech expertise: very helpful for those just starting out and looking to grow.)
The Padagogy Wheel (all icons are links--the spelling is accurate: It's Australian for "pedagogy", mate!)
Everything You Need to know about Building a Great Screencast Video (Blog post from Cult of Pedagogy, April 2020). This is an interview with Kareem Farah of The Modern Classrooms Project, on strategies to create quality screencasts for students. The page also has the podcast episode embedded if you'd prefer to listen.
Complete one of the options below. When finished, copy your work into your portfolio for submission. (Here is how to create a portfolio.)
Option 1: Choose a discussion strategy and build an actual discussion for the first week of your class. Include either a discussion rubric or discussion protocols and guidelines for your students. Explain your goal for this discussion and how will you assess student comments. Provide the link to your discussion in your portfolio. This can be in a document or in an actual discussion forum, if you choose.
Option 2: Create an instructional screencast for a lesson in the first month of school (on any topic that you want). Use Screencastify, Screencastomatic, Zoom. or Quicktime and post it to your portfolio.
Option 3: Complete this Exit Ticket.