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Other Online Resources

  • Discovery Education: standards-based digital curriculum resources for K–12 classrooms worldwideDiscovery Education is offering schools and school systems not currently using our digital services free access to Discovery Education Experience in the event of a closure. Schools accepting this offer will have access to K-12 learning platform and its ready-to-use digital lesson plans, activities, and standards-aligned resources through the remainder of the school year.

  • Educreations: iPad app is an interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool that you can use to create whiteboard-style videos that your students can watch on their computers, tablets, and phones. Company is offering free Educreations Pro upgrades to teachers through May 1, 2020. This offer is not available for current Educreations Pro subscribers.

  • FriEd Technology Transition to Teaching Learning Online: From FriEd Tech: Teaching Online Crash Course: Schools all over the nation and world are moving to online learning, and we're hearing from teachers that there is a knowledge gap that needs filling immediately. That's why this week we're starting a series of free webinars with the top questions we've been asked. Please pass this along to friends and colleagues who may share your concerns about online teaching and learning. See the schedule slide with live links by clicking here.

  • Flipgrid: Teachers create grids (classrooms) with topics. Grids are the meeting place for your classroom, your school, your department or any learning community to discuss your Topics. Flipgrid Educator’s Guide

  • Kahoot!:From Kahoot!: While our free version enables distance learning, we want to make sure educators have all the tools they need to fully engage students outside of the classroom. That’s why we’ve put together a guide to distance learning and why we’re providing schools affected by the coronavirus with free access to Kahoot! Premium for the remaining months of the academic year. Premium, educators can use advanced question types, collaborate with colleagues, and access in-depth reports, which can be used for formative assessment.

  • Loom: Screencasting tool to capture lessons on screen. COVID-19 Response: Cutting prices, removing limits, free for education. Learn more

  • Scholastic: This free resource provides all students with 20* days’ worth of exciting learning journeys that span the content areas created by our editors to keep your students actively engaged in learning while school is closed. Your students will have access to approximately three hours of meaningful learning opportunities per day, including projects based on articles and stories, virtual field trips, reading and geography challenges, and so much more.

  • Screencastify: Screencasting tool to capture lessons on screen. https://www.screencastify.com/elearning In January, we began working closely with hundreds of schools that have closed due to coronavirus. This page is meant to collect, distill, and share the best practices that have been implemented by those educators.

  • Texas Instruments

    • Software – TI software can be used to demo functionality, have students interact with activities, create videos for your students, etc.

    • TI-84 Smartview Software – 90 Day Trial

    • TI-Nspire Premium Teacher Software – 90 Day Trial

    • TI-Nspire Student Software – 30 Day Trial (Next week they will offer a 90 day, but wanted to get this out for now)

    • Curriculum Alignment – TI has aligned all of our FREE resources to the TEKS. Use the attached documents to download activities ready for teachers and students to use to explore the mathematics.

  • Zoom K-12 School Verification Form: Zoom is temporarily lifting the 40-minute time limit on free Basic accounts for schools affected by the Coronavirus. Here’s how to get access for your school.


iPhone/iPad Trick: Students/Parents Taking Pictures Of Work To Email/Upload To Teachers to use LESS bandwidth!

  1. Open the "Notes" app

  2. Open a new Note

  3. Press the Camera button

  4. Press the Scan Document option

  5. Position iPhone/iPad camera over document to be scanned

  6. Press the Camera button to snap an image

  7. Adjust sizing corners for document

  8. Once sizing corners are adjusted press "Keep Scan"

  9. NOTE: For multiple pages press the "Ready for next scan" to add another document to the Note. Continue this process until all pages have been captured

  10. Press "Save" NOTE: If you snapped multiple documents the Save button will show the number of documents snapped. EX: Save (3)

  11. At top next to "Done" press the box with the up arrow

  12. This will give options to send the note to whomever in PDF format