Resources for Digital Learning

How to Use an Online Learning Platform

How to Zoom (presented in ASL)

Looking Good on Zoom (At least from the waist up)

Checklist for Teaching Deaf Students Online (best used for regular ed teachers, parents, non-ToDs)

Loom is an easy screen recorder from any desktop or cell phone. Pin yourself on the screen, show graphics, annotate on the screen. Loom is now free for educators.

Screencastify and Screencastify Jr.

50 Ways to Use Screencastify in the Classroom

25 Ways to Use Screencastify with Google Apps

Guidance re: Online Learning for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Checklist for Teaching Deaf Students Online (best used for regular ed teachers, parents)

E-Learning Accessibility for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Here are some general considerations for schools to keep in mind while planning for E-learning days in order to ensure equal access to content for students who are deaf and hard of hearing (from the Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education, state of Indiana):

All materials used for E-learning should be available in print.
All visual media should have closed-captioning available. Please review material ahead of time and ensure that captions or subtitles have been created for the material. DO NOT rely on auto-generated speech-to-text as an appropriate substitute to provide equal access. www.dcmp.org has a collection of educationally relevant videos with captions that can be streamed. DCMP also has lesson plans to go with many of their videos.
Auditory information that is not already captioned can be made accessible by using CART, Typewell or C-Print services or by personally subtitling.
Students who need material presented in American Sign Language may benefit from either having their assigned educational interpreter made available via video conference platform (Skype, Duo, Facetime, Zoom, etc.) or using Video Remote Interpreting. *note - VRI is not intended for all-day interpreting of instruction
If teachers will be using "live voice" and either recording themselves or will present live in an online format, students using assistive listening devices such as hearing aids, cochlear implants and bone anchored systems will need to have good quality auditory access as well as being able to see the speaker's face while talking.
Students who have the accommodation of using Hearing Assistive Technology (HAT) such as Roger (DM), FM or Bluetooth systems should have access to these systems if there will be auditory information presented in E-learning activities as if they were in their brick-and-mortar classrooms.
School teams are encouraged to document accommodations that will need to be implemented in the event of E-learning days in the students' IEPs, private school plans and 504 Plans.
Supporting Deaf Children during Covid-19: Thoughts from the CDC
Equivalent Technologies/Telecommunications for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People (National Association of the Deaf)

Captions, Interpreters, and Transcripts, Oh MY!

Webcaptioner provides free captioning right in your browser. It makes your classroom instruction accessible with real-time captioning.

One Note dictation is free and easy for Microsoft users. The dictation is very accurate if you dictate with your own punctuation and each speaker identifies him/herself before speaking. Here is a list of punctuation examples that you would say outloud while speaking.

Loom is a screen recording tool that can be used on any desktop or cell phone. You can pin yourself or an interpreter onto the screen, show graphics, and annotate on the screen. Loom is now free for educators.

Creating Content with Digital Tools

Digital Verbs for creating digital tasks (Bloom's Taxonomy with 21st century verbs; a catalyst for creating instructional activities)

WAKELET is a collection of digital tools (like Pinterest) that Jane Freeman and Barbara Chubb vetted for their 2019 HELIX presentation. If you did not attend HELIX, the titles of different collections will not mean anything to you, so just ignore them. Most tools can be used for varied purposes and can incorporate higher levels of thinking if the students are using the tools to create rather than just respond to your content.

SeeSaw (secure Facebook like tool for communicating about learning); compatible with Android, IOS, and desktops

Tons of interactive ideas and freebies for using Google Slides (like powerpoint) to create and present content)

Using QR Codes for Learning (for students/families who only have cell phones, no computers)

How to Create QR Codes

Use QR codes to make self-checking worksheets Tons of interactive ideas and freebies for using Google Slides (like powerpoint) to create and present content.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OdwHTkzUNx5tBj9ZdR23i8Imt7r0Ql5A

Interactive Choice Boards (like tic tac toe with your content and links)

Free Templates for Interactive Choice Boards

Content ideas for choice boards, i.e. content calendar

Tons of interactive ideas and freebies for using Google Slides (like powerpoint) to create and present content

Signed ASL literature for literacy and fluency activities. These can be used even with older students to maintain or improve ASL skills. These signers provide great role models. Have the student watch repeatedly until they can sign the story to you. (Scroll to the middle of this document to access the different titles.)

myASLTech is offering FREE memberships for students for the next several months. Membership gives the child access to ASL games, an animated science learning adventure, sign language-interpreted stories, an ASL dictionary, word search and crossword puzzles with ASL signs, and more.

DAWN Sign Press is offering some ASL videos (stories) for free through the summer months. Titles include children's literature as well as ASL poetry, ABC stories, and other original works.

Teaching about COVID 19

A great ASL video to demonstrate "social distancing." However, the only link I can find takes you to facebook, so it may not be accessible for all.

The New York Times has a great website dedicated to teaching about the virus. It will have to be adapted for most of our students, but the teaching ideas and graphics are great.

SOCIAL STORIES

A social story about viruses in ASL

COVID-19 A Second Social Story in ASL, English and Pictures From Marie Phillip School

Coronavirus Story in ASL, Written English and Pictures DARLING story explaining what COVID-19 is, what we need to do, in ASL and written English, told by 2 young Deaf children

Talking to Kids about Coronavirus: ASL & English Resources From ASDC From American Society for Deaf Children, MULTITUDE OF RESOURCES

A Message from the NAD about Coronovirus (in ASL)

COVID-19 Signed Social Story - From Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf

Google Sites

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