Content & Creativity

Resources and Information for Content Creation and Creative Learning Tools

COVID Classroom Tips & Tricks

Classroom Setup

  • Great example of how to set up your room for hybrid learning

Virtual PE Example Lesson

  • One teacher's virtual PE lesson format

Screencasts / Tutorials

Assigning an IXL Skill to Classroom

  • How to assign an IXL assignment and deliver via Classroom

logintoIXL.MOV

Directing Students to IXL Diagnostics

  • Navigation from Classlink to IXL and the Diagnostic testing area

PDFtoSlides.webm

Editing a PDF

  • A great solution for editing PDFs using Slides

Using Slides for lesson organization with Google Classroom.webm

Organizing Lessons using Slides

  • How to use Slides to organize and deliver content

Slides: Interactive Drag & Drop Worksheet

  • Tutorial on how to make an interactive sorting worksheet using drag & drop features in Slides

Subscriptions

Subscription-Based Resources

  • Our district collection of subscriptions.

Wixie Multimedia Authoring Tool

Videos of special interest to support your Wixie usage:

Flipped Classroom

All About Elementary FC - Training

  • This full session training video offers many suggestions and curricular applications for the flipped classroom format

  • Highly relevant to blended & hybrid learning

FC for Remote Learning - Training

  • A shorter training video on applying FC concepts to remote learning situations

FC in Google Classroom - Advanced Training

  • A full session training video for immersive flipped classroom techniques using Classroom

  • Slightly more advanced

Fall 2020 Hybrid/Synchronous

  • This is a great example of hybrid/synchronous 4th grade instruction from this fall

Flipped Math Classroom

  • One school district's successful flipped upper elementary math class

Links / Other Resources

Playlists & Hyperdocs

  • A technique for organizing links & resources for students to access interactively

Flipgrid Social Learning Resource

  • Video-based

  • Social media-like

  • Visually engaging

Current Trendy & Engaging Content Delivery Solution

Math Learning Center Interactive Manipulatives

  • A great resource for math manipulatives - many of which are being updated to include connectivity remotely

Interactive Activities in Synchronous Sessions

  • A group of slideshows from a PD course that highlight a plethora of great ideas for activities you can do with your students during live sessions

  • The tech used here is not relevant, but can be easily adapted to Slides and other apps

  • The rest of the site that hosts these slideshows is also great for synchronous session background info.

Kaizena

  • Better, faster feedback on student work

  • Chrome Extension

Science4Us

  • A great science, literacy, and mathematics program for K-2

  • Sign up for a free trial

Reflex

  • A math fact fluency solution for grades 2-8

  • Sign up for a free trial

Gizmos

  • Online math and science manipulatives for grades 3-12

  • Sign up for a free trial