Remote Teaching:

1. Establish effective communication channels with your students

I am prepared to communicate updates, changes, and other relevant information to my students Yes/No

I can create channels where students can respond to me Yes/No

I can schedule live sessions Yes/No

I can create opportunities for students to contact each other and collaborate online Yes/No

I can hold online office hours Yes/No

If you answered "no" to any of these questions, see either Strategies or Resources sections below.

2. Put your course materials online

I currently have a Park OnCampus course site, a Google Classroom, or other course website that is up to date Yes/No

I use a course management solution like OnCampus or Google Classroom to make course materials available to my students Yes/No

I can pre-record my lecture materials and share them with students Yes/No

I can set up course sessions via Google Hangouts Meet to deliver live lectures Yes/No

I can record and share slideshows online Yes/No

If you answered "no" to any of these questions, see either Strategies or Resources sections below.

3. Assess your students online

I can create quizzes in course management software to verify that students understand the material Yes/No

I can collect student submissions online Yes/No

I can facilitate student presentations online Yes/No

I can grade assignments, exams, problem-sets, etc. online Yes/No

If you answered "no" to any of these questions, see either Strategies or Resources sections below.

This readiness quiz was inspired by information published by University of Washington Information Technology, Seattle.

There are many ways to teach successfully online. Identified below are tools to help you immediately facilitate various online course activities.

Communicate with your students

Clear, consistent communication is an important part of successful online teaching. Your students will need information about how your class is changing and what they are expected to do. These tools help you communicate with your students and can help them communicate with each other.

• Communicate updates, changes, and other relevant information. Use Gmail or Remind.com

• Communicate information and allow students to respond at any time. Use OnCampus, Google Classroom, Gmail, GSuite (Docs, Forms).

• Communicate information and allow a live response. Use Google Hangouts Meet.

• Facilitate written discussions among students and instructors. Use Google Classroom or Park OnCampus Discussion Boards, GSuite (Docs).

• Facilitate live discussions among students and instructors. Use Google Hangouts Meet.

• Hold remote office hours to provide an opportunity for live, one-on-one or small-group communication with you. Use Google Hangouts Meet.

Deliver your course content

There are a range of ways to share course content with your students, depending on whether you want, or need, to meet in real-time or not.

Deliver live lectures (and record for later use). Use record feature on your cell phone or Google Hangouts Meet.

Pre-record lectures as videos including slides. Use Google Hangouts Meet and record your presentation or lecture.

Upload videos to stream to students (including Google Hangout recordings). Use Google Drive.

Record a slide show with narration. Use Google Slides with Screencastify.

Share files with your students. Use OnCampus, Google Drive, Google Classroom or email.

Assess student learning

Online tools can provide additional ways for students to demonstrate their learning. These tools help you collect student work online, create quizzes and exams, and grade digital submissions.

Collect student submissions online. Use Gmail, Google Classroom, Google Drive, or OnCampus submissions

Check if students understand the material. Use Google Forms to make quizzes, or assessments with Park OnCampus

Facilitate student presentations. Use Google hangouts Meet.

Grading assignments, exams, problem sets (etc.) Use OnCampus. or Google Classroom assignments

Creating Instructional Videos- Best Practices by Eric Yarwood from EDCO

Software:

The software you use is really important, because the right tools will save you time and frustration.

Suggestions:

• Screencast-o-matic: https://screencast-o-matic.com/

• Screencastify (Great for schools using Google): https://www.screencastify.com/

• Camtasia (Best for next level recording and editing): https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html

There are many other options out there (including those for iPads), but experience tells me that the above options are easiest with a lower learning curve.

Recording Formats:

• Video Lecture (Just you in front of a camera)

• Screencast (Just you talking over a video- i.e. a PowerPoint voiceover)

• The Combo: Screencast + Video Lecture (BEST OPTION)

A mixture of students seeing you and seeing content overwhelming gains the best participation and engagement.

Video Length:

Video length is extremely important. Do not create videos that run over 8 minutes! Students will absolutely check out. Stick to the most important concepts and avoid repeating yourself or rambling on – they can always re-watch the video.

Delivery of Content:

• Include Simple Text (bullets, short phrases)

• Keep the Screen Moving! (Use your live video in the same screen as the slides)

• Include images, sound bites, labels, etc.

Tools:

Basic Devices: PC, Mac, iPad, Phone, Video Camera, Web Cam

Additional Equipment: Microphone, Wacom Pen Tablets (awesome for math teachers), Tripod, Green Screen.

Final thought: You do not need to make the most amazing videos to deliver content effectively. Be yourself and keep plugging away – and better videos will come with time.

Remind.com or Remind: School Communication App For Small Teacher to Student or Teacher to Parent interactions use Remind.com. Sign up for a free account with your park School gmail address. Be sure to select The Park School, Snyder, NY from the school list. After you sign up, Join Bill Riders Faculty and Staff Class with code @4625harlem. This is a great way for teachers to push out announcements, tasks, ideas for learning, links, etc. Students do not see your cell phone number and cannot reply. Remind is being used more than ever, and we've received many requests to expand class and character limits. We're focused on supporting unprecedented usage and unfortunately can't risk changing our free account limits at this time. Here are actions you can take to keep using your free account:

• Add people to your classes

• Remove people from your classes

• Move people from one class to another

• Archive an unused class

• Change your email address or phone number

• Reset your password

We encourage you to read our Guide for Using Remind for Remote Learning, which includes instructions for sharing videos, files, and photos—one of our most frequently asked questions!

CK12 Foundation: provides a library of free online textbooks, videos, exercises, flashcards, and real world applications for over 5000 concepts

Park OnCampus Discussion Boards: Log into your Class Page. Navigate to Assignments (It's the option to the right of "Topics"). Look at the right menu bar where it shows the types of assignments you can give. Click on Discussion. Fill out all necessary info (and give the assignment an abbreviation, type, and graded weight if you want the system to automatically grade your students). Select the due date at the bottom of the window (you may have to scroll down to see it). Click Save .

MyViewBoard is a digital whiteboard built with online interactive technologies that allows groups to access dynamic tools through any touch displays and devices for creating engaging content. It is a Google Chrome extension and a website based solution myviewbaord.com. https://wiki.myviewboard.com/Welcome_to_myViewBoard

Google's Teach From Home Resource Page: https://teachfromhome.google/

Google Classroom Tutorials https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5f9meXkvBhJjuQrpP2SFgh1QbQSc6fRI This collection of 6 videos created by BOCES will walk teachers through creating a Google Classroom, adding classwork, adding students to a class, stream, and Google Meet.

Google Classroom- Linking a Google Hangouts Meet Video you recorded. https://drive.google.com/file/d/18XF80mLCa34qMXpKfCoTJp-091JNwjcQ/view?usp=sharing

Here's a site to see how the Teacher View and the Student View differ.

Teacher View vs. Student View Unfortunately, that's not currently possible in Google Classroom. There is a workaround. Just add yourself as a dummy student with another email account (other than the one you are using as a teacher.

Google Classroom: How to see what Student Sees (dummy account) -- You Tube Video

Google Classroom: A Student's View - YouTube video

Google Classroom from a Student Perspective -- Student View Tutorial for Google Classroom (YouTube video)

Google Hangouts Meet

• Google Hangouts Meet Learning Center. Learn how to start and join video meetings, How to collaborate in meetings, and productivity tips: https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282720?visit_id=637196501341430080-3207266735

• Teachers Guide to Google Hangouts Meet. To learn best practices for distance learning, review

https://teachercenter.withgoogle.com/first-day-trainings/welcome-to-google-hangouts-meet

How to Record a Lesson using Google Hangouts. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QcIPYvQYsi3s8OqgaDVkYUnSqjyMdQUR/view?usp=sharing

How to Embed a Recorded Google Hangouts Meet video into Your Park OnCampus Class page.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sHB7HXNak5JiHL4p8-m0HsveFpCAqYm0/view?usp=sharing

• https://support.google.com/meet#topic=7306097 Google Hangouts Meet Help Center

• When using Meet, participants can turn off their camera to show their profile photo instead. This can improve video meeting quality if internet speed is slow. If audio quality is poor, use a phone for audio instead.

• For large classes, use a live stream instead of having students join an interactive video class meeting. To engage students while live streaming, you can use Google Slides Q&A. Or, you can pre-record a lesson to share later.

• To help students who are deaf or hard of hearing, turn on live captions in Meet. To capture student responses for a recorded class, use Google Slides Q&A.

• https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282720?visit_id=637196501341430080-3207266735 Google Hangouts Meet Training

• How to put subtitles in videos created in Meet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U4E-Wn6NkjRGvy55r-iuzr9Ki1MSzVpH/view?ts=5e7cfba5

Hangouts Meet improvements for remote learning

Thanks to feedback from educators around the globe, we’re started rolling out new features to Hangouts Meet. We expect the features to be rolled out to all G Suite for Education and G Suite Enterprise for Education domains over the next 2 - 3 weeks.

Improved meeting control features: 'mute' and 'remove'

For education users, we're only allowing the meeting creator, meeting calendar owner, or person who sets up a meeting on an in-room hardware device to mute or remove other participants in a meeting. This means that if a teacher creates the meeting or owns the calendar the meeting was created on, students can't remove or mute other students.

Improved teacher controls for nicknamed meetings

Participants will not be able to re-join a meeting after the final participant has left if:

• The meeting was created using a short link like g.co/meet/nickname

• The meeting was created at meet.google.com by entering a meeting nickname in the "Join or start a meeting” field

• The meeting was created in the Meet app by entering a nickname in the “Meeting code” field

This means if the teacher is the last person to leave these types of meetings, students cannot join later without the teacher.

Google Slides Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCTNGokF3jQ

Google Forms for online polls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq_-wvPJ4vo Google Forms allows you to easily create polls and surveys using a wide variety of forms and question types. It also lets you include multimedia materials into your forms such as images and videos. Its collaborative features enable you to work with your team to build a survey or poll together. ‘Responses to your surveys are neatly and automatically collected in Forms, with real time response info and charts. Or, take your data further by viewing it all in Sheets.

Google has prepared a site to help educators explore distance learning resources for schools affected by COVID-19 https://edu.google.com/latest-news/covid-19-support-resources/?utm_source=nurture&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FY20-Q1-global-demandgen-email-other-covid19-all&utm_content=covid19noneducators&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRJMk1HWTNaR1F3WW1ObSIsInQiOiJXVjkxM296YVJCeW5YNTNNd0I4Q0RyK2JcL2Nhb1BzZWVXVW5scHNZTmRpV0dDdXJPN3laUXNmdHBueDQ5d0FSWEZqbEk3UDBzdzNBdmhrMjBjcTFCbkh1eld0TmplNmNYelEwZlBUVTlvbDU1bWJkMVgwc1l6Wm1MeVlNM1VkNEMifQ%3D%3D&modal_active=none&topic=distance-learning-training

Screencastify for Chrome. A beginners guide for educators, https://www.screencastify.com/blog/beginners-guide-educators

Using Screencastify for Google Slide voiceovers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGQ4JoASENg

• Classroom Resource Page - this is a collection of everything your teachers will need to get the most out of Screencastify https://www.screencastify.com/education/resources

• E-Learning Resource - a collection of best practices to help you prepare for school closure https://www.screencastify.com/elearning

Using Google Forms to create an online Quiz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdt8Vv7-3Xk

Genius Scan App: take photos of materials that converts to PDFs so you can upload to OnCampus or email to students.

https://help.thegrizzlylabs.com/article/5-getting-started-genius-scan

Use CamScanner: www.camscanner.com/ Visit the App Store or Google Play Store. Download CamScanner. Create account using Park email address. To scan a document:

1. Select the Camera Icon. Make sure you are viewing the entire page or document with good lighting.

2. Take the photo. It will allow you to drag the edges of the snapshot to better fit the scan. Save the photo

3. If there are multiple pages, reselect the camera icon to take more photos. If this is the last photo or only photo, the document is ready to share.

4. Select the Share icon. Select the file type you want. PDF is recommended. Select the method of sharing. Google drive or Gmail are recommended.

General Pre-Emergency Planning Tips for Instructors

At the beginning of each semester:

• download class lists and student contact information from onCampus.

• send your students a welcome email and course announcement from gmail or Google Classroom that includes your contact information. Encourage students to keep the email until the end of the course.

• backup copies of your teaching materials prior to the start of the semester, in the event you are unable to access the files on the Park School network.

Articles on Teaching Online

"How to be a Better Online Teacher" from the Chronicle of Higher Education. It includes 10 essential principles and practices of better online teaching. https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/advice-online-teaching

https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9283051 10 G Suite Tips to work with remote classes.

https://teachingresources.hcommons.org/resource-guides/ Resource guide for bringing your courses online.

https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/five-ways-to-build-community-in-online-classrooms/ Five Ways to Build Community in Online Classrooms

https://globalonlineacademy.org/insights/articles/15-strategies-for-online-learning-when-school-is-closed 15 Strategies for Online Learning When School is Closed

Tips for Giving Live Online Instruction

• Be sure to run updates on your devices and run virus scans to keep your machine healthy.

• Check your home internet speed. Ideally you want an upload speed of at least 5mbps and a download of 20 mbps. To check your speed visit: http:\\speedof.me. If your speed is slow, you can improve the experience by working closer to your wireless router or by connecting directly to it with a cat5 cable. You can also control the quality of your video camera settings to reduce file sizes.

• If you're going to use a service like Google Hangouts Meet to give live instruction, keep your webcam on as much as possible. Yes, you're students can still walk away from their computers while you're teaching, but they are less likely to get bored if they can at least see your face as opposed to just your screen.

• Elevate your webcam to eye level or higher. No one, and especially not K-12 students, want to be looking up your nose for half an hour. On a related note look at your webcam instead of your screen when you're trying to emphasize a point.

• Pepper your live online lessons with lots of little check-in questions for the group. In an online setting you don't get the benefit of "reading the room" the way that you do when your class meets in person. Your check-in questions could be as simple as "who's still with me?" or they might be a little more difficult like "what's the answer to that last problem?"

• Encourage students to ask questions. You might even say something like, "at the ten minute mark I'm going to pause to give everyone a chance to enter a question into the chat."

• Expect technical difficulties in live sessions. 90% of the time the technical difficulty is on the viewer's end and not on your end. If you can, set up two computers or work with a colleague to experience the students' perspective before you go live with your class. Seeing the students' perspective will make it a little easier to provide some troubleshooting tips on the fly.

• If you don't have the fastest Internet connection, make sure other people in your house aren't streaming at the same time you're trying to broadcast live video.

Hardware to help teach online.

Contact tech support if you require any additional hardware or software to facilitate your online courses.

• desktop, laptop, or tablet computer

• usb webcam

• document camera

• external microphone

• headset

Free Software for educators during Pandemic

https://www.learningkeepsgoing.org/

Google Chrome Remote Desktop software for Remote Support

Set up remote access to your computer

You can set up remote access to your Mac, Windows, or Linux computer.

1. On your computer, open Chrome.

2. In the address bar, type remotedesktop.google.com/access.

3. Under “Set up Remote Access,” click Download .

4. Follow the onscreen directions to download and install Chrome Remote Desktop.

You may have to enter your computer password to give Chrome Remote Desktop access. You may also be prompted to change security settings in Preferences.

Share your computer with someone else

You can give others remote access to your computer. They’ll have full access to your apps, files, emails, documents and history.

1. On your computer, open Chrome.

2. In the address bar at the top, type remotedesktop.google.com/support, and press Enter.

3. Under “Get Support, “ click Download .

4. Follow the onscreen directions to download and install Chrome Remote Desktop.

5. Under “Get Support,” select Generate Code.

6. Copy the code and send to the person you want to have access to your computer.

7. When that person enters your access code on the site, you will see a dialog with their e-mail address. Select Share to allow them full access to your computer.

8. To end a sharing session, click Stop Sharing.

The access code will only work one time. If you are sharing your computer, you will be asked to confirm that you want to continue to share your computer every 30 minutes.