Update: As of 3.30.20 it appears the 40m meeting restriction has been reinstated on basic account packages.

Note: Zoom has lifted the 40m restriction on the basic account due to the COVID-19 virus.

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms.

How to setup Zoom for Online Classes:

• Sign up for an account by going to zoom.us.

• Click the "Sign up" button in the top left area of your browser.

• Using your USD116 Credentials create and account.

• Go to "My Account.

• Select "Schedule and Meeting" on the menu bar at the top.

• Enter any information you need to convey and optionally set a password for you session.

• Consider checking the "Mute participants upon entry" under the "Meeting Options" tab,

• Share your unique "Join URL" Google Classroom or email so then can join the session.

• Insure that everyone joining the session has downloaded the zoom app.

• Select start meeting and choose join using computer audio.

• Please make note of all preferences, specifically the "Chat" feature with allows you to correspond with your students with options to allow voice, text, or muting controls.

• To record the lesson click on the "Record" button at the bottom of the screen and select between saving the video to the cloud or locally on your device.

• To Share your screen click the "share screen" button at the bottom and choose which screen your want to show.

• To end the meeting simply click the "end meeting" button at the bottom on the screen.

WILL-TV and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for Illinois teachers like you.

Sign up is an easy process using your USD116 Gmail. Simply click the "Sign up" button in the top right corner and fill out any pertinent information e.g. what school you're teaching at (Help). Once your account has been created connect your Google Classroom to share content with your students seamlessly.

Shareable Content Folder Creation

Browse/Searching Features

Remind App Utilization

Interactive Lessons Features

Here are some quick links:

• pbslearningmedia.org/help

• pbskids.org

• pbs.org/parents

• pbs.org/parents/pbskidsdaily

• Getting started with Google Classroom

• Screencastify

• Screencast-o-matic

• Zoom Online Classroom

• Math Websites

• Science Websites

• Social Studies Websites

• Language and Literacy Websites

Remote Learning with Seesaw

Resources -- Create a supportive remote learning environment for students when emergencies prevent them from coming to school.

Youtube tutorials:

• Setting Up Remote Learning

Padlet -- Is an application to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic. Easily create an account and build a new board. You can add images, links, videos, columns for sorting or refining organization, and more.

Features

Youtube Tutorials

Coming Soon

This video shows you the best tips from keyboard shortcuts to advanced sharing techniques.

Share to Classroom -- Google Classroom Teachers: Save time and create a more interactive class with the Share to Classroom extension. The extension allows you to push webpages to any of your Classroom classes, so they open instantly on your students' computers. With this extension, you can get your students on the right page, quickly and reliably every time. You can also post announcements, create assignments, or save webpages to then post to Classroom later.

Students: The Share to Classroom extension gets you to webpages your teacher shares, without you having to type out the whole URL. You can also push web pages directly to your teacher.

Save to Google Drive -- This extension allow you to save web content directly to Google Drive through a browser action or context menu. You can save documents, images, and HTML5 audio and video all by right clicking and selecting 'Save to Google Drive'. You can save the currently viewed page using the 'Save to Google Drive' browser action. The directory location and format of saved HTML pages can be controlled with the extension's options page (Choice of Entire image (default), Visible image, Raw HTML, MHTML, or Google Doc). You can automatically convert Microsoft Office files or comma separated files to Google Docs format.

After your content is saved, the progress dialog allows you to open the file, rename, or view the file in the Google Drive document list. From the document list, you can organize and share your new document.

Web Paint -- provides the following easy to use drawing tools that let you draw shapes, lines, and add text to live web pages and take screenshot (touch screen supported)

Google Calendar Extension -- A Quick overview of your Google Calendar with one-click access to locations & documents

A button on your browser toolbar that you can easily click to see upcoming from Google Calendar, without ever leaving your page. Access any map locations or attached documents in one click.

Features:

• Displays a preview of your calendar in your browser.

• This extension shows events from whatever calendars you are logged in within Chrome.

• If you want to use a Google Apps calendar, you should login to that account first, then open the extension.

Save up to 95% memory and reduce tab clutter

Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.

When your tabs are in the OneTab list, you will save up to 95% of memory because you will have reduced the number of tabs open in Google Chrome.

Privacy assurance

Information about your tabs are never transmitted or disclosed to the OneTab developers. The only exception to this is if you intentionally click on our 'share as a web page' feature that allows you to upload your list of tabs into a web page in order to share them with others. Tabs are never shared unless you specifically use the 'share as a web page' button.

The ultimate email productivity tool. Send later, track responses, and use AI to write better emails.

Boomerang allows you to schedule messages to be sent or returned at a later date. Write a message now, send it whenever, even if you're not online. Track messages to make sure you hear back, and schedule reminders right inside Gmail™. Know whether your email got read with cross-platform read receipts. Free yourself from constant interruptions using Inbox Pause, while still getting notified about the emails that matter.

What is Boomerang?

Millions of Gmail™ and G Suite™ users count on Boomerang for easy, integrated scheduled email sending and reminders. The service allows you to schedule emails to automatically send in the future, so you can write an email now, and the service will send it tomorrow morning at 6 AM, or next week while you’re at the beach, without you needing to be online.

Boomerang also helps you to postpone (“snooze”) incoming emails, by making them disappear from your Inbox into a folder or label, then bringing them back to the top of the message list at the specified time. It helps you keep your Inbox clean, without losing track of important messages. Boomerang is also the only reminder service that can alert you if you do not get a reply to a message.

Boomerang also brings an AI-powered assistant, Respondable, directly to your compose window. As you write an email, Respondable predicts the likelihood that the message will receive a response and explain that analysis in an easy to understand way, all in real-time. Respondable guides you toward writing a message that will be effective in starting a conversation (or keeping one going.)

Boomerang’s latest productivity feature, Inbox Pause, helps you get focused by temporarily delaying the arrival of messages to your Inbox.

Useful for:

▸ Scheduling birthday emails

▸ Project management

▸ Remembering to pay bills

▸ Making sure you follow up with a sales lead, and that they replied to you

▸ Communicating with people in different time zones

▸ Managing travel confirmation emails, returning them on the day of your trip

▸ Figuring out if your emails are getting read with cross-platform read receipts

▸ Measuring your email engagement with open tracking and click tracking

▸ Writing effective emails that get a response

▸ Focusing on an important project without constant email distractions

▸ Achieving Inbox Zero!

Quickly enable/disable Google Chrome extensions

Tired of having too many extensions in your toolbar? Try Extensity, the ultimate tool for lightning fast enabling and disabling all your extensions for Google Chrome. Just enable the extension when you want to use it, and disable when you want to get rid of it for a little while. You can also launch Chrome Apps right from the list.

* Keep your browser lean and fast - disable extensions that you won't use right away.

* Keep your toolbar clean.

* Turn all extensions off (and back on) with a single click.

* Quick switch between several extensions groups using the Profiles feature.

* Keep computers in sync with Chrome Cloud Storage support.

* Ideal companion for extensions collectors.

Split Screen made easy. Resize the CURRENT tab and tabs to the RIGHT into layouts on separate windows. w/ Multi Monitor Support.

Default shortcut keys for:

Ctrl + Shift + Z: Undo Last Resize

Ctrl + Shift + 1: 1x1 Resize

Ctrl + Shift + 2: 1x2 Resize

Ctrl + Shift + 4: 2x2 Resize

Find email addresses from anywhere on the web, with just one click.

With Hunter for Chrome, you can immediately find who to contact when you visit a website. Along with the email addresses, you can get the names, job titles, social networks and phone numbers. All the data has public sources detailed in the search results.

Domain Search

Domain Search is the most powerful email-finding tool of its kind. Click the icon in Chrome to find all the email addresses related to the website you’re visiting. It includes the most common email pattern used, department filters and the public sources.

One Click Full Page Screenshot -- This extension provides you the simplest way to take a full page screenshot of your current browser window. Click on the extension icon (or press Alt+Shift+P), watch the extension capture each part of the page, and transport to a new tab of your screenshot where you can edit the image and download it as a file to your desktop.

In order to screenshot the entire page it must scroll to each visible part, so please be patient as it quickly assembles all the pieces. For the rare scenario where your page is too large for Chrome to store in one image, it will let you know and split it up into images in separate tabs.

Editing Features:

• editor:

• Load image to canvas

• Undo/Redo (With shortcut)

• Crop

• Flip

• Rotation

• Free drawing

• Line drawing

• Shape

• Icon

• Text

• Mask Filter

• Image Filter

SmallPDF -- Is an Easy-to-use PDF tools to Edit, Convert, Merge, Split and Compress PDF files. Integrated with Gmail.

Convert, compress, merge, split and edit your PDF files

Power-up your productivity by adding SmallPDF to Chrome! Gain instant access to a suite of useful tools to work with PDFs online.

PDF Tools and PDF Converters:

• PDF to Word, Excel, PPT

• Word, Excel, PPT to PDF

• Convert images to and from PDF

• Reduce the size of your PDF

• Merge, Split and Extract PDF Pages

• Edit PDF

• Rotate and Delete PDF Pages

• Sign and Send PDFs for Signature

• Protect and Unlock PDF

How to use the SmallPDF Chrome Extension:

1. Open any PDF in your browser

2. Select a tool from the list

3. Wait for your file to be processed

4. Download your new file

Gmail Integration:

• Add compressed attachments to emails.

• Convert PDF attachments to Word, Excel, PowerPoint or JPG files, and convert Images and Office attachments to PDF.

With SmallPDF you can process numerous file types:

• PDF

• Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PPT

• Images: JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF

• Scans: OCR is available to extract data from PDFs into editable documents!

Screencastify -- is the simplest way to create high-quality screen-casts from right within your browser.

How to add/install:

1. Open your Chrome browser.

2. Type in Chrome Web Store in your URL/search bar.

3. Type "Screencastify" in the Chrome Web Store bar.

4. Click the "Add to Chrome" button.

5. A pop-up box will appear saying "Add "Screencastify - Screen Video Recorder"; select "Add extension".

6. Select "Turn Sync On" after the extension is added to your browser (This adds the extension to any browser on any computer you're currently logged into.

7. Click on the new "Screencastify" extension in the top-right part of your browser window.

8. Sign in to your USD116 Gmail account (This allows you to instantly save all videos created to your Google Drive).

9. Set any preferred permissions for your devices' camera and microphone. Click "Allow" in the pop-up box.

10. Select "Educator"

11. Select "Grade School"

12. Make sure to watch the "Overview" video to the left of this post and the "How to Make Your First Recording" article.

TalkingPoints -- is a messaging app that allows teachers to communicate in families' home languages via their phones or internet-connected devices. Teachers can add recipients by creating a spreadsheet that includes name, student's name, phone number, and home language

Introduction to Talking Points

Getting Started Guide

Mobile App

Awesome Screenshot -- Would you like to take screenshots of pictures, web pages, or directions? Then here is the solution; use Awesome Screenshot, an easy screenshot add-on to use on Chrome. The add-on makes great screenshots of entire web pages or just visible parts of the page, and you can edit the screenshot before you save it.

Click Here!

Screencast-O-Matic -- is a free screencast recorder used by millions around the world, from educators to businesses to bloggers. There are numerous ways you can use a screen recorder. You can record how-to videos, tutorials, product demos and more!

Screencast-O-Matic beginner's guide.

GeoHistoryMap.com -- bring history to life by producing interactive, educational material using innovative technologies to enhance and enrich students’ learning experience.

Musescore is a company devoted to helping aspiring musicians in their journey to master the music they love. Musescore offers free, powerful, and easy-to-use music notation software to create high-quality sheet music, with audio score playback for results that look and sound beautiful. Musescore has also formed an online community where musicians can share their creations, privately or publicly, through downloads, embeddable widgets, or Musescore's mobile apps, while also bringing additional social features to sheet music. The Musescore software is released under an open source license, and there is an open API for third party developers on Musescore.com.

Knowt.com -- An app that converts your notes into quizzes.

Provicio.com -- Website that functions as a quick question generator. Just post text from an educational source and it extracts the data and forms questions for a quick quiz.

Elementari.io -- Elementari promotes arts and literacy in an engaging and collaborative way. We want anyone, even kids, to be able to write beautiful interactive stories.

Nicerc.org -- The National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center (NICERC) offers grant-funded cyber, STEM, and computer science curricula and professional development to K-12 educators at no cost. Our goal is to empower educators as they prepare the next generation to succeed in the cyber workforce of tomorrow.

Mobymax.com -- MobyMax makes a teacher's life easier. Simple to use and learn, MobyMax immediately starts saving time for teachers. For example, students automatically begin fixing missing skills from the automatic placement test. In other words, teachers see progress reports without even having to assign a lesson. Even better, the built-in motivation tools and rewards keep students eager to learn more without teacher intervention.

Bark.us -- Bark monitors the entire domain or organizational unit for a school/district. The same way you can use your Google or Microsoft account to log into various apps, Bark works to monitor all of your students’ communications on school-issued accounts, covering email, chat, and what they type in Google Drive/Docs/Sheets or Microsoft Office Suite.

Gooblegames.com --Explore the world as a magician wielding the power of arithmetic! Practice your addition, subtraction, division and multiplication skills by casting, flipping and combining all of your math spells to defeat enemies.

Google Play

App Store

Ssec.si.edu/weather-lab --

Weather Lab is a tool to help visualize how North America’s weather is formed. This lab is designed to model the complex interactions between air masses and ocean currents, but like all models it represents probable outcomes. Each prediction you make is for possible outcomes during Spring.

Check out more Smithsonian SEC resources HERE.

Classcraft.com -- Classcraft is a free online educational role-playing game that teachers and students play together in the classroom. Acting as a gamification layer around any existing curriculum, the game transforms the way a class is experienced throughout the school year.

Jamboard is a digital whiteboard that lets even far-flung teams sketch out ideas and save them in the cloud so they can be accessed on any device.

How to use for Education

Read & Write -- Improve reading and writing confidence.

Read&Write lets everyone read, write and express themselves more confidently.

Our easy-to-use toolbar makes documents, files and web pages more accessible. Read&Write is a big confidence booster for anyone who needs a little support with their reading and writing, at school or in the workplace. And its friendly literacy features help English Language Learners, as well as people with learning difficulties or requiring dyslexia tools.

From hearing emails or documents read out loud to text prediction, picture dictionaries, summary highlighters and a grammar, spelling and confusable words checker, Read&Write makes lots of everyday literacy tasks simpler, quicker and more

Tutorial

Goformative -- Do you already have your own content that you like? No problem! Simply upload any pdf/document/google doc, click to add places for your students to respond, edit any question details and you're done.

You can also embed content from other websites and try our interactive question types like Show Your Work (drawing), Drag and Drop, Audio Recording, Graphing, Essay, Math Typing, Resequence and many more.

Plickers -- a free, interactive tech tool that uses printable “paper clickers” instead of clicker devices. Each student is assigned a unique Plickers card that has a black and white image similar to a QR code. The letters A, B, C, and D are written in small print around the edge of the image, with one letter on each side of the card. During the lesson, the teacher displays a multiple-choice or true-false question. Then students hold up their Plickers cards and rotate them to indicate which answer they think is correct. The teacher scans all of the response cards at once, using the Plickers app installed on a mobile device. He or she can instantly see the student responses and assessment data for that question including who has the correct answer and who does not.

Discovery Tour -- is a mode that will allow you to explore ancient Egypt and/or Greece without being interrupted by combat or quests. Purely educational, the mode is a "virtual museum" without threats but instead with guided tours and historical sites to discover.

Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt/Greece by Ubisoft is all about player choice, either deciding on following curated tours, or going off the beaten path in search for hundreds of hidden locations.

Touchcast -- With TouchCast Studio, you have a full-blown TV studio at your fingertips. Use the green-screen feature to place yourself against a background or inside content. Or step inside a virtual set. Read from a scrolling script. Add titles. Annotate. Record your video, edit it, and share securely. Live stream it privately to a small group, the whole company, or publicly to the entire world.

This is smart video creation, where broadcasting is easy.

Expeditions -- Introduce your students to a new way of learning with virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Download the Expeditions app to get started.

Need a way to revitalize older laptop/desktop devices? Well look no further than the using one of these Kid friendly (Ages 3 and up) Linux distros specifically designed for student learning and growth in the classroom.

• Sugar on a Stick

• Edubuntu

• Debian Edu/Skolelinux

• Ubermix

• Doudou Linux

• OpenSUSE: Education-Li-f-e

• Puppy Linux

Moveit -- Busy working on your computer? Spending hours searching the internet? Get active with Move It, the easiest way to be reminded that you should integrate a break into your work online. Simply add the Move It extension to your browser, set the notification interval, and your screen will present you with a random brain break and exercise to complete. Once you complete it, hit done and the next will arrive after the designated interval elapses again.

Keep active with Move It!

Quizlet Live -- Engage your students in and out of the classroom, with interactive study material, learning activities and games.

MindMeister -- is an online mind mapping tool that lets you capture, develop and share ideas visually. It is completely web-based, which means there's no download and no updating! Whether you're working on Windows, Mac OS or Linux, you can always access your mind maps right inside the web-browser.

Proper Channel -- KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER DONE RIGHT

It's time we start learning from each other

Collaborative

Don't just listen to one opinion, use Proper Channel guides to drive continuous process improvement

Visual

Step-by-step guides keep you on track, and quickly orient you through any process

Connected

Proper Channel's patent-pending in-graphic training feature allows you to link or embed all the training resources you need to make sure people know exactly what to do, how to do it, and have all the right resources to get things done.

Sayhi -- Have a conversation in two languages and hear your voice translated instantly!