Online Resources
MackinVIA Houses Your Region One ESC Virtual Library
Available to Region One ESC VLC co-op members only listed at https://www.esc1.net/Page/645
Virtual Library resources at https://www.esc1.net/virtuallibrary
TSLAC COVID-19 Information and Resources for Librarians
https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ldn/covid-19
TASL Curated Resource List or Resources
https://wakelet.com/wake/a3e4beea-e081-412f-8d40-a8be616214e0
Please let users know they may be prompted to enter with a password. The password for all is “open”.
Get free access to Britannica LaunchPacks, for social studies and science
Discovery Education (DE)
DE announced earlier this week that they will now be providing free access to the full Discovery Education Experience (DEX) digital classroom resource to ALL schools experiencing closure until June 30, 2020 as well as upgrading all accounts for current subscribers to add the premium PLUS content.
Schools not currently subscribed to Discovery Education Experience (Streaming) can request access (fill out the Experience Access Request form).
ALL ACCOUNTS currently subscribing to DEX (DiscoveryEd Streaming) have been upgraded to the full PLUS service as well.
Homeschool families can request access by calling the 1-800 number on DiscoveryEd’s homepage (www.discoveryeducation.com).
Note - If your school already has Discovery accounts but does not have all teachers and/or students currently setup with accounts, you’ll find lots of information for importing users quickly & easily here -https://usermanagement.discoveryeducation.com/resource/integrations-overview/
Note – if you are not already setup with SSO, since Discovery’s staff is currently being overwhelmed with requests, you may find a CSV import a quicker way to get all your teachers & students setup for now, and then you can implement SSO when things settle down a bit.
A Team of RGV Ed Tech Specialists has created this site.
https://sites.google.com/view/remote-learning-resources/home
SEL Resources
https://casel.org/covid-resources/
Educational Resources for at home learning
list of authors, publishers, educational websites, fun activities, professional resources, and virtual tours provided by Bound to Stay Bound
https://www.btsb.com/educational-resources-main-tab-landing-page/
THE Journal
The staff at THE has put together a list of resources, archives, tools, and more from Adobe to Zoom. Be sure to spend some time looking through the list, not only to spot tools or techniques you may have missed, but to explore repositories of information and ideas to implement effective pedagogy, even (and especially) at a distance.
PBS and your local station
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/
have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for teachers like you.
Legends of Learning: FREE Games
www.legendsoflearning.com Math for grades 1-8 and Science for grades 3-8 that are TEKS aligned.
TEA partners with Renaissance to provide Texas students FREE access to myON eBooks
Amazing Educational Resources
https://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/
Amazing Educational Resources is a nonprofit program that was initially created to facilitate free sharing of resources among teachers. The platform has since grown to an all-inclusive hub for educational materials. Amazing Educational Resources facilitates access to and sharing of free high -quality resources among teachers, parents and students.
Motivated by the passion to develop an accessible educational resources sharing hub, Nick Hoover, a professional with 14 years teaching experience, founded Amazing Educational Resources Facebook page. The platform has since grown from a Facebook page to a public website harboring over 1,000 resources and an online calendar of events with webinars, lessons, and classes.
You can search by grade and category and each item will indicate if it's free forever or a trial account.
Unite for Literacy
https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/
Our library does not require registration or passwords. Read any of our books and listen to the narrations as much as you like. It's easy, fun and free. Each book has audio for English and other languages so you can listen and read together. There are more activity ideas at the end of each book.
ProQuest Black Freedom Resources
https://blackfreedom.proquest.com/
Features selected open primary source documents. Visitors will find historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom. This resource supports a wide range of students, from middle and high school to college.
Open Educational Resources: Simulations and Virtual Labs
https://libguides.mines.edu/oer/simulationslabs
A (growing) list of free virtual labs and simulations.