Tools & Tutorials
Tools
Growth Engineering Website
Looking for free online tools to help with all aspects of virtual teaching? This site has you covered! Here you will find over 60 free tools, including video, audio, and design tools, productivity tools, and even a tool to help you manage virtual classroom noise (Bouncy Balls).
https://www.growthengineering.co.uk/64-amazing-free-online-tools-for-teachers/
The How-To Library Website
In the Where to How-To section, you will find a carefully curated list of virtual tools where you can learn how-to do almost anything.
Created by Will Haskins, Max Siekierski, Janine Tanahuvia, and Ryan Davis (MLIS Students, SJSU)
https://sites.google.com/view/the-how-to-library
Common Sense Education Website
Find additional virtual makerspace tools for your classroom.
https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/digital-resources-for-school-makerspaces
Tutorials
Symbaloo Webmix Tutorials
With this tutorial site you can learn about what a webmix is, how to create a webmix using Symbaloo, and how to update, delete, or share your Symbaloo webmix.
https://en.help.symbaloo.com/portal/en/kb/articles/what-is-a-webmix-22-2-2018
Google Classroom Dashboard Tutorial
Learn how to navigate, customize, and organize your Google Classroom dashboard.
https://www.teachertube.com/videos/how-to-use-teachertube-classrooms-dashboard-374870
TeacherTube Tutorial
Learn about TeacherTube and how to create your free account, sign in to your account, and upload a new video.
https://www.teachertube.com/videos/teachertube-tutorial-250280
Google Slides & Bitmoji Virtual Classrooms Tutorials
Some librarians and teachers are choosing to use Google Slides to create a Bitmoji virtual makerspace for their school. With this tutorial, you can learn how to create a Google Slides document, save your slides, edit your slides, add videos/images to your slides, and share or publish your document.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7wvajrAxUQ
This School Library Journal blog post includes a references section at the end of the article sharing research from the literature to support the virtual library movement as well as links to many helpful Bitmoji tutorials and free resources to use in your virtual classroom creation.
New York computer science teacher, Gin Peterson, created this tech tips YouTube playlist by on a variety of topics, including easy-to-follow Bitmoji tutorial videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6tDjdyckDtMr0FVuwQU6YA
This PDF includes useful getting started steps and links to the apps needed to begin creating a Bitmoji virtual classroom.
https://ncse.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/bitmojis-in-virtual-classroom.pdf
This webpage contains commonly asked questions and answers about creating and using Bitmoji virtual classrooms. It also includes links to video tutorials by multiple creators addressing specific questions in more depth.
Technology Integration Specialist, Bea Gonzalez, created this tutorial on how to insert a Bitmoji virtual classroom into a Google Site.
Classroom teacher, Thomas Blakemore, created this tutorial on how to use Bitmoji virtual classrooms in the Seesaw learning management system.
Blended Learning District Coordinators, Carrie and Lindsey, are based in Kansas and created this tutorial on how to use Bitmoji virtual classrooms in the Canvas learning management system.