VIS Online Learning Teacher Resources
- Online Learning Guidelines
- Online Learning: Instruction Ideas
- Tools and Resources: Early Childhood-Grade 2; Upper Elem. +MS/HS; MS/HS Only
- Special Areas
- Articles and Videos
- Online Learning in Action, by Teachers
- Google Slide Presentations and Planning Templates
- How to Videos
- ONLINE LEARNING GUIDELINES
2. ONLINE LEARNING: INSTRUCTION IDEAS
3. TOOLS AND RESOURCES
Early childhood & Lower ELEMENTARY
For sharing content, providing feedback, messaging students and parents. Use the Student Portfolios.
Phonics and emergent readers.
Authorize your computer for free access to Starfall step by step directions.
ELA, Math and Science content for KG2-6th grade students. Students have accounts.
Epic!, the Leading Digital Library for Kids 12 & under is offering unlimited access to 35000 of the best children's books of all time.
ABCya provides over 400 fun and educational games for grades PreK through 6.
Storyline Online, streams Read Aloud Story videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.
A kid-safe streaming library of read-aloud, animated storybooks.
Enjoyed by millions of children every week, trusted by parents, and loved by teachers.
work in progress
work in progress
Upper Elementary, MIDDLE SCHOOL & HIgh school
Learning hub for students: LEARN, PRACTICE, SHARE, GET FEEDBACK.
Google Classroom makes teaching more productive and meaningful by streamlining assignments, boosting collaboration, and fostering communication.
IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for K–12. Used by over 8000000 students, IXL provides personalized learning. It provides content forMath and Language Arts curricular standards.
Kids A-Z is a kid-friendly learning portal where students go to access all their eLearning materials in an interactive online environment. Books are organized according to reading levels (A to Z). Students in Grades 1-6 have accounts. Step by Step Guide to Adjust Reading Levels and Change Student Passwords.
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics content is available.
Students can enter they MAP scores here and Khan Academy give students the content they need.
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'I Read Arabic' is a leading digital leveled reading program that aims to advance the quality of Arabic language fluency and literacy. The platform supplements traditional school based learning, improves students' reading skills, and enriches their vocabulary.
FREE content, curriculum, and tools to power teaching and learning from Kindergarten to 12th Grade. Improves students' reading comprehension. Access thousands of high-quality, free K-12 articles.
NoRedInk is an online tool used for teaching grammar, usage, mechanics and style to students in 4th through 12th grade.
Newsela is a data base of current events stories tailor-made for classroom use. All articles come in 5 different reading levels.
The leading digital library for kids offering unlimited access to 35000 of the best children's books of all time for students age 12 and under.
CommonLit is a free collection of fiction and nonfiction for 3rd-12th grade classrooms. Search and filter our collection by lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device or common core standard.
A kid-safe streaming library of read-aloud, animated storybooks.
Enjoyed by millions of children every week, trusted by parents, and loved by teachers.
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Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn – any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!
Nearpod is a student engagement platform that can be used to amazing effect in the classroom. The concept is simple. A teacher can create presentations that can contain Quizzes, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on. They can also access over 7K k-12 standards-aligned lessons.
Edpuzzle is a web-based interactive video and formative assessment tool that lets users crop existing online videos and add content to target specific learning objectives. Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students. Check if students are watching your videos, how many times they're watching each section, and if they're understanding the content.
Hundreds of online simulations with lesson materials, supporting research-based strategies to build deep conceptual understanding in math and science. Available to math and science teachers grades 3-12.
Story Time from Space- Read Alouds done by astronauts
Mystery Science- excellent free lessons by grade level to support online learning.
middle school and high school only
Study.com claims to be the largest, most extensive website for education seekers. Study.com offers an extensive library of video lessons in most high school and college subjects to help students improve their grades. All MS/HS core subject area teachers have access to Study.com
Quizlet is a mobile and web-based study application that allows students to study information via learning tools and games. Quizlet trains students via flashcards and various games and tests. As of February 2019, Quizlet has over 300 million user-generated flashcard sets and more than 50 million active users.
Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces is a Web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn't know in a course. ALEKS then instructs the student on the topics she is most ready to learn. Students in MS /HS have Aleks accounts.
Hundreds of online simulations with lesson materials, supporting research-based strategies to build deep conceptual understanding in math and science. Available to math and science teachers grades 3-12.
Edpuzzle is a way to make a video interactive and student-centered. Edpuzzle puts the student in control. They can rewatch. They can respond to written questions or quizzes. They can click on hyperlinks inserted by a teacher. They can review written comments or audio notes left by a teacher.
Teachers can check if students are watching the videos, how many times they're watching each section, and if they're understanding the content. Introduce students to self-paced learning with interactive video lessons. It's easy to add your own voice narration and questions!
Nearpod is a student engagement platform that can be used to amazing effect in the classroom. The concept is simple. A teacher can create presentations that can contain Quizzes, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on. They can also access over 7K k-12 standards-aligned lessons.
Padlet is an online virtual “bulletin” board, where students and teachers can collaborate, reflect, share links and pictures, in a secure location. Padlet is an extremely easy-to-use tool that allows learners to collaborate online by posting text, images, links, documents, videos and voice recordings.
QNL provides its registered users free access to online resources that cover a wide range of subject areas that cater to the information needs and diverse interests of users from all age groups. Through these online resources, you can download e-books, academic papers, audiobooks, newspaper articles, magazines, or stream music and videos. All Qatari citizens and residents of Qatar are eligible to register at Qatar National Library. If you are not a member yet, please register now.
4. SPECIAL AREAS
Online learning music highlights
5. articles or Videos
by Global Academy
by Family Fun Shanghai
School Closures: what about Young Learners? (1 min. video)
By Digital Creativity Club
6. ONLINE LEARNING IN ACTION, by TEACHERS
Week Overview by Jon Fields, 3 min.
Riffa Views, Bahrain
How to Do Online Teaching, 18 min.
by Kylie Horsfall (Grade 1 teacher)
Overview of the Day, ELA lessons, 5 min
by Margo Tripsa
7. Google Slide Presentations and PLANNING Templates
Session 1: Getting Started
8. HOW TO VIDEOS
SCREENCASTIFY
ZOOM, linked here
Google Classroom quick tutorials playlist!!!
by Google for Education
by Google for Education
CLASS DOJO, sTUDENT PORTFOLIO
Teacher view
CLASS DOJO, SHARE student work
How parents can help students share content using their phones
Features awesome tools such as: the Zoom Scheduler Chrome extension, the chat feature, the whiteboard feature.