Sharing Diigo Links and Resources (weekly)

Another batch of amazing blog posts from this past week:

• Free Technology for Teachers: AudioMass – A Free, Registration-free Audio Editor

  AudioMass is a new online audio editing tool that I recently learned about on Product Hunt. AudioMass doesn’t require any registration in order to use it. In fact, there isn’t even an option to register.

• Classroom Games and Tech – Ed-Tech to Engage and Inspire: Game Design Tip and Activities – Game Design Club 2020

  This week I posted my final game design tip to the club and I posted a couple game design activities. The tip as shown in the video lends itself toward board and card games, though I have read the same advice given to designers of digital games.

• ‘Days on the Hill’ will go online this year, widening audience for Puget Sound talks | Puget Sound Institute

  Folks who care about salmon, killer whales and the Puget Sound ecosystem will get a chance to participate in the annual discussion known as Puget Sound Day on the Hill. But this year the event will be called “2020 Virtual Puget Sound Days on the Hil…

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create Whiteboard Videos With Zoom

  One of the things that I often mention in my webinars and workshops is the idea of getting to know an instructional technology tool well so that you can use it in many ways. A good example of that is found when dive into all of the ways that you can…

• 10 Key Education Recommendations for Reopening the K-12 Classroom

  Homeroom has taken on a literal meaning over the past two months. Parents, while always their children’s first and foremost educators, have had to fully embrace homeschooling as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Learning Through Video Games Doesn’t Have To Be Dull : NPR

  When I was in high school, the best way I could describe myself was as a parent’s worst nightmare: I didn’t care about my education, didn’t do homework, and was known to sleep in class. My SAT score was so bad that I still don’t know how I did! My v…

• Technology In Education – e-Learning Infographics

  Educational technology comes in many forms including websites, apps, and online courses, and is effective when used both inside the classroom alongside other teaching methods and at home for self-study.

• The Best Books for Middle School According to My Students 2020 – Pernille Ripp

  I didn’t want to let a global pandemic stand in the way of gathering the titles of the amazing books my 7th graders loved this year. This is the fifth year that my students have gathered what they deem the very best books that they read this year an…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Five Screencastify Settings You Should Know How to Use

  Screencastify is an excellent tool for creating instructional videos on your Chromebook, Mac, or Windows computer.

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create Whiteboard Videos in Seesaw

  Seesaw is my go-to tool for making digital portfolios. I like it because it’s a versatile platform that can be used for more than just portfolio creation.

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: HeadUP

  HeadUp is a excellent new site for digital storytelling that I just found out about. Once a user signs up they can create dynamic looking stories that contains, images, videos, links, and more.

• How to Quickly Create, Send, & Translate a Parent Newsletter – Teacher Reboot Camp

  “At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.” – Jane D. Hull A few weeks ago I sent my first parent newsletter to 400+ parents.

• 5 Resources to Find Tons of Free Fun Unplugged Coding Activities! – Teacher Reboot Camp

  “Falling in love with code means falling in love with problem solving and being a part of a forever ongoing conversation.” – Kathryn Barrett In a previous post I described why all students should participate in the upcoming Hour of Code event, which…

• 8 Top Tips and Tons of Resources for Supporting English Learners with Technology – Teacher Reboot Camp

  I’ve worked with language learners in over 20 countries. I’ve seen first hand how technology can be used in incredible ways to motivate and engage language learners of any age.

• 7 great reads that are gonna make my brain bigger | History Tech

  Most of you already know about the History Tech summer reading program. If you just starting hanging around, a quick recap. For years, I’ve been making a list of books that I plan to read between the end of school in May and back to school in August.

• 12 Awesome Ideas for Ending the School Year – Teacher Reboot Camp

  The end of the school year is approaching fast! Before the year ends I aim to get students to review, reflect, and connect. Some of your students are probably super excited to begin their summers or might be restless from testing.

• How Do Teachers and Schools Develop Young Innovators? – Teacher Reboot Camp

  On Tuesday I was honored to deliver the afternoon keynote for the #KYGoDigital Summer Tour Conference, The Keys to Fostering a Culture of Innovation! Students Who S.A.I.L.

• 10+ QR Code Activities to Inspire Curiosity and Engage Learners – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Recently I presented a webinar for Simple K12, 10+ QR Code Activities to Inspire Curiosity and Active Learning. Below are the slides with example activities and resources.

• Go On Incredibly Fun Learning Adventures With These 10+ Amazing Green Screen Ideas! – Teacher Reboot Camp

  A green screen in the classroom helps spark student creativity and imagination for any subject! Last year I tried a very basic and cheap green screen with my 2nd to 5th graders.

• 7 Recommended Hands-On STEM Learning Products – Teacher Reboot Camp

  “Learning is not a spectator sport.” – Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann (1996) On this blog I’ve shared thousands of web tools, apps, and resources that are free or offer a freemium option for teachers.

• 10+ Plugged and Unplugged Coding Activities for Hour of Code! – Teacher Reboot Camp

  December 9 to 15th is the annual Hour of Code event. Coding is such an important skill that enables students to learn writing and math along with any other subject matter. Coding also inspires students to invent and innovate. Students also learn how…

• Tools, Apps, and Resources to Create and Send Meaningful Greetings – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Tis’ the season for students to express gratitude and care for others by creating and sending greetings. Students can craft messages for their peers, family members, teachers, and school staff. Students can also participate in digital greeting excha…

• Tips and Tools to Support Students in Publishing Their Own Digital Storybooks – Teacher Reboot Camp

  I still remember the storybooks I created when I was younger. They were made by stapling or gluing construction paper over notebook paper and illustrating the pages with crayons and marker.

• Student Goal-Setting with Digital Vision Boards – Teacher Reboot Camp

  A new year is around the corner, which is a great time to encourage students to create a vision board where they visualize their personal, academic and professional goals.

• Express Learning with Animated Character Videos! – Teacher Reboot Camp

  A fun way and safe way for students to share their knowledge is through animated character videos. The web tools below will get your students started with creating these videos. Students will be able to choose characters and in some cases create the…

• Lifelong Learning with Social Bookmarking Tools and Apps – Teacher Reboot Camp

  One way to inspire students to be lifelong learners is to teach them how to collect, categorize, curate, and tag resources with a social bookmarking tool or app. I have listed some of my favorites for students and teachers below. Social bookmarking …

• Comic Creation Tools to Engage Learners – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Students of all ages enjoy learning with comics and creating comics. When students create comics they use props, scenery, dialogue, text, and characters to visualize and contextualize vocabulary and knowledge.

• Formative Assessment Tools and Apps – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Ongoing assessment is necessary for student success. These assessments provide data on our learners’ progress and knowledge of the content.

• Recommended Hashtags to Discover Top Edtech Tools and Apps – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Many people ask me how I keep up with the latest technology trends and find so many free resources to share on Twitter (@ShellTerrell) and on this blog.

• The Thinking and Creativity That Goes Into Game Design – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Students can design a game in any subject to assess their peers. When students design games they use a lot of creativity and critical thinking skills. Students must imagine and design worlds, characters, levels, sound effects, game elements, and mor…

• Motivate Students with Digital Badges – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Motivate students with digital badges. The Mac Arthur Foundation defines a digital badge as “an assessment and credentialing mechanism that is housed and managed online. Badges are designed to make visible and validate learning in both formal and in…

• Document Learning in a Digital Portfolio – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Digital portfolios are powerful learning tools for students of all ages. A digital portfolio allows students to upload and keep a record of work over time and share this work with family members and school staff regularly.

• Missions and Goals to Inspire Teachers and Students! #EveryChildEveryDay Chat Resources – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Today I was the guest author for the Foundations, Inc. (@Foundations_Inc) #EveryChildEveryDay Twitter chat. We shared ways to inspire teachers and students to set and achieve goals and missions. I believe growth in steps is the key to personal, spir…

• Video Project Ideas, Resources, and Tools – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Students of all ages enjoy producing their own videos. Each year I meet younger and younger learners who have their own YouTube Channels. Not surprisingly, Forbes reported that the highest paid YouTube star of 2018 was 7 year-old Ryan of the Ryan To…

• Help Students Soar! Social and Emotional Learning Resources – Teacher Reboot Camp

  We want to inspire our students to transform the world with their ideas, creativity, and knowledge. Innovation is a difficult journey. The greatest inventions that transformed the world took thousands of attempts and years of frustration and problem…

• Find the Right Tools for Student Projects – Teacher Reboot Camp

  The majority of our students use technology daily to learn and share their voice, creativity, ideas, and passion with the world! When we integrate technology effectively into the curriculum students discover how to use technology to problem solve, c…

• Digital Learning Theories and Frameworks For Future Ready Classrooms – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Technology impacts every aspect of our students’ lives and will continue to play an important role in their lives. Teachers who integrate technology effectively help their students realize the potential we have to transform the world with our use of…

• Ways to Learn with Technology – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Technology surrounds our students and gives them a platform to share with a global audience. Technology is how our students learn, communicate, entertain themselves, collaborate, and seek advice.

• Inspiring Ideas and Resources from the #STEM4INNOVATION Conference – Teacher Reboot Camp

  “People can’t only design with their heads. They have to do it with their hands, too.” – Dr. Karan Watson, STEM 4 Innovation Keynote Speaker Recently, I attended the incredible STEM 4 Innovation Conference at Texas A&M University.

• How to Inspire the Next World Changers – Teacher Reboot Camp

  “Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.

• Paper vs. Screens by Christine McDonnell, CEO at Codelicious – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Traditional coding activities dictate that students sit in front of laptops or tablets, working to develop a program or a game. This approach, however, does not resonate with all types of students and learners. Luckily, there are many different ways…

• How Do We Encourage More Young Women to Innovate and Transform the World – Teacher Reboot Camp

  I am the mother of a 3 year-old girl. Each day I think of ways to help her develop into an intelligent, independent, unapologetic, brave, creative, compassionate, and resilient human being.

• How to Quickly Translate Your Live Session in Multiple Languages and Other Google Meet Must-Haves! – Teacher Reboot Camp

  If you are using Google Meet for connecting with students then the links below will help you make this a more accessible and engaging experience. Please note that some of these tips and tricks work for GSuite Edu accounts.

• Design Amazing Online Learning Experiences Quickly with These Choice Menu Templates – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Design is especially important in online learning and one key to student motivation and engagement. Designing an engaging online experience doesn’t have to take a lot of time.

• Make a Deeper Connection with Virtual Student Check-ins! – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Connection is a key factor to student success in an online environment. Do your students feel connected to you, the instructor, the learning material, and their peers? Connection in a physical classroom is facilitated by real-time face-to-face inter…

• Teacher Zen During Distance Learning – Teacher Reboot Camp

  Distance learning has transformed the routines and lives of all stakeholders- students, families, and educators. How do we reduce the stress and find some peace and balance? I recently presented for the Minnesota Distance Learning Summit, Teacher Ze…

• Remove Background from Image – remove.bg

  Remove Image Background 100% Automatically and Free No image? Try one of these: or try one of these By uploading an image or URL you agree to our Terms of Service. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Servic…

• Teach with Magic – Time Warp Games

  Time Warps are point and click adventure games where students make choices leading to branching paths. They require lots of reading but students can’t get enough!

• Learning Might be Overrated – Ideas and Thoughts

  The past 6 weeks have initiated a great deal of conversation about learning, schools and education. If we were to dive in, those three things are somewhat separate and unique. Learning is generally agreed upon as the seminal idea.

• Ways To Use Pokemon Go In The Classroom | Teaching Ideas

• How Washington school districts are succeeding and struggling since coronavirus shut them down | The Seattle Times

• Final Course Evaluation with Google Forms – Mari Venturino

  One thing I really love about my classroom is that feedback is a two-way street. I try to collect formal and informal feedback from my students as often as I give them feedback. Informal feedback may be an exit ticket question or walking around and …

• The 12 Indicators: #1 – Empower Students to Pursue Their Passions

• Schools Are Opening Worldwide, Providing a Model for the U.S. | Edutopia

• Fit You Seek. Run You Must. 5K/10K Virtual Challenge.

  Celebrate with fans around the galaxy, by accepting the Fit You Seek. Run You Must.

• Bigfoot…The Social Distancing Champion’s Running Challenge

  We all know that Bigfoot is the social distancing champion. Accept his virtual challenge and get awesome commemorative gear mailed to your door. Your participation will help support our US food bank partners and your sanity. Here is how it works… …

• Deepfakes Are Going To Wreak Havoc On Society. We Are Not Prepared.

  Last month during ESPN’s hit documentary series The Last Dance, State Farm debuted a TV commercial that has become one of the most widely discussed ads in recent memory. It appeared to show footage from 1998 of an ESPN analyst making shockingly accu…

• breakout-edu-lost-in-time

  Download the Minecraft world attached to this lesson. After logging in to the game, do the following 4. The world will show up in your list in Minecraft Education Edition – Click on it to launch the world.

• blood-cycle-escape-room-2

  Print Lesson Rework Lesson Guiding Ideas • Students will be working in groups of five. • The task is to get out of the escape room. Student Activities • The only way to open the door is to place blocks in the right order – as the blood cycle.

• escape-the-pyramid

  The students can play in groups of three-four members in the same world or individually. Inside the world there is no written instructions. As a teacher you can place a NPC or a board to introduce the adventure to the students.

• New Video: “What Other Countries Can Teach U.S. Schools About Reopening” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  NickyPe / Pixabay Here’s a new Newsy video I’m adding to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL:

• End of the Year Exit Ticket: Evaluating Online Learning |

  As the year comes to a close, I encourage teachers to take a moment and collect feedback from students about their experiences learning online in the last few months. We do not know what fall 2020 will look like–in person, online, or a combination o…

• 10 easy ways to clean up your Google Classroom – Ditch That Textbook

  Consider creating some folders outside of the classroom folder to move some files over that you want to keep and find easily. However, don’t get “delete happy” and be sure to follow #4 before you begin moving and reorganizing your Google Drive.

• My Five Tech Tools with the Capacity to Make a Huge Difference

• Privacy Considerations Checklist – EdTech Guidance

• Escape Room Puzzle Ideas for the Science Classroom | Kesler Science

• Free Technology for Teachers: Five Resources for Teaching and Learning About Copyright

  In this week’s Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week newsletter I shared a short guide to finding and using media for use in classroom projects like videos, slideshows, and podcasts.

• Great Books of 2020…So Far – Pernille Ripp

  It continues to amaze me how many fantastic books are accessible to us as readers. 2020 started off strong and continued to amaze as more books made their way into my hands.

• Amid #Covid: Gift to her peers from a formerly depressed teen author – NetFamilyNews.org

  I can’t let Mental Health Month go by without a blog post on the subject, especially this year. So this one’s not about tech, media or the Internet. It’s about – and by – 19-year-old Ruby Walker, author of Advice I Ignored: Stories and Wisdom from a…

• What is Unschooling?

• A Quick Introduction to Homeschooling

• Geek Links: Young Inventor Challenge – GeekDad

  Geek Links are cool stories that we’ve found elsewhere on the internet that we think our readers will love too.

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Timestamp Your YouTube Videos

  When you’re publishing videos that are longer than five or six minutes on your YouTube channel it can be helpful to viewers to add some timestamps to the video’s description. Including timestamps in the description lets your viewers click to jump to…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Updated – How to Use EDpuzzle to Create Video Lessons

  In my previous post I wrote about and included a video about adding timestamps to longer videos that you post on your YouTube channel. Rather than just talk about it, I took my own advice and added timestamps to one of my longest and most popular vi…

• Reopening School: What It Might Look Like | Cult of Pedagogy

  I don’t need to give you much background here: As you all know, schools have been closed worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and in the same way that cities are at various stages of reopening businesses, schools are doing the same thing,…

• Cliff Mass Weather Blog: What is the streamflow outlook for this summer?

  Announcement: I will be doing a short weather forecast followed by live answers to your questions on Tuesday and Friday at noon using Facebook Live.

• The Next Ten Days Are Big Ones For The Possibility Of Re-Opening Schools In The Fall | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  This week is a big one when it comes to the possible re-opening of schools in the fall. On Wednesday, the Los Angeles County Office of Education will unveil its “framework” for school re-opening.

• Your food choices affect Earth’s climate | Science News for Students

• What are the benefits of distance learning?

  The rise of technology in today’s schools has brought new opportunities for both teaching and learning. Most modern classrooms have long had access to computer labs that have allowed students to learn essential digital literacy skills in preparation…

• A Principal’s Reflections: Work Smarter, Not Harder

  I have a secret to share. In my humble opinion, I am not very smart. While others might disagree, such as my mom, I pride myself on being extremely resourceful. However, this was not always my strength.

• SlidesMania | Free Google Slides themes and PowerPoint templates.

  Free PowerPoint Templates and Google Slides Themes This website uses cookies to improve your experience. If you continue surfing, we will assume you are ok with it. You can read more here.

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Here are more great blog posts from last week:

• Count Up Checkboxes in Google Sheets – Teacher Tech

  My favorite part of Google Sheets is inserting checkboxes! WICKED USEFUL FOR TEACHERS! My daughter is helping me with my YouTube thumbnails (check out her handiwork and subscribe to my channel

• Control Alt Achieve: How Your Students can use Google Drawings to Create Greeting Cards

  Google Apps has loads of awesome tools, but one thing that often gets mentioned as missing is a desktop publishing app. If you want to create brochures, newsletters, flyers, greeting cards, and such, there really isn’t a dedicated desktop publishing…

• Roll Up Whiteboard with Marker | Whitey Board Company – Writeyboard

  repositionable whiteboard + marker

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Search for Matching & Similar Documents Submitted in Google Classroom

  Earlier this week a reader asked me if there was a way to quickly scan across all of the documents his students submit in Google Classroom to check for elements of copying between students.

• How To Make Your Online Lessons Irresistible To Students – Smart Classroom Management

  Although the school year is quickly coming to a close, chances are that Zoom and other live video platforms will continue to play a role next school year. This isn’t good news.

• THE CIRCLE

  ORDER OF RANKS

• Cliff Mass Weather Blog: What is the difference between partly sunny and partly cloudy?

  Twice today I was asked about the difference between partly cloudy and partly sunny. And that inquiry is one of the most frequent I get, for reasons I do not understand. OK…let’s settle this for once and for all.

• Google Arts and Culture needs to be in your teacher tool belt | History Tech

  I’ve seen it so many times. And you probably do it every day, without even realizing it.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Foster Connection and Interaction in Webinars

  Some new to conducting online webinars may feel a void in this environment. Unlike teaching face-to-face you can’t read the room the same way. It may be difficult to pick up on non-verbal cues. You can’t walk over to someone and look over their shou…

• The #1 Most Requested Desmos Feature Right Now, and What We Could Do Instead – dy/dan

  When schools started closing months ago, we heard two loud requests from teachers in our community. They wanted: Those sounded like unambiguously good ideas, whether schools were closed or not. Good pedagogy. Good technology. Good math. We made both.

• Live from NCCE Archive: “Google Tour Creator: Embed VR Into YOUR Lessons!” – NCCE’s Tech Savvy Teacher Blog

  Thanks to all that attended Live from NCCE on Thursday, May 14, 2020, on “Google Tour Creator: Embed VR Into YOUR Lessons!” with special guest Paul Zimmerman! Below is an archive of that live event.

• Earth’s Ever-Changing Surface | Lesson Plan | PBS LearningMedia

• Activities to keep preschoolers learning during a pandemic – CNN

  Three weeks into our extended coronavirus spring break at home, my husband wanted to discuss what we should be teaching our 4-year-old son. Masada Siegel is journalist and a crisis communications consultant.

• Home | The Ron Clark Academy

• MTG Cardsmith: A Magic: The Gathering Custom Card Maker

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Quickly Create a Slideshow With Google Photos and Slides

  Earlier this week someone sent me a question on Twitter seeking information about an add-on that lets you import batches of photos into Google Slides and have those photos automatically placed onto individual slides. The add-on that I’ve used for th…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Tactiq – Record the Captions in Google Meet

  Tactiq is a new Google Chrome extension that lets you record the captions generated by the automatic captioning tool in Google Meet. You can use it to record and save all captions or select just some captions to save.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Pixabay Offers Free Music to Use and Reuse

  Pixabay is one of the resources that I frequently include in my recommendations for sources of images and video clips to use in slideshow and video projects. This morning I got a notice from Pixabay informing me of Pixabay’s audio collection.

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• Creating a BITMOJI Class Photo by Greers Fantastic Fourth | TpT

  I created this fun class picture when I heard we wouldn’t be coming together as a class anymore. I asked all parents to create and send me their students BITMOJI and then created this class picture.

• Kids Are So Over Zoom. Here’s What To Do About It. | HuffPost Life

  In the past month, my 5-year-old has gone from being excited about video calls for school and virtual “play dates” to basically hating it all. Sometimes he’s into it — like yesterday, when he was totally engrossed in a 30-minute math class with his …

• Free Technology for Teachers: Move Items from One Google Account to Another

  It’s that time of year again when some teachers will be leaving one school district for another. With that move comes the need to move your digital resources as well as your physical resources.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Certify’em Adds Two Helpful Features for Sending Certificates When Students Complete Google Forms Quizzes

  Certify’em is a Google Forms add-on that I’ve been using and recommending for a few years. Certify’em makes it easy to automatically send certificates to students when they get a minimum score on a quiz conducted with Google Forms.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Virtual Bitmoji Classroom Help

  Have you created your Bitmoji classroom yet? If you have not and you want to, then you’re in the right place. Here you’ll find an article and two videos that outline the process. I’ll also share how you can check out Bitmoji classrooms on social med…

• Awesome teacher summer: PD bingo choice board – Ditch That Textbook

  Summer is a great time to learn what YOU want to learn. This PD bingo choice board gives you LOTS of options! ​Summer is a time for rejuvenation and relaxation. It’s a time to focus on our lives outside of education and recharge.

• Kathy Schrock’s Kaffeeklatsch: Differentiation strategies to support learners

  This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog “Kathy Schrock’s Katch of the Month” in May 2018 and is re-posted here with permission. _______________________ Differentiation of instruction for all students in your classroom is som…

• Kathy Schrock’s Kaffeeklatsch: Creating with Discovery Education

  For the past few years, I have focused my energies on supporting teachers who are creating assessments, both formative and summative, which target student’s higher order thinking skills.

• Kathy Schrock’s Kaffeeklatsch: Thinking processes and STEM

  The hundreds of quality STEM-related videos and materials in the Discovery Education online collection make it easy to find content to use for your lessons and units. However, take time for students to develop a solid thinking process before startin…

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Litehouse

  Litehouse is an innovative new site for creating stunningly beautiful digital stories. Litehouse incorporates a easy-to-use story editor that lets users add: text, audio, images, maps, are more to create a dynamic story.

• At age 6, he and his classmates fled Mount St. Helens. 40 years later this reporter recalls that day | NW News Network

• Naraview

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• Free Technology for Teachers: Naraview – A Good Way to Challenge Students to Make Connections Between Topics

  In last week’s episode of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff Rushton shared a neat site called Naraview. Those who stayed on for the “overtime” of the webinar got a detailed overview of the service from one of its designers.

• Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: 5 End of the Year #RemoteLearning Celebration Ideas

  This school year has been anything but normal. Many educators have settled into a grove of creating the best learning experiences they can for their students while still providing some meaning during distance learning.

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Circly

  *Circly’s collaboration features make it an ideal tool for “remote learning” while schools are closed down due to the virus. Students can even use it to do group projects from home.

• End of the Year Project: What Are YOU Curious About? |

  The last couple of months have been exhausting on a lot of levels as teachers and students shift to online learning. I would venture to guess that everyone is ready for a much-deserved summer break.

• Seven Teacher-Tested Ways to Find Renewal During Distance Learning – John Spencer

  Last week, I created the following goofy video as a reminder about the differences between teaching in-person and teaching from home: While this video is a little goofy, it points to a reality that teaching from home is vastly different from teachin…

• 40 years later, Mt. St. Helens looms as a marvel and threat – Los Angeles Times

  By Seattle Bureau Chief TOUTLE, Wash. — On the morning of May 18, 1980, an earthquake shook Mt. St. Helens and the mountain’s north face collapsed in one of the largest debris avalanches ever recorded.

• Ask an Astronomer — on Video

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Convert a PDF Into a Google Document

  On Friday during Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff someone asked if there is a tool that I would recommend for converting a PDF into a Google Doc. Fortunately, you can do that without having to use any third-party tools.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Which Video Conferencing Platform is Right for Your School?

  · 4 #EdTech Blogs to Bookmark · 9 Must Read Blogs for Innovative Teachers · 10 Digital Citizenship Bloggers to Follow · 10 Education blogs worth following – eSchool News · 11 Ed Tech Bloggers to Follow · 20 Best Blogs in Instructional Technology · 2…

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Use Kahoot in Google Classroom

  This is the time of year when many of us are looking for fun ways to conduct end-of-year review sessions with our students. Playing Kahoot quiz games is one of the most popular means of doing that.

• A Principal’s Reflections: 8 Key Focus Areas for Developing a Re-Entry Plan

  The COVID19 pandemic has radically disrupted both society and education as we know it. The chances of many things going back to the way they were are slim. I can say with confidence that a mentality of TTWWADI (that’s the way we’ve always done it) w…

• What if students had a choice in their daily class schedule? – Practice What You Teach

  Typically, in May, as the current school year winds down, I start to make plans for the following year.

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Here are some amazing blog posts from last week:

• Use the SAME Google Form to Poll – Teacher Tech

  During a live session with students there are several options for how you poll students. A quick and dirty is to reuse the same Google Form repeatedly. After submitting the Form there is a link that says “Submit another response.

• Edutopia

  This flexibility to make their own hours is also giving students a chance to exercise, take breaks, or even be bored, all of which research shows is beneficial.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: An Innovative Vision for the Future of Schools

  The Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidance on reopening of schools will require innovative thinking to re-imagine how schools may open in the upcoming school year and beyond. The key will be agility and flexibility. That’s because we’ve learned t…

• How To Increase Student Online Participation By 50 Percent – Smart Classroom Management

  It’s been a tough go, this online learning. Many students are checked out.

• 118 Best Digital Tools for Educators images in 2020 | Educational technology, Education, Media literacy

• Game-Based Learning Design Competition – Legends of Learning

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Share Audio and Video in Google Classroom Without YouTube or SoundCloud

  Earlier this week I had a reader ask me for advice on sharing videos in Google Classroom with her students without having to use YouTube. My suggestion was to simply upload the videos to Google Classroom as either announcements or as assignments.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Ways to Use Wakelet

  One of the reasons that Wakelet has become popular in schools in the last couple of years is that it can be used for a wide range of activities. It’s also popular because it can be used in a wide range of grade levels and subject areas.

• Snowman Army as Live Streamed on MakeCode Mixer channel | We Code MakeCode

  This video was live streamed on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 on MakeCode’s Mixer channel https://ift.tt/3cCJbFl. We will live stream a MakeCode show every Wednesday at noon Pacific for the next several Wednesdays. Our shows include MakeCode for Minecra…

• https://equitymaps.com

• Webjets.io – The new way to collect, organize and share anything

• PALMS Backchannel Chat | The new alternative to Todaysmeet

• 2 new papers spell a turning point for digital safety & citizenship: Part 2 – NetFamilyNews.org

  The timing struck me. Though it seems all of life is at an inflection point now, in the middle of a pandemic, two new papers that represent a pivotal moment for digital safety and citizenship education are published almost at the same time.

• How to Make a Movie – Learn about film

• How To Make A Slideshow Video With Photos And Music – The Edublogger

  Slideshow style videos can be a powerful way to bring together the best of your school experiences and share with others. Millions of school and college students will be graduating in the coming months. Given the current pandemic, many graduation ce…

• How You Can Use E-Sports and Gaming to Engage Students in Campus Life | Presence

• How Esports Can Support Equity • Teched Up Teacher

• Five Quick Distance Learning Activities For Teachers In A Pinch • Teched Up Teacher

• How Do I Learn Best – Setting Students Up For Learning Success Beyond Our Classroom – Pernille Ripp

  I never planned on teaching through a global pandemic. I doubt anyone did.

• How Esports Can Support Equity • Teched Up Teacher

  This was an article I originally wrote for Tech & Learning magazine. They’re a great resource for teachers looking to keep up on the latest edtech and ideas. Check them out!

• Free Technology for Teachers: An Important Setting for Using Audio and Video in Google Slides

  Last fall Google finally added an option to insert audio files into Google Slides without the need for any third-party add-ons. While it wasn’t as good as some people hoped it would be, it was still great news for Google Slides users. There are some…

• Video: “What the 1918 flu pandemic can teach us” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  rottonara / Pixabay I’m adding this video to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS:

• The Risks – Know Them – Avoid Them

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Add Background Music to Screencastify Videos

  Last week I published an article about how to extract the audio from your videos. A related question that I got from a reader was about how to add background music to Screencastify videos.

• Free Technology for Teachers: The Geometry of Castles – A Math Lesson in Google Earth

  In the web browser version of Google Earth there is a section called Voyager. Within the Voyager section you’ll find lots of pre-made tours, quizzes, and activities. One of those activities is called The Geometry of Castles.

• 30+ FREE PowerPoint education templates + how to make them

  Templates are productivity boosters. They can help us get more done in less time. They’re also great lesson design frameworks. They help us craft a path for students to take their thinking — or for them to guide their creating.

• The Building Blocks of an Online Lesson |

  Even though teaching online may feel like a different animal than teaching face-to-face, there are many similarities in terms of the building blocks of a lesson. The tools teachers use to engage students online are indeed different.

• Super Basic: Create a Minecraft Lesson – Teacher Tech

  Engagement matters for making a lesson memorable. While nothing is engaging for 100% of students, we do know that Minecraft is very engaging for many students. Heck, I personally spend hours playing Minecraft and lose all track of time.

• Learning at Home with Minecraft

• why-grading-policies-for-equity-matter-more-than-ever

  Every other day, a McKinney-Vento program coordinator with San Leandro Unified School District travels to the marina on the district’s eastern boundary. There, she drops off meals, hygiene kits and school supplies to families who are sheltering in t…

• “Science Instruction in the Age of the Coronavirus” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  Science Instruction in the Age of the Coronavirus is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four science educators share their experiences adapting to online instruction, including through collaborative learning and the use of onli…

• Vocabulary Connections with Padlet – Technology Pursuit

  When learning new vocabulary, it’s important for students to link that vocabulary to something that they already know. That’s why the ubiquitous Frayer Model includes a square for students to provide or draw examples.

• Classroom Games and Tech – Ed-Tech to Engage and Inspire: Game Designer Interview and Original Digital Games Activity

  This is part of a series of posts about the Game Design Club I am running for middle schoolers while school is closed.

• Flash Feedback: How to Provide More Meaningful Feedback in Less Time | Cult of Pedagogy

  This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. My study of feedback began in earnest on a sunny afternoon during my third year of…

• Accountability to What’s Important in Education – George Couros

  In this post, I was able to share some thoughts on a tweet by Weston Kieschnickin the post below.  You can also check the expanded ideas on my podcast, as well as YouTube. Later this week, I will post a conversation I had with Weston on this topic a…

• Just how contagious is COVID-19? This chart puts it in perspective. | Popular Science

  Demystifying the epidemiology terms that help us understand new diseases like COVID-19.

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• 7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback

  On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to education, and we were lucky enough for him to contribute his content to our site. Occasionally, we are going to go back and re-share his mo…

• Grace is Greater Than Grades | Shake Up Learning

  In the midst of the coronavirus chaos, the anxiety, the fears, and the extra time at home, I would like to come back to an idea that Jennifer Pearson shared on a special BONUS episode of the Shake Up Learning Show–grace.

• 4 Must-Have Google Classroom Skills for Teachers | Shake Up Learning

  Google Classroom is quite a robust platform for teachers and students to communicate, collaborate, and manage assignments digitally. Google is continually updating and giving us new features that make it an even more powerful tool.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Ideas for Building Virtual Tours With Google’s Tour Creator

  Google’s VR Tour Creator makes it possible for anyone who has a Google account and a computer to create their own virtual reality tours to view and share in Google Expeditions.

• How To Avoid Parent Complaints About Online Learning – Smart Classroom Management

  Online learning increases the possibility of receiving complaints from parents—because they’re now able to see everything their child sees. They can judge and dissect every lesson and assignment as it’s given.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways to Convert Video into Audio

  Earlier this week I had a colleague ask me how she could extract the audio from a video that she had made. Some video editing tools, including iMovie and WeVideo, have an option to export just the audio from your video projects.

• Control Alt Achieve: You can take it with you! Transfer your Gmail and Drive with Google Takeout for Schools

  Change is a part of life: Maybe you are a high school senior or a college student and you are graduating. Or perhaps you are a student who is moving to a new school. You might be a teacher who is taking a job at a new school district.

• Climate Science Assessment Tasks | Science for All

  The Phenomenal Assessment site features three assessment tasks created for the Climate Science Proviso which has provided climate science education funding in Washington state. You will find an elementary task, a middle school task and a high school…

• Young artists show creativity in a plea to reduce harmful trash in the ocean | Puget Sound Institute

  Student artists from across the country are calling attention to the hazards of human trash that washes into the ocean, killing sea creatures large and small.

• Control Alt Achieve: Remote Learning & Pear Deck Webinar

  For those not familiar, Pear Deck is an awesome add-on for Google Slides that allows you to add interactive elements to your slideshows.When you run the slideshow through the Pear Deck add-on the students can join the presentation with a code and fo…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Use Whiteboards in Google Meet Without Screensharing

  On Monday I published a blog post about a new online whiteboard tool called Whiteboard Fi.

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Blur Faces and Objects in Your Videos

  One of the topics that I frequently receive questions about is privacy when posting videos online. One option is to post your videos as unlisted or private videos on YouTube or Vimeo. Another option is to blur faces and objects in your videos.

• How to Teach Social-Emotional Learning When Students Aren’t in School – Education Week

  Tens of millions of students are dealing with massive upheaval to their educations and daily lives with their schools shuttered indefinitely to thwart the spread of the coronavirus.

• 7 Important Questions Before Implementing Digital Portfolios – George Couros

  Digital portfolios have been something that I have been work on for over ten years, and I am very passionate about not only the product it can create but, more importantly, the process. Having a space to share my learning and reflections has been po…

• 4 Ways to Craft Choice Menus in Distance Learning Classes – John Spencer

  I have three kids ranging from older elementary to high school. Each one of them is handling distance learning differently. My daughter, who is also the youngest, initially felt overwhelmed at the list of assignments that popped up each Monday and t…

• Learning math through story: Examples from one teacher’s classroom – Ditch That Textbook

  ​This post is written by Mandi Tolen a math teacher from Missouri. You can connect with her on Twitter @MandiTolenEDU and check out her blog infinitelyteaching.

• Storytelling: Bringing the power of stories to your teaching – Ditch That Textbook

  Great stories have a natural structure and flow. There are several great frameworks we can use when we teach — and when students create with their learning. The three-act structure is a common story arc used in books, theater, TV and even jokes.

• Climate Clock | Human Impact Lab

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Quickly Map and Connect Spreadsheet Data

  Earlier today a reader emailed me with a great question about Google Maps. She wanted to map a set of addresses and then quickly determine the shortest route between all of those places.

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create Complete Sentence Requirements in Google Forms

  This afternoon I held an informal webinar for a small group of people who were interested in learning some G Suite tips and tricks. Response validation in Google Forms was one of the things that I showed toward the end of that webinar.

• Climate Clock | Science for All

  I’m assuming you are coming to grips with a global pandemic and the introduction of murder hornets. So there is no better time to add on by sharing the Climate Clock. This site features a real-time clock that displays the total global warming to dat…

• Online PD: How to Support Home-Based Science Learning | Science for All

  The STEM Teaching Tools team/site recently hosted a Zoom professional development session titled- ClimeTime Professional Learning Session: How to Support Home-Based Science Learning During School Closures…it’s a catchy title to be sure.

• It’s Time For Mastery Learning • Teched Up Teacher

  Once upon a time, I was terrified that I wouldn’t pass my drivers test. I wasn’t good at parallel parking to begin with, but as I waited for my instructor to pick me up I realized that I had been practicing on the wrong side of the road.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Loom – Create Screencasts on Your iPad

  Loom is a good screencasting that I’ve written about a handful of times over the last couple of years. Amongst it’s many features, Loom offers a Chrome extension that makes it easy to respond to an email with a video.

• Control Alt Achieve: Adding Audio to Pear Deck Google Slides Activities

  Also, if you would like to learn more, I am excited to be offering a free 1-hour webinar on “Remote Learning and Pear Deck” where I will go over the fundamentals of Pear Deck for asynchronous learning, share best practices, highlight favorite featur…

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: DOGOnews

  DOGOnews is an excellent site for creating Reading assignments for grades K-8 that can then be integrated into Google Classroom. This is done through 1000s of curated educated articles in a wide variety of subjects (i.e. Science, History, Current Ev…

• 7 Strategies Designed to Increase Student Engagement in Synchronous Online Discussions Using Video Conferencing |

  One of the primary roles that a teacher plays in an online class is the facilitation of learning. Facilitation is the teacher’s ability to clearly communicate learning objectives and support learners as they make progress toward those objectives.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Free Webinar – A Framework for Using Educational Technology

  Whenever I’m a guest on a podcast I always asked some variation on the question, “how do you decide what to write about?” The answer is simple, I try to look at new technology through the framework of discovery, discussion, and demonstration.

• seven-distance-learning-priorities-to-consider-before-reopening-schools

  When U.S. schools initially closed in March, distance learning emerged as a way to keep kids learning. Classroom teachers scrambled to learn how to put lessons online and tens of thousands of Chromebooks and other devices were distributed in a matte…

• Free Wordle (Word Cloud) Generators – Featuring A New Tool

• Students as Content Creators in Minecraft | AltspaceVR

  PRESENTATION: Minecraft has become an amazing tool for use in education. It allows us to leverage student expertise while meeting our learning outcomes.

• The Power of Class Rituals | Mike Kaechele

  The Covid 19 pandemic has turned the world upside down, changing life as we know in ways never dreamed possible. The only comparison that I have is dystopian or disaster movies. In all of the craziness that is now life, we need to find patterns to s…

• A Principal’s Reflections: Protecting Kids During and After Remote Learning

  With more and more schools either extending school closures or completely shutting down for the remainder of the academic year, a focus on remote learning will continue into the foreseeable future.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Reasonable strategies for the future of schooling in unreasonable times

  The Center for Disease Control (CDC) put out hard to swallow guidance about the reopening of schools. Unless there are some big changes in our educational system, we will not be able to incorporate this guidance into our schools.

• Traits of a Successful Online Teacher |

  Last week, I had the good fortune of stumbling onto John Savery’s article titled “BE VOCAL: Characteristics of Successful Online Instructors” in which he talks about the unique challenges facing teachers who are working with students in the online e…

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• Free Technology for Teachers: Three Tools for Collecting Stories from Students and Parents

  Earlier this week I hosted a webinar about using online tools to build communities. One of the topics within that webinar was collecting and publishing stories from students and their parents. To that end, there were three tools that I recommended. …

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Restore Files in Google Drive

  Twice this afternoon I had people ask me about restoring files that were deleted from either Google Classroom or from Google Drive. If you’ve accidentally deleted a file or folder in your Google Drive, there is a good chance that you can get it back.

• Alliance for Climate Education on Instagram: “Meet Anisa, an ACE Fellow and climate organizer with @earth_uprising in Tampa, Florida. Anisa believes talking about #climatechange with…”

• Minecraft COVID-19 Design Challenges – NASEF | High School Esports Clubs

• Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Videos

  Many of us are making more videos than ever before as a way to deliver instruction and or to simply keep our students updated about school. With time and practice you might become adept at using the editing functions in your favorite video software.

• Fortnite Lessons: V-Bucks and Weaponized Social Fun – Classroom Powerups

  My wife and I finally broke down allowed my sons to download and play Fortnite. The major reason for this was that online gaming seemed to be a great way for our two older boys (10 and 7) to play with their friends. Boy has this been true.

• Differentiation for Parents | Stories From School

  I remember the days when class was still held in a building, and my biggest concern was figuring out how to differentiate my math lesson to meet the needs of my students.  However, in our new reality of distance learning, I am learning to differenti…

• Software Library: MS-DOS Games : Free Software : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

• Kerbal Space Program – Create and Manage Your Own Space Program

• World Climate Simulation – Climate Interactive

• Educators | Quandary

• Free Resources for COVID-19 Remote Learning Support – TeacherVision

  We’re writing to you knowing that all of our communities and schools are being impacted, one way or the other, by COVID-19. This is an unprecedented challenge with more questions than answers.

• PBL for Remote Learning Overview | PBLWorks

  How can we provide students with the safety net that school offers, while also using this opportunity to change the way we think about school?  We’re exploring the possibilities.

• Google Classroom Rubric Click the Title – Teacher Tech

  I want LESS mouse clicks and LESS mouse dragging. I was feeling really annoyed that to read the rubric description I made for a category I had to click all the way over to the right. But there is a shortcut! Under the rubric the category titles are …

• Screen time use sparks discussion over how much is too much

  Students love their screen time, especially those who have a passion for video games. Days can quickly blur into nights and vice-versa when children or teens get wrapped up in a Minecraft build, try to destroy a League of Legends nexus, or just repl…

• Google Classroom: Make Your OWN Grades – Teacher Tech

  Which Gradebook Defines Your Classroom? I have been loathing this update since the first day that Google Classroom came out. The gradebook. Now it is here and it is available to everyone and it is terrible.

• Control Alt Achieve: Annotate PDF’s Together in Google Meet with Kami

  When in a Google Meet video conference with a student, a colleague, or any other participant, sometimes you may need to work on a PDF together.

• Video: How to Run Properly — The Adventure Blog

  If you’re looking to improve your fitness and add exercise to your routine, taking up running is one of the best options. It is easy to get started, it burns a lot of a calories, and it is great for the heart and lungs.

• The Balance: Distance Learning–Mini-episode #2 |

  The Balance is now available on Spotify! It has been six weeks since California ordered residents to shelter in place. I have not left my home for anything other than the occasional trip to the grocery store.

• How To Reopen Closed Schools Amid Coronavirus : NPR

  Three-quarters of U.S. states have now officially closed their schools for the rest of the academic year. While remote learning continues, summer is a question mark, and attention is already starting to turn to next fall.

• The Importance and Impact of Greetings in Virtual Hallways – George Couros

  The statement above from the Edutopia video on “Making Connections with Greetings at the Door” is one that truly resonated. How powerful is that statement?

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create a Green Screen Video Without a Green Screen

  If you have ever wanted to make a green video but didn’t have access to iMovie and couldn’t make the investment in other video editing software, this new video is for you. In the following video I demonstrate how you can use Zoom and Adobe Spark tog…

• Free Technology for Teachers: National Parks Games and Challenges – Try Virtual National Parks Bingo

  I love the National Parks service that we have here in the U.S. One of the things I’m looking forward to doing with my kids when they’re a little older is to help them explore some of the places in National Parks and National Forests that I’ve enjoy…

• Free Technology for Teachers: USGS Find a Feature Challenges – Outdoor Learning Opportunities

  Last week I wrote about the Learning from Home resources available from the USGS. While it’s not specifically a part of the Learning from Home resources, USGS offers another selection of activities that can be used for “at home” learning. Those acti…

• Four New Online Learning Games | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  The Webby Awards just announced their nominees for this year. Passport To Mars is from Scholastic, and puts you in the position of being an astronaut traveling to….Mars.

• Classroom Games and Tech – Ed-Tech to Engage and Inspire: How to be a game designer – Tip #1

  I recently wrote about the virtual game design club I’m running for students in grades 5 – 8. I’ll regularly post my resources so you can do the same or a similar program with your students. This week I posted the following video to teach them a goo…

• Empowering Students in Distance Learning Environments – John Spencer

  Student engagement can be a real challenge in this sudden shift toward distance learning. But one way to improve engagement is by empowering students. In this article, we explore how to improve equity and access and how to shift toward student owner…

• Add Audio Recordings to your Slides

• Political Studies through Minecraft – Christy’s Houseful of Chaos

  I have reopened my Minecraft server in light of the Covid-19 restrictions and the need to have extra online social activities for children. I host events a couple of times a week on Minecraft and Zoom, and the children play on the server whenever th…

• COVID19 Learn at Home: Content Creation Tools – YouTube

• A list of online activities and resources for teachers planning remote learning for their students

• Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Is Atmospheric CO2 Declining from the Covid Economic Collapse?

  I have had a number of people ask me: with CO2 emissions collapsing from the economic downturn, are CO2 levels no longer going up or declining? In fact, a brief search on the web reveals some headlines that seem to be suggesting this: The bottom lin…

• How to make the classic Canada’s Wonderland funnel cake at home – Canada’s Wonderland

  I bet everyone’s having some really serious cravings right about now. The aisles at the grocery store for chips, candy, ice cream and cookies never saw it so good. I’ll tell you though, it’s the things I can’t get that I’m craving the most. Like a C…

• Microns and Masks – Yummy Math

  How big is one coronavirus? How big is a micron? How well do these masks protect against the virus? What can you observe about the size of particles mentioned? Why are we wearing masks? For members we have an editable Word docx of the activity and s…

• 100 Driving Questions and 25 Final Products Related to Covid-19 Pandemic | Mike Kaechele

  Disclaimer: This post assumes that you are already doing responsible online teaching: checking the social and emotional state of your students, giving meaningful feedback but NOT grading their work, and not overwhelming them with too much work.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator:

  Innovative educators know how important it is to provide inclusive, accessible learning environments for their students. While, many have figured this out in the classroom, when teaching and learning remotely, it’s a little different.

• A Principal’s Reflections: Remote Learning Teaching Tips

  There is so much pressure on teachers as more and more schools close for the academic year as a result of COVID19. With little to no training or preparation, they have stepped up to keep learning going. It hasn’t been easy for them to say the least.

• Everything You Need to Know About Building a Great Screencast Video | Cult of Pedagogy

  This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Early in March, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a domino effect of school closures.

• Schedule – NarraScope

  NarraScope 2020 will take place online from May 28 to June 4, 2020. All times shown are US Eastern time.

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