Check out these blog posts from last week:
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Our Distance Learning Classroom FAQ Template
Welcome, families, to another fantastic school year! Do you have questions about the technology in our classroom? Use this guide as a helpful resource. Print out and post the cheat sheet for quick reference. Contact me at any time if you have other …
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create, Share, and Collaborate on YouTube Playlists
As the school year begins you might find yourself looking through a lot of YouTube videos that you’ll share with your students throughout the coming months. Creating playlists on is a great way to organize those videos and share them with your stude…
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How To Ensure Students Wear Masks And Socially Distance – Smart Classroom Management
First off, whether and when schools open and under what conditions is a decision school districts will make. I’m not advocating one way or another. Here at SCM, we deal with what is in front of us.
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A simple exercise for (digital) parenting – NetFamilyNews.org
This is inspired by all the families in Parenting for a Digital Future, the book I reviewed earlier this week (I also added this as a sidebar in that post for readers’ convenience).
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This case study was created for distance learning and is a short exploration of how celiac disease affects the digestive system. This is not a long case, and should probably only take 20-30 minutes to complete. I plan to use it with breakout groups …
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How Social Emotional Learning Can Take Center Stage This Fall
Let’s face it: this is not going to be a typical Back to School season. With the tumultuous events of COVID-19, economic issues, and antiracism efforts nationwide, students are coming back to us with questions and concerns that are weighing heavily …
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How Schools Are Taking SEL and Mental Health Online | EdTech Magazine
CJ Reynolds, a ninth grade teacher and HMH ambassador, said in a press release about the report that educators are not only responsible for teaching — they must also help “nurture students’ minds, bodies and souls.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Journey Into the Deep Sea – Neat Nat Geo VR Experience
Earlier this year I featured National Geographic’s fantastic playlist of 360 degree immersive videos that can be experienced with or without a virtual reality viewer. Recently, National Geographic added another excellent video to that collection. Th…
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Free Technology for Teachers: 50 National Geographic 360 Videos
Watching 360 degree videos is probably my favorite thing to do with my Google Cardboard viewer. A lot of people don’t realize that a Cardboard viewer can be used for more than just Google Expeditions.
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This morning I answered an email from a reader who wanted to know if there was an easy way to direct students to videos based on how they answered her quiz questions. My answer was to make the quiz in Google Forms and use the built-in answer feedbac…
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Most days, Jen Lamott would describe her daughter, Katie, as cheerful and kind. Lately, though, the 7-year-old has been acting moody and sometimes grunting instead of talking. “It’s like we have a teenager suddenly,” Lamott said.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Seven Zoom Tutorials to Watch Before School Starts
As the new school year approaches I’ve been getting a lot questions about Zoom. I have published some tutorials on my YouTube channel that address most of those questions. Until this morning I haven’t put them all together in one place. Here are my …
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Tips For Parents Of Online Students – e-Learning Infographics
Tips For Parents Of Online Students—Infographic Stay connected with the teacher Why wait for a parent-teacher conference? Connect with your child’s teacher by text, email, call, or video chat.
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Create a Community Quilt Google Classroom Banner – Mari Venturino
Back to school is an exciting time! Back to school during a pandemic where we are teaching 100% online is exciting, but in a completely different way! As we head back to school, I am trying to find as many ways to connect with my students and build …
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4 Ideas for Empowering Students During Remote Learning – George Couros
In my newly released, self-paced course, “Developing the Innovator’s Mindset Through Remote, Face-to-Face, and Blended Learning,” I discuss the importance of empowering learners in any environment, online or offline.
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How to Run an EdCamp via Zoom – Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas
I recently ran a edcamp style morning session for our incoming MATs at the University of Portland’s School of Education.
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Free Technology for Teachers: New Google Classroom and Google Meet Updates to Note
This afternoon Google announced the launch of some helpful new Google Classroom features. Some of these were teased back in June. A couple of the new features will require some work by your domain administrator while others are available right now t…
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Video Conferencing: Establishing Routines and Structuring Online Time with Students |
I had the pleasure of chatting with Linwood Paul, an executive coach, for an episode of my podcast, The Balance. In the final moments of our conversation, I asked him what advice he had for achieving a work-life balance at this moment when many of u…
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How to Make Virtual Meetings More Interactive for Students – John Spencer
Video conferences can be exhausting. You might notice that students who are highly engaged during an in-person session suddenly disengage in a virtual meeting. Often, there are challenges with video lag or simply the inability to see the room entire…
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Google announces a ton of new tools and features to ease online education for everyone | Pocketnow
Google has today kicked off its global The Anywhere School event, as part of which, the company has made a ton of announcements to make virtual education easier for students as well as teachers.
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Wearing a neck gaiter may be worse than no mask at all, researchers find | Boston.com
As the number of novel coronavirus cases continues to rise nationwide, the recurring message from many public health experts and doctors has been simple: Wearing masks saves lives.
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Strategies to Build Engaging Digital Lessons for High… | PBS Education
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Blended and Online Learning | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt University
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8 Easy and Fun Back-to-School Online Activities (Part 2) | Shake Up Learning
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List of Online Tools for Distance Science Learning (OpenSciEd & Inquiry Hub) | Science for All
Teachers using OpenSciEd & Inquiry Hub materials have assembled a Google Sheet with a variety of online tools and how those tools might be used by science teachers during distance learning.
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#P4DF: The book about (digital) parenting – NetFamilyNews.org
Family context eclipses screen time. If you get nothing else from the new book Parenting for a Digital Future, that one takeaway would help so many educators, policymakers, pediatricians and advocates trying to get “Internet safety” and “digital wel…
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Free Technology for Teachers: SciShow Kids Returns Next Week!
A little over a year ago SciShow Kids, one of my favorite YouTube channels, announced a hiatus. I thought that was going to be then end of the channel. Much to my surprise this afternoon I saw an update from the channel announcing its return.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways to Explore the News Through Maps
One of the things that I liked about the old version of CNN Student News is that it almost always included a map to show students where a story is taking place in the world. I tried to do the same whenever I taught current events by showing students…
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Here’s How I’m Setting-Up My iPhone As A Doc Cam | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
The Internet is awash with ways teachers can turn their iPhone into a document camera. Here’s how I’ve done it – I can’t guarantee it’s the cheapest, but I would be surprised if anyone found an easier way.
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Minecraft and Esports | Liminal’s Carrie Linden & Will Partin and Stephen Reid Minecraft: Education Edition
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Free Technology for Teachers: All About Zoom Breakout Rooms
Breakout rooms is one of the best features of Zoom. If you’re anticipating using Zoom this fall and you haven’t tried the breakout rooms function, you need to try it. Breakout rooms will let you create small group work environments within your Zoom …
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A Principal’s Reflections: Keeping Kids Engaged in Remote Learning
With the pandemic not letting down in many places, schools are beginning to focus less on re-entry and more on starting the year with remote learning.
