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GimKit-Small Groups where students can chat.

Breakout Rooms Templates to Use

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Google's Applied Digital Skills-give learners a choice of skill they choose to develop (4th and up) and also Digital Skills Development for Teachers.

Hyperdocs- giving learners engagement and choice in learning.

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Distance Learning provides flexibility and you can assign larger-scale project based learning activities.

Google Art and Culture: Discover artworks, museum collections and stories from all around the World. Explore cultural treasures, uncover incredible historical stories and take tours of famous museums.

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Project Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching method in which students learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects.

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Covid19 Chromebook Apps for Distancing Learning.
Apps/Extensions for Social Emotional Learning

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Check out the Chromebook App Hub, a resource for educators to share and discover apps for #Chromebooks and corresponding lesson ideas and classroom inspiration. https://chromebookapphub.withgoogle.com @GoogleForEdu

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Vocaroo is a quick and easy way to share voice messages over the interwebs.

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Ditch That Textbook (tons of websites, templates for Google Slides)

Learning Keeps Learning

Teach from Home (Google Education Suite)

Google Education Webinars and Professional Development

Google Education Covid19 Remote Learning Resources

Get creative and add GIFS to your Google Slides to teach contents. https://giphy.com/usnationalarchives

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The digital resources included on this site have been helpful to some educators across the state. However, due to the rapidly changing digital environment, NCDPI does not represent nor endorse that these resources are the exclusive digital resources for the purposes outlined on this site.

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NCSU Friday Center recommendations for accessibility

Edutopia article on Apps for students with special needs

Accessibility options for Chromebook

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AAPB- 70 years of Primary Source Materials for Distance Learning

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AAPB_Online Resources for Distance Learning

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Share My Lesson/American Federation of Teachers

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Share My Lesson/American Federation of Teachers

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Covid19 Distance Learning Community

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Help us add lessons for distance learning, or share how your community or school is supporting students by uploading resources to share with educators and parents across the country. What resources are you sending home with students? How are you communicating with your students if schools close down? Are there projects you are asking your students to do at home? Join this distance learning community and find new ways to create, discover and share lesson plans, handouts and resources.

How to engage with this distance learning community:

Step 1: Join the Community (select the orange join community button on the bottom right).

Step 2: Share your thougths with fellow educators and parents in the . Join a current discussion thread, or start your own topic.

Step 3: , resource, handout, or something that you think would be helpful to share with other educators and parents preparing for school closures (select the orange upload lesson button on the bottom right, assuming you joined the community).

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Distance Learning Community: Supporting Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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7 Strategies for a Successful and Flexible Year Ahead and Resources for Hybrid Learning.

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Resources for Hybrid Learning for 2020-2021 - Wakelet

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A collection of strategies and resources for a successful and flexible year ahead. This is a companion piece to follow along with the Share My Lesson Summer #PDedu webinar session. Contact cyndy.harrison@sourcewelltech.org if you have questions or want additional information.

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What are some benefits? Take a look at the PDF.

Edutopia's "Rethinking Whole Class Discussions" is an excellent article as well.

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Benefits of Online Discussion Boards-Article (1)

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An easy way to brainstorm in a team and vote for the best solution. Tricider is a free digital tool to make decisions in a team.  Post a question and send the link to others.  Everyone may propose a solution or post arguments for an idea. You can vote for the best solution. Additional information can be found on this link.

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An online tool that can serve as a virtual bulletin board for both students and teachers. This tool offers a variety of canvases (backgrounds) for users to choose from and allows them to post sticky notes, videos, and documents to these canvases.

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3 Ways to Deepen Student Engagement in Online Discussions:

Google Doc (Notecatcher) in Breakout Rooms

Pre-Assignments with Google Slides, Flipgrid, or the use of VoiceThread to formulate responses and questions.

Feedback survey-Google Forms

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Tips for bringing the unique learning opportunities of small-group discussions to online class sessions.

Small-group discussions can be difficult to manage, but this collaboration is essential for learning. And because students are likely to spend at least part of next year learning at home, it's especially important for teachers to plan opportunities for them to engage with their peers online, Rhonda Bondie of Harvard's Graduate School of Education writes in ASCD.

"Small peer-group discussions enable students to practice academic language, gain feedback on their ideas, and further understanding," Bondie notes. "Students need to engage with their peers to know that they belong and are valued members of many communities, especially their school community."

Bondie suggests that teachers use three tools in facilitating and monitoring small-group conversations to ensure that they're productive and to measure learning when students are in breakout rooms.

Note-Catcher Document

A Google Doc can be used as a central location for students to take notes during discussions in breakout rooms, and teachers can monitor and help guide discussions in real-time. "Teachers can provide feedback efficiently by inserting comments and questions into the note catcher," writes Bondie. "When the teacher sees a group having difficulty getting started, then the teacher can enter that breakout room to help."

Use the same discussion structure techniques you rely on in the classroom. Leave directions for students in the note catcher, using graphics or pictures to provide simple, clear directions. Include links to helpful resources and model discussion notes so expectations are clear. Set the standard for student responses, Bondie advises, by including "high-quality criteria in the note catcher as a means for students to monitor their responses and to add challenge to the discussion."

Pre-assignments

Teachers can help students prepare for online peer work via pre-assignments designed to help them formulate questions and collect ideas and comments in one place. Bondie suggests teaching students to use a variety of free tools such as Google Slides to create slide shows, Flipgrid to record short responses to a query, and VoiceThread to collaborate on slides with video, voice, or text comments.

Review these before class and group students "in ways that support productive discussions," Bondie writes. Then, "direct students to discuss a specific slide or look for patterns across the class and report their findings to the whole group."

Feedback Survey

Gauging student perceptions of their collaborative work can be difficult when working online. Bondie suggests reserving five to 10 minutes at the end of each session-while the work is still fresh in students' minds-for gathering feedback via a brief Google Form questionnaire. "Students have a tendency not to complete surveys after class, so incorporate the survey into lessons," she suggests, adding that teachers can switch this part up by alternating between using a questionnaire and requesting group feedback in the note catcher. "Students generate incredibly useful ideas that often solve technical problems and promote better learning for everyone," she writes.

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3 Ways to Deepen Student Engagement in Online Discussions

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Tips for bringing the unique learning opportunities of small-group discussions to online class sessions.

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Create and share a quick animated gami video!

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Create your teacher Bitmoji to spice up your page!
https://www.bitmoji.com/ and use Chrome Extension to access your Bitmoji anywhere.
Here is the ten best websites to make an avatar.

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A simple button design tool that helps you create high-converting call-to-action buttons for you website, email, or social media.

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Da Button Factory - Free CTA Button Generator

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A FREE online button generator. Design your very own button and download the image or get the CSS code. It’s quick & easy!

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Add Graphic Design to your lessons. The free account is all you need to clean up your lesson designs.

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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Engage students and save time!
More information to help guide you through CK-12

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Welcome to CK-12 Foundation | CK-12 Foundation

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Bring your slides to Life!
https://www.peardeck.com/remote-learning-educators

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Thinglink is a service that allows you to make clickable points on images.  Imagine you have an image of an ecosystem.  Each element could be a clickable link to explore!

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ThingLink: Create unique experiences with interactive images, videos & 360° media

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Easily create interactive and immersive visual experiences for online communication and learning. Start a free trial!

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Helps you organize your web resources and deliver the right content, in the right place, at the right time, to the right person. The best thing is Symbaloo is Free.
https://en.help.symbaloo.com/portal/en/kb/articles/what-is-symbaloo-22-2-2018

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Symbaloo - Bringing it together for educators

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Easy solution to make a Visual Slideshow and then pair it with a video of you talking through it. Free version allows you to have 3 decks.

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Excellent Tool for all Grades, Subject Areas

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PBS LearningMedia | Teaching Resources For Students And Teachers

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Inspire your students with thousands of free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games aligned to state and national standards.

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How to Use Padlet? A tool to use for great online discussions.

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TweenTribune is a free, not-for-profit online newspaper for students ages 8-15.

Stories are from the Associated Press that are chosen based on relevancy.

TweenTribune allows readers to select the Lexile Level based on individual read level.

Articles can be directly posted to Google Classroom

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