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This is my best tip for teaching with Hangouts Meet!

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Ms. Mercer's List of Distance Learning Apps and Resources

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Ms. Mercer's List of Distance Learning Apps and Resources

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Larry is an ELL educator at Luther Burbank and a well-known edtech writer/leader. Here is a post he wrote as schools in California started to close with resources, and links to early listsicles (lists of links) he has written.

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Our district and most others in California announced multi-week closures today.

In addition, some excellent online tools just announced they are making them free to schools who are closed down, though it would have been a bit better to make those announcements well-known prior to the closures. It's a lot more challenging to add new tools without having practiced with them beforehand.

Nevertheless, here are some important new updates to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) - Please Make More Suggestions!:

The most important piece of news is that Raz-Kids, one of my favorite online tools and one of a very few that I think are worth paying for, has made its service free to teachers and their students affected by the closures. I cannot say enough positive things about this site, especially for English Language Learners (I've also used it with English-proficient students). If you're school is closed down, get this right way so students can read books on their own with audio support.

Newsela is a site most teachers use for their articles, but fewer pay for its virtual classroom capability. They're making all their bells-and-whistles available free to teachers and students affected by closures. They also provide a lot of guidance on how to use it all (at the same link).

I have an enormous amount of respect for EL Education and the support it provides to schools and teachers across the country. They just published How Can We Support Student Learning Amid School Closures Due To The Coronavirus (COVID-19)?

Coronavirus Is Shutting Schools. Is America Ready for Virtual Learning? is from today's NY Times.

What Teachers in China Have Learned in the Past Month is from Edutopia.

Scholastic Learn At Home offers a number of helpful free resources.

Join us March 18 @ 3pm ET for a live #webinar w/ @DStaehrFenner and guest presenter/EL online educator Dr. Jeannie Krimmel. We'll discuss strategies & resources for teaching K-12 #ELLs online; we'll also host a Q&A with Dr. Krimmel. #ellchat Register now: https://t.co/4mMxwv0ZRW pic.twitter.com/jhbCf0aAHX

- SupportEd (@SupportEduc) March 13, 2020

As schools are closing due to the current situation, the number of remote and online learning tools is increasing. #PLN please add and share: https://t.co/HV3gDF7QpW #ellchat #edchat #Ellchat_BkClub #Together4ELs #NCELs

- Xatli Stox (@teacherxatli) March 14, 2020

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Important New Resources To Support Teachers Dealing With School Closures!

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Our district and most others in California announced multi-week closures today. In addition, some excellent online tools just announced they are making them free to schools who are closed down, though it would have been a bit better to make those announcements well-known prior to the closures.

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Read Aloud Extension for Chrome Browswer

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Read Aloud Extension for Chrome Browswer

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If you have students using Mac or other non-Chrome platforms, they can add this extension to their Chrome browser so they can highlight text on a web page and have it read to them.

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Read Aloud uses text-to-speech (TTS) technology to convert webpage text to audio.  It works on a variety of websites, including news sites, blogs, fan fiction, publications, textbooks, school and class websites, and online university course materials.

Read Aloud allows you to select from a variety of text-to-speech voices, including those provided natively by the browser, as well as by text-to-speech cloud service providers such as Google Wavenet, Amazon Polly, IBM Watson, and Microsoft.  Some of the cloud-based voices may require additional in-app purchase to enable.

Read Aloud can read PDF, Google Docs, Google Play books, Amazon Kindle, and EPUB (via the excellent EPUBReader extension from epubread.com).

Read Aloud is intended for users who prefer to listen to content instead of reading, those with dyslexia or other learning disabilities, and children learning to read.

To use Read Aloud, navigate to the web page you want to read, then click the Read Aloud icon on the Chrome menu.  In addition, the shortcut keys ALT-P, ALT-O, ALT-Comma, and ALT-Period can be used to Play/Pause, Stop, Rewind, and Forward.  You may also select the text you want to read before activating the extension.  Right clicking on the selected text will provide you with yet another option to activate Read Aloud via the context menu.

To change the voice, reading speed, pitch, or enable text highlighting, go to the Options page either by right clicking on the Read Aloud icon and choose Options, or by clicking the Gear button on the extension popup (you'll need to stop playback to see the Gear button).

Read Aloud is an open-source project.  If you wish to contribute bug fixes or translations, please visit the GitHub page at https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud.

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Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader

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Read aloud the current web-page article with one click, using text to speech (TTS). Supports 40+ languages.

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Accessibility Tools & Supports for Students with Disabilities

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Accessibility Tools & Supports for Students with Disabilities

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Getting Started with Google Classroom | EDTech Made Easy - GOOGLE CLASSROOM TUTORIAL

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This is how I set up my Google Classroom for remote learning (5 tips)