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Support for teachers during the COVID-19 outbreak

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Support for teachers during the COVID-19 outbreak

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A growing collection of resources for remote learning, community connections, and engaging conversations about this complex moment. Updates on the affects of the Corona Virus and resources to help support teachers with remote instruction.

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Due to the massive increase in students needing access to digital content from home, Facing History has lifted the login restrictions for students on our large and diverse streaming video collection. If you search, and a login block appears, simply click on the video title, which will bring you to a second page, which includes the new password-free link for students. You can send that link to your students if you want to suggest that they watch a particular video:

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Support for Teachers During the COVID-19 Outbreak

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Due to the massive increase in students needing access to digital content from home, Facing History has lifted the login restrictions for students on our large and diverse streaming video collection. If you search, and a login block appears, simply click on the video title, which will bring you to a second page, which includes the new password-free link for students.

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Skype in the classroom will prove especially effective for classes that are conducted online.  Using Skype in the classroom allows the class to join and hear from their professor and guest speakers in real time. Presenting opportunities for relevant discussion and a way to ask questions.

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What is Skype in the Classroom?

Skype in the Classroom is "a free global community" that allows teachers to collaborate on classroom projects and share skills and inspiration around specific teaching needs. Teachers can use Skype in a variety of ways to enhance their students understanding of a certain topic in a way that will be more exciting and memorable. Skype in the Classroom allows for students to experience new cultures, language, and ideas without having to leave the classroom at all.

the classroom without ever having to take a trip or even leave the office! How can you use Skype in the Classroom?

After teachers create a profile that describes their interests, teaching specialties, and location, they can begin to create projects. Projects are a way for teachers to connect with other teachers and classrooms across the globe, and either ask for help or offer help among that teaching community. Skype in the Classroom also provides the opportunity for guest speakers to be present in

What are the benefits to using Skype in the Classroom?

Provides opportunities for students for social interaction with people outside of the classroom.

Students can look to others for help on certain topics besides the teacher.

It offers the opportunity to connect people and objects that are not in the same physical environment.

Allows guest speakers to stay at the office or not travel in order to come speak to a class.

It is a program set up by Skype that only educators are able to use.

What are some concerns about using Skype in the Classroom?

An important concern is that, as the teachers, we need to have consent from the parents to allow the use of Skype in our classrooms, because after all it is an online communication system.

Skype in the Classroom is not like regular Skype, which means that there are some limitations to what projects you can do during class time.

Some Articles about Skype in the Classroom... http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/6573 http://edudemic.com/2012/08/skype-in-classroom/http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2011/02/09/02skype.h04.html
http://www.teachhub.com/using-skype-classroom http://thinkonline.smarttutor.com/10-ways-to-use-skype-to-learn/
Examples of Using Skype in the Classroom...

Tutorial is for how to use Skype in the Classroom...

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Skype in the Classroom - Educational Technology Projects

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What is Skype in the Classroom? Skype in the Classroom is "a free global community" that allows teachers to collaborate on classroom projects and share skills and inspiration around specific teaching needs. Teachers can use Skype in a variety of ways to enhance their students understanding of a certain topic in a way that will be more exciting and memorable.

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Remind would serve as a better way to communicate to all students at once. When important and/or time sensitive information needs to be conveyed from a professor to their students, Remind can deliver such information quickly to every student's phone, the one thing we are almost guaranteed to have access to at all times.

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Kahoot would be a simple way to engage the class in case study debriefs. Most cases were presented with two options for recommendations, using Kahoot will provide an easy and fun way to poll the class on their decisions and lead to a “correct” answer as determined by the professor.