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PowerPoint comes with a built-in, no-nonsense screen recorder. There are a lot of things that PowerPoint's screen recorder can't do that more full-featured screen recording software can, but that's the beauty of it-it's great for a quick, no-fuss recording.

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First, open PowerPoint, head to the "Insert" tab, and then click "Screen Recording."

PowerPoint will minimize, and the screen recording dock will appear at the top of your screen. Here's where the "simplicity" of PowerPoint's screen recording feature comes in-you only have five options. By default, PowerPoint will record audio and your cursor. Toggle these options to disable them if you want. When you're ready to move on, click "Select Area."

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So the classroom is a space where students can interact socially in a comfortable and predictable way. Situations such as with the Covid-19 virus arise and our learning platforms go some way to enable us to maintain teaching and learning outside of the traditional brick buildings we are used to. The aim of this blog is to cover some key questions that appear when a situation has arisen that requires students to interact in the platform in ways they may be unaccustomed to. Although this blog has been brought about by the current issues, the topics ring true to everyday teaching aiming to connect the learning within the classroom to that outside.

1. How do I maintain the social connectedness of the classroom and maintain visible teacher presence?

2. How do I ensure students understanding of learning tasks given?

3. How do I assess and clarify the understanding of students in terms of knowledge?

We'll cover this by looking at some of the tools available to us and consider simple methods of using them. I'm hoping to cover the questions raised above from a high level.

The obvious way to maintain visibility and engage with the class is to host your scheduled class in a conference. Various web conferencing tools can integrate with Canvas through LTI. As standard, you can use Big Blue Button to create a conference within your course. Consider that the conferences include the following tools to promote engagement in the virtual classroom.

to give the personal touch.

Chat allowing you to field questions at the whole group or for an individual student. It could also be used as a Q+A whilst students are working on other Canvas activities.

Break Out Rooms can be used for smaller group activities and discussions.

Polls can be created on the fly to assess understanding of particular concepts or you can use them for students to respond to questions you have embedded in your uploaded presentation.

Multi-User White Board includes annotation tools for illustrating ideas and explaining processes.

Simple navigation to the online classroom is also important. Make sure the 'Conferences' link is visible in your course navigation. You can also create calendar events for your sessions. Naming your conference is important and it is a good idea to add the date and time into the title if running as a one-off lesson.

It's also good to note that conferences will open up in a new tab allowing your students to complete other activities in your Canvas course whilst taking part in your virtual classroom.

A fantastic way to get students working with each other and sharing ideas but they can be used for more than simply asking for an opinion. Discussions can be used for group work solving real-world or multi-stage problems. They can be used for students to present videos of themselves and receive feedback.

If you're using this asynchronously consider the clarity of your instructions and expectations. Additional clarification of the task can be given by recording audio or video instructions through the rich content editor. This feature can also be used by students to verbally participate in the discussion.

You can also use standard text to reinforce participation across all your course discussions.

"Once you've crafted and posted your response, read the responses of your classmates. For at least two other posts, give constructive feedback and ask relevant questions."

It's worth putting the resources into the discussion using the Rich Content Editor so the students can review them whilst formulating and crafting their responses. As a teacher also consider your engagement in these discussions. What clarifying questions can you ask? Which other posts can you guide students to?

You've probably used Canvas already for the submission of written tasks. When we're lacking the opportunity to sit down with the student and talk we can use assignment tools to assess understanding with students presenting to us in a variety of ways. These can also be assigned to individual students or groups of students to allow the personalised learning opportunities you would normally deliver in the classroom.

Using the text entry online submission will give students the option to present ideas and work in a variety of ways. They can include text, files and media all within the same submission. This gives opportunities to assess verbal skills along with written skills.

Group and Peer Review assignments can also be used to create the social interactions between your students whilst they are not physically together.

Collaborations and Group Work

Group spaces allow students to create their own discussions, collaborations and share files. Collaborations can be created using your institution's tools such as Google and O365. A simple idea would be to collaborate on a presentation that can be delivered in a virtual classroom using Big Blue Button.

Within the classroom, we have the opportunity to create a dialogue of feedback with the student. We can see each other's facial expressions such as the smile of recognition or the raised eyebrow when we don't truly understand. Using the Canvas Speedgrader you could consider the format you provide your feedback in.

The assignment comments field allows you to provide audio and video feedback to your students helping to improve the comprehension of the feedback being delivered. Students also have the opportunity to respond to this feedback.

When you can't walk around the classroom or lecture theatre, and monitor what's students are doing, how do we monitor engagement? New Analytics allows you to view the activity report of your students. You are also able to send messages directly from the analytics view based on engagement criteria. For example, messages can be sent to students who have not viewed a specific learning resource.

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If you are looking for more ideas I've included this video from Kona Jones.

We'd love to hear any specific examples you have around maintaining social connectedness whilst teaching online and also any feedback or questions you have around the ideas above.

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For an overview of making the transition to remote learning and resources to help you get started, see our remote learning home page.

Resources to assist educators and students with remote learning are available in Remote teaching and learning in Office 365 Education.

This article covers the actual steps to take in order to get your educational institution set up for remote learning.

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If you're an educator, educational leader, or IT professional, these resources may help:

Don't miss the March 4, 2020 blog, How schools can ramp up remote learning programs quickly with Microsoft Teams.

Learning online can be just as personal, engaging and socially connected as learning in a classroom. Students and educators can stay in touch and help each other using conversations, and can feel like they are meeting in person using live meetings. Educators can track student progress in their daily work using Assignments. No one needs to feel out of touch. Many students who learn online say they feel they have more of a voice, and they feel more connected to their educators and peers than they did in the classroom. And, just like in a classroom, educators can use the apps and functions of Teams to support how they work best.

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Within Teams, educators can quickly converse with students, share files and websites, create a OneNote Class Notebook, and distribute and grade assignments. Built-in OneNote Class Notebooks and end-to-end assignment management allow educators to organize interactive lessons and provide effective and timely feedback. Educational institute administrators and staff can stay up-to-date and collaborate using Staff Teams for announcements and topical conversations. Educators can share instructional material using Professional Learning Communities.

Use the best practices in this article to start using Teams for your educational needs to enable remote learning capabilities. Class Teams can be used to create collaborative class spaces, provide a virtual meeting platform, facilitate learning with assignments and feedback, and lead live calls with students.

Teams has clients available for desktop (Windows, Mac, and Linux), web, and mobile (Android and iOS) to make sure all your staff and students can stay connected.

Learn more about Teams usage scenarios at the Teams for education webinar series.

User accounts, licenses, and identity security

Teams leverages Microsoft 365 capabilities to authenticate users and provide services. Staff, instructors, and students should have identities established to facilitate collaboration. If identities do not already exist, follow this process to establish them.

Microsoft Teams is included in Office 365 A1, which is free for educational institutions. For IT guidance on how to deploy Office 365 and get your entire educational institution started on Teams, check out this page. For support, you can file a ticket here and for trainings on Teams, visit your local Microsoft Store to speak with a Specialist.

Easily set up Teams

These are the two things you need to do to get up and running with Teams:

1. Allow users to create teams

Students and educators will get the most out of Teams when they can use it with minimal barriers and have the flexibility to tailor it to their needs. One way users can tailor their Teams experience is by having the ability to create teams that meet their needs. By default, everyone can create Microsoft 365 groups and Teams. There are times when this capability may not be appropriate; for example, some customers may want to restrict primary-secondary students from creating Teams. If needed, Microsoft 365 group and Team creation can be restricted to certain security groups within your environment.

Higher education institutions benefit when you let everyone, including students, create teams for classes, research, group projects, and study groups. Primary-secondary schools may want to restrict students from creating Teams to make sure that all student to student communications are happening within a forum that include an adult. In this case, Microsoft 365 group and Team creation can be restricted to all educators and staff.

For a walkthrough of how to create Teams, check out: Create a class team in Microsoft Teams.

2. Configure user experiences using policies

Important

You can run the Teams for Education Policy Wizard to easily apply policies for your students, educators and staff. The tool adjusts the Global (Org-wide default) policy definition of a core set of policies with settings that we recommend for student safety and applies it to students. The tool also creates and assigns a set of custom policies to educators and staff. If you already used the wizard to apply policies for your students, educators and staff, use this article as a reference or only if you want to manually create and manage policies for your students, educators and staff.

Teams policies provide the ability to control the options available for specific users or groups of users. Policies can be applied to define who should be allowed to use private chat, private calling, meeting scheduling, content types that can be shared, and more.

Higher education staff, educators, and students benefit from the capabilities included with the default (global) policies. Some additional policy settings can be enabled to add more functionality to Teams, including enabling translate capabilities in the messaging policy and allowing for automatic meeting transcription in the meeting policy.

Primary-secondary school students may need restricted capabilities provided to students. Policies set boundaries on what the students can do. Because the student population is often the largest set of users and they often receive the most restrictive settings, it is recommended that student policy changes be made to the 'Global (Org-wide default)' polices.

Important

For meeting policies assigned to any users, we recommend setting the "Automatically admit people" setting to "Everyone in your organization". This setting will ensure that non-authenticated users must be admitted from the lobby before they can join Teams meetings. For more information, check out Manage meeting policies in Teams.

Primary school staff and educators should be assigned policies that grant the core capabilities that may be restricted for students. Create new policies that allow the for private chat and meeting scheduling (the default settings for a new policy). Assign these policies in bulk to your staff and educators.

Start using Teams

Create class teams for secure classroom use

Microsoft Teams for Education offers  specific team types  for educational use. The Class team type is designed for classroom use and comes with specific features that support classroom needs including:

Assignments

Grades

OneNote classroom notebook

Class Materials folder  for securing read-only content for students

Insights to provide real-time data regarding student's engagement, assignments, and well-being for each classroom.

Early educator access to set up the class before students are added

The ability to mute disruptive students and other special permissions

There are a few ways in which class teams can be created, and Teams for Education has a unique set of deployment tools to make it as easy as possible.

We'll step through various options to help you choose the right deployment path that best fits your needs.

Automatic team creation using SDS

Automating team creation saves both IT admins and educators time. It ensures that educators have all their class teams created and ready to set up upon sign in. School Data Sync (SDS) is a free Office 365 Education tool that reads the data from an educational institution's system of record, for example a Student Information System (SIS) or Learning Management system (LMS). SDS uses the data to enrich Office 365 setup in many ways, including creating class teams in bulk and staying in sync with your information system to keep your instructor and student membership updated as enrollment changes. SDS can import data from any system of record and has built-in connectors to many of the world's existing SIS vendors. We highly recommend using SDS, as it provides the following benefits.

Benefits

Automatic creation and maintenance of class teams - educators will be able to sign in to Teams and immediately start teaching.

Membership sync with SIS/LMS to maintain student membership changes.

EDU Customer Success Team available for free deployment assistance.

Early educator access: Educators have time to prepare their team before admitting students.

Optionally creates users and applies Office 365 licenses.

Creates security groups for use across Office 365 including Teams policy.

Creates Administrative Units for scoped administrative delegation and Teacher Password Reset.

Built-in error and retry handling, throttling backoff, and session stability for large scale processing to reduce work on admins.

Built-in cleanup capabilities to rename and archive groups and teams once they are obsolete.

Grade Sync: Educators can do all their grading in Teams and have it automatically write grades from Teams back to the SIS gradebook.

Student Data Protection: Prevent students from using non-Microsoft apps and to track and manage parent consent.

Imported data is used to enrich Education Insights with user roles, organizations (schools) and other important data.

Considerations

SDS creates teams in two steps. The first step creates a Microsoft 365 group in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and the second step automatically turns that group into a team. The second step of creating teams is optional in SDS. An admin may not want to automatically create teams depending on deployment time and the number of unused teams that may result. We recommend institutions with 500,000 teams or more to turn off the automatic team creation toggle in SDS and use the educator-led team creation method.

Get started

To get started, go to School Data Sync (SDS) and contact https://aka.ms/sdssupport deployment assistance.

Educator-led team creation from Office 365 class groups

Educator-led team creation is a great deployment option if you want to make it easy for educators to quickly create the classes they need. We also recommend that institutions with more than 500,000 teams use this method to minimize the number of extraneously-created teams.

This hybrid approach allows you to either use SDS to create groups for each class (recommended) or use Graph API to create them on your own. After class groups are prepared, educators can convert their groups into teams by using the Suggested classes icon.

Benefits

Early educator access: Educators have time to prepare their team before admitting students.

Reduces the number of unused and unnecessary teams. The classes are prepared and suggested but not created unless the teacher intends to use them. We recommend this option for large institutions that have more than 500,000 teams to reduce clutter.

SDS

Membership sync with SIS/LMS to maintain student membership changes.

EDU Customer Success Team available for free deployment assistance.

Optionally creates users and applies Office 365 licenses.

Creates security groups for use across Office 365 including Teams policy.

Creates Administrative Units for scoped administrative delegation and Teacher Password Reset.

Built-in error and retry handling, throttling backoff, and session stability for large scale processing to reduce work on admins.

Built-in cleanup capabilities to rename and archive groups and teams once they are obsolete.

Grade Sync: Educators can do all their grading in Teams and have it automatically write grades from Teams back to the SIS gradebook.

Student Data Protection: Prevent students from using non-Microsoft apps and to track and manage parent consent.

Imported data is used to enrich Education Insights with user roles, organizations (schools) and other important data.

Graph API

Additional flexibility and control.

Doesn't require integration with SDS.

Considerations

Not fully automated and requires some educator action.

Educators who don't have permission to create teams can still create teams from existing groups as shown here.

Graph API requires a high level of technical expertise and time to create and run the script and fix any issues when creating class groups.

Get started

To get started with the SDS method, go to School Data Sync (SDS) and contact https://aka.ms/sdssupport deployment assistance.

To use the Graph API method, see Graph API and Create a class team.

Note

To use this method with SDS, you'll need to turn the automatic team creation toggle off in your SDS profile. You can also use a combination of automatic and educator-led team creation for required and optional class teams by using two SDS profiles.

PowerShell script using Graph APIs

With PowerShell, you can write a script to create teams, channels and configure settings automatically. It requires the admin to first create the group, add educators and students, and then create the team as outlined here. You can also use the Microsoft Graph API to create, configure, clone, and archive teams. For more information, see Use the Microsoft Graph API to work with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams PowerShell and Create a class team. Using Graph APIs is a great way to have more control and flexibility, however, it requires a high level of technical expertise and takes more time to set up initially.

Benefits

Additional flexibility and control.

Option to create early educator access teams or immediate student access to teams.

If you create teams from groups, educators will have early access and student membership changes to the Azure AD group will be synced.

Considerations

Requires a high level of technical expertise and time to create and run the script and fix any issues when creating class groups.

No built-in error handling or retry logic.

Membership changes are not synced with SIS.

Note

Class teams require hidden group membership so only educators and students within the class can see the members of that class. To create an Office 365 class group, see Create a class team to meet the same privacy requirements.

Manual team creation

Students and educators will get the most out of Teams when they can use it with minimal barriers and have the flexibility to tailor it to their needs. One way users can tailor their Teams experience is by having the ability to create teams. Educators set up their own class type team and invite students as shown here. Educators can invite students by adding students to the team, sharing a join code, or sharing a link to the team. If possible, it's best to have educators add their students to the team to ensure the students get access and are notified that they've been added to a team.

Benefits

Additional flexibility for educators.

Immediate team creation and access.

Considerations

Requires educator action and time.

Student membership is not synced with SIS and requires manual management.

Doesn't give educators early access to their teams. Students will gain immediate access.

Recommended best practices

Deploy early! Deploy early to ensure everything is working reliably and ready for the first day of school.

If you have more than 500,000 teams, we recommend using the educator-led team creation method. It reduces unused teams and clutter by only creating class teams that are relevant and needed.

If there are any issues (for example, classes are missing) with SDS automatic team creation and educators need them immediately, then they can use the educator-led team creation method to retry. Manual team creation is another solution, however, it won't keep your team membership updated.

The tenant team limit is 500,000 teams. Therefore, admins should proactively try to reduce the number of unused teams to avoid hitting these limits and extending their setup time. For more information about limits, see Limits and specifications for Microsoft Teams.

Early access to class teams

Early Access Class Teams allows educators access to their class teams before their students can view it and begin participating. This allows educators time to set up, add files, and get organized before granting access to their students. When they are ready for students to access the team, they can easily activate their class. As an admin, you also have additional control and capabilities around creating and setting up Early Access Class Teams.

How do I create class teams that allow educators early access to set up a team before admitting students?

Teams created from groups (through SDS, educator-led or Graph API) automatically create early access teams by default. To create your own early access teams using Graph API, you'll need to create a class and create the team from a group.

How do I check if a class is activated?

In the team resource type, we added a new property, isMembershipLimitedToOwners, to determine whether a class is activated. Use the Get Team API to query the isMembershipLimitedToOwners property for a specific class. If the team is activated, it will return a value of false. If the team hasn't been activated by the team owner, it will return a value of true.

How do I activate a class for an educator?

Use the Update Team API and set the isMembershipLimitedToOwners property to false to activate the team on your educator's behalf. Note that after a team is activated, it can't be reversed.

Create staff teams for staff communication and collaboration

Staff type teams are designed for educational institute administrators and staff to easily share information and work together on institute-wide initiatives, including making announcements, settings up meetings, sharing content, and bringing in external apps, like Planner for task tracking. Educational institute administrators can add staff members to the team via the team creation wizard, adding members after the team is created, or by sharing a join code or link to the team. Creating channels is a great way to organize conversation and files by workstream or subject. The Go-to guide for team owners is an excellent place to learn about team owner duties and capabilities.

Teams meeting scenarios

Collaborative meetings for virtual classes

In Teams, meeting organizers can end a meeting for all participants. With this capability, educators can ensure that students don't stay in a meeting unsupervised after a class is finished.

Recommended Tips & Tricks

You can learn more about how Teams is used in Education at: Microsoft Teams for Education.

Note

Some key Teams features are not specific to education. Tips and tricks for core Teams capabilities can be found at: Teams Help and Learning.

Prevent users from changing their profile photo

Teams honors the Outlook on the web mailbox policy setting that's configured by tenant admins to control whether users can change their profile picture. If the -SetPhotoEnabled setting is turned off, users can't add, change, or remove their profile picture. To prevent students or staff from changing or removing their profile picture, turn off this setting in the Outlook on the web mailbox policy that's assigned to them.

For example, if a student uploads a profile picture that's approved by your educational institute's IT or HR department, no action is needed. However, if a student uploads a picture that's inappropriate, change the picture according to your educational institute's internal policies.

Adoption content

Additional adoption resources include:

Support Readiness

IT professionals and support staff can get up to speed with Teams architecture and underlying use of Microsoft 365 capabilities with the Teams IT architecture posters and admin technical training.

Additional support resources include:

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American Association of School Librarians

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The application for this award is currently closed. The next award cycle will open on September 1, 2024, and will close on February 1, 2025.

Overview

AASL's Best Digital Tools are recognized for fostering qualities of:

Innovation/Creativity

Active Participation

Collaboration

User-Friendly

Encourages Exploration

Information/Reference

Eligibility

Nominations may be submitted by developers, school librarians, or the general public. For a tool to qualify as "digital," it must be accessible remotely (website, app, etc.).

NEW - Tools that have been recognized previously may be submitted for repeat recognition. For tools that were recognized within three years or less (2020, 2021, or 2022) the committee will consider tools that demonstrate progress, improvements, or changes since the previous recognition. Progress is considered both in terms of new features or tools, but also for improvements in usability and accessibility.

Tools recognized prior to 2020 may be submitted for consideration without the need to demonstrate progress over time.

Preparation for Application

Incomplete applications will not reviewed. Please prepare the following information prior to submitting:

If your tool has received the Best Digital Tools recognition in the past three years (see lists below) you must submit any improvements, changes, or progress to the tool for consideration.

Committee members must receive full access to your tool including any features that are behind paywalls. Access must remain available through April 1.

If your tool has a pricing structure that is not available for public viewing an example of pricing must be included.

Download copy of application
* Please note: This downloadable version is for informational purposes only. All nominations must be submitted online, via the Apply Now button that will appear at the top of the page when the next award season opens in early September.

Questions

Allison Cline
Deputy Executive Director

Write the World
A free online global community where teens write, review, and share. A non-profit dedicated to developing teens' writing and critical thinking skills and equipping them with the confidence and competence to change the world, one word at a time. Privacy Policy. Grades 7-12

ChessKid.com
ChessKid.com is the scholastic extension of Chess.com, the #1 online chess site, and serves more than 3 million kids around the globe with lessons offered in English, Spanish, French, Korean and other languages. ChessKid is working to introduce chess education to as many students as possible worldwide and we pride ourselves as being the safest place for kids to learn and play chess in and out of the school. Media Specialists use ChessKid.com in their centers to help students enhance their creativity, improve their power of concentration, develop and expand critical thinking skills, boost memory and retention, and achieve superior academic performance. Find out if your school is eligible for FREE ChessKid accounts through our annual grant program at ChessKid.com. Privacy Policy Grades: K-12

The Choices Program
The Choices Program, based at Brown University, creates engaging digital educational resources and makes innovative scholarship accessible to diverse classrooms. Choices curriculum empowers students to understand the relationship between history and current issues while developing the analytical skills to become thoughtful global citizens. Choices curriculum resources tell an inclusive, responsible history, while also encouraging students to challenge and grapple with this history in the ways that historians do. Choices provides educators with high-quality, digital curriculum content that is used in all levels of high school classrooms as well as many middle schools and introductory level college courses. Choices currently offers curricula for U.S. History, World History, Current Issues, and Geography, as well as many electives. "Teaching with the News" from the Choices Program is a series of free online lesson plans and resource guides that connect classrooms to current events in the news. The Choices Program also offers a free collection of more than 1,700 short educational videos. Privacy Policy Grades: 6-12

iVOX
iVOX is a storytelling app that not only gives young readers the immersive technology they have come to expect from hours of video gaming, but which has been proven to support literacy development. Students interact with the app, allowing them to view the story from many angles and in some cases bring up further information. The story is read aloud for them as the words are highlighted at the bottom of the screen - a multi-modal approach that has been proven to aid in literacy development. Privacy Policy Grades: PreK-4
Historical List (2009-2021)

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Best Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning

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American Association of School Librarians

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The application for this award is currently closed. The next award cycle will open on September 1, 2024, and will close on February 1, 2025.

Overview

AASL's Best Digital Tools are recognized for fostering qualities of:

Innovation/Creativity

Active Participation

Collaboration

User-Friendly

Encourages Exploration

Information/Reference

Eligibility

Nominations may be submitted by developers, school librarians, or the general public. For a tool to qualify as "digital," it must be accessible remotely (website, app, etc.).

NEW - Tools that have been recognized previously may be submitted for repeat recognition. For tools that were recognized within three years or less (2020, 2021, or 2022) the committee will consider tools that demonstrate progress, improvements, or changes since the previous recognition. Progress is considered both in terms of new features or tools, but also for improvements in usability and accessibility.

Tools recognized prior to 2020 may be submitted for consideration without the need to demonstrate progress over time.

Preparation for Application

Incomplete applications will not reviewed. Please prepare the following information prior to submitting:

If your tool has received the Best Digital Tools recognition in the past three years (see lists below) you must submit any improvements, changes, or progress to the tool for consideration.

Committee members must receive full access to your tool including any features that are behind paywalls. Access must remain available through April 1.

If your tool has a pricing structure that is not available for public viewing an example of pricing must be included.

Download copy of application
* Please note: This downloadable version is for informational purposes only. All nominations must be submitted online, via the Apply Now button that will appear at the top of the page when the next award season opens in early September.

Questions

Allison Cline
Deputy Executive Director

Write the World
A free online global community where teens write, review, and share. A non-profit dedicated to developing teens' writing and critical thinking skills and equipping them with the confidence and competence to change the world, one word at a time. Privacy Policy. Grades 7-12

ChessKid.com
ChessKid.com is the scholastic extension of Chess.com, the #1 online chess site, and serves more than 3 million kids around the globe with lessons offered in English, Spanish, French, Korean and other languages. ChessKid is working to introduce chess education to as many students as possible worldwide and we pride ourselves as being the safest place for kids to learn and play chess in and out of the school. Media Specialists use ChessKid.com in their centers to help students enhance their creativity, improve their power of concentration, develop and expand critical thinking skills, boost memory and retention, and achieve superior academic performance. Find out if your school is eligible for FREE ChessKid accounts through our annual grant program at ChessKid.com. Privacy Policy Grades: K-12

The Choices Program
The Choices Program, based at Brown University, creates engaging digital educational resources and makes innovative scholarship accessible to diverse classrooms. Choices curriculum empowers students to understand the relationship between history and current issues while developing the analytical skills to become thoughtful global citizens. Choices curriculum resources tell an inclusive, responsible history, while also encouraging students to challenge and grapple with this history in the ways that historians do. Choices provides educators with high-quality, digital curriculum content that is used in all levels of high school classrooms as well as many middle schools and introductory level college courses. Choices currently offers curricula for U.S. History, World History, Current Issues, and Geography, as well as many electives. "Teaching with the News" from the Choices Program is a series of free online lesson plans and resource guides that connect classrooms to current events in the news. The Choices Program also offers a free collection of more than 1,700 short educational videos. Privacy Policy Grades: 6-12

iVOX
iVOX is a storytelling app that not only gives young readers the immersive technology they have come to expect from hours of video gaming, but which has been proven to support literacy development. Students interact with the app, allowing them to view the story from many angles and in some cases bring up further information. The story is read aloud for them as the words are highlighted at the bottom of the screen - a multi-modal approach that has been proven to aid in literacy development. Privacy Policy Grades: PreK-4
Historical List (2009-2021)

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Best Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning

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Free ESL video lessons and listening activities for teaching and learning English.

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Teacher Resources for ALL Content Areas

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Act before December 31! All donations to the National Geographic Society will be matched dollar for dollar through the end of the year. Make your tax-deductible gift today and make TWICE the impact for Explorers working to preserve threatened species around the world.

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Education Resources | National Geographic Society

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Inspire learners to explore National Geographic through interactive lesson plans, maps, storytelling and a wide variety of resources to illuminate their world.