Think Different #126
COVID-19... April 2020
I hope these resources might help you...
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Here is amazing help for using zoom from our Video Producer
Rusty Earl, our Video Producer in the College of Ed has put together a 4-minute How-to video and Quick Guide to Better Looking and Sounding Video Conferencing. He even should you how to recording and how to change your settimngs to get the best results.
Open the PDF Below to read and watch the video. If you find it useful send a shoutout tweet to Rusty, using the hashtag #edcats.
Common Craft, Explainer Videos
Right now they do have some EXCELLENT FREE video packs you can download. Grab them while they are FREE.
Common Craft Video Packs: They have organized videos from their library into packs that focus on specific topics and make classroom teaching easier. Select a pack below to get started. THese are worth you time to download for bofre they go back to PAID.
- Digital Citizenship Pack: This video pack will help your audience become more thoughtful and responsible online citizens. 8 Videos in this Pack
- Research & Study Skills Pack: The videos in this pack are designed to help your audience avoid information overload and learn to identify and use information with confidence. 13 Videos in this Pack
- Internet Safety Pack: Now more than ever, using the Internet comes with risks. This video pack will help your audience understand common threats and learn practices for avoiding them. 11 Videos in this Pack
- Financial Responsibility Pack: This video pack is designed to provide your audience with a solid foundation for making sound decisions with their money. 8 Videos in this Pack
Do you have an iPad and an OSMO? Turn it into a projector/recording device.
I think there may be 30+ games now, it began with only 3. Just the the little Genius ones for my 3 youngest grandkids. https://www.playosmo.com/en/little-genius-sk/
Teacher Tricia Louis explains in a video she created and posted in LOOM, another tool she uses with her Osmo as a recorder with the Osmo Projector app. Click here to watch her detailed how-to video and solution for teaching at home without her white board and doc camera and other tools. AWESOME migh I say. Introducing Osmo Projector: A Free App to Help Teachers Create An Engaging Virtual Classroom
Osmo Projector is a tool to help with remote learning. Oh yes it is. Working directly off your iPad reflector that is part of the Osmo, it lets you take physical notes, and share both with anyone who has joined you thru Apple AirPlay or the conferencing app of your choice.
FREE in the App store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1502489790
You will notice that Tricia is using an app for screen recording called Loom, it is worth checking out too.
- Loom https://www.loom.com,
- FREE account for educators and students using their school email https://www.loom.com/blog/free-for-teachers
- How to use loom to make videos for your class
Osmo is a really simple solution to sove some of your Remote teaching issues, and there are so many more thing you can do with Osmo. And I bet you would be suprised hoe many of your studens have an osmo at home. https://www.playosmo.com/
Evolving Learner: Shifting From Professional Development to Professional Learning From Kids, Peers, and the World
-- Alan November of November Learning said
"Evolving Learner is a unique balance of incredible creativity, knowledge of innovative professional learning practices, with a deep appreciation for the emotional side of change. This trio of authors has done a remarkable job of making research based techniques of empowering the learner come alive. Filled with practical stories from classrooms around the world, this book will super charge educators to more deeply understand the needs of students to help them expand their own boundaries of learning. Of particular note, are the strategies to help students own their learning and educators to build collaborative classrooms. This book honors the role of the teacher as the head learner. The knowledge and wisdom within these pages is the reference and guide that we need to build healthy classrooms for students and teachers."
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TEDEd @ Home
In the email the othert day from TedEd, there is a video..... The bug that poops candy. OK, now how could that not get a kids attention, sure did got mine and I even watched it. Who kenw?
I love that you can customize the lesson or use as created. Check out TEDEd https://ed.ted.com. It is a wonderful tool durning this time fo Remote Learning.
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A Comprehensive List of YouTube Channels for All Your Classroom Needs
It works as an added source of information that can supplement their learning. YouTube is the firstplace most of us check. But the hard part is to get hands-on for our students, just watching is passive learning.
This list is going to help you get your hands on some of the best YouTube channels. The list comprises mention of channels on various subjects like Physics, Geography, Math, English, Science, and History.
Get the list with a description of each channel, CLICK HERE
To take it one step more, maybe open the video in EdPuzzle, or Quizlet, Playposit.
Easily find educational videos from TV shows and movies to use in your lessons.
Easily find educational videos from TV shows and movies to use in your lessons. Such scenes not only teach students but also make learning more relevant. Students can associate a concept in class to an image they see in their everyday lives. Bringing television shows and movies to your classroom helps connect students' personal lives to the concepts they are learning in class. As a result, content retention increases, and learning becomes more fun.
But what if you wanted to find these educational scenes? Even with available search tools such as Google and YouTube, it is very difficult to do so. That's where ClassHook comes in. All you have to know is the topic you'll be teaching in class, and you'll be able to find an engaging clip that hooks your students in while educating them at the same time.
Toy Theater | Education Games for Kids
Toy Theater offers high quality Math, Reading, Art, Music, Puzzles, Games, and Teacher Tools, that have real educational value. Their inclusion of art & design activities sets it apart from many other edtech applications and sites. It has a simpler design for kindergarten to third grade classroms. The site is FREE, providing accessible online learning to teachers around the world.
Social media Challenge: In these quarantine tableaus, household items turn into art history props
Famous paintings come to life in these quarantine works of art
Visiting museums to experience art in person is not an option in the era of social distancing. But that hasn’t stopped people from engaging with — and using their own bodies to recreate — works by Old Masters and contemporary artists alike.
With the encouragement of museums, people have been repurposing the everyday items they have in isolation — toilet paper, cleaning products, canned goods, all materials that have come to signify the crisis — to sub in for the fancy lace collars, exquisite parasols and exotic pets that adorn the history of art.
Click here to get all the details
Insert Learning: Insert instructional content on any web page.
This is an awesome tool, you really need to be using it. Insert Learning was founded by two high school teachers who wanted to create a richer learning experience for their students. Their mission is to help teachers turn the Internet into an interactive learning experience.
- Differentiate for Every Student: Easily scaffold text with questions and media that help all of your students be more successful learners.
- Authentic Sources to Build Lifelong Learners: Utilize primary sources and supplement current curriculum with high interest content that your students can connect with
- All Students Have A Voice: Embedded discussions help all student share their ideas while reading. Students can annotate any web page and share what they think is important.
- Engage All Readers: Keep students engaged and active learners with interactive questions, discussions, videos, live annotations, and a collection of tools you can embed in lessons.
- Real-Time Assessment and Intervention: Monitor student responses and annotations during class. In a blended or flipped classroom, you can respond when students need help the most.
What Are You Waiting For? Get started and join more than 75,000 teachers on InsertLearning.
Add to Chrome It's freeLearn: Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq_3rFvR2OR1-A3KfKQKCag
Hypothesis for Education
Writing in the margins has always been an essential activity for students. Annotation helps in reading comprehension and in developing critical thinking about course materials. Hypothesis enables students to continue this essential activity with online readings. Digital annotation also offers new affordances, enabling students to respond to text using different media and empowering them to collaborate on understanding and developing ideas about their readings.
Whether web literacy or digital citizenship is a focus of your curriculum, or you are simply teaching a traditional text like a poem or article that just happens to be online, you and your students can use Hypothesis to collaboratively annotate course readings and other internet resources. Check out what teachers and students are saying about the power of collaborative annotation or see these examples of classroom use of the Hypothesis tool.
Here are some resources to help you get started with Hypothesis today:
- 10 Ways to Annotate with Students
- Quick Start Guide for Teachers
- Quick Start Guide for Students
- Annotation Tips for Students
- Creating a Private Group
- Annotating with Groups
- Hypothesis LMS App
See our YouTube channel for tutorial videos on getting started and advanced features.
For model assignments, product tutorials, teacher testimonials, and much more, visit our Educator Resource Guide. Direct your students to the Student Resource Guide for student-centered materials from tips for best annotation practices to inspirational poetry about marginalia.
Whiteboard.fi: Online whiteboard tool for teachers
Whiteboard.fi is an instant formative assessment tool for your classroom, providing you with live feedback and an immediate overview of your students.
Ask a question, and let the whole class answer by using Whiteboard.fi. This way you will activate the whole class, and everybody gets the opportunity to answer - not just the ones raising their hands. You also see all incorrect answers - providing you with valuable information of different misunderstandings.
Check it out http://www.whiteboard.fi
New Professional Learning Classes This Summer for Teaching Online
Beyond Packets: The Art of Online Teaching and Remote Learning in P-12
- Interested in learning more about this? Complete this 3 question form....no committiment.... will take you less than a minute https://forms.gle/nGzvT9R4XzTcmXB98
As educators, we need to rid ourselves of the fear of admitting we are unsure about something. A friend of mine, Lanie Rowell in her new book Evolving Learner: Shifting From Professional Development to Professional Learning said:
" If we can all agree that our primary responsibility is to our learners and that they are in fact our clientele, we can also agree that we must respect our clients ideas, experiences, and perspectives to serve them better. "
The is exactly what we plan to do in this summer session of classes. We want to give you the chance to get Beyond Packets and learn The Art of Online Teaching and Remote Learning in P-12.
I know tools are the big topic of discussion right this moment, but it really is not about the tool: It is about the relationships the tools enable. Let's learn the tools and create those relationships.
When you create your digital online classroom, you are setting up your curriculum, and lets face it, you already know your curriculum, you just need to know how to present it in a different way, in an engaging way and digitally to your students (and parents).
We want to help you have ownership of your learning. shifting from students who consume content to learners who create content. This applies to you in this summer class and also your own students next fall. This will get you ready to begin your fall semester, no matter the format, online or in person.
It is a different way to teach and a different way to learn, no doubt. We have to move students (and parents) into this transformation. This, of course, means thinking outside the box.
We (Kansas State College of Education) are here to help. This summer we will be offering a BUNDLE of 3 online classes, more workshop like than ridgid classes, Beyond Packets: The Art of Online Teaching and Remote Learning in P-12. It will be possible for you to earn 9 hours of graduate credit. We have made a request to the university powers for a lower than normal credit price, so fingers crossed our request is granted. We hope to hear shortly on the price.
We are still in the planning stages but we are considering a start date of June 8, although that is not carved in stone yet.
Interested in learning more about this? Complete this 3 question form....no committiment.... will take you less than a minute https://forms.gle/nGzvT9R4XzTcmXB98
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