Think Different #125
COVID-19... April 2020
I hope these resources might help you...
Students should be content creators, Oh YES, they should
Getting Creative with Slide Decks: Keynote and Google Slides
She uses both Keynote and Google Slides. In my opinion, based on so many factors, creativity and innovation being number one…Keynote will always win the golden crown.
RESOURCES April SHARED:
- Keynote
- Google Slides
- Drawings to add to Google Slides: Sketchpad, Autodraw, Kleki,
- Canva
- Canva Color Palette
- Adobe Spark
- Drag and drop templates for Google Slides from Kris Szajner @kszajner
- Google Slides Templates from Laura Cahill @engageducate
- Slides Mania
- Slides Carnival
- High quality, free to use graphics (Unsplash, Pixabay, MixKit)
- Free icons
- The Key(note) to Storytelling
Ideas and Tips to prepare online Lessons, I know this hard right now......
1. What is your lesson objective?
2. What are the skills needed to acomplish that objective?
3. Use a lesson termplate, there are lots online, here are a couple....
- Planboard: Planboard makes it simple to get organized and reduce your classroom prep time. Accessible from anywhere, you can plan lessons, align to curriculum sets, and manage your schedule with ease. Best of all, it’s free for individual teachers.
- Teacher Planet: Lesson Plan templates by subject, units, grade levels, software daily, monthly, and more
- 8 Free lesson plan templates fit for your teaching from Bookwidgets
4. Create discussions, I find in class discussions difficult sometimes with my pre-service teachers, but they do a nince job online. But you have to ask stimulating questions.....
5. Regular communication is important , use chat, email, group me, Remind, text messaging, factime, video conferencing, etc, change it up, don;t do the same thing all the time, we are 3-4 four weeks into this pandemic and kids are alreday tired of zoom and google Meet up, ok to use some but change it up a little.
6. Your contnent has to be engaging. If you give them lots of word documents to reac, forget it, they wont. It needs to be interactive.
7. And in these times, Less is MORE! And we are not teaching to the test this spring, so be that creative teacher you sometimes put on the back burner becasue you are teaching to the test.
Group Video Chat Using FaceTime On Your Mac, iPhone Or iPad
Uisng your Mac, iPhone or iPad you can chat with several other Apple users at the same time. You can use this to stay in touch with family and friends while staying at home, as long as everyone involved has Apple products.
Must-See Adobe Distance Learning Resources
In this blog post, I’ll take you through strategies to share with families and ideas you may want to explore for student projects. Like many of the distance learning resources I’ve shared over the past few weeks, there are lots of classroom connections. So if you’re diving into this list while school is back in session, I know you can combine these ideas with your classroom goals, too.
As regular readers of the blog know, I am a big fan of the Adobe Spark tools. Ben Forta and I wrote a book with activity ideas titled 40 Ways to Inject Creativity into Your Classroom with Adobe Spark. I’ve also featured Spark on the blog. Before we dive into the distance learning resources from Adobe, here is a quick list of my blog posts with ideas you can use to support your online learning initiatives.
Online Teacher Resources During School Closure
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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.
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