GWAEA Digital Learning Update
to ensure success for all learners - SPECIAL EDITION
Special Edition
The Digital Learning Team is here to support our GWAEA educators. Please reach out to your consultant for specific support.
Emergencies and Switching to Online Learning
"An emergency is a time that calls for us to draw upon the best in ourselves. We are people whose encouragement may be a hidden comfort that keeps the lives of our students and colleagues together. Look in this and any challenge for what can make you a better educator, colleague, and friend, now and long after the emergency passes."
Resources to Get Started
YouTube Learning Hub
Scholastic Learn at Home
Even when schools are closed, you can keep the learning going with these special cross-curricular journeys. Every day includes four separate learning experiences, each built around a thrilling, meaningful story or video. Kids can do them on their own, with their families, or with their teachers. Just find your grade level and let the learning begin!
-The Editors of Scholastic Classroom Magazines.
Resources for Teaching Online Due to School Closures
This month we are declaring March to be for the Makers!
It is still Maker March and there are some great low-tech/no-tech Think, Make Innovate challenges out there that you could share with your students to do at home. These would be great activities to share with parents to have them be makers right alongside their students!
Join us all month long on our social media channels (Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook) as we share maker tips & ideas every day using the #MakerMarch.
#HaveFunMakingOnline Resources are there to Support
If students are home and looking for books to read online they can use Mackin or if they are looking for a passion project to research from home they may want to use Defined STEM.
Grant Wood AEA provides a variety of free digital resources to support teaching and learning. These videos, images, books, activities and more can be accessed by students and educators at home or school. There are over 28 different resources ready and waiting to use!
If you have a question about your login information please complete this form and someone will be in touch.
Contact Dianna Geers, GWAEA Teacher Librarian or
Kathleen Goslinga, GWAEA Online Resources Lead with questions.PreK-6 Resources
Usernames & Passwords Required
Each building currently has their own logins for resources that can be shared with students and parents. Please complete this form if you are in need of your username and password.
EBSCO resources have a different password
The Carpool Lane- Please Share with Parents
Every parent and caregiver should feel equipped to support a child's learning, and with The Carpool Lane, they can pick up parent tips and resources from your AEA.
Please feel free to share this SMORE with parents and parent groups to have them sign-up!
Episode 74 and More!
Episode 74 is all about student engagement! Mindy and Jonathan share some practical ways we can engage students of all ages in our classrooms.
News & Followup
- Create and use multiple signatures in Gmail
- Experience the new Google Groups, launching in beta
- Fix images to a certain location on a page in Google Docs
- Extending Hangouts Meet premium features to all G Suite customers through July 1, 2020
Main Course: Student Engagement
- Engagement vs Compliance by Peter DeWitt
- Continuum of Engagement from Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey
- Engagement: Universal Design for Learning
If you are looking for some professional learning while schools aren't in session go subscribe and listen to some other episodes to get you thinking about what else you may want to incorporate in your classroom.
Subscribe in Apple Podcasts | Subscribe on Android
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA.
About Us
Email: digitallearning@gwaea.org
Website: http://www.dlgwaea.org
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA, United States
Phone: 319-399-6700
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dlgwaea
Twitter: @DLGWAEA