Teaching

A useful blog post with pointers for teachers returning to online teaching in the fall.

An excellent blog by Eric Curts that will keep you current with the newest features in Google. Curts also shares many excellent resources.

This playlist has been created by your awesome PD staff at the ATA! Learn to use Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Mote, and Flipgrid to create fun online learning environments

A great collection of videos by the Emtech Team at ECSD to help teachers get comfortable using Google Classrooms

In this week's education technology tutorial, Sam Kary shows teachers how to use Pear Deck, a Google Slides Add-on, to dramatically increase student participation.

A video that shows how teachers can use Google Jamboard in their virtual classes.

Webinars and guides produced by Microsoft to support best practices for remote and online classrooms.

In this week's education technology tutorial, Sam Kary shows you nine Google Slides add-ons that will significantly improve the way you teach with Google Slides.

A great group of videos by the Emtech Team at ESCD designed to help teachers use the features of Microsoft Teams and other MS Office tools in their remote classrooms

A useful collection of tools that can be used with Microsoft Teams in your remote classroom

What is Google Classroom? And how are teachers using it? Learn more about this popular platform and how to use it with students.

A series of videos created by D2L for their product: Brightspace. You will learn how to set up your classroom and use all the features in the BrightSpace software.

A teacher has created this useful video about how she creates breakout rooms for her synchronous online classes.

A quick guide to using Google Meet to in Brightspace so that you have consistent classroom and breakout links for your virtual classroom

A video created by an experienced Ontario teacher that shows you how to get started using Brightspace for your virtual classroom

So you have your bitmoji classroom up and running -- but you want more ideas about engaging students. Here are 15 great ideas for making use of bitmoji in your class activities. For advanced users.

Using the apps, Snapchat and Unscreen, on your phone, you can animate your bitmoji in a 3D animation. This video shows you how to make the animation and put it in your google slides. For advanced users.

A step-by-step video to setting up your bitmoji classroom when you're using Google Classroom

Another great video by Katherine Panczner. In this one, she demonstrates how you can make your bitmoji classroom interactive for students.

A video that answers many common questions teachers have when they are creating bitmoji for their online classrooms

You can add the bitmoji extension to your Chrome browser. A great option for teachers who like to work on a larger screen when creating bitmoji.

An excellent starter guide to using Bitmoji in your Google Classroom from Sylvia Ducksworth (who you may know from sketchnoting workshops). Recommended for beginners.

Once you are comfortable using your bitmoji classroom, you're ready to move on to the next step! Here is a useful video for teachers to transform their bitmojis from static pictures to animated characters.

A quick video with easy instructions for creating a bitmoji on your smartphone. This is the first step to creating a bitmoji classroom

A useful step-by-step guide that gets you started in creating your first virtual bitmoji classroom. For beginners

A useful video that shows teachers how they can use the "My Talking Pet" app on your smart phone to make your bitmoji appear to speak

Ideas for creating authentic connections, meaningful relationships and classroom camaraderie through the screen.

File Transformer is a free resource enabling students to convert digital course content from Blackboard into alternative formats, to meet their unique learning needs and preferences. It lets students personalize their learning experience and choose from several format types (PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX and HTML) to work better with mobile devices, assistive technologies and study tools.

BombBomb is offering free accounts (registration is required) for its video messaging tool to teachers, professors, counselors and administrators in the United States and Canada. The program allows educators to communicate with students and families face-to-face (virtually, of course) and provide feedback with the help of a screen recording.

Canvas is free for teachers. The account never expires and offers all course creation and importing, "mastery paths" to lead students through personalized learning, native use on mobile devices, a gradebook, quizzing and other features that instructors need to move their students to online learning. Registration required.

Learn how to make interactive videos in Nearpod with their brand-new fall 2020 update, released August 3rd!

Kahoot! is offering this basic version of its game-based learning software to teachers for free.

This is a tool to make explainer videos. Explore the features and examples on the site, as well as the Education options.

Learn how teachers and students can use Powtoon, a tool for making animated videos, in the classroom.

A great, free tool that removes the background from any image you find online. Excellent for adjusting images you want to use in your virtual classroom

This tool provides one-click screen capture recording on Windows or Mac computers. Record your screen, edit, and share videos. Visit the section about educational use.

In this playlist by the awesome PD staff at the ATA, you'll find lots of great information about prerecording presentations using a variety of software programs

A destination designed to inspire and instruct that brings you the highest quality educational content on YouTube. Here you will find Learning Playlists, which organize content into chapters and are designed to facilitate focused study, YouTube Learning Originals to spark your curiosity, and curated playlists ranging in subjects from physics to film making.