K-12 Subject Matter Specific Support Resources
As higher education campuses across the country continue to mobilize to deliver face-to-face programs in a virtual synchronous setting, local K-12 schools are also being faced with the same issue. Academic Partnerships would like to help school districts with strategies for online instruction. These resources detail how teachers and administrators can leverage new and existing tools to help speed the process of virtual delivery and also help students so they can be successful in an online class.
This page will be updated regularly to include new information.
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Resources
Tips and Tools for Teachers and Administrators – Virtual Delivery
Tips and Tools for Students – Participating in Virtual Coursework
Provider: Annenberg Learner
Title: Professional Development
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
K-12 educators, students, and lifelong learners may access Annenberg Learner resources for free at Learner.org. When on the website you can select “professional development” or “classroom” and access resources for either or both by subject area.
Provider: ACT
Title: ACT Training for K-12 Professionals
Audience: Educational Leadership (Superintendents, Principals, etc.)
Category: Professional Development
ACT training events provide the opportunity to:
- Learn strategies that are immediately useful in the classroom
- Examine new ways to use ACT data when counseling students
- Make connections between curriculum and college and career readiness
Provider: PBS TeacherLine
Title: Professional Development from America’s #1 Trusted Educational Media Brand
Audience: K -12 Teachers with a Focus on K-3
Category: Professional Development
There are both facilitated courses for graduated credit and self-paced courses for certificates available. PBS TeacherLine offers courses that can inspire, educate, and reinvigorate your teaching strategies! PBS TeacherLine offers self-paced courses typically require 1.5 to 4 hours of study.
Provider: Families In Schools
Title: Staff Professional Development
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
Families In Schools has developed an array of tools and trainings that help educational institutions, and community based organization, better work with and partner with families.
Provider: TED Talks Education by Apple
Title: TED Education
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
What should future schools look like? How do brains learn? Some of the world’s greatest educators, researchers, and community leaders share their stories and visions onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world
Provider: ALISON
Title: Teaching and Training Professionals Courses
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
These free online teaching and training professionals courses will teach you how to effectively instruct and understand the needs of a variety of learners. Assembled with many different types of student in mind, this page contains courses designed to teach you how you can best instruct others, be they students with special needs, working professionals, or even other teachers!
Provider: edX-K12
Title: K- 12 Courses
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
Take free online K12 education courses to build your skills and advance your career. Take courses about K12 education and other in-demand topics from top universities and institutions around the world on edX.
Provider: edWeb.net
Title: Free Education Webinars
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
It offers free Webinars. You can ioin live or receive a link to the recording and then you will earn a certificate in curriculum and instruction.
Provider: Intel
Title: Education Teaching Tools and Resources
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
On-going professional development is a critical factor in education transformation. For technology implementations to be successful, teachers need the skills to make effective use of the technology in the classroom. Intel’s teacher professional development courses help teachers move towards mastering those skills, improving teaching and learning.
Provider: DePaul College of Education
Title: `K-12 Online Teaching Resources
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development and Teaching Resources
Webinars on teaching online in all subject areas to make sure students are engaged and students are effectively being assessed.
Also included are various links divided by subject area for resources for teaching
Provider: Acer for Education
Title: Remote Learning: a comparison among top collaboration tools
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
A comparison for collaboration tools
Provider: AALAS
Title: RTOL
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
A guide for the rapid transition to online providing a step by step guide and distill the most essential needs.
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
There are instructional resources by subject provided but also information on online pedagogy to help teachers move to online
Provider: NYC Department of Education
Title: Learn at Home
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
Information for parents and teachers about learning at home.
Provider: Understanding Language website by Stanford
Title: Understanding Language
Audience: K-12 ELA
Category: Professional Development
Professional development courses and resources for language teachers.
Provider: Achieve 3000
Title: Achieve3000 Literacy at Home Digital
Audience: K-12 ELA
Category: Professional Development
Log in any time and read great articles and stories and then complete activities that will help you build your skills.
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 ELA
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: Read Write Think
Title: ReadWriteThink
Audience: K-12 ELA
Category: Teaching Resources
This website provides classroom resources, professional development, videos, and parent resources for reading and language.
Provider: Midnight Music
Title: Free Music Tech Professional Development
Audience: K-12 Music
Category: Professional Development
A list of courses, most of which are free, to gain a professional development certificate for music educators.
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 Arts
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: The Art Assignment
Title: Assignments
Audience: K-12 Arts
Category: Teaching Resources
Educational video series that explores art and art history through the various lenses. Co-production of PBS Digital Studios and Complexly.
Provider: The Kennedy Center
Title: Lessons & Activities
Audience: K-12 Arts
Category: Teaching Resources
Arts-centered, standards-based resources for in and out of school. Filter content by grade, arts subject, and duration.
Provider: Google
Title: Arts & Culture
Audience: K-12 Arts
Category: Teaching Resources
Online platform for over 2000 museums and archives. Contains associated activities as well. Also has an available app.
Provider: Save the Music Foundation
Title: Music Education Resources
Audience: K-12 Music
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for remote teaching and learning, online education, and virtual concerts and tours.
Provider: Education Week
Title: Math Webinars
Audience: K-12 Math
Category: Professional Development
Education Week includes a collection of free webinars on mathematics and professional development resources for teachers.
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 Math
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: Share My Lesson
Title: Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month
Audience: K-12 Math
Category: Teaching Resources
This resource contains lesson plans, resources, webinars, and activities on math, financial literacy, and statistics. This resource page was created during April 2020.
Provider: Math Games
Title: Math Games
Audience: K-8 Math
Category: Teaching Resources
Free math games for skill practice. Games available for a variety of skill sets. Instructors can also create PDF worksheets from the content.
Provider: Desmos
Title: Desmos Teacher Classroom Activities
Audience: 7-12 Math
Category: Teaching Resources
A digital collection of free math activities for teachers and students. Contains videos and interactive components.
Provider: Harvard
Title: Online Science Courses
Audience: K-12 Science
Category: Professional Development
Expand your horizons and enroll in one of hundreds of free, credit or open certificate science courses through Harvard University’s Online Learning program.
Provider: edX Science
Title: edX
Audience: K-12 Science
Category: Professional Development and Teaching Resources
Science is one of the most popular subjects on edX and online courses range from beginner to advanced levels. Areas of study include neuroscience, genotyping, DNA methylation, innovations in environmental science, modern astrophysics and more from top universities and institutions worldwide.
Provider: MIT Open CourseWare
Title: Open Courses
Audience: K-12 Science
Category: Professional Development
It offers a variety of free online science courses
Provider: American Chemical Society
Title: Chemistry Education Resources
Audience: K-12 Chemistry
Category: Teaching Resources
Lesson plans, classroom resources, and activities for chemistry at home
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 Science
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: PBS Learning Media
Title: Bring the World to Your Classroom
Audience: K-12 STEM
Category: Teaching Resources
PBS curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for PD in STEM.
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 STEM
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: The Concord Consortium
Title: STEM Resource Finder
Audience: K -12 STEM and Science and Math
Category: Teaching Resources
Accurate models and activities that can be filtered by type and grade. Contains physics, chemistry, life science, engineering, earth & space, and mathematics examples.
Provider: Science Buddies
Title: STEM Activities for Kids
Audience: K-6 STEM
Category: Teaching Resources
Explore experiments, engineering challenges, and demonstrations.
Provider: Jason Learning
Title: Free Webinars for Educators
Audience: K-12 STEM
Category: Professional Development
Free webinars offered to teachers and administrators about teaching STEM at a distance.
Provider: National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
Title: NCSS Institutes and Webinars
Audience: K-12 Social Studies
Category: Professional Development
NCSS provides webinars to some of the best educational programming available to the social studies professional
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 Social Studies
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: Britannica Digital Learning
Title: Britannica Launch Packs Social Studies
Audience: High School Social Studies
Category: Teaching Resources
Free, emergency support and virtual-learning classroom resources for Social Studies
Provider: Big History Project
Title: Big History Project
Audience: K-12 Social Studies
Category: Teaching Resources
Free, online social studies course that emphasizes skill development. Online professional development and a teacher community is also available.
Provider: The National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET)
Title: PDP – Professional Development Courses
Audience: K-12 Special Education
Category: Professional Development
This site provides a selection of PDP Courses, Video Lectures, and PowerPoint Presentation
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 Special Education
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Be sure to check out “Supporting Students with Disabilities”
Provider: NYC Department of Education
Title: Specialized Instruction and Student Supports
Audience: K-12 Special Education
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources designed to support children at home including information on assistive technology and therapy supports for physical, speech, and motor skills.
Provider: Coursera
Title: Arizona State University TESOL Professional Certificate
Audience: K-12 TESOL
Category: Professional Development
“This course is designed for anyone who wants to teach English anywhere in the world. If you want to become a teacher, polish your teaching skills, or add a credential to your resume, this is the course for you! Get certified by a nationally-ranked university.”
Provider: U Texas
Title: Foreign Language Teaching Methods
Audience: Foreign Language Teachers
Category: Professional Development
The website provides professional development learning modules for foreign language instruction at the high-school level
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: Foreign Language Teachers
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: Colorín Colorado!
Title: Resource Library
Audience: ELL Teachers
Category: Teaching Resources
Guides and toolkits, reading tip sheets for parents/educators, ELL resources from A-Z, the DOE English Learner Tool Kit, and a FAQ page about teaching English Language Learners
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K- 12 PE and Health teachers
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: Online Physical Education Network (OPEN)
Title: Tools for Creating an Active Home
Audience: K-12 PE Teachers
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources provided for and by Physical Education instructors teaching at a distance and parents that homeschool. Contains physical activity logs (K-12) in both English and Spanish. Also contains 7-week Phys Ed packets for k-2, 3-5, middle school, and high school.
Provider: Hip Hop Public Health (HHPH)
Title: Hip Hop Public Health Resource Center
Audience: K-12 PE and Health teachers
Category: Teaching Resources
Repository of music, videos, and teaching guides. These resources can be sorted by content area, media type, grade level, and Health Ed and Phys Ed learning standards
Provider: Peer Health Exchange
Title: Let’s Talk: Your Health
Audience: High School Health teachers
Category: Teaching Resources
A library of health resources, including videos by peer health educators, to help teens take care of themselves (Stress, anxiety, sexual health, etc.)
Provider: FITNESSGRAM The Cooper Institute
Title: COVID-19 Fitness & PE Resources
Audience: K-12 PE Teachers
Category: Teaching Resources
A list of free resources for physical education and physical activity for students, parents and teachers who are practicing social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.
Provider: Edsurge
Title: Teachers are Living in a Tinderbox of Stressful Conditionings: These Scientific Approaches Can Help
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Scientific approaches to dealing with the stress associated with COVID.
Provider: NEA Today
Title: Social-Emotional Learning Should be Priority During Covid-19 Crisis
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Take a look as to why social and emotional needs need to be addressed during the pandemic.
Provider: Center on Great Teachers and Leaders
Title: What About You? Strategies for Supporting Educator Resilience and Trauma-Informed Self-Care
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
The National Education Association recently co-sponsored a webinar that explored how educators can use trauma-informed self-care and resilience-building strategies to help cope in these stressful times. You can listen to the entire webinar, recorded on April 23, below.
Provider: Ruler
Title: Managing Anxiety Around COVID-19: Tips for You and Your School Community
Audience: K-12 Teachers and Administrators
Category: Professional Development
Easy bulleted list with tips to manage anxiety
Provider: Casel Cares
Title: Covid Resources
Audience: K-12 Teachers, Administration, and Community
Category: Professional Development
A new initiative from the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning that connects the SEL community with experts to support schools and teachers during the COVID-19 crisis.
Provider: Cult of Pedagogy
Title: Social-Emotional Learning: Not Just for Kids
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
In this post on The Cult of Pedagogy, Wendy Turner explains how she models the five core SEL competencies in her classroom and why teachers should lead by example.
Provider: Edutopia
Title: Covid-19’s Impact on Students’ Academic and Mental Well-Being
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Take a look at how the pandemic is impacting students’ mental health and how you can address this need.
Provider: American Institutes for Research
Audience: K-12 Teachers and Community
Category: Professional Development
The American Institutes for Research created Building Positive Conditions for Learning at Home: Strategies and Resources for Families and Caregivers to support parents and caregivers in creating positive conditions for learning at home. The resource, available in English and Spanish, addresses offers strategies, describes developmental differences to consider, and identifies a few resources that go deeper into the topic.
Provider: Casel
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning offers suggestions for educators on addressing the social and emotional needs of students. They also started the CASEL CARES initiative, which offers resources including SEL tips and information for anyone who works with children and a webinar series on various topics, such as how to support SEL at home.
Provider: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Supporting Students’ SEL and Mental Health Needs During COVID-19
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
The webinar, Supporting Students’ SEL and Mental Health Needs During COVID-19, discusses how districts can address the mental health needs of students and support their social and emotional learning (SEL) growth during the COVID-19 school closures. The webinar was developed by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in partnership with Transforming Education, and Walker Cares.
Provider: Lorea Martinez
Title: Learning is Social, Emotional, and Academic
Audience: Homeschooling Parents
Category: Professional Development/Blog
In a Learning Is Social, Emotional and Academic blog, Lorea Martinez offers parents homeschooling tips to ensure social emotional learning is a part of student learning.
Provider: Sanford Harmony
Title: Various Titles
Audience: K-12 Teachers/Parents
Category: Professional Development
Sanford Harmony, a Pre-K-6 research-based social emotional learning program, promotes positive peer relations among students through lessons and activities that encourage communication, collaboration, and mutual respect. These free resources can be used by parents at home to help children express feelings and solve problems together.
Provider: National Association of School Psychologists
Title: Health Crisis Resources (Various Resources)
Audience: K-12 Teachers/Administrators
Category: Professional Development
The National Association of School Psychiatrists has developed a set of materials for schools and districts to support for their students and community around COVID-19 and pandemics.
Provider: Afterschool Alliance
Title: Afterschool & Summer in the Time of COVID-19
Audience: K-12 Teacher/Afterschool Professional
Category: Professional Development
The Afterschool Alliance has FAQs and resources about how the afterschool field can support communities during the pandemic, including by supporting essential workers with childcare and providing free meals and food support.
Provider: Ohio Department of Education
Title: How to Your Child’s Health and Well-Being During Ohio’s Ordered School Building Closer
Audience: K-12 Parents
Category: Professional Development
The Ohio Department of Education has a checklist of how to support your child’s social, emotional, and behavioral health while the school building is closed.
Provider: Oregon Department of Education
Title: Mental Health Guidance for School Counselors, Other Mental Health Professionals and Administrators
Audience: School Counselors, Administrators, and Health Professionals
Category: Professional Development
The Oregon Department of Education has created mental health guidance for school counselors and other administrators, as well as guidance on how to support educator and student mental and emotional wellbeing.
Provider: Oregon Department of Education
Title: Supporting Student and Educator Mental and Emotional Well-Being in Distance Learning
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Oregon Department of Education put together some suggestions to help teachers navigate these unprecedented times as they support students with mental and emotional well-being in distance learning.
Provider: Pasadena High School Community School
Title: Resources for Supporting Pasadena Unified Students and Families during COVID-19 School Closure
Audience: K-12 Students and Families
Category: Professional Development
The Pasadena High School Community Schools Initiative created a resource guide of hyperlocal supports for students and families, including physical health and food access resources, and socio-emotional wellbeing.
Provider: Phoenix Union High School District
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Phoenix Union High School District in Arizona launched the Every Student, Every Day initiative so that staff members can contact each of the district’s 30,000 students each day to check in. The initiative includes a framework and protocols to protects privacy.
Provider: Ohio Department of Education
Title: Returning to School: Supporting the Social, Emotional and Behavioral Health of Students and Staff
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Information on self-care, social and emotional needs, and how to address behavioral issues that may arise. The site includes many additional resources that are extremely helpful for these key topics.
Provider: The Heckinger Report
Title: Helping Kids Who are Feeling Isolated and Anxious After Schools Shut Down
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
A look into how to help students feel engaged and connected.
Provider: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Title: Creative Communities Are Addressing Social Isolation
Audience: Education Community
Category: Professional Development
Social connections are not just nice to have—they can significantly affect our health and well-being. Inspired by creative approaches abroad, communities across the United States are taking steps to reduce social isolation and increase residents’ sense of belonging.
Provider: School News Network
Title: Helping Student Struggling with Isolation Induced Anxiety and Other Mental Health Issues
Audience: K-12 Guidance Counselors
Category: Professional Development
Now that they can’t meet with students behind a closed door in their office, school mental health workers are finding other ways to help.
Provider: WestEd
Title: How Schools Ensure Social Connections During Physical Isolation
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
A webinar on how schools can help maintain social connections during physical isolation.
Provider: Search Institute
Title: Building Developmental Relationships During the COVID-19 Crisis
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
A helpful checklist to help educators connect with students.
Provider: NEA Today
Title: An Unequal Starting Place
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
This article identifies privilege and helps to spread awareness that the pandemic does not impact all students equally.
Provider: Edutopia
Title: Covid-19s Impact Students Academic and Mental Well Being
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
The pandemic has revealed—and exacerbated—inequities that hold many students back. Here’s how teachers can help.
Provider: Disability Rights Texas
Title: Coronavirus Pandemic and Rights of Students with Disabilities
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
This resource highlights some key special education requirements that may assist you in ensuring that a student with a disability continues to receive a free and appropriate public education.
Provider: Disability Rights Texas
Title: Best Practices for Serving English Language Learners and Their Families
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development Webinar
Are you looking for culturally responsive ways to support English language learners? Based on our recently updated ELL best practices guide, this webinar presents specific tools and strategies for supporting ELLs in instruction, family engagement, classroom culture and school policies. Participants will also review and understand the legal obligations for serving ELLs and identify ways to enhance their current practices.
Provider: Teaching Tolerance
Title: Critical Practices for Anti-bias Education: Family and Community Engagement
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
A look at how send culturally sensitive communication and understanding communities.
Provider: Vedamo
Title: Virtual Classroom Management Tips
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Explore a few helpful tips for virtual classroom management that work for both group and individual lessons.
Provider: Room to Discover Educational Services
Title: Online Classroom Management – Five Tips for Teachers in Transitions
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Learn how to approach classroom management for the virtual classroom.
Provider: Edutopia
Title: Extending Classroom Management Online
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Nine suggestions to help you provide online learners with class norms and expectations and a sense of community.
Provider: Teach Hub
Title: Classroom Management in an Online Environment
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
The challenges of online learning are discussed along with strategies for classroom management.
Provider: Technology Resource Teachers
Title: Virtual Classroom Management
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Tools to help with management such as online noise meter, stop watch, point trackers, and random name selector
Provider: GCU K12 Educational Development
Title: Virtual Classroom Management: CDP’s Weekly Webinar
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Webinar
This webinar features online tools and resources to help educators better communicate and engage with K-12 students. Managing a classroom in a virtual environment can still be accomplished by borrowing familiar strategies from the physical classroom.
Provider: edWeb.net
Title: Increase student learning with these classroom management tools
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Webinar
- Class behavior sites for every age group, from ClassDojo to ClassCraft to Google Classroom tools that measure classroom sound levels
- Timers for students to monitor their time management
- Random student selectors and random group creators to help students feel they are treated equally and fairly
- Online discussions or group collaboration to increase student engagement
- Badges as a method of classroom management
Provider: edsurge
Title: Here’s What Schools Can Do For the Millions of Students Without Internet Access
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
This article looks at how you can help students who do not have internet access when instruction is happening virtually.
Provider: NBC News
Title: How to reach students without internet access during the coronavirus? Schools get creative
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
A look into a creative solution for students without internet access.
Provider: Education Development Trust
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
This article looks at how disadvantaged students are impacted by school closures and what steps should be taken to alleviate the inequality.
Start here: https://community.canvaslms.com/
Any question you have can be answered by the search feature! They also provide a comprehensive list of tutorial videos.
Learn how to use Classroom to manage coursework, organize assignments, boost collaboration, and foster better communication. Get started today with resources, tips, and tricks from the educator
Provider: Teacher’s Tech
Title: How to Use Google Classroom 2020 – Tutorial for Beginners
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
This video tutorial will show you how to use Google Classroom for Beginners 2020. Google Classroom for Teachers is a fantastic way to help with remote or online learning. I will also show how Google Classroom for students works. Click on the below timestamps to navigate to different parts of the video.
Start here: The Seesaw help center is very robust.
The website also offers information on using Seesaw for remote learning
Seesaw offers training for teachers (live trainings resume in August 2020)
Provider: Seesaw
Title: Professional Development for teachers in Seesaw for Schools
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Learn how to use Seesaw for Schools in this hands-on, 30 minute training designed for K-12 teachers! We’ll cover Seesaw basics, provide lesson ideas and examples, and leave you with some time to plan how you’ll use Seesaw in your classroom tomorrow.
Provider: Schoology
Title: New to Schoology? Learn the Basics for Online Learning
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
New to Schoology? Learn the Basics for Online Learning: Get guided help from an educational expert on our professional learning team. She will walk you through the basics of setting up your online course in Schoology.
From Schoology: This area is an aggregate of all the videos you see inside help articles, as well as additional videos you might find helpful.
Watch and learn! The following short videos will provide an introduction to many features of Edmodo, helping to jump-start your Edmodo experience.
In addition to regular live webinars, Edmodo has many recorded webinars that you can view at any time.
Start here to learn about Blackboard, the left hand navigation has helpful links for categories such as assignments, interacting with students, grading, etc.
Blackboard also provides videos to help you learn the LMS.
The following list of common questions can help you learn and troubleshoot.
Start here with the new user guide.
Provider: Howfinity
Title: How to Set Up and Use Bitmoji
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Bitmoji is a must-have if you have an iPhone and Android. When emojis are not enough, Bitmoji can say so much with a simple text.
Provider: imore
Title: How to Even Bitmoji: The Ultimate Guide
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
This article from imore is the “ultimate guide” to Bitmoji, including how to use and why to use Bitmoji.
Provider: Ditch That Textbook
Title: Bitmojis for your Students: How to Create and Share Them
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
This site will help you learn how to create and share Bitmojis with your students.
Provider: Cool Tools for School
Title: Thing 14: Bitmoji Fun
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
What are they and how do I make a bitmoji?
Start here with the PearDeck Getting Started Deck slides.
Once you are comfortable, make use of their trainings/webinars which range from beginner sessions to information on teaching remotely.
If you have questions while you are using the tool, PearDeck offers help videos.
Start here! Edpuzzle offers getting started videos, webinars and even breaks the content down by grade level.
Need more help? All your questions are answered here.
Provider: iSpring
Title: Top 6 Cameras for Video Lectures
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Learn about options for recording lectures
Provider: insynchtraining
Title: To Webcam or Not to Webcam
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Learn about best practices for using a webcam
Provider: Udemy
Title: Webcam Videography: Better Videos, Webinars, Livestreams
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Make your webcam videos look and sound better!
WeVideo offers a collection of videos to help you learn and use the tool:
Provider: Teachers Tech
Title: WeVideo – Detailed Tutorial
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
This tutorial from teachers tech can help you learn how to use WeVideo.
Start here to learn about screencastify.
Provider: Technology for Teachers and Students on
Title: Easy Screen Recording with Screencastify
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Category: Professional Development
Learn how to use the free version of Screencastify to create your own screen recordings or screencasts. Screencastify is a Google Chrome Extension that makes it easy and simple to record your screen.
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