Well, I’m sure I’m in the same boat as every teacher reading this. We are all sitting at home on our couches, in our beds, at our kitchen tables, or playing with our pets or children during times we would normally be teaching in a normal classroom during a normal time. Except, it’s not a normal time. We are all experiencing different things right now, but we are all in this together!

I figured, no better time to start up my blog again. I’m not going to make it anything fancy today, just some basic necessities for teaching online or for some resources, so here are some links to work I’ve created. Feel free to use with your students, use as examples to unleash your creativity to create your own lessons, or to use the tutorials to help you begin to teach online or with technology, if you never have before!

While you explore the resources, though, remember, YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO IT ALL! When I was getting my Master’s in Ed Tech, we had a motto… learn 1-2 things a year and get really good at those! We may need a few more resources up our sleeves at this time, but start with 1! Get good a google slides and share those or screen shots of those to your parents, or get good at screen casting and screencast your lessons, or get good at using Flipgrid or SeeSaw and start with those! You can do it!

Screencastify and Whiteboard…Screencastify is a great way to record your screen, and you can use online whiteboards to make it even more purposeful!

Math Lessons Using Screencasting and Google Slides…Google slides is a powerful learning tool to use with students. You can make them basic and share them out, you can make them interactive where students can click through on different items to explore different resources, or you can make them have sound and videos and play them in your classrooms! Here is an example of how to use them with virtual classrooms!

 

FlipGrid…I’ll be honest, I made this video back in 2018. They’ve added some really cool QR code features and AR since then, but creating an account, it being completely free, and having students create videos hasn’t changed! This is one of my favorite resources to use, and it’s a favorite among students as well!