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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2022 22:07:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Resources to Facilitate Online Learning</title>
      <description>&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle" align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jamboard/ihacalceahhliihnhclmjjghadnhhnoc?hl=en-US" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font face="PT Sans" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;JAMBOARD&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Jamboard is a digital whiteboard that lets even far-flung teams sketch out ideas and save them in the cloud so they can be accessed on any device.&amp;nbsp; Built into G Suite and accessed through the application waffle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C1-9DM2ak3DQtDxwQtaQUdyX8gYSKwSg-bSbjoPTdz8/edit?usp=sharing" style="font-family: &amp;quot;PT Sans&amp;quot;;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;HYPERDOCS&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" face="Open Sans" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom.&amp;nbsp;Things you can do with a HyperDoc:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" face="Open Sans" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;A true HyperDoc is much more than some links on a document.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Creators deliberately choose web tools to give students opportunities to Engage • Explore • Explain • Apply • Share • Reflect • Extend the learning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Digital collaboration is choreographed to give every student a voice and a chance to be heard by their classmates.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Critical thinking and problem-solving skills can be developed through linked tasks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Students have an opportunity to create authentic digital artifacts to show what they know and connect with a wider audienc&lt;font face="PT Sans"&gt;e.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;a href="https://yoteachapp.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;YO TEACH&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Open Sans" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E"&gt;&lt;span&gt;YO Teach! is a multi-featured backchannel web app where teachers create and moderate chat rooms for real-time digital interaction among students.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;Quick setup and multimodal features make this a great fit for a variety of carefully monitored classroom discussions.&lt;span&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;a href="https://edpuzzle.com/" style="font-family: &amp;quot;PT Sans&amp;quot;;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;EDPUZZLE&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" face="Open Sans" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Integrates with Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, PowerSchool, Blackbaud.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.screencastify.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#35AFF0" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;font face="PT Sans"&gt;SCREENCAS&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;TIFY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" face="Open Sans" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Screencastify is a screen recorder that automatically saves to your drive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.thinglink.com/en-us/edu" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;THINGLINK&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;ThingLink is an award-winning education technology platform that makes it easy to augment images, videos, and virtual tours with additional information and links.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;GOOGLE SLIDES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
  &lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.peardeck.com/googleslides" target="_blank"&gt;Pear Deck for Google Slides&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Watch&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL1lHHMSvWNHo2rFJ0HSYZkGl3c1cLLh2z&amp;amp;v=dsPHGJP8aGc" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font&gt;this short playlist of videos&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;to learn how to use Pear Deck with video conferencing software (like Google Hangouts, Skype, or Zoom) to teach a synchronous remote lesson.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;a href="https://nearpod.com/google-integrations" style="font-family: &amp;quot;PT Sans&amp;quot;;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;Nearpod add-on for Google Slides&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;a href="https://nearpod.com/how-it-works" style="font-family: &amp;quot;PT Sans&amp;quot;;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;NEARPOD&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Create interactive lessons in minutes.&amp;nbsp; Save prep time by importing existing lessons (pdfs, jpegs, ppts) and adding Virtual Field Trips, Collaborate boards, Quizzes, Polls, Matching Pairs activities + more.&amp;nbsp; Or, start in Google Slides add your favorite Nearpod activities. It’s that easy.&amp;nbsp; Integrates with Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;CUSTOM CURSOR FOR CHROME&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Makes it easier for students to see what you’re pointing at on your screen, fun way to customize Chrome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/one-click-full-page-scree/dchfhilphcokdhfmikknmgdbmklbnnle?hl=en" style="font-family: &amp;quot;PT Sans&amp;quot;;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;CLICK TO SCREENSHOT&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Screenshots an entire webpage, editing capabilities,&amp;nbsp;great for Chromebooks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/picture-in-picture-extens/hkgfoiooedgoejojocmhlaklaeopbecg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font&gt;Picture-in-Picture&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E"&gt;Allows you to have videos on top of other windows that you have open on your computer&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.websitehostingrating.com/chrome-extensions-for-students/" style="font-family: &amp;quot;PT Sans&amp;quot;;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;Chrome extensions&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;20 best chrome extensions for teachers and students&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;a href="https://chemix.org/" style="font-family: &amp;quot;PT Sans&amp;quot;;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;Chemix&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Chemix is an online editor for drawing science lab diagrams and school experiment apparatus. The app provides easy sketching for both students and teachers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle" align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;Formative/Summative Assessment Tools&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;a href="https://padlet.com/" style="font-family: &amp;quot;PT Sans&amp;quot;;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;PadleT&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://padlet.com/" style="font-family: &amp;quot;PT Sans&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E"&gt;From your hobby to your career, your class notes to your final exam, your mood board to your runway show, padlets help you organize your life.Â&amp;nbsp; Padlet is an application to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;Padlet is&amp;nbsp;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font color="#365257" face="Lato, sans-serif"&gt;an online post-it board that you can share with any student or teacher you want. (Website and App)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
  &lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.bookwidgets.com/blog/2017/08/30-creative-ways-to-use-padlet-for-teachers-and-students" target="_blank"&gt;30 Creative ways to use Padlet in the classroom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;a href="https://flipgrid.com/" style="font-family: &amp;quot;PT Sans&amp;quot;;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Flipgrid&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Open Sans" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;font color="#505050"&gt;Flipgrid is a&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font color="#505050"&gt;&amp;nbsp;simple, free, and accessible&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;font color="#505050"&gt;video discussion experience for PreK to PhD educators, learners and families. Create a Topic and engage your community...together!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;font color="#365257" face="Lato, sans-serif"&gt;FlipGrid is an online discussion tool.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;A short help video guides students through the process, and the extensive teacher resources make it easy to integrate the tool into classrooms in nearly any subject area. (Website based)&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;font color="#505050" face="Open Sans" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;a href="https://socrative.com/" style="font-family: &amp;quot;PT Sans&amp;quot;;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Socrative&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Quick assessment tool&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Offers direct immediate feedback&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Works in the classroom and remotely&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.gimkit.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Gimkit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Game show for the classroom that requires knowledge, collaboration, and strategy to win&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle" align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;Learning Management Platforms/Organization Tools&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.instructure.com/canvas/try-canvas" target="_blank"&gt;Canvas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.eduflow.com/" target="_blank"&gt;EduFlo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#44505E"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.schoology.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Schoology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family:" open="" font-size:="" line-height:=""&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4 class="gadgetTitle"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUICK Reads&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://catlintucker.com/2020/07/8-ideas-designed-to-engage-students-online/" target="_blank"&gt;https://catlintucker.com/2020/07/8-ideas-designed-to-engage-students-online/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;30 Ways to Use PadLet in the Classroom&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.bookwidgets.com/blog/2017/08/30-creative-ways-to-use-padlet-for-teachers-and-students" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.bookwidgets.com/blog/2017/08/30-creative-ways-to-use-padlet-for-teachers-and-students&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Teachers Essential Guide to Zoom&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/teachers-essential-guide-to-zoom" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/teachers-essential-guide-to-zoom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.targetx.com/blog/online-education-best-practices-for-ensuring-student-success/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 15px;" color="#1155CC" face="Arial"&gt;Online Education: Best Practices for Ensuring Student Success&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.xsplit.com/vcam" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 15px;" color="#1155CC" face="Arial"&gt;XSplit VCam&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 15px;" color="#000000" face="Arial"&gt;(Windows only)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Remove, replace, or blur your background without a green screen. This will work with Zoom and Google Meets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ee2vkR3foOqor_Zk9TfNTEjQrSTvXEOi6WxuLVGYsBQ/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 15px;" color="#1155CC" face="Arial"&gt;Video editing tools &amp;amp; tips&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="https://blog.edpuzzle.com/free-resources/free-video-lesson-plan-learning-study-habits/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 15px;" color="#1155CC" face="Arial"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;" face="PT Sans"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 15px;" color="#1155CC" face="Arial"&gt;Free video lesson plan: Learning &amp;amp; Study Habits Certification Course&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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