To help make the start of this school year as smooth as possible, we’ve built a YouTube playlist with some essential resources–Canvas Basics, Zoom Basics, how to get started with Teams, and more! Check out the playlist below and subscribe to our YouTube channel to make sure you get notified whenever we post a new video.
Academic Tech Faculty Resource Playlist
If you were unable to attend PD sessions that were held the week of March 23rd, we have collected all of the recordings in one place for you to view! Click on each session title to be taken to its Zoom recording.
Screen Casting with Vittle Pro
Canvas Review
Teams
Making PDFs
Discussion Boards: Written and Video
Google Docs
Collaborative Documents (Google alternatives)
For: intra-office, inter-office, and peer-to-peer communication.
Chat, audio and video calling replaces email, phone and spontaneous face-to-face meetings. We encourage you to utilize the Working from Home channel as a community resource.
Teams is also the best solution if you are looking for a live chat room for your class. While Canvas and Google Classroom have discussion board features, Teams is the only way to allow for organic, ongoing student-driven dialogue.
For: synchronous video class discussion.
Key features:
Gallery View lets you and your students see everyone’s face at once.
Breakout Rooms let you split the class into small discussion groups, which you can observe as the teacher.
Collaborative whiteboard lets everyone contribute notes to a shared whiteboard that can be saved as a file at the end of the session. Link: Zoom tutorial videos.
For: asynchronous video-based discussion board. Check out the Educator’s Guide to Flipgrid for comprehensive tutorials.
For: collaborative annotation of text on any website or PDF. We are participating in their pilot program and have Hypothes.is installed in our instance of Canvas. Reach out to the Academic Tech team if you’d like to participate!
For: collaborative annotation of video.
For: making preexisting videos interactive with teacher-generated audio annotations and embedded quiz questions. Kyle recently made a good tutorial.
For: collaborative music and podcast creation. Essentially, what Google Docs did for text, Soundtrap does for audio.
Don’t hesitate to reach out to the Academic Tech team if you’d like to deploy any of these apps!
Resident Math teacher and Appy Hour regular, Kyle Di Tieri, recently made three videos detailing how to use one of his favorite tools: Edpuzzle. This nifty web-based app allows you to add audio annotations and interactive questions to videos. You can annotate anything that you find on YouTube, and/or upload your own screencasts. Both Kyle and Science teacher Heather York have a lot of experience with Edpuzzle and have offered to serve as mentors for anyone looking to leverage the power of Edpuzzle in their remote teaching endeavors! DM or call them on Teams and they can walk you through it.
