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Remote Learning Teaching Tips

A Principal's Reflections

With little to no training or preparation, they have stepped up to keep learning going. A recent eSchool News article highlighted that most teachers don’t feel fully prepared for remote learning. Use a URL shortener to make links easily accessible in a slide presentation or push out using a Learning Management System (i.e.,

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Slooh Launches Its Next-Gen Platform to Engage Students in Space Exploration

eSchool News

Washington Depot, Connecticut – Slooh, the pioneer in offering live online telescope feeds of the universe and an NGSS-aligned curriculum for school communities worldwide, recently launched the next generation of its online learning platform to make space exploration even easier and more engaging for students and educators alike.

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Virtual School Tips and Recommendations

The Thinking Stick

2005 – In Shanghai I helped to set up, run and train teachers to go Virtual School-though we didn’t end up closing due to SARS. 2009 – In Bangkok, I helped to train, facilitate and oversee Virtual School due to flooding and H1N1 in Bangkok we used WordPress blogs as teacher websites. you’re gonna rock this!

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As Districts Return to Remote Learning, Are They Any Better Prepared?

Edsurge

Many school districts used the summer to regroup, to train their staff and to get a plan for the fall—first on how to reopen, and then on how to respond should the situation change, for better or worse. Other districts were able to offer some online learning in the spring, albeit unevenly. It was an emergency.

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Inside the Digital Transformation – Part 2

BYOT Network

Learn what it means when your edtech products are IMS certified. As a home base for online learning, it supports and connects teachers, students, and parents as a “go-to” place to begin digital learning, whether in school or from home. Online learning is not something that you can just ramp up in 48 hours.

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A Guide to Picking a Learning Management System: The Right Questions to Ask

Edsurge

Tara Gilboa, Online Learning Experience Designer at Colorado School of Mines The LMS Checklist #1: Is the platform straightforward and user-friendly? We’re not doing any training for students on our new LMS because we don’t need to,” she says. An example of a "narrative stream" on the Schoology LMS platform.

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Promote Executive Functioning within School Culture

edWeb.net

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the country struggle to move their brick-and-mortar classrooms to remote online learning environments. In this role, she provides training on best practices in executive functioning to students, teachers, and tutors. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. Courtney Wittner, M.Ed.,