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Teaching With Interactive Videos

8/8/2022

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EdPuzzle is a freemium tool that allows teachers to make videos interactive by adding multiple choice questions, open ended questions and/or notes at any point during the videos. Check out the video below to see how it works!
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Video Editing With Canva

3/1/2022

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Need to edit a video for yourself? For Your students? Need your students to create videos to show their thinking, explain a concept? or showcase their learning? No software required. Canva lets you and your student create stunning videos, among tother things (presentations, posters, brochures....). Canva is free for educators. 
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Printing A Seesaw Class Sign-In Poster

8/19/2021

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Google Classroom Guardian Summary Settings - Teachers

8/12/2021

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Here is a little help with troubleshooting Google Summaries for parents. If parents have accepted the invitations to guardian summaries, check that your class is set to send the guardian sumaries. This setting should be on by default but just in case, follow the steps below.  
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Sharing YouTube Videos - With Out The Distractions

11/9/2020

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If you want to share YouTube videos and avoing all the other suggested videos, which may be inappropriate, or might distract your students, quitube is one of the tools to use. 
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Remote Learning - Online Safety Strategies For Teachers

8/18/2020

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During Remote Learning, you might find yourself referring students to do research on their devices or watch a YouTube video then answer some questions. There may be some safety issues with this. Some parents are not at home to supervise their children and could be worried about what their students may come across online. In addition to talking to students about how to be safe and what to do when they encounter something that makes them uncomfortable or something they think they shouldn't be looking at online, teachers can take some measures to make the online experience safer (there is no guaranteed safety lock). 

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Watch THIS VIDEO first! Learned something new?  Useful? Quietube is a useful tool that allows you to share YouTube videos with students without all the distractions. It can help students who are easily distracted to avoid wondering off when they see other videos on the right hand side of the normal YouTube screen. It will also help avoid  students seeing inappropriate videos that may also show up as suggested videos. 
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Children Friendly Search Engines

In the Remote Learning Plan, ask parents to assist students with a research task highlighting that young students should always be supervised/guided when researching online. Give younger students at least two or three suggested websites to get information from. If research is open ended, child friendly search engines such as Kidrex or Kiddle could be suggested. However, ensure you have done a prior search yourself to make sure students will find the information they are looking for. Other search strategies such as key words and Advanced Google Search could be used by older students to narrow down results by file type, domains, eliminating or combining certain key words. 
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Images and Videos for Projects

Children don't need to wait till they speak with the ICT Teacher or Technology Coach to learn research strategies. It is everyone's responsibility to teach and model digital citizenship skills. While the specialist teacher can be brought in for a discussion or activity around this, teachers can model good digital citizenship skills by using sites such as Pixabay, Pexels and Unsplash when looking for images or video content to use with students. They can encourage students to use these websites by saying thing like "Be sure to look for free to use images from Pixabay, Pexels or Unsplash". 
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The more students hear this and get used to these sources being mentioned, the more they will begin to use these sites. Teachers could move on to saying "Be sure to find images from......." and let the students finish the sentence. ​Pixabay, Unsplash and Pexels can be used across the school from k-12. Students will less likely come across inappropriate content on these websites. I found the above images from those websites and referencing is not necessary (the websites say so themselves). Adding hyperlinks to these sites in the Remote Learning Plan can be useful. A Google Advanced Image Search may be useful by older students if required. 
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Zoom Meeting Essentials

8/15/2020

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Recommended Settings

After accessing your www.zoom.com account, you can go over your zoom settings to ensure that all your calls are secure. Go over to the settings section of your account as shown below then make sure you have the following recommended settings;
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  1. Enable waiting room. This ensures that participants wait for you to allow them in.
  2. Embed passcode in invite link for one-click join. Meeting passcode will be encrypted and included in the invite link to allow participants to join with just one click without having to enter the passcode. This just makes it easier for those students who are alone at home. 
  3. Disable the join before host option. 
  4. Make sure Enable Personal Meeting ID is turned on.
  5. Enable Mute participants upon entry.
  6. In the Chat section, 'Allow meeting participants to send a message visible to all participants' BUT disable the 'Allow meeting participants to send a private 1:1 message to another participant' option.
  7. Ensure 'Sound notification when someone joins or leaves is on' only for the host. This lets you monitor who joins or leaves but does not distract your students.
  8. Enable 'Always show meeting control toolbar' so that you do not struggle to find the controls during the meeting.
  9. Leave annotation and whiteboard option on.
  10. Leave the break out room option on in-case you need it.
  11. Enable e-mail notifications when attendees join meeting before host.

Using your personal Meeting ID

Your Personal Meeting ID gives you your personal room. You can use this over and over again. The ID remains the same each time. If you have a number of groups, across grade levels, you will not need to use a different code each time. For safety, please ensure that you have the recommended settings above and you are always aware of who your meeting participants are, in case someone gets hold of your Personal Meeting ID (since it does not change).
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You can highlight text in the Remote Learning Plan and hyperlink it to your Meeting ID rather than pasting the whole link for example;
Zoom meetings: 
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Group 2
Group 3 

During the meeting

Come up with essential agreements with your students on how to conduct a productive call.
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Inviting Collaborators to Google Forms

4/2/2020

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Google forms are a great way to collect responses form people, conduct research or create formative assessments. Below is a tutorial on how to invite someone to be a collaborator on a Google Form, allowing them to edit/add questions and view responses.
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Setting Up Video Conference Calls With Zoom

3/31/2020

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If you and your students have Google Accounts, my recommended Video Conferencing tool is Google Hangouts. If  your students do not have Google Account, like Lower Primary/Elementary School students, Zoom has been popular during the coronavirus related school closure period. This may also be useful when conferencing with a parent who does not have a Google account.

For safety, I would recommend sending out essential agreements to the students and parents before hand. Maybe have the agreements signed and returned to you before the call. The agreements ensure that participants are respectful during the call and are aware of things that make a successful call such as muting the microphone when not speaking and taking turns, among others. I would encourage making sure that parents (or caregivers) are involved in getting the students connected. 

Below is a tutorial showing how to set up a call and send a link to the call for parents and students to connect. The link can be sent via e-mail as opposed to the class blog, for security reasons. 
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Explainer Videos, Screencasts

3/31/2020

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1. Using the Notes iPad app, one can record their voice explaining concepts for students while using the annotation tools. Below is a video showing how to do it.
TIP: Students can also record explainer videos. If a student has recorded a video you like, you can ask for their permission to re-use it with future classes and keep it somewhere to share on an LMS like Edmodo or even via e-mail. 

2. Educreations is a paid app (with free access to teachers affected by the coronavirus related school closures) that allows teachers to record their voice while annotating on a whiteboard to explain concepts. You can use your fingers or, for more accuracy, a stylus pen or an apple pencil. Videos can be downloaded to the iPad, stored on any cloud service like Google Drive, Dropbox and YouTube to mention a few. Thereafter, they can be shared on any LMS like Edmodo. Teachers can even create YouTube playlists for different subjects or Topics. The Paid version allows a teacher to invite students to create videos too. 
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3. Screencastify allows you to capture your screen and your voice to create video tutorials (without annotations). I use this to create tutorials on my computer. The free version allows you to  capture your screen for up to 5 minutes, trim your videos and automatically save to Google Drive. A Google Chrome extension can be installed allowing you to easily record videos with no complicated set up at all. I keep my videos in YouTube Playlists and share them from there. 

There are plenty other screen casting tools which can be found by simply searching for screencasting tools in Google.
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​Images from Apple, Google Chrome, Screencastify and Educreations
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