Remote Learning from the student view

A special thank you to some of my third-grade friends for using their technology skills to express their feelings.  Students in Mr. Dye/Mrs. Iwrin’s class and Mrs. Swierczek’s class used Storyboardthat to show a student side of remote learning.  These students had not used the application before and all work was done remotely.  Please click here to see their work.

Google Meet and Jamboard

Google recently announced the integration of Meet and Jamboard (please see here for the details).  It will roll out over the next 2-4 weeks.

Creating moveable drawings (in a Doc)

Jonathan Frye recently shared this blog post on how to create moveable drawings within a Google Doc.  Please see his post here.

Suggestions for high expectations online

Here’s a quick article to help you raise expectations with your students online.

Thinking about Breakout Rooms

Here’s an article, albeit it is Zoom related, that outlines what works and what doesn’t work in virtual breakout rooms.

The Man who Walked Between The Twin Towers ala Jamboard

Karen Swierczek read this story to her class last week and invited her students to share their reactions on a Jamboard.  Special thanks to Emmy for allowing me to share her work.

Here is the link to view the Jamboard (will only work with your Sayreville Account).

Jamboard and the math lesson

Dawn Schwartz shared her recent experience using Jamboard to teach her online math lesson.

This is for my math lessons.  In Jamboard, I am using the snipping tool and cutting and pasting the parts of the workbook that I want to teach.  I am then adding them to jamboard slides.  I make two copies of the lesson, one to use with each class, so that the responses and notes we make during the lesson will always be there for the students to refer to.

Then I post the link for the Jamboard to my google classroom, and they use that and their workbooks throughout the lesson.  The laser tool is great...it directs their attention to what I want them to look at, I can type notes for them to write down.  Then I give them three or four problems to do in their workbooks, and then ask them to post all four answers on a sticky note with their names...very important, BTW...make sure they write their names on the note!  You can also make a game out of it and have them all post at the same time if you are worried about students just copying answers.

Then I move the notes around based on correct and incorrect answers.....and that is how I can tell who I need to work with.

Digital Interactive Notebooks

Here is an innovative way to push content to your students via interactive notebooks thanks to Jessica Wilding (here is her channel).  I think it could even be called game-changing!

There is an issue with tabs- so please watch her second video for the workaround. Video one is linked here, the workaround here.

STEM Coalition

Check out the Discovery Education STEM site here- lesson plans and career profiles and more!

Virtual Manipulatives

While I think I have shared this site before, in these times, it bears repeating.  It is suggested for grades K-6.

Click here for a wide variety of online manipulatives.TeachersFirst has its review here.