Zoom Breakout Rooms
Now that you are all using Zoom, here is a great tutorial for using the "Breakout Rooms feature. This is a great way to do small group work and get your reluctant students involved. I love that, as the teacher, you can jump in and out of breakout rooms.
Local Resource for Homework Help
The Ventura County Public Library just announced a new, online homework help center. HelpNow by Brainfuse offers 24/7 homework help for your students. Students will need a library card to access this site, but they may attain this card online.
Here is the description of this new resource:
Homework Help - Interact with live tutors in math, science, reading/writing, social studies, PSAT/SAT, ACT, AP and state standardized tests.
Personalized eLearning Tools - My File Sharing, My Session Replay, My Tutoring Archive, My Tests Archive, and more!
24-Hour Writing Lab - Submit essays and other forms of writing for constructive feedback.
Adult Learning Center - Access a library of rich adult learning content (GED) and live, professional assistance in resume/cover letter writing, U.S. citizenship prep, MS Office Essential Skills Series, and more!
Foreign Language Lab /Spanish-Speaking Support
To access this resource: https://landing.brainfuse.com/authenticate.asp?u=main.venturacounty.ca.brainfuse.com
To visit the Venco eLibrary and access all of its wonderful databases and eBooks, visit: https://www.vencolibrary.org/elibrary
Ditch That Textbook: Free Online Course
Dtich that Textbook is offering a free, online course covering everything you could possibly need to create a distance learning course.
Click here to enroll: https://ditch.teachable.com/p/remote-learning-101
The description says the course includes:
Click here to enroll: https://ditch.teachable.com/p/remote-learning-101
The description says the course includes:
- 14 modules on a variety of remote learning topics
- More than TWO HOURS of video instruction
- Downloadable planning guides to help you strategize
It's time for a little diversion, Troubadour friends:
For the rest of this week, I am encouraging you to enter our photo scavenger hunt. The directions are below. When you have completed all the tasks, share your photos with me. I suggest placing all the pics in a Google folder and sharing the folder with me. The deadline for submitting your photos is this Friday at 3:00. All complete submissions will be entered into a drawing, and, of course, there will be a prize.
Welcome to this site of shared resources.
This is such a crazy time. Tim may have said it best when he said it is almost dystopian in nature. I created this website, because I wanted to share the resources I have found, to help all of you as we travel this surreal road together.
There are many companies that are offering free resources for online learning during the Covid-19 crises. I have gathered them together for everyone. I hope this website helps. Please stay safe and keep in touch.
As I find additional resources, I will add them to this site. I am including a Padlet wall for all of you at the bottom of this page, so that everyone can post and share resources they have found. I will check this regularly to add them to this site.
I would also like to add a page to our library website, of resources for our students to use during this crisis. If you have any resources you'd me to add to our library page, https://www.sshslibrary.org/, please share them with me, and I will add them.
There are many companies that are offering free resources for online learning during the Covid-19 crises. I have gathered them together for everyone. I hope this website helps. Please stay safe and keep in touch.
As I find additional resources, I will add them to this site. I am including a Padlet wall for all of you at the bottom of this page, so that everyone can post and share resources they have found. I will check this regularly to add them to this site.
I would also like to add a page to our library website, of resources for our students to use during this crisis. If you have any resources you'd me to add to our library page, https://www.sshslibrary.org/, please share them with me, and I will add them.
SVUSD Online Curriculum & Login Instructions for Access
GALE Databases
Our GALE databases have gathered Corona Virus and eLearning resources for educators. Click on the button below to attain these resources.
For a tutorial on how to effectively use our databases, click on the screencast below.
ADDITIONAL FREE RESOURCES - These are premium versions of these resources. They are available for free during the Covid-19 crisis.
Canva for Education |
Kami |
Newsela Premium |
Canva is an amazing program that allows you and your students to easily design professional looking documents, presentations, resumes, graphics, certificates, posters, and SO much more. Right now, teachers can use their district email to enroll in Canva for Education and receive Pro version free. |
Kami is a PDF and document annotation app for education. With Kami, you can easily write on and highlight online PDFs. Kami pairs well with Google Classroom. Teachers can use their district email to enroll in Kami premium during this crisis. |
Most of you are already familiar with Newsela. Newsela takes current, topical articles from trusted news sources and converts them into classroom-ready lessons at various reading levels. (great for differentiated instrucion) Newsela includes quizzes for the articles and ideas for further research. To get access to their premium resources during this crisis, enroll using the link below. |
To sign up: www.canva.com/edu-signup/ |
Kami is a Chrome extension. Click here to install this extension and enroll using your district email. |
TCI Educational Pulishers |
Kahoot! |
TCi Educational Publishers is providing free access to their curriculum for schools that are closed due to the Covid-19 virus. This is a wonderful opportunity to develop distance learning curriculum for social studies classes. Be sure to select California, to find CA standards-based lesson plans. |
Many of you already use Kahoot! Kahoot! is a game-based program that allows you to deliver your subject-area content in a fun and engaging way. This is a great platform for right now. During the Covid-19 crisis, Kahoot! is offering teachers all of their premium features. To access the page that describes the program & how to sign-up, click the link below |
Resources to Share
Double click anywhere on the Padlet Wall below to add your suggested resource.
Bruce shared a Google Cheat Sheet for Teachers and Students: Thanks, Bruce.
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Resources Our Students Know
Below is a Padlet Wall of resources we think many of our students already know. Rick suggested we compile a list of these resources, so we can see what resources the students should already know and be able to easily use. Great idea, Rick.
Please add to this Padlet wall of resources.
Please add to this Padlet wall of resources.
Shared Resources
Below are resources that have been shared with me or with the staff. I keep getting lists of resources; I will continue to add to this section.
Both Bevin and my daughter-in-law recommended this list of resources.
It has everything! |
How To Develop an eLearning Classroom
Check this Google Slideshow for advice on developing a distance learning program using Google resources. I watched a webinar and created this slide presentation with the advice I learned.
More Advice for eLearning
"Ditch That Textbook" has several great resources:
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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." |
- Fred Rogers -
Our Visitors This Month: |
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