- Online tool
Tools for Classrooms with In-Person and Remote Students: Common Sense Media — Top Picks
- “From dealing with tech difficulties to creating an inclusive environment to facilitating group work or assessments, hybrid teaching can be a real juggling act.
- Online tool
Classroom-Friendly Websites and Apps for Making Comics: Common Sense Media — Top Picks
- “Use these great creation tools to help students learn cartooning and sequencing fundamentals, or just express themselves and demonstrate learning. Teachers might also create
- Online tool
Apps and Websites for Improving Parent-Teacher Communication: Common Sense Media — Top Picks
- “These apps and websites provide instant, practical, and regular communication tools to encourage active engagement between students, teachers, and parents.”
- Online tool
Top Tech for Using Augmented and Virtual Reality: Common Sense Media — Top Picks
- “Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) can help extend what we see in the classroom or bring the outside world in. Whether students
- Online tool
Best Apps and Websites for the Flipped Classroom: Common Sense Media — Top Picks
- “Be more mentor than teacher by turning traditional lecture-based instruction on its head. These great flipped-classroom apps and websites help students gain new knowledge
- Online tool
Excellent Early Childhood Education Resources: Common Sense Media — Top Picks
- “We’ve handpicked our favorite top-rated, seriously fun early learning apps, games, and websites.”
- Online tool
CAST UDL Book Builder
- “CAST UDL Book Builder is a free online tool that lets kids create, publish, share, and read digital books. The tool is designed around
- Online tool
Skill Champ
- “Skill Champ is a free app designed specifically for early learners and children on the autism spectrum. Its combination of ten themes and ten
- Online tool
Websites and Apps for Making Videos and Animation: Common Sense Media — Top Picks
- “These video and animation apps and sites offer user-friendly tools and features that make it more fun than ever to get kids’ productions created,
- Online tool
Research and Citation Tools for Students: Common Sense Media — Top Picks
- “Students are always needing to effectively gather, study, and cite sources for their essays and projects. As teachers know, the internet has made this
- Online tool
The Best Free Apps and Websites for Learning: Common Sense Media
- “Whether you just got new tablets, Chromebooks, or computers — or you’re just looking to fill some curricular gaps — it can be pricey
- Professional Development
EquatIO for your Classroom: A Play and Pause Resource in partnership with TextHelp
- “Make math digital with this FREE EquatIO Play & Pause resource where you will learn to use EquatIO and create four ready-to-use activities for
- Online tool
EquatIO Math Space
- “Making math digital is no longer a struggle with TextHelp’s EquatIO!”
- Information resource
Increasing pre-teen and teen exposure to the French language with technology
- ” Tips on how to increase exposure to the French language using family time and technology – pre-teen/teens.”
- Information resource
Increasing children’s exposure to the French language with technology: 4-10 year olds
- “Tips on how to increase exposure to the French language using family time and technology.”
- Online tool, Professional Development
Texthelp: Teaching Math Online
- “In this guide you will find lots of useful information on how you can create engaging math online. There are videos, blogs and downloadable
- Information resource, Professional Development
Library Learning Commons
- ” A learning commons is a whole school approach to building a participatory learning community. The library learning commons is the physical and virtual
- Video
What classroom activities can be adapted for online teaching?
- “Audrey McLaren talks about the best activities for online teaching (1m 57s).”
- Video
How do you know your students are listening and engaged in an online class?
- “Peggy Drolet talks about student engagement in an online setting (5m 17s).”
- Online tool
Voicethread
- “A collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways –
- Video
What skills do students need to be successful online?
- “Kerry Cule highlights the top 3 skills needed to be a successful online learner: 1. Motivation 2. Organization 3. Communication…NOT tech skills!!! (1m 10s)”
- Video
What activities can you use in an online class to build community?
- “Peggy Drolet talks about ‘getting to know you’ activities and discusses how a virtual class forum can be similar to the school cafeteria or
- Video
How important is it that students be comfortable with technology before making the shift online?
- “Kerry Cule talks about student comfort with technology (0m 57s)”
- Video
How do you provide opportunities at the beginning of the year that allow for students to connect with you and each other?
- “Peggy Drolet talks about beginning the year with online students. (1m37s)”
- Video
How do online teachers communicate with their students?
- “Audrey McLaren talks about communication strategies with online students. (1m 36s)”
- Video
How to Combat Screen Fatigue
- “The workshop was on March 29th, 2021 from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM. It was hosted by Frank Furfaro, educational consultant at the EMSB
- Professional Development
The Distance Learning Playbook, Grades K-12
- An online resource by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey and John Hattie made available by Corwin: A SAGE Comapny
- Information resource
12 Key Ideas: An Introduction to Teaching Online
- A free online book by Dave Cormier and Ashlyne O’Neil .
- Information resource
Learning to Code: from procedural puzzle-based games to creative programming by Romero et al.
- A research article about programming.
- Information resource
Educational Robotics: from procedural learning to co-creative project-oriented challenges with LEGO WeDo
- “Romero, M., & Dupont, Y. (2016). Educational robotics: from procedural learning to co-creative project oriented challenges with LEGO WeDo. Presented at CIDUI.”
- Information resource
Hummingbird and Finch Program Manager
- Learn more about products BRAINBIRD TECHNOLOGIES.
- Lesson Plan
LEGO Lesson Plans
- Check out LEGO’s lesson plans and STEAM activities.
- Lesson Plan
Strawbees Learning
- Learn about how to use Strawbees in your classroom. Includes lesson plans.
- Lesson Plan
Hummingbird and Scratch Introduction
- Hummingbird robotics kit lessons.
- Online tool
TurtleArt
- “TurtleArt lets you make images with your computer. The Turtle follows a sequence of commands. You specify the sequence by snapping together puzzle-like blocks.
- Video
Programming in Scratch
- A collection of video tutorials by Colleen Lewis.
- Lesson Plan
SPHERO and OLLIE Activities
- Lesson plans by grade level and subject using the Sphero and Ollie Robots.
- Lesson Plan, Online tool
SAMS Lab Lessons
- Lessons for SAMS Lab Coding Language.
