Google Jamboard for Remote Teaching, Equati0! Extension for Math Problems
Google Jamboard is a great tool that can be used as a digital whiteboard. Using your screen share feature in Big Blue Button, you can work with students in real-time, work within Google Drive, and collaborate with any device. For example, you want to work out a math problem to show the order of operations or you’re in a session to brainstorm ideas or complete an activity together.
This video shows how to use Jamboard for remote teaching and includes the Equati0! extension for math problems.
Conference Starters, Ice Breakers, or Brain Breaks
- Baamboozle
- Simon Says
- Brain Frames
- What Do I Have? (give descriptors)
- What’s This Sound? (play sounds)
- Bring Something to the Camera (blue, something the size of your head)
- Exercise
- Dictionary
- Hangman
- Memory Game (show a picture, hide it, then ask questions)
- Charades
Big Blue Button Conferencing Tutorials
Helpful videos for the conferencing tool in both Canvas and Schoology.
- Engaging Students – Teacher/Student View (5:53 mins)
- Break Out Rooms (3:44 mins)
- Screen Sharing (3:18 mins)
- Switching Between Slides, Video, Whiteboard (2:39 mins)
- Moderator/Presenter in Breakout Rooms (6:39 mins)
- Overview for Students (5:24 mins)
Aligning Your LMS
Oh No! How am I going to teach my students this year using an LMS that will be effective?
If you are a teacher of 22 years, 15 years, 3 years, or have just been hired, then this is what you all have in common – you are all first-year teachers. And being that this is a statewide decision to teach our children virtually, we are all in this together and that includes the administration.
An article posted on Edutopia “How to Align Your LMS With the Science of Learning” is a good read and definitely worth 5 minutes of your time to help you focus on what makes an LMS effective.
You will learn how to:
- USE YOUR LMS TO SUPPORT EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
- AVOID “SET IT AND FORGET IT” COURSES
- DO NO HARM—REDUCE EXTRANEOUS COGNITIVE LOAD
- BUILD STRONG FEEDBACK CYCLES DIRECTLY INTO THE LMS
- INCORPORATE RETRIEVAL PRACTICE, SPACED PRACTICE, AND INTERLEAVED PRACTICE