Want to learn more about digital tools to support your planning for distance learning? Locate the tool (listed in alphabetical order) and click into to watch a tutorial (time in minutes and seconds) or read the resources.

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Book Creator: Combine text, images, audio and video to create ebooks

Watch Getting started with Book Creator (4:55)

Read  Book Creator Basics

Read  Adding a Title to Book Creator 

Read  Sharing a Book through Book Creator  

Watch Book Creator to Seesaw (iPad)   (2:43)

Read Using Book Creator in the Classroom - Models from Teachers

Brainpop: Animated educational site for kids

Watch My BrainPOP - Overview (1:05)

Watch Creating your MY BrainPOP account (:58)

Watch My BrainPOP - Setting up Class (:54)

Watch Tracking Student Activity with My BrainPOP (2:09)

Watch Assessment for My BrainPOP for BrainPOP Jr. (1:27)         

Watch All BrainPOP tools explained in 2 minutes or less  (A playlist of 10 amazing videos)

Edpuzzle: Video Creation Software/App

Watch What is EdPuzzle? (1:09)

Watch How to Create an Account (1:49)

Watch Using EdPuzzle for Remote Video Lessons (1:21)

Watch Schoology EdPuzzle Integration (3:44)

Watch How to Assign to Multiple Classes (1:17)

Watch How to Include Immediate Feedback in the Questions (1:07)

Watch How to Connect my Google Classroom account with my EdPuzzle account (1:12)

Watch How to Share my Assignments on Google Classroom (1:00)

Watch View Student Progress (1:43)

Educreations : Transforms your iPad into a recordable whiteboard

Watch Educreations basics (6:41)

Watch How to Use Educreations (3:27)

Watch Accessing Student Accounts (1:46)

Watch Generating A Class Code (2:00)

Read Joining a Classroom on Educreations 

Read Logging Into Educreations

Read Creating a Class in Educreations

Flipgrid: Students record short, authentic videos and can reply to each other’s videos.

Read  The Educator’s Guide to Flipgrid (very thorough)

Watch Getting Started with Flipgrid (1:30)

Watch Getting Started Educators (1:32)

Watch Flipgrid Tutorial for Teachers (11:13)

Google Suite: An integrated suite of secure, cloud-native collaboration and productivity apps powered by Google AI.

Read & Watch Teach from Home (A temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.)

Read  Google Edu Teaching Resources 

Watch Sharing Documents within Google (2:25)

Watch Sharing Google Docs outside Greenwich emails (0:55)

Watch Using Comments for Student Feedback (0:47)

Read  Changing Permissions on Google File 

Watch Advanced Sharing Options in Google Docs (0:57)

Watch Create a new Google Form (0:17)

Watch Open a new Google Sheet (0:17)

Watch Google Forms - Create a Quiz (14:47)

Watch How to Create a video on iPhone and upload to Google Drive (1:48)

Watch How to Insert Audio or Voice narration into Google Slides (7:08)

Read  How to Insert a recording into Google Slides Using Voicethread

Read Switching to Google Meet from Zoom

Read Change a pdf to a Google Doc

Google Classroom: A place for creating, distributing, and grading assignments in a paperless way.

Watch  Getting Started with Google Classroom 2020 edition (18:58)

Watch  How to Create a New Class in Google Classroom (1:08)

Watch  How to Create an Assignment and Add a Topic in Google Classroom (1:40)

Watch  How to Create a Quiz from Classroom (2:17)

Watch  How to Use the Stream Page - Google Classroom (2:05)

Watch How to Create Different Assignments in Classroom (2:47)

Watch Google Classroom Cheat Sheet (various)

Read  Submitting an Image/Video on Google Classroom (iPad)

Read  Parent’s Guide to Google Classroom (English and Spanish)

Google Hangout/Meet: Video Conferencing

Google Meet is open on your google drive.

Watch This is what you need to know about using Google Meet  (9:01) How to directions begin at 2:16

Watch Joining a Video Meeting - Student w/ Google Meet (2:06) (iPad)

Watch Adding Meet to Google Classroom

Read  Getting Started with Meet (for teachers)

Read and Watch Google Hangout Meet Tutorial

Kami: An online document (PDF) annotation and markup tool

Watch How to Create an Account with Kami (0:27)

Watch Getting Started with Kami and Google Classroom (47:25)

Watch Getting Started with Kami and Schoology (45:05)

Watch How to Use the Annotation Summary (0:46)

Watch How to Use the Shapes Tool (1:06)

Watch Adding Images to a Document (1:07)

Watch Google Classroom Integration (2:58)

Watch Kami for Math (1:35)

Watch Kami for Science (2:55)

Khan Academy: Provides practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace

Watch How to Set Up Your Class (3:08)

Watch How to Use Assignments (4:10)

Nearpod: Interactive classroom tool for teachers to engage students with curated lessons, and  activities.

Watch 1 Minute Guide to Interactive Lessons (0:59)

Watch  What is Nearpod? (2:36)

Watch  How to Launch a Nearpod Lesson (0:54)

Watch  How Students Join a Lesson (2:36)

Watch How to Add Audio to Nearpod Lessons (1:32)

Watch Student Paced Lessons (1:55)

Watch Nearpod and Google Classroom Integration (1:09)

Watch Edit a Nearpod Lesson (0:49)

Watch Create a Quiz in Nearpod (1:03)

Watch Publishing a Nearpod Lesson (0:55)

Read  Nearpod Virtual Classroom Cheat Sheet

Watch  Enable Student Audio Submissions (2:17)

Newsela: Provide current event articles scaled at five different Lexile reading comprehension levels in every subject

Read Using Google and Google Classrooms for Teachers

Read Assigning in Google Classroom

Read Quick links to Newsela ELA, Science, Social Studies, SEL Collections (from Newsela)

Notability: Student research platform with MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian bibliographies, notecards, outlining, annotation, collaboration, and classroom environments

Read Using Notability

Overdrive: Borrow digital content (like ebooks and audiobooks) anytime, anywhere.

Read Overdrive Accessing  & Features Chromebook through school based website

Schoology: District Learning Management System with resource and assessment management, collaboration tools, and ability to submit student work

Watch Embed Video in Schoology (2:25)

Watch Schoology and Google Docs (3:22)

Read  How to Moderate Posts

Screencastify: Capture, edit and share screencasts with Chrome. Capture your entire desktop, browser tab or webcam and narrate with built-in or external microphone.                             *Chrome extension

Watch An Introduction to Screencastify (1:09)

Watch Screencastify - An Overview (1:46)

Watch Installing Screencastify (0:49)

Watch Record Your First Video (0:43)

Watch Annotate Your Recording (1:04)

Seesaw: Students can independently document their learning with built-in creative tools

Watch Introduction to Seesaw - Quick Start for teachers 11:50

Read  Seesaw Icon Shortcuts for Activities

Watch Create Your Account in 3 Steps (0:37)

Watch Create Classes In SeeSaw (0:39)

Watch Students Post to Their Journal (0:50)

Watch Students Respond to an Activity (1:33)

Watch Post to the Class Journal as a Teacher (1:10)

Sora: The student reading app from OverDrive Education

Read Sora Ebooks and Audiobooks for Middle school

Tumblebooks:  Interactive library of animated, talking story books for preschoolers, beginner readers and older independent readers too. Read along and listen, or read on your own. Link accessible through each school website.

Read Accessing Tumblebooks

Read How to Tumble

Turnitin

Watch Creating a Class (1:41)

Watch Joining an Account (0:53)

Watch How to Manually Add Students to a Class (1:15)

Watch Using Grademark (3:44)

Watch How a Student Submits a Paper (4:16)

Watch How to Activate Quick Submit (2:39)

Watch Viewing an Originality Report (3:27)

Watch How to Use the Rubric Manager (6:12)

VoiceThread: Create and share dynamic conversations around documents, snapshots, diagrams and videos

Watch Creating a VoiceThread (1:42)

Watch Sharing a VoiceThread (2:01)

Watch VoiceThread Doodling (1:12)

Watch VoiceThread -  The Basics (5:30)

Watch Using VoiceThread in Your Classroom (5:17)

Watch Using VoiceThread’s Comment Moderation Feature (1:30)

Read  How to add voiceover/narration to a Google slideshow

Read  Using Voicethread for the 1st time

Read  How to Insert a Voice Recording into Individual Google Slides Using Voicethread

Read  Advanced Tutorials for Teachers

WeVideo: Create, edit, and publish videos online

Watch Using WeVideo for Screencasting (6:03)

Watch Dashboard Overview (1:28)

Watch Media Management   (1:48)

Watch Creating Projects (1:29)

Watch Timeline Editing Mode (2:50)

Watch Color Keying and Green Screen Tips (1:58)

Watch Record a Voiceover (1:21)

Watch Screen Recorder Tool (1:29)

Watch Storyboard Editing Mode (1:28)

Watch View Your Final Videos (1:23)

Watch Publish Your Video (1:48)

Zoom Videoconferencing is offering free accounts, but keep in mind it may not be accessible in the future if you are a new user, you may want to try Google Meet first.

Watch Securing your Meetings & Virtual Classrooms

Read Zoom privacy settings

Watch ZOOM Youtube Channel

Read How to Secure Your Zoom Meeting