- Belle Vernon Area School District
- Overview
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BVASD Technology Support:
Email: BVASD.IThelpdesk@bvasd.netPhone Extension: 1199
Sapphire Login Page
WIU 7 Continuity of Education Resource Page
Google Classroom Support:
Quick Google Classroom Start Up Guide
Importing Google Classroom Grades into eSchoolPLUS Teacher Access Center
Google Classroom Cheat Sheet for Students
Google Classroom Cheat Sheet for Teachers
Step by Step Directions for Logging into Google Classroom from Home
Google Hangouts: hangouts.google.com; Login into Google Chrome
Google Meet: meet.google.com/_meet
Google Voice: voice.google.com; Create a personal Gmail account, download the app and go!
Google Voice - Do Not Disturb Feature Setup Information
Mass Adding Students to Google Classroom
Zoom Meeting Resources:
Zoom Meeting: zoom.us;
Zoom Directions for Teachers & Presenters
Zoom How To Teach Online Video
Phone Call Capability without Providing Personal Information:
Google Voice: voice.google.com; Create a personal Gmail account, download the app and go!
How to Distance Teach:
Converting Resources:
Face-to-face Instructional Approach
Technology Tools for Consideration
Tips for Consideration by Educators
Direct Instruction
Screencasting Tools such as Screencastify, Screencast-O-Matic, Camtasia
Upload to LMS or YouTube
Include written script of video for accessibilityGroup Discussions or Presentations
FlipGrid, Video Recordings, Google Slides
Upload, share in LMS, FlipGrid
Student Reflections or Worksheets
Google Forms, Editable PDF,
DocHub and PDFEscape, Kami
Assessments and Quizzes
Google Forms, Editable PDF, LMS Assessment Creator
Frequent check ins for understanding, formative and summative
Video / Movie Lessons
EdPuzzle
Upload instructional videos and include pause points to allow for student responses
Writing
Google Docs and Classroom
Consider how students submit this work to you
Read and Respond
Programs like ActivityLearn allow students to respond to online readings
Student Questions
LMS Discussion Forums, Google Doc or Sheet
Always provide specific guidance regarding expectations, and meaningful responses to support students
Labs
PhET simulations
PhET has been converting labs from Flash to HTML5. Some may not be ready to go, so please watch carefully. Adobe stopped supporting Flash as of January 2020.
Content Resources:
Name
Link
Content Area
Info
OER Commons
ALL PK - Higher Ed
Variety of resources - Join Westmoreland IU group
New Visions for Public Schools
ALL K-12
Units and Lessons - aligned to New York State Standards
DCPS Cornerstones Project
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DTJFvPmiB-7Uqv1w7jpBAjLqAUXQk6yI?usp=sharing
ALL K-12
Unit Projects - Aligned to Virginia State Standards
Project Gutenberg
ELA
free eBooks
PhET
Math and Science
simulations
Open Stax
ALL PK - Higher Ed
free eBooks
Khan Academy
Mostly Math and Science
Variety of resources
CK-12 Flexbooks
Mostly Math and Science
Customizable Flexbooks - you cannot alter images from CK-12
COERLL
World Languages
Variety of resources
AMSER
Math and Science
Variety of resources
The Orange Grove
ALL K-12
Variety of resources - aligned to Florida State Standards
OpenSciEd
Science 6-8
Rollout of new resources through 2022
Media Resources:
Name
Link
Info
Pixabay
Copyright Free Images and Videos
Wikimedia Commons
Mostly Copyright Free Media
Internet Archive
Variety of Resources
Film Studies for Free
Commentary on and links to online open-access film studies resources
Public Domain Review
Variety of Resources
Digital Public Library of America
Variety of Resources
Pexels
Free stock photos
GIMP
Free & Open Source Image Editor
MeshLab
Open Source 3D model processing, editing and converting software
Autodesk Tinkercad
3D design, electronics, and coding
digccmixter
Music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under CC licenses
Free Music Archive
free and royalty-free music
Audacity
Free, open-source audio creation platform
App Resources:
Name
Link
Info
OER SEARCH - OER COMMONS
https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/oer-search/id358703397?mt=8
http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/org.oersearch.OERSearch/OER-SearchApple and Android
Merlot Search
https://itunes.apple.com/app/merlot-oer-search/id541266116?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.merlot.search.html&hl=esApple and Android
Libby
Public Library app
Ted
https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-talks/ways-to-get-ted-talks
Free TedTalks
Products:
Name
Link
Info
Easy Test Maker
online test generator - no account needed for students.
Screencastify
free Chrome extension - 50 free recordings
Screencast-O-Matic
free video recording software - limit of 15 minutes per recording
English as a Second Language Resources:
Name of Product
Link
Cost
Brief Description
ELD Instruction
Content Area Differention for EL
Accessiblity Features
Age Group/Audience
Google Classroom
https://edu.google.com/why-google/k-12-solutions/?modal_active=none
free
Free online classrrom for students; can be used for Core or supplemental instruction
K-12
Room Recess
free
Free, online games that reinforce basic skills--literacy, language, math. No account or login is required.
No account or log-in is required. This might be a helpful item for enrichment or optional work.
ESLGamesPlus
free
ESL Games Plus offers interactive online games for learning and teaching English as a Second Language. Our learning games are mostly suitable for teaching ESL Kids and Teenagers. There are activities for teaching and practising English grammar, vocabulary, sentences, listening and pronunciation skills. The site features these ESL Activities Online: ESL Classroom Games, Memory Games, Spelling Games, Sentence Games, Interactive Board Games, Hangman Games, Jeopardy, Wheel Games, Concentration Games, Matching Games, Car Racing Games, Pirate Games, Crocodile Games, Word Recognition Games, Mobile Games for iPad, iPhones and Android devices.
Also includes videos and printables.
K-8
Storylineonline
Free
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.
Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.
Learning A to Z
https://www.learninga-z.com/?fbclid=IwAR1TWVWUtnp7yoWoNVrxhyp5RuaCMgMbHQ-YZN1HLkuDXyzvy2y8RXEgVAo
Free
Free virtual resources for educators for the 90 days including RAZ Kids and Headsprout. Leveled reading resources, interactive computer based mobile books and quizzes. Mobile APP available iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android & Kindle
Headsprout is an adaptive, online reading program that takes non-readers and beginning readers to a mid-2nd grade reading level with 30 hours of instruction. Because of its special focus on phonics, phonological awareness, fluency, and phonemic awareness, it is ideal for ELL students who can benefit from individual practice with listening to correct pronunciation and decoding letter/sound connections. Each colorful episode challenges students to build upon skills they have practiced before, and the program adjusts to students’ progress, ensuring that students advance episodes only when they demonstrated skill mastery.
K-5
Listenwise
Free
Listening and comprehension practice through podcasts. Premium access free during closure.
Grades 2-12
BombBomb
Free
allows teachers to send pre-recorded video emails
Actively Learn
Free
Texts and videos for ELA, Science, & Social Studies. Premium accounts are now free through the end of the school year.
Available for all core content areas; Teachers can add content to existing ready-made lessons to differentiate for the needs of ELs
Students can highlight a phrase they cannot read and it will translate the text into that language. There is an embedded dictionary.
Grades 3-12
Brain POP ELL
Free
https://educators.brainpop.com/faq/brainpop-esl/ BrainPOP ELL is a web-based English language learning program comprised of short, animated movies as well as games, quizzes, and interactive features. It encompasses the four main language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The movies feature the characters Moby and Ben, who model conversational English while presenting target vocabulary, language, and content.
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Quizlet
Free
English study sets on Quizlet for may topics like Weather/ Seasons, Science, clothing, etc... as well as Vocabulary, Grammar and Questions. Ads on the website can be removed for monthly fee
Empowering ELLs with Quizlet https://www.empoweringells.com/quizlet-vocabulary/
Newsela
Free
The same news articles can be selected in one of five different Lexile levels. Students may select a level or the teacher can assign a level. Articles are updated daily.
Discovery Education Experience
Free for the rest of this school year; supt or principal must request it through an online form
Uses research-based strategies for incorporating media into learning; the platform provides ready-made lessons, which teachers can customize with the ability to add their own content and have students create content; teachers and students can collaborate in real time or asynchronously
Available for all core content areas; Teachers can add content to existing ready-made lessons to differentiate for the needs of ELs; a California study of classrooms that frequently used a similar Discovery Education platform found that ELs' achievement partricularly improved compared to other classrooms
Closed captioning and transcripts are available for all videos.
Grades K-12
CommonLit
Free
Provides curated, research-based lesson plans centered around texts of various genres, and some are organized into units; includes texts intended to supplement books commonly assigned in schools; teachers can choose to include guiding questions, online assessment questions, and the ability for students to annotate texts online; teachers view student annotations and assessment responses
Lesson plans for ELA and history/social studies; the ability to chunk texts into smaller pieces with guiding questions can help ELs check for understanding; ELs can annotate the text online to show teachers where they are struggling or comprehending; texts conclude with discussion questions, which the class can discuss via online chat or phone, to provide speaking and listening practice for ELs
Teachers can enable the translation function for students to click on a word and translate it to selected languages
Grades 3-12
Duolingo
Free language learning tool that has bolstered their offerings for English learners across language proficiency levels.
Students participate in a variety of activities at various levels of language proficiency according to the CEFR framework. Resources are included for beginning English learners, as all English pathways start at the A1 level per the framework. Students are given word identification, fill-in-the-blank, complete the chat, and read and respond prompts. The A1 (beginning) English pathway is available for native Spanish and Portuguese speakers. English pathways are available for a host of other languages at higher proficiency levels.
K-12 students with Spanish/Portuguese as their L1
Hippocampus
Free
HippoCampus.org is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge.Includes content for Algebra, Geometry, Biology, Chemistry, History, Sociology, Economics, etc... using middle school, highschool & college cointent from NROC, Kahn Academy, NOAA, Interactive Sceince Solutions, Dallas Learning Solutions, Phoenix College, Mt. San Jacinto College and more.
Open source content for personalized learning
Strategies for teaching Science to ELs: https://www.csun.edu/science/ref/language/teaching-ell.html
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
Free
Unless otherwise noted, all materials at Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab including the interactive quiz questions, transcriptions, and tutorials, video, and sound files are free to use. Easy, intermediate and difficult levels of listening activities based on specific topics are available.
Voces Digital
Free through June 30
ESL Series for level 1, 2, 3 & 4
TextHelp - Read&Write Feature
Free on a trial basis
Emails/documents read out loud, text prediction, picture dictionaries, summary highlighters and a grammar, spelling and confusable words checker
Scaffolded literacy supports for preexisting documents, files, and webpages
CK-12
Free
An integrated set of tools for learning: digital textbooks, concept-based learning, SAT prep, and interactive Algebra curriculum (with additional math and science subjects in progress). All products can be customized to match the needs of the student, educator, or school.
Create your own digital textbook or use the library of interactive Flexbooks for instruction. The CK-12 platform
CK12 platform works with Google Classroom, Edmodo, Schoology, Canvas, Kiddom, and chrome extension to enable collaboration between ESL teacher and content teacher,
