Getting Started with Distance Learning
Before diving into Teleschool or Remote Learning, here is a great blog and checklist of possibilities and needs shared by TCEA: Teleschool Ready
Distance Learning Best Practices, Tips, and Tools for Teachers
Category: Distance Learning Best Practices
Audience: Admin/Teachers
Description: Region 4 ESC shares best practices, tips, and tools for distance learning.
Sharing Coronavirus Contingency Planning Best Practices
Category: Distance Learning Best Practices
Audience: Admin/Teachers
Description: Blackboard provides best practices for creating and sustaining an distance learning environment.
Resources for Teaching Online Due to School Closures
Category: Distance Learning Planning-Logistics
Audience: Teachers
Description: Edublogger's Kathleen Morris provides support with the logistics associated with setting up an online learning environment. (i.e. daily structure, using interactive components, setting up your home base, etc.)
Preparing to Take School Online? Here Are 10 Tips to Make It Work
Category: Distance Learning Planning-Logistics
Audience: Administrators/Teachers
Description: Reshan Richards and Stephanie J. Valentine of EdSurge share 10 tips to support the success of online instruction.
Category: Distance Learning Planning-Logistics
Audience: Administrators/Teachers
Description: A framework designed to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. The UDL framework guides the design of instructional goals, assessments, methods, and materials that can be customized and adjusted to meet individual needs. This philosophy and the standards designed based on the UDL Guidelines are standards and methods that virtual learning instructors rely on to help run their virtual learning classrooms and environments.
Resources for Learning at Home When Schools Close (UPDATED)
Provider: The New Teacher Project
Category: Distance Learning Best Practices/Resources
Audience: Administrators/Teachers
Description: A collection of resources to support at home learning via a blog by Crystal Harmon.
Distance Learning Readiness Kit
Provider: Schoology
Category: Distance Learning Planning-Logistics
Audience: Administrators/Teachers
Description: A collection of resources put together by Schoology to help districts/campuses with distance learning.