Hybrid and Online Teaching Resources: Online Engagement


​​Flipgrid
​Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions, helping to facilitate student-led learning and extend learning and thinking. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions. Students can post video responses that appear in the tiled grid display. It helps facilitate student-led learning and extend learning and thinking.
​Seesaw
A platform to create and collect assignments. The students can answer questions directly in the platform with the touchscreen on their phones, receive feedback, etc. Teachers have access to a massive collection of pre-made assignments based on curriculum. 
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​Kami
An extremely useful chrome extension that allows you and your students to annotate pdfs and much more. Annotation includes the ability to insert shapes and images.  This platform allows: text to speech, speech to text, voice comment, video comment, screen recording and screen capture in the free version.  Kami has so many uses including the possibility of giving video feedback to your students.  It is one of those tools that can be used in the hybrid classroom making the transition between in class and online easier because it is so useful in both domains.
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​Near Pod ​This is an interactive lesson deploying software. Upload a powerpoint, make it interactive with built in quizzing, games, and polls. Creates a digital classroom where students can enter a class code to view and interact with a lesson. Fully integrates with MS Teams.
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​Ed Puzzle
Turn youtube videos into interactive lessons. Paste the youtube link and insert interactive questions at desired points of the video.  
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Screencastify
A free app that you can add as a Chrome extension. The free version allows you to make videos of five minutes or less and offers excellent annotation tools such as draw, erase and spotlighting. This app lets you make captions for your videos when you upload them to Youtube or through Google Drive. You can record feedback on students’ work (so they can hear you and see you as you write in comments, underline things, etc.). The free ebook offers video tutorials for each of the ideas, making bringing the ideas into practice quick and easy. 
​50 Ways to Use Screencastify in the Classroom free ebook                                                                   - Lise Kuhn, High School Teacher, EMSB

​Classroom Screen
A one stop shop to organize your classroom activity. Red, yellow and green lights, timers, notepad, art board, upload a pdf to write on, agenda, random name picker, etc. Works great with a smart board.                                          - S. Geukjian, High School Teacher & Media Coach, NFSB