September 12, 2021 |
View Online | Sign Up |
Hurry! Applications for our fall book club close 9/15! Don’t miss your opportunity to learn how to use books your students will love to engage them in critical thinking and meaningful discussion. Connect with other educators and try a new professional learning opportunity this fall!
Apply by 9/15 >>
Blended Learning Resources
September 15th is National Online Learning Day, a day to celebrate and demonstrate how students can thrive with the option to learn online from any location. Cultivate these resources to support your online learners and celebrate the future of online (and blended) education in your classroom and beyond.
Grades K-12
TeachersFirst's Blended Learning Resources
Blended learning offers students a combination of digital media and traditional classroom teaching. Since some of the instruction is digital, students have more control over the pace. This collection shares blended learning resources.
Grades K-12
Twitter Chat: Mixing Up Blended Learning
This curated Wakelet shares the archives from a recent Twitter chat related to blended learning. Read the tweets to learn about the definition and components of blended learning and explore ways to incorporate it in your lesson plans.
Grades 6-12
Flipped Math
Choose a course, view video lessons, and download practice problems, corrective assignments (additional practice for misunderstood concepts or incomplete mastery), and a complete pacing guide. Find student (and parent) resources related to the lessons.
Grades 6-12
VideoAsk
VideoAsk is an asynchronous video conversation tool that creates authentic dialogue using a video format. Follow each step to prepare your recording, then use a URL to share the video with others. Respondents can answer using video, audio, or text.
Grades 3-12
Distance Learning Lesson
This BrainPop lesson includes an animated video that shares tips for learning from home. Video topics include creating a routine, making a comfortable workspace, practicing digital etiquette when posting information and sharing online, and more.
Grades K-12
Vmaker
Vmaker is an all-in-one screen recorder, video recorder, webcam recorder, and video editor. You can create, edit, and schedule recordings without time limits or watermarks. The free account allows unlimited recordings, easily shareable by using a URL.
Grades K-8
Resources for Teaching Remotely
This resource includes instructional ideas, tips, and how-tos for remote teaching organized by grade level and content area. Each collection provides general tips, suggested instructional tools, and tools for students to create projects.
Grades K-12
Eduflow
Create, teach, and manage online learning with this cool tool. Create a course from scratch or begin with one of the provided templates. Use the links within each activity to personalize the course offering, upload files, and invite your students.
Grades 2-12
Read Theory
Find 1,000+ interactive reading comprehension exercises to encourage students to think critically, draw inferences, understand scope and global concepts, find or recall details, and infer meanings of vocabulary words. Detailed reports are provided.
Grades K-12
Edpuzzle
Try your hand at taking sections of videos and adding your own voiceover or questions. Search for educational videos from sites like Khan Academy and use the sliders to choose a section of the video to insert your voice and questions.
This Week at TeachersFirst
Registration is now open for our fall 2021 OK2Ask virtual workshops! We invite you to come tweet with us this Thursday during our bi-monthly Twitter chat. We are also sharing a related blog post and kindly request your input on our weekly poll.
Join us for an upcoming sessionOK2Ask Fall Registration Now OpenOur new season of free OK2Ask virtual workshops starts in a few short weeks! Register now and join us to learn about SAMR, collaboration, social media literacy, computational thinking, Google My Maps, Wakelet, and many more topics and tools. |
Thursday, 9/16, 8 PM ETTwitter Chat: Digging into Digital LiteracyCome and tweet with us using the hashtags #OK2Ask and #TeachersFirst. During this chat, we will discuss the use of digital tools and resources for safe digital communication practices and share strategies to evaluate sources for reliability and bias. Explore critical thinking approaches to empower students to embrace digital literacy » |
Infusing Technology BlogIncluding Differentiation in Remote and Blended LearningRead this blog post that shares ways to use differentiation to offer learners the opportunity to be successful within their ability levels while still providing growth opportunities. Read about remote learning, blended learning, and other forms. |
Share your thoughtsWeekly PollThis week our poll asks "How much of your lesson instruction includes a form of blended learning?" Share your reply and view the replies of others when you click submit. |
Brought to You by TeachersFirst
Connect with us
Twitter | Facebook
Editorial
Contact the editor
About TeachersFirst
TeachersFirst is a collection of curated, classroom-ready content and ideas — including teacher-authored reviews of thousands of web resources. Built-in guidance from seasoned professionals makes effective classroom technology use trouble-free. TeachersFirst is made available free to K12 teachers by The Source for Learning, Inc., a nonprofit that has been providing educational resources for more than 40 years.