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TODAY’S UPDATE On New Resources To Help Educators
Figuring Out How To Support Students During School Closures 
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...


BIG Update Of New Useful Resources To Support Teachers At Closed Schools

photosforyou / Pixabay Let Me Know If You’re Teaching K-12 Students Online Because Of COVID-19 & Would Like To Write A Guest Post About Your Experiences What a day, and it’s still 9:30 in the morning! It’s the first day of our closure, we’re supposed to learn from the district later today their plan going forward, the Remind app I use to communicate with students is down, a zillion things are hap
New Wash. Post Video: “What the 1918 influenza pandemic can teach us about the coronavirus outbreak”

Alexey_Hulsov / Pixabay When teaching about the Coronavirus, this new Washington Post video could be useful. I’m adding it to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS. Especially in the second half of that list, you’ll find useful resources about the history of epidemics and about xenophobia.


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Monday’s Resources To Support Teachers Dealing With School Closures

TerriAnneAllen / Pixabay Here are new additions to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! : Powerful Learning Practice is offering a free Remote Learning Webinar Series . Slate talked about Scholastic’s BookFlix service….Scholastic has created a generic login and password (username: Learning20 / password: Clifford) to unl
“Reflections on Our Favorite Teachers”

Reflections on Our Favorite Teachers is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators reflect on their own favorite teachers and the support and encouragement those past models provided to them. I also include this COVID-19 commentary: Editor’s Note: Obviously, the main thing on all of our minds is not the qualities of our favorite teachers—it’s the coronavirus and its i
Google Is Providing Free Chromebooks To Students Without Devices In Closed Japanese Schools – How About Here?

PhotoMIX-Company / Pixabay I just learned that Google recently began a program called Google for Education Distance Learning Support Program: Google for Education offers distance learning support programs for schools that are closed. The contents include a Chromebook free loan, G Suite for Education new registration support, and online content for distance learning. Google mentioned it in a post
The Four Best Tools For Taking Existing Videos & Making Them Interactive For Online Learning

StartupStockPhotos / Pixabay I’ve obviously been spending a lot of time on online teaching and learning issues lately ( The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! ), and I’m not the only one. Interactive videos can be one helpful instructional tool. Here are my choices for the best – and easiest – ways taking any existing vid
Wow – Ohio Governor Says He Wouldn’t Be Surprised If Schools Don’t Reopen This Year

I’m obviously spending a lot of time thinking about school closures, and the thought of closing down for the rest of the school year had not even occurred to me: The odds are “this is going to go on a lot longer and it would not surprise me at all if schools did not open again this year,” Ohio @GovMikeDeWine says about the long-term impact of the coronavirus. #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/i0luWcQVzX —
Sunday’s Update On New Resources To Help Educators Figuring Out How To Support Students During School Closures

geralt / Pixabay I’ve just been sharing the resources that I feel to be particularly helpful and adding them to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! At a certain point, however, it just gets to be too much. I’m probably approaching that time, and will likely begin reducing the number of related resources I’ll be sharing


Let Me Know If You’re Teaching K-12 Students Online Because Of COVID-19 & Would Like To Write A Guest Post About Your Experiences

pixelcreatures / Pixabay I’ve been publishing a series of posts to assist teachers who might need to teach online if their schools are closed because of the Coronavirus. You can see them all at The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 
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