LibGuides: Coronavirus: Tools for Teaching Remotely

The following resources are being offered here to assist and guide faculty as they move towards an online instruction environment during the Coronavirus emergency. The list will be revised as needed. This is not an exhaustive list, but is here to provide you with practical tools and ideas.

Webinars

Safeguarding Quality, Equity, and Inclusion as Learning Moves Online (Webinar)
This webinar addresses a wide range of student success issues and opportunities now confronting faculty, staff, and administrators across the higher education landscape. Presenters offer practical advice and effective pedagogical strategies for creating and sustaining high-quality, equitable, and inclusive learning environments online.
Teaching and Learning Webinar Recordings
Achieving the Dream - COVID-19 Response Resources

Resources

ACUE's Coronavirus Page
Association of College and University Educator's resource page for teaching during the Coronavirus emergency.
ACUE's Online Teaching Toolkit
Association of College and University Educator's Online Teaching Toolkit.
The Chronicle of Higher Education - Coping With Coronavirus
How faculty members can support students in traumatic times
The Chronicle of Higher Education - Moving Online Now
How to keep teaching during coronavirus
Chronicle of Higher Education: Coronavirus stories
Chronicle of Higher Education: Preparing for Emergency Online Teaching
Corona Virus Resource Center
Johns Hopkins University
CSU Channel Islands: Free & Openly-Licensed Resources During COVID-19
Curated list by CSU Channel Island's Open University initiative of free &/or open resources for those who are unexpectedly moving online due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Developing online assessments of student learning
Faculty, are you thinking about how to develop online assessments of student learning in a hurry?
How to Make Your Online Pivot Less Brutal
Kevin Gannon March 12, 2020
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Keep Teaching (COVID-19)
Kwantlen Polytechical University
NACEP Coronavirus Guidance and Resources
NACEP states: We wanted to provide you with some support and resources to assist you with your work, while also staying out of your way as much as possible.
News and Resources in Relation to the COVID-19 Outbreak
International Council For Open and Distance Education
PsychSessions: Convos About Teaching n' Stuff
Provides links to podcasts with information regarding various ways to approach online teaching.
Remote Learning Resources
Hagerstown College
So You Want to Temporarily Teach Online
This guide is aimed not at the permanent movement from face-to-face to online education but at the desire to implement an interim solution for emergency remote teaching and is specifically focused on lecture-based classes with some considerations for more active learning environments.
Teaching with Blackboard
PGCC's Blackboard training site with online teaching information, video tutorials and other documents. Arranged by user tasks.

Online Teaching: Best Practices

Free LinkedIn Learning Courses
(Courses may require a user account for access)

Courses About Teaching Online

Learning to Teach Online Technology has changed the nature of education—and the jobs of educators. Online instruction requires different methods to help students learn. It provides a framework for creating a digital classroom and guidance to get students interacting with the course material, the instructor, and each other. Collaboration is the key to making the learning experience more dynamic.
Teaching with Technology Put the "tech" into your teaching. Learn how to use technology to enhance course design, lesson planning, presentations, in-class activities, assessments, and student achievement and engagement. Explains how learning outcomes can be adapted to support technology in the classroom, and guides educators through selecting the appropriate technology for their activity, module, or class. How to apply technology in three key areas: finding, creating, and sharing content with students; facilitating classroom activities; and assessing learning inside the classroom or online.
Teaching Technical Skills Through Video Video offers a unique method for teaching and learning—especially for technical skills like programming. Not all students are coders, but giving your classes exposure to these subjects via video will enhance their learning, retention, and future career opportunities. The course introduces a variety of tools to deliver lessons via video and help increase higher-order thinking
Teaching Online: Synchronous Classes Explore tools, tips, and techniques for leading real-time virtual training. No matter what teaching tool you use, from Adobe Connect to Blackboard to Google Hangouts, you can apply these lessons to your own digital classroom to increase collaboration and connection with students.
Teaching Techniques: Creating Multimedia Learning Students need an education that prepares them to be successful in an ever-changing technical world. Teachers can help by transforming their lessons into digital student resources. This course shows educators how to move content into interactive and engaging multimedia presentations for differentiated and flipped learning.
Teaching Techniques: Classroom Cloud Strategy Today's cloud technology provides amazing tools and opportunities for teaching. Cloud-based classrooms can help increase productivity and make learning accessible from anywhere. In this course, learn how to use tools such as Google G Suite; Microsoft OneDrive, OneNote, and Teams; and Evernote to make education more efficient and effective.
Teaching Techniques: Creating Effective Learning Assessments From the report cards we get in kindergarten to our college midterms, assessments are an inescapable part of student life; however, not all learning assessments are created equal. The best ones give valuable feedback to learners and provide a solid indication to instructors about who is learning what, what's working, and what isn't.

Courses About Virtual Learning Tools

Office 365 for Educators Microsoft Office is a staple set of tools for educators, and now includes education-specific functionality such as classroom notebooks in OneDrive and educator-specific collaboration tools in Teams. In education, learning to use these applications can help increase learning, empower students, and save teachers valuable time.
Learning Microsoft Teams for Education Collaboration in your class. Microsoft Teams provides a digital platform that can be used to streamline and centralize classroom resources and operations. This course helps you learn how to create a class, add class members, manage assignments, and engage in meaningful conversations with students.
Google Hangouts Essential Training Hangouts—the popular app from Google—gives you the ability to get in touch with other Google users via messaging, video calls, and phone calls. In this course, learn how to make full use of Hangouts.
Camtasia 2019 Essential Training: The Basics Get started with Camtasia 2019, a complete elearning and screencast creation suite that allows you to capture and edit video, create interactive learning experiences, and publish elearning media. This course takes you through the essentials of creating compelling video content with this go-to tool.
Camtasia 2019 Essential Training: Advanced Techniques Take your skills to the next level in Camtasia 2019, a complete elearning and screencast creation suite that lets you capture and edit video, create interactive learning experiences, and publish elearning assets that are SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) compliant.
Camtasia 2019 for Mac Essential Training Camtasia lets you record your screen, edit video, add music and audio, and create interactive elements such as quizzes. This course shows you how to create videos using Camtasia for Mac.
Camtasia Quick Tips Get quick tips to increase your efficiency and the quality of training you create in Camtasia. This course is a collection of short videos to help you get the most value from this popular screen capture program.
Learning OneNote Online (Office 365) OneNote Online is a robust note-taking app that allows you to jot down and save ideas wherever you are—from a scribbled-on napkin to a saved article on the web—and tag notes for easy recall.
WordPress.com Essential Training Learn how to create your own website or blog with WordPress.com—the free, easy-to-use service that’s democratizing publishing on the web.
WordPress for Education Break out of the walls of your learning management system and create open, connected spaces for student learning and engagement with WordPress. This course explores the best WordPress site designs and plugins for educators, and strategies for teaching online and engaging students in a digital environment.
Blackboard 9 Essential Training Get the Blackboard training you need to quickly enroll students and start creating assignments.

Courses About Working Remotely

Working Remotely When you unlock the power of remote work, you can ditch your commute, work where you focus best, and spend more time doing things you love, all while advancing your career.
Time Management: Working from Home Working from home is a wonderful opportunity, but time management can be a challenge. With so many demands on your time and attention, it's a tricky balancing act to stay productive.
Productivity Tips: Finding Your Productive Mindset Time management tools and programs can only go so far. If you want to boost your productivity in a lasting way, you need to change the way you look at your time and your tasks.
Executive Presence on Video Conference Calls Learn how to shine on video conference calls. This course provides expert advice to look and sound confident, collected, and smart on your next conference call or video presentation.
Thriving @ Work: Leveraging the Connection between Well-Being and Productivity Live a life filled with less stress, greater well-being, and enhanced productivity by learning how to make transformational changes. Continue your Thrive journey and discover how to go from coping and surviving to actually thriving.
Managing Stress for Positive Change In the workplace, stress is often viewed in purely negative terms. It's seen as a response that should simply be minimized or pushed aside; however, it's possible to use stress to fuel positive change.
Building Resilience Have trouble getting by when the going gets tough? Everyone wants to perform well when the pressure's on, but a lot of us withdraw in times of stress or adversity.
Developing Resourcefulness Being able to do more with less is a highly valued skill in any organization, and not just in down times.
Leading at a Distance Technology has enabled many former office workers to work from home or anywhere remotely. As the overall job landscape shifts, the number of remote workers will likely continue to increase.
Managing Virtual Teams Working remotely has been on the rise for many years now, with research showing that hiring managers expect nearly half of all their workers to be working remotely over the next decade.
Leading Virtual Meetings Leading virtual meetings is a critical competency for leaders who manage a remote or blended team.
Learning Zoom Collaborate more seamlessly using Zoom, the popular video conferencing tool.
Learning BlueJeans Meetings Learn how to collaborate using BlueJeans Meetings, the popular videoconferencing app.
Learning WebEx Get up to speed quickly with WebEx, the online meeting and video conferencing app. In this course, This course shows how to use WebEx to host, run, and record online meetings.
Get up to speed quickly with Skype Skype is connecting the world, allowing anyone with an Internet connection to call, chat, and collaborate. With its low-cost calling plans and artificial intelligence features like automatic translation, Skype opens up communication across the globe.
Microsoft Teams Tips and Tricks Discover how to work more efficiently with Microsoft Teams, the popular collaboration app in Office 365.

Tools

Audacity
Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Technology Applications correlated to Bloom’s Taxonomy created by the University of Southern Indiana. The large green words are the levels of Bloom’s taxonomy–from lowest order (base of pyramid) to higher order (top of pyramid) thinking skills. The cool thing is that all the logos are linked to each tool’s website.
Diigo
Diigo – Collect and organize anything! Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking, group based collaborative research and more…
Glogster
Glogster is a unique social network based on the creation and sharing of Glogs – interactive posters loaded with text, graphics, music, videos, and more.
Oovoo
Oovoo – Video chat for FREE with up to 12 participants.
Prezi
Prezi is a FREE animated presentation tool that helps you organize and share your ideas
Skype
Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.