Aggregation of all the shared knowledge from the Shared Hints and Tips channel on the All Staff Lounge.
General Hints & Tips
'Scan Document' on iPhone - Georgia Kennedy
iPhone users!! You can scan documents!
There are two ways you can do this.
Option 1
1. Open Notes app on your phone. 2. Open a new note. 3. Press the plus button in the top right hand corner or along the bottom, above the keyboard and click the photo icon. 4. Choose Scan Document.
Or Option 2
1. Open files app 2. Pull down on screen until you see a menu bar, including search, sorted by name, three dots icon or list icon. 3. Click the three dots icon. 4. Click Scan Document 5. Scan your documents!
This is really helpful as it then creates a PDF file for you that you can share with students!
Office Lens - James Weber
Office Lens is an app on both iOS and Android that allows you to scan documents on your phone. This will also allow you to save to your Brigidine OneDrive if you log in through the app. iOS Android
This UK Educator has many easily downloadable, ready to use resources, though you will have to check through for ones that can be used remotely, it doesn't take long to find something helpful. http://www.theteachertoolkit.com/index.php/tool/category/C7
Online Learning Information - Jordan Whitney
I am just sharing a document that I put together for my Year 7's. It may be helpful for your younger classes who aren't familiar with teams or OneNote yet. Online Learning Information Year 7.docx
Kahoot Premium Free - Christina Ong
In case you missed it, Kahoot Premium is free at the moment. It allows you to use a lot more features and less restrictions on numbers of students etc. Access is available until the end of the US school year.
Apple Airpods - John Tomlin
Using Apple Airpods for your audio ?. Because your laptop has Bluetooth you can pair your wireless Apple Airpods to use them for audio, speakers and microphone. This gives you some mobility to move around the room and continue the conversation. Likely you will be able to make a coffee in the kitchen and not miss a word. Reply if you need help pairing but essentially it's "add new bluetooth device" hold pairing button down until "headphone" appears then connect. It should then display the name of your Airpods. Test the sound quality with each other as likely it will be much better than laptop and allow you to move your head without voice voice fading away.
5 things I've learnt to improve my online live lessons - Nicole Kapernick
Scheduling Teams Meetings - Intervals less have half an hour - Nicole Kapernick
When scheduling you are able to manually type the time inside the drop down boxes - Ben Wilson
Insights and Assignments - Melissa Dever
the following recording might be useful to those of you who want to trial some of the extra features in Microsoft Teams. I have explained how I used Insights and Assignments. If you want to do Polls with your classes, you can choose the three ellipses under the conversation and choose forms.
Adobe have given lots of links and suggestions for learning from home
Expanded complementary BYOD access to the Adobe Creative Cloud desktop apps to facilitate distance learning. Click here to find out if your school qualifies and how you can take advantage of this offer. Click here for a video that explains more.
Weekly live webinar events focussed on creating engaging online teaching & learning experiences and injecting creativity into the curriculum.
10 Tips to Record Instructional Videos: Blog post highlighting tips for teachers who are new to recording instructional videos. This focuses on recorded content for students (asynchronous)