Session 1
Session 2: Learner Supports in Practice
Must-Have Gear for Remote Learning (Internet Archive)
- An educator-approved gear list that will help keep your virtual classroom running smoothly. (may be slightly outdated)
Beginner Tools for Remote Teaching and Virtual Instruction (Internet Archive)
- What you need to know to select the tools and equipment required for creating remote, virtual content and instruction
Quality Assurance in Blended Learning - a Quality Framework
- Results of an EU project looking at a quality framework for blended learning
How to Shift to Online Teaching: The Ultimate Guide
- Includes a guide for building synchronous and asynchronous content
Using Shared Devices in the Classroom
- Some ideas for using shared devices in the classroom
How to See All Your Students While Presenting in Google Meet Using Two Screens
- how to set up a second monitor with your Google Meet meeting
How to Teach Online with Microsoft Teams - A Guide for Teachers
- A step-by-step tutorial showing how to teach online with Microsoft Teams. A guide made for teachers.
How to Add a Poll to Microsoft Teams Meeting
- Learn how to insert a poll, survey, form, or quiz into a Microsoft Teams meeting. See how to share the results in real-time with all attendees.
30+ Virtual Learning Platforms and Tools for Teachers and Kids
- A list of virtual learning platforms for classroom use
Learning Management Systems with Blended Learning Support
- Find, choose and compare Learning Management Systems with blended learning support
7 Tips for Increasing Student Engagement in Online Courses
- A few ideas for increasing and ensuring higher levels of student engagement in online courses
8 Ideas Designed to Engage Students In Active Learning Online
- Tips for gamification, social learning, feedback, and assessment
Teaching Online - Resource Bank
- Links to a number of useful resources on teaching online
Webwise: Distance Learning Resources
- Relevant resources for teachers, schools, and parents for distance learning, and for continuing support, advice, and information on internet safety
Strategies to Support Some of Our Most Vulnerable Students Through Distance Learning
- A comprehensive list of support strategies
Blended learning in school education – guidelines for the start of the academic year 2020/21
- Useful guidelines for using blended learning in schools
Session 3: Learner Supports, Part 2
togetherall
- A safe, online community where people support each other anonymously to improve mental health and wellbeing
Workflowy
- A web-based organisational tool that enables users to create lists: personal to-dos, notes, team projects, research papers, and many more
Crash Course: Study skills
- Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel. This is their study skills course
Social Media and Employability
- A guide, from Aberdeen University, on how to use social media to become more employable
Educreations
- A simple and powerful interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool
Mimeo
- An app for using classroom devices for collaborative and one-to-one learning
Mimio Educator: 10 Best Assessment Apps
- 10 of the top assessment tools that you can start using in your classroom today
Types of Assistive Technology
- An introduction to assistive technologies
Top 20 Microsoft Teams Tips & Tricks
- Learn the top 20 best Microsoft Teams tips and tricks
5 Awesome Tips for Presenting with Mentimeter for the First Time
- The best tips on how to host an amazing Mentimeter presentation
30 creative ways to use Padlet for teachers and students
- ideas for using Padlet in the classroom
Quality Indicators for the Provision of Accessible Educational Materials & Technologies
- Describes the essential elements for a procurement system for accessible educational technologies
Student Engagement and Blended Learning: Making the Assessment Connection
- This article demonstrates how collaborative learning applications and a blended approach to learning can be used to design and support assessment activities that increase levels of student engagement with course concepts, their peers, faculty and external experts, leading to increased student success and satisfaction
Session 4: Learner Engagement (Policy and Practice)
Instructor and student perceptions of online student engagement strategies
- Reports online instructors’ perceptions of the importance of student engagement strategies and contrasts results of instructors and students (full text available upon request)
Exploring the Effectiveness of Academic Coaching for Academically At-Risk College Students
- Defines the concept of on-campus academic coaching and reports on an evaluation of its effectiveness
Twelve tips for enhancing student engagement
- Practical and quality-oriented tips and tools for integrating learner engagement
Student engagement and blended learning: Making the assessment connection
- This article demonstrates how collaborative learning applications and a blended approach to learning can be used to design and support assessment activities that increase levels of student engagement with course concepts, their peers, faculty and external experts, leading to increased student success and satisfaction
Enhancing Student Engagement in Decision-Making
- Report of a working group to explore best practice in relation to student engagement in higher-education institutions and to propose a set of principles which would assist institutions in this area
Our Voices Our Schools: In the Classroom
- Every young person can have a voice in the classroom. This page highlights some of the ways that this can happen and provides resources to support these practices
Involving Young People in Decision-Making in Schools: Designing Voice initiatives
- Tips for in planning a learner voice initiative
National Strategy on Children and Young. People's Participation in Decision-Making, 2015-2020
- Ensuring that children and young people have a voice in their individual and collective everyday lives
Flipgrid
- An asynchronous video discussion platform where the students respond to a topic posted by the teacher and where students can have online discussions. Now assimiliated into Microsoft Teams
Padlet Instruction Manual
- Incorporating Junior Cycle Key Skills, School Self-Evaluation and suggestions for use
Mentimeter: Interactive Classrooms
- Interact with your audience using real-time voting
Session 5: Wellbeing & Engagement (Organisational Level)
FESS: Thematic Specific Resources
- Resources that may be useful when delivering programme modules leading to a range of QQI components
Preparing for Remote Learning
- Ideas to help with preparing for remote learning
Guidelines and Policy Advice in Relation to Student Health and Well Being
- A collection of resources related to student health and well-being originally published on the ETBI website
Google Jam Board
- A digital interactive whiteboard developed by Google to work with Google Workspace. Shutting down on October 1st 2024
Irish Student Health Association - Health Matters
ebook
App (Apple)
App (Android)
- Safe, evidence-based and reliable health information
Skills Audit Guide (Aberdeen University Careers Department)
- A skills audit is a tool to assess individual skills against a framework
