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Remote Learning

The Covid-19 pandemic has created challenges for schools. Project SPRINT has focused on ICT tools that are useful for remote teaching and learning.
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1. Video Conferencing Software.

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ZOOM
https://zoom.us/​​
Zoom is probably the most popular video conferencing tool in use. 
Currently (May 2020) Zoom offering the free version for schools without the 40 minute limit, Users need to apply for a free account and send in few details to register.
  • High-quality HD video conferencing
  • Unlimited number of meetings
  • Ability to record meetings for future use
  • Easy scheduling with a Chrome extension
  • Option to create break out rooms for students for projects, discussions, etc.
  • Annotation option when the instructor or host shares the screen
  • 100 students per meeting
  • Meet for up to 40 minutes with up to 100

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GOOGLE MEET
https://meet.google.com/​
Google Meet is a video-communication service developed by Google. Users can hold time meetings using your browser, share your video, desktop, and presentations with the class. Meet is included in Google's G Suite for Education so would suit if your school works in that environment.
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  • Up to 100 students allowed per meeting
  • Unlimited number of meetings
  • Meet for up to one hour
  • Live closed captions
  • Screen sharing
  • Enhanced security and 2-step verification
  • Integration with Google Classroom


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MICROSOFT TEAMS
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software​
Microsoft Teams is a free online collaboration tool for small teams. It includes video conferencing, chat, file sharing, storage and more.
​They have paid plans but the free version itself is a good enough video conferencing option for schools and teachers.
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  • Up to 300 attendees
  • Attendance features
  • Digital whiteboard
  • Virtual break out rooms
  • Screen sharing
  • Secure platform for students and teachers
  • Easy access to other Microsoft Office apps
 OTHER OPTIONS:  Cisco Webex, Skype Video-conferencing: 
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2. Learning Platforms

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Seesaw
https://web.seesaw.me/
Seesaw is a digital portfolio tool which allows pupils to store their work in an online space and gain feedback from their teacher. It can be used on a computer (PC) or tablet. It effectively enables teachers to set tasks or assignments and include instructions or templates for students to use at home. There is also an extensive bank of ready made activities in Seesaw which teachers can use as they are or they can be edited.
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Google Classroom
Google Classroom is a free web service, developed by Google for schools, that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments in a paperless way. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students.

What can you do with Classroom?
  • Set Classroom themes with school colours or logo
  • Reuse assignments, tests or other course content in future classes
  • Add content to assignments, such as video, PDFs, Google Docs or Google Forms survey
  • Share videos, links or images from other websites with students
  • View assignments, announcements and other resources on a class resource page
  • Draft assignments or announcements and schedule them to post on a later date
  • Use Google Calendar to track assignment due dates
  • Set permissions on whether students can make posts or comments (or mute individual students)
  • Set permissions on which teachers can create and manage classrooms, or which schools within a district can use Google Classroom

3. Quizzes

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Quizziz
https://quizizz.com/
Teachers can explore pre-created quizzes or create their own. Quizzes can be played using any device, e.g. phone, tablet, laptop or PC either in class or remotely.  They can be assigned as homework and a due date set.  
Suitable for primary and post-primary teachers and learners. 
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Google Forms
Google Forms can be used by teachers to assess students,  encourage them to reflect on their learning or as an exit ticket.  Teachers can analyse the information to evaluate student learning and plan future instruction. 
Suitable for use with upper primary and post-primary learners.

4. Content Creation

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Google Slides
Creating joint presentations is a great way for pupils to work together to present a coherent story or presentation to their peers, enabling them to  jointly reflect and work through curriculum content and actively engage with it. 
Pupils can jointly create presentations on different topics, incorporating multimedia elements that have been safely sourced from within the  software or incorporating images they have taken in the classroom or at home. Facilities to record voice over exist in most presentation  software. 


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Book Creator
https://bookcreator.com/
Book Creator can be used by students and/or teachers to create interactive stories, instruction manuals, poetry books with a combination of text, images, audio and video. 




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Adobe Spark Video
https://spark.adobe.com/make/video-maker/
Content creation tool which allows students to show their work in the form of a video.

Suitable for both primary and post-primary students and teachers.  Teachers in particular could use this tool to create short explainer videos for students. 

5. Screencasting

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Loom
https://www.loom.com/education​
Loom is an online tool which can be used to create screencasts. The pro version of Loom is now free for educators forever.
How to video
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Screencast-o-matic
Screencast-o-matic is an online tool which, as the name suggests, can be used to create screencasts.Suitable for teachers to create screencasts and narrate over existing teacher resources, e.g. slides, powerpoints, etc. and share with primary pupils or post-primary students. 
How to video

6. Literacy 

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Reading Eggs
https://readingeggs.com/
​Reading Eggs makes learning to read interesting and engaging for kids, with great online reading games and activities.
And it really works!
Children love the games, songs, golden eggs and other rewards which, along with feeling proud of their reading, really motivate children to keep exploring and learning.
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GetEpic!
https://www.getepic.com/
Free access to thousands of high-quality books, loved by millions of kids grade 6 and under.
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Readtheory
https://readtheory.org/
​Read Theory is a powerful educational tool that offers online reading activities for all ages and ability levels. Our custom web application adapts to students’ individual ability levels and presents them with thousands of skill building exercises that suit their needs.

7. Numeracy

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Khan Academy
https://www.khanacademy.org/
  • Help every student succeed with personalized practice. 100% free.
  • Find standards-aligned content
  • Assign practice exercises, videos and articles
  • Track student progress
  • Join millions of teachers and students
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Mathseeds
https://mathseeds.com/
Mathseeds teaches kids aged 3-9 core math and problem solving skills with fun online math games and activities.
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Hit the Button!
Hit the Button is an interactive maths game with quick fire questions on number bonds, times tables, doubling and halving, multiples, division facts and square numbers. The games which are against the clock challenge and develop a child's mental maths skills.

8. Digital Technologies for Collaboration

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Google Jamboard
Jamboard is available within the Google Suite of tools. It will work on any device and provides an interactive whiteboard function within Google,  where pupils can draw, write or add links and multimedia content on a joint whiteboard surface using inbuilt tools.  
Google jamboard is useful for brainstorming topics, sorting and categorising objects and curating and sharing content via URL’s and multimedia  upload. Pupils can work jointly on a maths problem and share their calculations with the teacher or the class via a whiteboard. It allows pupils to  collaborate in real-time while not requiring them to be close to one another. 

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Padlet
Padlet will work on any device and really lends itself to group work.  
Pupils can research a project independently at home and add their research to a shared wall for this topic. The wall can be divided into sub  topics with pupils posting relevant information and curating resources under each heading. The Padlet can be displayed on the interactive  whiteboard and pupils can talk through their research for the class. It can also be used as a KWL chart, with pupils recording what they already  know about a topic before engaging with it.

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Nearpod
Nearpod allows you to make a presentation interactively, incorporating live questions and polls so that you can deliver and gather feedback and  responses in real time. ​

Pupils can draw or label a diagram, answer a poll question, add an image, video or note to a board or engage in a quiz. Going one step further,  pupils can use it to design their own interactive presentations and teach topics to each other. Ask pupils to watch a video and engage in a quiz  based on the video, allow them to label diagrams or create a collaborative diagram themselves.

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