For more than a decade Alice Keeler has been sharing innovative ideas for teaching with technology.

After exchanging a string of text messages discussing the impact of the viral epidemic on teachers, students, and school districts, Alice and I decided to record this podcast episode to provide teachers with some encouragement and hope during these challenging times.

Here’s the summary of our conversation: remote teaching is NOT online school.

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From 2011-2013 I taught online and helped open a fully online school.

It was a really challenging experience.

I learned a LOT during those three years.

Teaching online is very different than teaching in a traditional classroom. Here are five quick tips to help make this transition and smooth as possible. 

1. Embrace routine and repetition
2. Encourage connection and discussion
3. Keep it simple
4. Slow down...the pacing is different
5. LIVE lessons are a waste of time 

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Thanks for tuning into the Chromebook Classroom Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, I would appreciate your honest rating and review! 

You can connect with me, John Sowash on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I would love to hear your thoughts on the show! 

As part of my daily routine, I scan dozens of blogs, visit a handful of Facebook groups and skim through Twitter.

The goal: find the most helpful resources, tools, and articles that I can share with my teacher friends (that’s you!).

Here are my favorite links for April 2020:

1. All of my remote teaching resources 
2. Much needed updates to Google Meet 
3. Auto translation now available for Android
4. Google Groups is (finally) getting an update 
5. It’s now a LOT easier to work with images in Docs
6. New “shortcut” option for Google Drive
7. “Flatten the curve” Scratch coding project
8. Choice boards for at-home learning 
9. Audience reactions in Google Meet
10. Free virtual epidemiology course from Johns Hopkins

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Thanks for tuning into the Chromebook Classroom Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, I would appreciate your honest rating and review! 

You can connect with me, John Sowash, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I would love to hear your thoughts on the show!