University Preparatory <> Online Digital Engagement

by Jody Oliver, Trainer/Coach

Expanding Education, Inc.

Resources for University Prep

Nearpod Resources

  1. Nearpod Education Resources

    1. Live Webinars

    2. Lessons

    3. On-Demand Webinars

    4. Using Nearpod Data to Drive Instruction

    5. Nearpod on YouTube

    6. Nearpod Blog

    7. Students adding Audio Responses

    8. Teacher adding audio in 3 different easy ways

  2. Nearpod is becoming popular with higher education which might help with the “why” Nearpod.

  3. Utah just adopted Nearpod statewide!

AP Resources

  1. College Board has AP classes online with YouTube - didn’t know this - pretty cool resource. Example of AP USHistory

  2. Teaching AP courses for the first time resources

  3. Teacher tips that align well to online learning for every AP course

  4. Teaching AP Online Remotely

  5. Khan Academy AP Courses are aligned to the College Board

    1. Example of AP History via Khan Academy

    2. Khan Academy and list of AP classes - interesting video at the bottom - while he discusses in the classroom but the concept of how he uses Khan Academy in support “outside the classroom”

    3. Coaching support via Khan

Sample AP Teacher Websites Ideas:

  1. A good example of an AP Chemistry teacher’s website

  2. Note the online AP activities about ¾ way down

  3. High School English - all the resources at their fingertips!

  4. Example of Google Sites Teacher Site in Digital Media - click on three bars upper left for the menu. Nice to include the syllabus.

  5. Great examples of Google Sites potential

Other Tools

  • Prodigy Game - math adventure, common core aligned through 8th grade - free for teachers. Great Brain Break for refreshers.

  • New York Times - free lessons and learning with the New York Times

  • Hippocampus.org - free resources for middle school through college. Over 7,000 free videos in 13 subject areas.

  • Everything you need to know about Flipgrid!

G Suite

  1. Drive

    1. Organization

    2. Sharing

    3. Naming/Color Coding

    4. List vs. Grid

  2. Docs

    1. Search within Docs

    2. Word Counts

    3. Voice Typing

    4. Templates

    5. Create Docs with Comments for students

    6. Teacher Doc review of student entry

  3. Slides

    1. Nearpod "add-ons" to create within Google Slides

    2. Nearpod Templates

  4. Sheets

    1. Creating charts, graphs, data collection

  5. Forms

    1. Summative quizzes to insert at end of Nearpod

  6. Drawings

    1. Graphic Organizers

    2. Designing Math Models

    3. Creations to rotate, group, ungroup

  7. Sites

    1. Teacher Web Page Samples Above

    2. Add resources commonly needed throughout the year

      1. Film

      2. Content Reference

      3. Sample Quizzes

      4. AP Resources

    3. No need to post in Google Classroom and hard to find year to year or for students

    4. Simply update each year - a website should serve as a collection of resources and important information, not another daily or weekly task

  8. G Suite on Mobile Devices

    1. Create, Send, Modify all docs

    2. Download apps

  9. Google Classroom

    1. What's New? - Always cool things they add for improvements!

    2. Classroom Support

  10. NEW or REMINDER ... YET COOL!!

    1. Add a Google Dictionary to your Chrome Browser and kids can highlight any word to see the meaning!!

    2. Did you know that Google Earth now works on a Chromebook? It Does!!

    3. Can't draw? Use AutoDraw! Google's way of helping the non-artists of the world!

    4. Need to show your students something in 3D? This Google site has many examples for several different subject areas!

    5. Google Form Conditional/Feedback Quiz Resources:

      1. Feedback on a Quiz Question

      2. Conditional Slide Show Tutorial

      3. Another example

      4. YouTube Tutorial on Branching

Zoom Days/Times

Determined by Mrs. Hatcher
  • August

    • 5th

    • 26th

  • September

    • 23

Individual Coaching Days/Times

Schedule by emailing Jody at jody@expandingeducation.com or if in panic mode, please text me at 760.964.0079

  • August, September

    • by appointment only

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Where do I start?

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  1. Using Google Slides and the Nearpod Add-on!

  2. Using Nearpod and Google Classroom

  3. Nearpod Virtual Learning YouTube Tutorials

  4. Using Zoom and Nearpod


Other Distance Learning Research


Nearpod FAQs, Answered Questions

Nearpod email support:

Phet Lab Simulation Worksheets

Math Notation and Symbols

    1. "We are working on improving our math functions and look forward to being more user friendly for arithmetic teachers."

Video Assessment Integration - Use of your own videos?

    1. "You can use your own video but it must be less than 100MB."

    2. You do not have to upload to YouTube, you can upload your own video directly from with YouTube.

Link to September Training as I just discovered that student notes are now downloaded as a Microsoft Doc if emailed or Google Doc if sent to Google Drive instead of a PDF as they have in the past. Truly disappointing and I've emailed everyone I know at Nearpod. Defeats the whole purpose of reviewing videos and/or links of resources shared!

Personally designed for University Preparatory

by Jody Oliver, Expanding Education, Inc.