Being able to communicate effectively with your students using video communication tools is essential for modern education. Video communications can strengthen the connection between teachers, students, and parents to foster supportive learning environments.. When you use software such as Zoom, Big Blue Button, or Google Meet, you are leveraging video communication tools to extend the boundaries of your teaching. Simple class discussions can happen via online meetings which can transform into interactive activities and learning sessions leveraging two-way communication tools.

1. VIDEO COMMUNICATION
TOOLS FOR EDUCATORS

2. ONLINE COMMUNICATION TOOLS
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Zoom Big Blue Button Adobe Connect Google Meet

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VIDEO DISCUSSION TOOLS
WeVideo
Vynchronize
TurboNote

4. WEVIDEO
The modern classroom isn’t complete without a collaborative website that allows you to put
together videos as a group. That’s what WeVideo does and it does it very well indeed. Check it out,
mash together videos of the entire group, and create an atmosphere of togetherness that is often
hard to accomplish when you’re doing distance learning.

5. VYNCHRONIZE
Vynchronize lets you create an online room in which you can watch a video while chatting about it with other viewers
at the same time. To use Vynchronize just go to the site, enter your name, and pick a name for your chat room. As
soon as you do that your chat room will be launched and you can invite others to join by giving them the URL
assigned to your room. Within your room you can play videos from YouTube and Vimeo. To play a video just copy its
URL from YouTube or Vimeo and then paste it into the video queue. Chat about the video happens in a side panel on
the same page. You can pause, rewind, and fast-forward the video just like you can on YouTube or Vimeo.

6. TURBONOTE
TurboNote is a Chrome extension you can use to take notes while watching any video. To take notes students
just need to click the TurboNote extension icon in their browsers and start writing notes in the menu that
appears on the right side of the screen. Any notes that students type are automatically time-stamped. Notes
can be edited while the video is playing or while the video is stopped. All notes can be shared via social media
and email.

7. GRADED/ QUIZ-STYLE ACTIVITIES
Kahoot
Crowdpurr
Teachem is a service that uses the TED Ed model of creating
lessons based on video. On Teachem teachers can build
courses that are composed of a series of videos hosted on
YouTube. Teachers can write questions and comments in
“flashcards” that are tied to specific parts of each video and
display next to each video.
TES Blendspace makes it easy for teachers to organize
and share educational materials in a visually pleasing
format. On TES Teach you arrange videos, links, images,
and files around any topic of your choosing. TES Teach
has built-in search tools so that you do not have to leave
your TES Teach account in order to locate resources.

8. Creativity
TRIMMING VIDEOS AND REMOVING DISTRACTIONS
ytCropper
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9. YTCROPPER
ytCropper lets you share just a portion of a YouTube video by specifying the start time and end time of
the video that you want others to see. To do this simply go to the ytCropper site then paste in the URL of
the YouTube video that you want to share. Once you have done that you can specify the start and end
time of the portion of the video that you want people to watch. ytCropper will generate a link to the
cropped version of the video. Share that link to have people watch your specified portion of the video.

10. SAFESHARE.TV
SafeShare.tv makes it possible to view YouTube videos without displaying the related videos and
associated comments. To use SafeShare.tv simply copy the URL of a YouTube video and paste it into
SafeShare.tv. SafeShare also offers browser a bookmarklet tool that will eliminate the need to copy and
paste links from YouTube into SafeShare.

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12. DON’T BE AFRAID
TO TRY ANYTHING
You never know what is going to connect with which student

13. JUST LIKE IN A CLASSROOM
don’t hesitate to set a guide of expectations of behavior but also understand
things will/can change quickly

14. TRY TO FIND A WAY TO INTERACT
IMMEDIATELY WITH THE STUDENTS
DURING ONLINE MEETINGS.
Q&A with a doc cam that you fill out with their answers,
Kahoot can be used to host virtual quizzes with student
smartphones. Allow students to share their screens or
power points.

15. B-ROLL (VIDEO CLIPS)
Have b-roll (video clips) to catch their attention or break up the hour long lecture

16. TAKE TIME TO LISTEN
Student will at times tell you what they need and sometimes you as an
educator used to be the one consistent in their life, they might just need you
to listen to them

17. PROVIDE INSTANT FEEDBACK.
With the technology we have they can turn something in through Google or email. There are tools
like ZipGrade and Google Forms that will grade a majority of work, do it quick and get it back to
the student, you will be surprised at how fast they return it with corrections if you allow it.

18. CONNECT WITH THE
PARENTS AS WELL
Too many times the answer to “what did you
do today” is answered with “nothing”. Send
the parents the power points, PDFs and
lectures. Let them engage with the students
also at home from a base of knowledge

19. TRY OUT
CLASSCRAFT FOR
SOME FRIENDLY
COMPETITION
I am going to use it to engage the students in mini quizzes
like mini lessons and put class against class for control of
the world based on points. Of course first will be group vs
group in the class

20. OFFER ONE ON ONE ZOOM SESSIONS FOR STUDENTS
WHO WANT IT
Students will be less afraid to ask
questions they may keep to
themselves in larger group
settings.

21. CHECK IN WITH STUDENTS VIA EMAIL.

22. DR. HARRY WONG SAID
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If you see something that works, steal it." Incorporate fun things you
see on TV or other classes into your zoom channel.
Play around with virtual backdrops. Give students a sense of familiarity
Use a picture of the school hallway or front office and use that for the
backdrop.

23. STUDENTS ALWAYS WANT TO BE ON THEIR DEVICES AT
LEAST 5 MINUTES BEFORE THEY WALK OUT THE DOOR
2020
Use reviews or mini quizzes on Google
Classwork so students can get it done
it first before they go to their social
media accounts.
As I told my department chair, I was
going to take the advice of my very
first principal, He said with some
classes you treat them like "wild horses.
Sometimes to be successful you find
out where they want to go, get on
your horse and get in front of them,
and lead them there."

24. STUDENTS WANT TO USE
TECHNOLOGY
as a teacher it was my job to figure out how to get my lessons
on the technology they wanted to use.

25. TEACHERS THAT DO LITTLE THINGS LIKE THIS
MAKE THE KIDS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR
REMEMBER ABLE

26. 80% OF THE INTERACTION WITH A TEACHER FROM A
STUDENT WILL BE ON A SMARTPHONE
only using a computer for more
detailed work like presentations and
papers
But even then they were showing
what they could do on a phone and it
blew me away

27. SPEECH TO TEXT
Students can speak faster than they can type.
Using speech to text can help students get chat
questions into your online meetings. Making it
easier to get the information out there the more
likely students will risk putting answers out there.

28. THINK ABOUT
USING A WEBCAM
ALONG WITH A
DOCUMENT
CAMERA AS IF
YOU ARE PLAYING
A TABLE TOP
CAMERA
If you are looking for something to aspire towards, look at the
RPG Table Top Gaming videos that show multiple people
with cameras views of the table they are playing a game on.
This would be ideal for a teacher with a webcam and a
document camera.