GAELSTRONG was proud to host Brian Buffington, Director of Instructional Technology at Georgia's Pioneer RESA, to discuss distance and online learning in the wake of the COVID-19 Virus. 

In this episode, we discuss various resources and strategies to meet the educational learning needs of our 1.8 million students who are at home while GA fights the virus!

Here are various links and resources mentioned in the podcast and a few other resources: 

Brian’s Online Teaching Cheat Sheet - bit.ly/onlinecheatsheet

Pioneer RESA Tech YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/pioneerRESAtech

Brian’s Friday Night Facebook LIVE Concert - https://www.facebook.com/events/2349339932030332/

VidAngel - Netflix and Amazon Prime filtering - https://www.vidangel.com/

Zoom Video Conferencing - https://zoom.us/docs/ent/school-verification.html

Google Meet - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/helping-businesses-and-schools-stay-connected-in-response-to-coronavirus

Screencastify - https://www.screencastify.com/

Tech Smith (Screen Recording) https://discover.techsmith.com/remote-techsmith/

StoryBoard That - https://www.storyboardthat.com/articles/e/remote-learning

EdPuzzle - https://support.edpuzzle.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039805612-Help-for-schools-affected-by-Covid-19

Canvas - https://www.instructure.com/canvas/

Big Blue Button - https://bigbluebutton.org/

Class Dojo - https://www.classdojo.com/

Updated list of free/discounted online resources - https://campustechnology.com/Articles/2020/03/16/Free-and-Discounted-Ed-Tech-Tools-for-Online-Learning-During-the-Coronavirus-Pandemic.aspx?admgarea=news&Page=5

Brian K. Buffington

Director of Instructional Technology

Technical Director @ RealTalkWithRealTeachers.com

Pioneer RESA www.pioneerresa.org

Tutorials on YouTube: @pioneerresatech

Follow us on Twitter: @PioneerRESATech @brianbuffington

Stay tuned on Facebook: facebook.com/pioneerresatech

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