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Put together a video to help teachers making this shift during the Coronavirus Pandemic.
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Transcript Provided by YouTube:
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hi it’s Paul Anderson and I’ve been
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getting a ton of emails from teachers
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asking me how do I make my videos
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they’re putting their courses online and
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they want some advice so I put together
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some of my thoughts I also put this on
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social media asking for help from other
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teachers and students including my own
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family and so I put together a survival
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guide for teachers how to move your
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course online I think it’s important to
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know that you have a face-to-face
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component but in my classroom I had a
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really rich online component it took me
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a whole summer to build it I built it
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throughout the year and allowed me to
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spend more time with my kids and now I
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know that I was kind of unique and so as
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that face to face class goes away a lot
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of teachers are just left with those
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online components and for some teachers
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there’s not much there and so I get the
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anxiety that comes from that moving that
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course online and so I think the key
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advice would be come from my friend Bob
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who said don’t expect too much just keep
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it simple you can’t replicate that
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face-to-face interaction also know this
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your kids are in a lot of different
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emotional places some are happy some are
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sad some are scared and some are
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confused and so the best thing you could
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do would be to just put a video of
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yourself online saying I miss you I’m
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really excited to try to do some of this
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online we’re all in this together that’s
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the best thing you can do to kind of
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establish that rapport what we want to
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avoid our kids who are confused and that
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confusion a lot of time comes from
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moving our class online first thing you
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should watch out for is accessibility
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imagine you had a student who was in a
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wheelchair and you’re on a second floor
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classroom it wouldn’t be like you would
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start class without them you’re gonna
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make sure they can get there and so this
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is maybe more of a school system
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question but if kids can’t get access to
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your class
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don’t make them required to be obviously
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in your class but aside from that we
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want to keep it as simple as we can my
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friend Ryan said this be clear on how
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you present your instructions try to use
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as few tools as possible and I think
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that’s a really really good advice first
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thing you want to do is establish your
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home most schools have a learning
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management system like Google classroom
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power school learning desire2learn
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Moodle whatever that is establish that
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as your home in some elementary schools
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it’s just going to be your class website
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and you want to make sure that
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everything you do
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was there that’s that one place where
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everything’s posted what should be there
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clear instructions establish a routine
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with your students when you’re going to
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be there when they’re gonna be those
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meeting times what are your expectations
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and then all links to files any kind of
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assessments all should come from that
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homepage quality really matters and that
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means in two places like what you put on
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that homepage is really really important
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give thought to that but also quality
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matters is a group out of Maryland who
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have established what are the good parts
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of an online class I’ll put a link to
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their rubric below
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it’s got like 30 some things don’t see
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that as an exhaustive list but I would
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look in those areas to say like am i
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doing most of these for my students am i
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giving them quality in the online class
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like I would in the face-to-face class
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next thing is you have to start thinking
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about how am I gonna communicate Tenaya
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said she’s using zoom Google hangout so
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they can communicate and that zoom is
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really a lot of teachers are talking
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about that and it is super easy to use
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but also know you want to shift that
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communication from like live
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communication to asynchronous
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communication one of the great parts
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about being online is that we don’t have
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to be all on at the same time if that’s
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possible with your school and as you do
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that you need to be thinking about are
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you gonna communicate are you gonna
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curate like that communication or are
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you gonna start to create it yourself so
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for example Stephanie mentioned that she
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was using videos like mine to start
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delivering some of that content I know a
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lot of teachers use Edie puzzle if
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you’re not familiar with that it
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essentially wraps around the video and
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you can have the students answer
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questions or or pause the video at
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certain points along that along the way
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so they can reflect if you’re gonna go
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more to the creation route I would
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encourage you to not go too deep in the
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technology right away you can really get
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over your head with with technology the
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easiest thing to do is just use this
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just use your phone your phone can shoot
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video of yourself or the webcam can
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shoot video of yourself and the easiest
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thing to do is just upload that right
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away my friend Patrick JMT has been
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making math videos forever and he just
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points the webcam at his self or or
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usually just at his hand as he’s working
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out these complex math problems and then
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uploads that
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you don’t have to do any editing you
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just put it on YouTube and share that if
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you want to go more electronic you can
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go like Karen says using
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screencast-o-matic I could be making
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this video and screencast-o-matic it
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essentially records everything that’s on
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the screen and then the webcam as well
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so I could put my video down in the
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corner I think that’s important to
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include your face on your videos it
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makes them more personal and give
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students kind of a connection you could
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do this in PowerPoint as well you just
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create your your presentation in
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PowerPoint and then within PowerPoint
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you can record narration your voice
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coming over it you can export it as a
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file that you can put up to YouTube an
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in PowerPoint you can also write on the
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screen when I was making some of my
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early videos I would just use a graphics
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tablet to write on my videos I’m using
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ScreenFlow to make my videos that cost
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money
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unlike screencast-o-matic which is going
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to be pretty free or actually freaky the
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way it works is it’s I essentially put
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together this keynote so I did this in
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keynote it’s like PowerPoint on a Mac
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and then it’s just recording that right
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now as I talk it’s recording what’s on
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the screen and then it’s recording my
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face and so when I’m done it’ll just pop
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it into a little editor so I can edit
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the files and then upload that to
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YouTube I think you have to know that
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this takes a long time I came up with
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this idea this morning put it on social
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media but it’s like one o’clock and I’m
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not done yet so I’m still working on
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that so it takes a long time to make
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these videos the easiest way to do it is
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just point a webcam at your face next
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thing you have to start thinking about
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is what learning tools am i using my
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friend Craig Beals is having kids just
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write their answers on a piece of paper
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and then he’s using jam board which is a
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part of the Google suite a lot of
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teachers offered so many different
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things that they’re using from Edie
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puzzle to jam board Nearpod Evernote
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Pierre deck para deck and seesaw seesaw
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is really cool elementary teachers use
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that so you can film what the students
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are doing or what they’re doing at home
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I’ll put links to both Twitter and
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Facebook conversations down below if you
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want to see some of the other tips that
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are there but I think you really want to
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focus on just one of these know that
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especially in high school if each
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teacher is choosing another learning
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tool that means that those kids have to
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learn
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sometimes like a dozen different tools
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and so if it doesn’t exist within the
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learning management system can you talk
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to other teachers to make sure that
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we’re using the same things and then to
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kind of wrap this up I think like think
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about this five years from now kids
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won’t think about your class and if it
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went well or not they’ll be thinking
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about the corona virus pandemic and
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maybe their fear how their lives changed
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as a result of that and I think teachers
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like myself and that’s why I’m putting
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this video together I want to do
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something to help people out and I think
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the key thing is just being there
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emotionally helping them but I hope this
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video is just a part of that and I hope
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that was helpful
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