Resources
Recorded Conversations
Teaching Design & Innovation Online - VentureWell’s zoom session with Nathanial Stern and Raja Schaar.
Guides
How to Be a Better Online Teacher by Flower Darby. advice on how to make your online pedagogy as effective and satisfying as the in-person version, including:
How to Make Smart Choices About Tech for Your Course by Michelle D. Miller, August 23, 2019
Teaching Effectively During Times of Disruption, for SIS and PWR by Jenae Cohn, Academic Technology Specialist for PWR, jdcohn@stanford.edu Beth Seltzer, Academic Technology Specialist for Introductory Studies, bethseltzer@stanford.edu, March 17, 2020
Articles
10 strategies for online learning during a coronavirus outbreak by Jennifer Snelling and Diana Fingal, March 16, 2020
Putting Your Course Online in a Hurry by Stacey Johnson on Friday, March 6, 2020
Zoom-Friendly Warmups and Icebreakers by Eugene Korsunskiy, May 22, 2020
Lists and More!
A Teacher's Guide to Managing Stress - A guidebook created to support teachers. This guide looks at the major stressors affecting teachers and provides actionable tips to effectively manage them. Just as importantly, we've included self-care advice to encourage relaxation and prevent stress from becoming overwhelming.
Active Learning at a Distance with Tinkercad - This is a website jam packed with useful resources created by Rob Morrill for his Construct3D Summer Symposium Session.
Learning Keeps Going - To support educators and parents during extended school closures, ISTE and EdSurge have curated a list of free tools and resources as well as an Educator Help Desk where experts will answer your online learning questions.
Resources for Just-in-Time Online Teaching - From Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching
Teaching Design Innovation Online - Venturewell shares tips for transitioning your in-person design and innovation class to a virtualized format, from fostering teamwork to designing hands-on activities (at home). Don’t forget to check page two for the best tools to use to foster an empathetic, collaborative environment for your students.
Software
CAD and Design Software
nTopology - Interested in EDU licensing, join the nTopEd Community by filling out this form.
Interactive Software
Platforms
Perusall - changing the nature of reading — from the traditional solitary experience to an engaging and collective one, where all students do the reading, come to class prepared, and are motivated to do so because they care about the content. Leveraging advance behavioral science and AI research in the service of improving education — using our work at Harvard University and Perusall Labs to improve the Perusall platform and to help students, educators, researchers, and society at large.
Make: Projects:
Make: Projects site (get an account for free to try it out!)
Make: Projects Rice University Engineering Design Project Template (PLEASE use this for your projects)
Make: Projects Rice University projects from Spring 2020 served as a model for tracking project-based work at the university level
Make: Projects Youth Science Canada
Activities and Lessons
PrintLab. - 3D Printing Lesson Plans
Websites
Whymaker.co - WhyMaker is a STEM professional development company that focuses on cultivating technology based project plans with with teachers to improve students overall success. WhyMaker helps increase student engagement and excitement for technology and STEM education by providing curated professional development to teachers. WhyMaker believes in the value of a transdisicplinary education for all schools. By creating a culture of Making and building design thinking mindsets all students can become design thinkers, creative makers and flexible problem solvers ready for our ever changing society.