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Faculty Hub for Teaching and Learning Across Multiple Modalities: Engaging Students Remotely

This guide is designed to assist MDC faculty with their teaching methodology and pedagogy across multiple modalities

Tech Tools for Student Engagement

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Nearpod

Nearpod is a student engagement platform that can be used to amazing effect in the classroom. The concept is simple. A teacher can create presentations that can contain Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on. They can also access over 7K k-12 standards-aligned lessons.

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Flipgrid

Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.

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Quizlet

Quizlet

Quizlet is an American online study application that allows students to study information via learning tools and games. ... Quizlet trains students via flashcards and various games and tests. As of February 6, 2019, Quizlet has over 300 million user-generated flashcard sets and more than 50 million active users.

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Kahoot

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. Unleash the fun in classrooms, offices and living rooms.

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Jamboard

Jamboard is an interactive whiteboard developed by Google, as part of the G Suite family. It was officially announced on 25 October 2016. It has a 55" 4K touchscreen display, and has compatibility for online collaboration through cross-platform support.

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Padlet

Padlet is a web app that lets users post notes on a digital wall. ... There's a good chance you've done the “write on a sticky note and put it on the wall” activity — or have seen it happen before. Padlet lets those sticky notes have images, links and videos and be available with practically any Internet-ready device. 

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