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Breakout rooms can be useful to get students talking and working in small groups in a virtual class meeting. Here are directions for creating breakout rooms in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet. 
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Breakout Rooms is one of the most popular features of Zoom. A similar feature is now available in Microsoft Teams. Just like in Zoom you can assign your students to a specific breakout room or have them randomly assigned to a room..
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I published a bunch of videos about using Google Meet and Zoom this spring. That's because those are the tools that I use the most and I was asked about the most. This afternoon I answered an email from a reader who was looking for help with Microsoft Teams. My recommendation was to check out the videos on Mike Tholfsen's YouTube channel.
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Virtual conversations have become the sine qua non of work and socializing particularly during this period of pandemic where lockdowns have almost paralyzed the 'normal' life we used to know before the outbreak. As teachers and parents, we have become desperately dependent on the power of digitality to help us minimize the devastating effects of the disruptions caused by the drastic measures taken to flatten the curve.
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Breakout rooms in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or Google Meet provide a good way to get students talking and working in small groups. For some students, talking to a couple of classmates in a small breakout room is a lot less intimidating that talking to you "in front" of the whole class. Small breakout rooms give students a chance to talk and test ideas with a couple of classmates before subjecting their ideas to the silent or spoken criticism of the whole class. There are lots of other ways to think about using breakout rooms, here are some of my ideas for using breakout rooms with students.
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Timelines are key elements to use in your instruction. They allow you to visually organize data and draw attention to the most important pieces of information (e.g., dates, events, project milestones etc). We have already shared a collection of web tools that you can use to design your own timelines. However, if you rather avoid the hassle of creating one from scratch, the free timeline templates below are some good options to start with. These are PowerPoint templates curated from Microsoft Templates Gallery that you can download and adapt to your own teaching needs.
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With the increased demand on online education, major tech companies have upped the ante by releasing new tools with advanced features designed particularly to facilitate remote learning. Microsoft Teams is the latest in this tend to announce a wide variety of new functionalities to its popular video calling platform. Below are three features that are coming out soon and that will definitely help you in your remote teaching.
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