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In celebration of National Online Learning Day, we've uncovered a number of helpful online learning tools for you and your students. Explore our OK2Ask® virtual workshops. Try your hand at the Microsoft Virtual Academy and edX learning.  

Grades K-12

OK2Ask®

If you're searching for online learning opportunities for YOU, then you'll want to check out our FREE virtual workshops. Our Fall sessions kickoff September 18! Read all about OK2Ask and view the upcoming Fall schedule. New topics coming soon!

Grades 10-12

Microsoft Virtual Academy

Find beginner courses and learning paths: Game Development, Web Development, and more. These free online trainings offer a variety of skills and products, delivered by experts in the field. View the instructional videos and then take the assessment.

Grades 8-12

edX

Access many of the best courses offered at top learning institutions (MIT, Harvard, and Berkley) - for FREE! Classes are available to complete for a Certificate of Achievement. Each course includes a description, estimated time to complete, and more.

Ready-To-Go Online Learning

This collection of apps and games help you maximize online learning time! Test your writing persistence, encourage middle schoolers to improve their Microsoft coding, plus find quick and useful game-based learning for grades 2-12.

Grades 4-12

The Most Dangerous Writing App

Can you beat the clock? This website tests your writing persistence. Choose how long you want to write or how many words then start writing. If you hesitate for five seconds or more, all of your work disappears. Keep those ideas flowing and don't give up.

Grades K-12

Microsoft MakeCode

Start with the introductory courses designed for middle school students to teach the basics of coding and beyond. Attend the live sessions offered weekly by the Microsoft team as they share tips for using different editing programs. Start coding today!

Grades 2-12

JogNog

Discover these wonderful and free online learning games aligned to Common Core Standards. Explore the games for 2nd grade to college level by topic or type. This tool is device agnostic (available as an app and on the web), so it's perfect for BYOD!

Design Your Own Online Learning

Looking for personalized online learning to correlate with your curriculum? Then try your hand at these three engaging tools. Create interactive games or engaging lesson plans with this handy trio! 

Grades 2-12

Oodlu

Oodlu allows you to create games for your BYOD classroom (they work on any device). Get started by creating an account and question sets. There are many different question formats including sequencing, multiple choice, and fill in the blank.

Grades 6-12

InsertLearning

Do you use Google Chrome? This extension, for Chrome browsers only, allows you to turn any website into an interactive lesson. The pop-up feature allows you to add questions, highlight, add comments, use sticky notes with an embedded video, and more.

Grades K-12

Deck.Toys

Create interactive lessons for your existing content. Use the drag and drop features to build lessons using your Google Slides and PPT. Add differentiation features within self-exploration paths. Use the teacher-sync to keep the class on the same slide.

This Week at TeachersFirst

Get ready to expand your learning this week as we kick off our Fall 2018 sessions of OK2Ask this Tuesday (9/18). Learn how to transform your lesson plans with TeachersFirst and SAMR. We also have a Twitter chat this Thursday (9/20) at 8 pm ET: Tech Tools for Collaboration. Plus, share what you think about online learning in our weekly poll!