Wide Open School

Wide Open School

Common Sense Media, a leader in quality internet information for young people has launched a service to assist during the Covid-19 quarantine. Wide Open School has a lengthy list of activities and resources for teachers to access. It is important to check the privacy policy of these identified resources prior to enrolling students, but many of the resources don’t involve student logins, and therefore can be used without hesitation.

Arthur Family Health

Arthur Family Health

Created by PBS, Arthur Family Health uses the familiar children’s books to teach health-related content to young learners. The site offers games, videos and resources designed to keep families safe and strong. Topics include asthma, peanut allergy, nutrition, resilience and fitness.

Students do not actually log into the site, so privacy is not a concern.

Explain Everything

Explain Everything

Explain Everything is an online interactive whiteboard for remote collaboration. According to their website “Teach, present, sketchnote, create videos, and work together, all in Explain Everything – the complete online and mobile whiteboard app.”

Their free service for teachers allows for:

  • Up to 3 projects
  • Use on any device
  • Collaboration with Voice Chat
  • Web Video Link Sharing

They do not collect any data from students.

AWW – A Web Whiteboard

AWW – A Web Whiteboard

AWW – A Web Whiteboard is a website that offers a touch-friendly drawing and annotation tool. Their free service includes a basic whiteboard, board sharing, and basic chat. You have the ability to download your board as a .pdf at the conclusion of your usage of theier tool.

They do have paid packages, but their free service may be a powerful tool during this covid quarantine.

As there is no need to sign in to use the service, privacy is not a concern as they are collecting no data in that regard.