Resources and Tips for Supporting Teenagers and Young Adults in Virtual Peer to Peer Engagement

On April 21, 2020 NTACT along with presenters from Best Buddies International, Leigh Carbon Community College, and the PEAL Center conducted the webinar Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok & Beyond: Social Media for Peer2Peer Engagement that presented information regarding effective practices and resources that promote and enhance communication and engagement of students with disabilities.

This document is a summary of the resources and tips presented.

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The Search Institute provides a Relationships Check tool to give you a snapshot of the strength of your relationships with young people. After taking the quiz, you will be provided with approaches and activities that will help you strengthen your relationships while you connect through technology.

Social Mediums for Peer to Peer Engagement Platform, App, Description How to Connect Who It’s For Activity Discord Communication discordapp.com Originally made for platform that This can be run on web Gamers, this method allows you to set browsers or Android/iOS of communication is up group specific apps. Each member must best for those in their communication create an account. The late teens/early organized into person running your group twenties. specific topics will then create a channel and invite the members.

How to Use Discord for Your Classroom A website which facebook.com Originally for college allows users, who For web browsers or students; for anyone sign-up for free Android/iOS apps – create over the age of 13 profiles, to connect an account and connect (parent/guardian with others online with friends. Share pictures, supervision videos, and messages. suggested)

How to Use Facebook

Ideas for using Facebook in the classroom Flickr Flickr is an image flickr.com Originally for hosting service and photographers; video hosting Download the app to anyone over the age service Android or iOS of 13 Google Meet A video gsuite.google.com Business/organization- conferencing app Google secures your oriented; anyone over that enables users information and safeguards the age of 13 to make video calls your privacy through with up to 30 users encrypted video meetings. per high-definition video meeting How to use Meet

How Use Google Meet for Remote and Online Learning

Instagram A photo sharing instagram.com For anyone over the app which allows age of 13 users to assign Instagramers can sync their filters to photos photo sharing to other and share them social networks, so with followers Instagram photos can be posted directly to Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Flickr, and Foursquare.

How to Use Instagram

Using Instagram in the Classroom Jackbox Games This is a digital One person would need to There are family party game go to jackboxgames.com friendly game options, platform or on their gaming console but this is best for to purchase the desired groups of 3-8 people game or party pack. This who are in their teens person hosts the game, and and above. others can join from any web-enabled device for free

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Jackbox for homeschooling or teaching remotely Microsoft Teams is a chat- https://www.microsoft.com For anyone over the Teams based age of 13 collaboration tool Utilize features like that provides document collaboration, global, remote, and one-on-one chat, team dispersed teams chat, and more with the ability to work together and How to Use Teams share information via a common space

Remind Communication remind.com K-12 teachers and platform for students, Higher teachers to share Download the app to Education, and classroom Android or iOS and set up Parents. assignments, an account and a classroom instruction, and that your students can brief access through their communication account with students all in one place Remind.com for teachers Snapchat An app with one snapchat.com For anyone over the core feature: any age of 13 picture or video or A mobile app for Android message you send and iOS devices - by default - is made available to How to Use Snapchat the receiver for only a short time 15 Ways to Use Snapchat in before it becomes Classes and Schools inaccessible Talking Points Multilingual talkingpts.org Teachers and students communication K-12. There is a platform that Create a free account and character limit and a allows teachers to connect with your student bit of delay due to the communicate with and their families through translation, so this is students and their their account for brief updates and families without a check-ins language barrier TikTok A free social media tiktok.com Anyone over the age app that lets you of 13 watch, create, and A mobile app for Android share videos and iOS devices

How to use TikTok – Complete Beginners Guide

Ideas for using TikTok in the classroom Tumbler Tumblr is a tumblr.com Anyone over the age network of millions of 13

of user-generated Written entries, websites; part photographs, video clips or blogging platform links to other websites -- and part social you can share all these networking service, things with your friends and where users can followers; use web browser create and post or mobile app for Android their own original and iOS devices content. Streaming platform twitch.tv This is best used by for video games the facilitator and that allows other Create an account and shared through a people to see your download the app on your virtual meeting space; game live chosen video game console. use when you want to Enter this app and begin collaborate on a broadcasting through a gaming app for social named stream prior to activities joining your game

How to Get Started on Twitch Twitter A service used to twitter.com Anyone over the age communicate and of 13 stay connected People post Tweets, which through the may contain photos, videos, exchange of quick, frequent links, and text. These messages. messages are posted to your profile, sent to your followers.

How to Use Twitter

20 Ways High Schools are Using Twitter Zoom Video-based zoom.us Anyone over the age communications, of 13 with an easy, Connect through mobile reliable cloud devices, desktops, platform for video telephones, and room and audio systems conferencing, collaboration, chat, Educating Over Zoom

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