Long Hiatus into COVID-19

I began this blog in the summer of 2010, soon after returning to the classroom.  I had spent nearly fifteen years out of the classroom providing support to students, teachers, staff and district administration in the area of technology in our district.  I had not realized this was still sitting here and had been idle all this time. 

I am looking for ways to provide support to students during the "Safer-at-home" COVID-19.  Most of my students are high school seniors.  They don't attend when I offer office hours over Zoom or Google Hangouts.  They do ask questions by email, lots of them.  I am available to call student back, I used Google Hangout to do that with one student and his parent this afternoon.  I will not use my personal phone to text or call students or families since our district has set strict guidelines that prohibit it and doing so will incur severe consequences.

I have created videos, recordings of myself speaking to the students, posted them on YouTube and linked them in Google Classroom.  I will let you know how successful the students find these. Here are some suggestions I have found that do work.

What suggestions do you have and what strategies have worked for you?