Hi this is Russell Stannard from teachertrainingvideos.com over the last couple
of days I've been doing some quite big webinars sometimes with a thousand people in the room and
I've been presenting one particular technology and a lot of the teachers have said wow we never knew
about that so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to show you one great technology today that you can
combine if you're doing a live session with zoom or with one of the webinar tools lots of fun and
brilliant for getting the students involved so we can really get the students engaged make this
lesson much more student-centered and I'm gonna take you through the stages of how you would do
this it's going to be a really practical session loads of ideas but just one super easy technology
let's start by showing you that technology and then we'll start looking at how we could organize
a lesson hope you like the video as always if you do please like it please share it with other
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lesson would start with probably something quite teacher centered so you doing a little bit of a
presentation I'm going to show you now which is a lovely technology and then afterwards you can do
an activity around that and then get the students to do the same thing in breakout rooms so let me
just take you for it let's just show you this amazing technology it's Google Earth I'm gonna
take you to the Google Earth and what I'm going to do is I'm gonna do a little bit of a presentation
and then I'm gonna get you to do a little activity afterwards so I'm just gonna write in up here on
Google Earth I'm gonna write in fact I've got it here already so I won't need to write it
just gonna write the name of the football stadium of my favorite football club and off we go we fly
off to that football stadium and I'm just going to tell you a little bit of information about this
football stadium and why it means so much to me I can actually kind of come in a bit closer if I
want to by just using the zoom tool okay so I can do that I and also click in 2d or click in the 3d
all right we'll leave it on free Dean just gonna tell you a little bit of information so we can
take our students anywhere so I'm bringing them to stand for bridge I first went to Stanford Bridge
in 1972 Chelsea is the home Stanford bridges the home of Chelsea Football Club my football club
that game 1972 the first game of the season Chelsea beat Legion 4:0 and at the time they
were actually building this stand here which is called the east and it was actually being built
so the ground only had three sides and there were 55,000 people in a stadium with just three sides
and I hardly saw anything Chelsea won 4:0 so I'm very happy about that and at the time I was just
seven years old so I was really kind of sure I'd really get to see I just saw maybe just a couple
of minutes of the game Stanford Bridge is actually the name of a very famous battle that took place
in England and Stanford Bridge is situated though Chelsea is the name of the football club Stanford
Bridge is actually situated in Fulham so you can see how easy I can just do this presentation and
bring this to life and I can do this kind of little tour and zoom around and look at it and
I can go 2d I can even if I want to go in really close if I want to show something about it I could
even say for example just stop there I even take the people onto the road and show you how I enter
the ground so I'm gonna click here it's now gonna bring me down to the level and I'm going to show
you this is the entrance that I use to actually go into Stamford Bridge and even we can pop into
the ground and have a quick look as well because we have the button here can actually move forward
and go into the ground if we wanted so this is staff a bridge and this is the home of Chelsea
Football Club so now I'm gonna stop sharing I'm gonna come back and what I've done now is that
I've already proved got an interactive whiteboard activity activity ready and what I would do now
is get the students to talk about the different numbers and the different points that I made so
they might say for example for Neal was the result of the match 1972 was when you first went to see
a football game three sides because there was only three sides to the stadium seven years old because
you were seven years old Fulham because that's where the football ground is situated fifty-five
thousand because that is the number of people that was at the game and Stamford Bridge is the name of
the famous battle and the name of the stadium so a really simple fairly teacher-centered activity
but now of course we could get our students to do the same they could go off into groups okay we
could put them in breakout rooms and get them to present a famous place a famous stadium a monument
etc just to show you how powerful Google Earth is I'm just gonna quickly take you off and have
a quick look and just show you that literally we could just take anybody anywhere so I could
click click on here for example and since I'm British or keep on the theme of England so I'm
gonna click here and click on Big Ben this is one that I presented the other day and off we go to
Big Ben and there we are and again I could now talk about it and I could perhaps talk about the
different things Big Ben what where the belly is the tower that this is Westminster Bridge here is
Parliament Square this is the houses of parliament don't forget I can even again go down onto ground
level if I want to particularly focus on one thing so you can really literally just so one thing is
you could do an example get the students to talk about it and then get the students themselves
if we just click on there as where you can see that we've got the mini Millennium will or the
London Eye over there on the left hand side you know we can bring the character right down onto
the screen here say perhaps I want to put them right down by the Millennium will so I'm gonna
just drop them there and off we fly now and zoom down it's a great tool to look at and see that
the potential of how you could do activities so now the students could be we're right up
against the wall there before we turn around we see right right in front of the millennium bill
now this could be an activity for example that the students prepare at home so they've already
prepared and taken some notes then you might do an activity first and then say right I'm gonna
put you into breakout rooms and get you now to speak and talk about you the place that you've
chosen so then they would have some content and this is really important when we're looking at
working with tools like Google Earth Google Maps maybe we're actually doing the preparation stage
at home and then the students are coming in the class with something prepared and then you're
going to put them into groups and important when you do this though is to make sure that you teach
the students how to actually screen share so one thing that's really important about this
activity would just stop sharing and we'll come back in a minute and talk a little bit more about
how you can use Google Earth but you do need to click here click on advanced sharing options and
make sure that all participants can share their screens then when they go into breakout rooms
they will be able to open up Google Earth because it's just Google Earth go to Google Earth and then
present a monument a place they went on holiday it really is a useful technology again I really like
the idea of the students preparing this at home and then presenting to the rest of the class or
presenting in breakout rooms and it's really nice for example if I have some activity linked to it
that is something you'd need to think about how you're going to structure it so they might just
have one or two minutes to present their monument or favourite place or somewhere they went on
holiday to the rest of the group and then maybe they've got a little activity or some questions
to ask or you may bring the students back into the main room and so right okay tell me what did Peter
talk about what did Maria talk about etc you'd have to think about the ideas you can do but this
really brings to life the earth it brings to life the places that they might live in or be aware of
it might bring to life for example the capital city of their country or monuments or anything
just to sort of take it a little bit further and just to show you some of the examples that
I've done in the past so I've got just looking here I did one a little while ago actually in a
live lesson where I simply wrote in the name of the place that I've been on holiday so I'm just
going to click here and again off we go to fly off to crabby where I was on holiday it's gonna bring
me into crabby and in fact if I was to really show you this and just just because it's probably
interesting to you to see how powerful this is I can come in and actually go right down hopefully
to the area where I was staying it really is incredible how powerful this technology is so
just come down even closer just going to show you so that is actually where I was staying on this
beach here okay so this is the speech along here I'm gonna bring come right in close and what I
can do once I've done that is I can then actually again drop my character onto the screen and have a
look so let's just drop down here for example if I can even come on the beach look at that so let me
drop myself right onto the beach and now we drop down and if we turn around there is and that is
where I was recently on holiday great fun brings really brings what I like about it so you can
use this to really personalize things visit Vani monuments visit locations you know it really can't
bring your favourite football stadium the place you went to school there's all sorts of things
that you could do this but what you're thinking of yes it's nice for you to do a presentation as
the teacher and to show this but can you get the students to do the same now this technology is a
bit internet heavy one thing I'd really suggest that you do if you're gonna do this is tell the
students to turn off their webcams when you're doing this okay because it's gonna give you more
options in terms of the bandwidth and how much you are I couldn't actually share on the screen it is
a little bit Internet heavy you do need a fairly good connection for this to work well but it's a
great tool I've used it many times in live classes and only recently I've been experimenting in kind
of online context and I think it's got lots of potential if you move it with teacher-centered
activity to a student-centered activity just a couple of really simple tips about this first of
all always in the settings when you create your zoom room you need to turn the breakout room on
if you don't know where that it just look on settings and scroll down and it's kind of the
first advanced setting you've got lots and lots of settings in zoom for me there's almost too
many but it's the first one here you need to make sure that that button is clicked that's
really important so now the students can go into breakout rooms and it's just one other tip don't
forget students will need to have Google Earth open so when they click on share the Google Earth
will actually be there available on the screen well how do you do that what's really easy all
you need to do is write Google Earth calm in the in in the chat window and tell them to click on
it and that means that when they open up share screen it will be available let me just show
you so I'm simply gonna click on Google Earth I'm sorry share the link to Google Earth in the
chat window and click on enter now if the students click on that ok it's gonna open up Google Earth
that does that's absolutely absolutely fine tell them to come back to the actual zoom presentation
now when they click open Google Earth will be there and they'll be able to share it with their
students when they're in their breakout rooms so it is important that either before they start the
lesson they've opened up Google Earth like this in preparation all they need to do when they do that
is click on launch earth the earth launches and then all they need to do to actually find anywhere
that they want to visit is to simply open up the search we're actually in Krabi at the moment so
let's just come out to come out we click on this button here I will put some extra videos about
Google Earth to search for somewhere you literally just click here and then click on the place that
you want to visit for example very recently I was just looking at Versailles Palace in
Paris or just outside of Paris and it's actually fantastic the way that this has been model again
you can come really in close you can use these controls to bring yourself right into the palace
okay and have a look at the Versailles Palace if you want to okay you're gonna see in a minute and
then the nice thing to do is to click on the 3d mode because it kind of brings you around gives
you an idea just how extensive that is and how big the gardens are etcetera great tool combines with
zoom really really well but remember what I'm saying link it to what the students are doing
outside of the class maybe they prepare their presentations outside of the class make sure
you get the students to turn off their webcams for this they will need their audio of course because
they'll be describing the place that they want to show to the rest of their friends but it's got
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