Hi this is Russell Stannard from teacher training videos.com
what I'm going to quickly doing this video is take you through the basic principles that we
think about when we're teaching online I'm sure you're asking the question why should I be
listening to this guy there are literally hundreds of videos on this topic on the internet I
did manage to win three pretty big educational Awards my working educational technology so I
got basically 20 years experience working at universities running teacher training courses
for primary and secondary school teachers but also training the lecturers and professors at
the universities in how to incorporate technology into their teaching and learning ever
blended learning fully online or now of course hybrid so lots of experience working with
teachers and hopefully this video might be useful to you there are basically two components
when we teach online there's a platform where you normally put the homework that you want the
students to do all the activities you want them to do before the live session and those
platforms are things like Edmodo, School ology Moodle blackboard etc and then you have a live
session and you normally use something like Zoom more Google meets loads of these tools
around these days Clickmeeting there's another one Microsoft teams etc now it's the
relationship between those two parts that's interesting it's how you can get students to be
doing things on the Platform in preparation for the live session and that's why this
crossover really is the key to effective learning you really want to be building activities
that perhaps you've even started on the platform by getting the students to do an activity
maybe read something or watch a video or even just study something in preparation for the
live session now let's think about those two parts and how they would best work together
remember a good teacher really effective teacher will be trying to maximize that kind of
intersection between the work that students platform and the the live lesson Now one thing I
try to do is to try to build the activities on the platform I want my students to do some of
those activities I want them to do before the live session some of those activities I
actually want them to do during the live session so often in a live session I will get the
students to actually open up the platform and do something on the platform and then there
will be activities I want the students to do after the live session so one of hardest things
that teaches find is how to build that relationship between the content they put on the
platform the videos the readings the listing material the blog posts and the activities that
they do during a live session Now just to give you a couple of examples of what I mean so for
example I might say to you ok before the lesson I want you to read this article and I want
you to discuss it in a foreign post so that's before the lesson now during I might actually
ask my students to look going to breakout rooms and to open up the forum and then to all read
it in the breakout rooms and discuss the best points that were made or the best 5 points so
now I'm actually using the content or on the platform during the live session and then I made
you another activity afterwards which is preps get them to summarise or do some perhaps a
written piece related to the forum etc so what I'm trying to demonstrate and I'm not saying
this is easy and I'm not saying that I can always do this myself is I can't all I'm trying to
say this is what I'm always thinking how best how most effectively can I connect what the
students do on the platform to what I'm going to do in the Live session so that's how I'm
using the platform to try to connect it and to get the most out of the live session. Now it's
have a quick think about the live session so when I'm doing a live session I'm kind of
thinking three things one how can I for example connect the live session to the platform and
I just thought I gave you sample my dad sometimes do activities where I get the students to
actually open up something that they've done on the platform the other thing I do is I really
make use of the tools that are available in the system that I'm using so for example if I'm
using zoom then it's the breakout rooms I make really good use of the webcam I turn the
webcam is on and off so I have moment when I want the students to turn the webcam off but
then I might come to the discussion time I turn the camera in the webcams on and then
sometimes we using the chat room as well so I try to make sure that I'm continually very the
lesson by for example playing a video then jumping to a PowerPoint and then doing something
on the platform then put them into breakout rooms in doing the discussion so I'm adding as
much variety into the lesson as I possibly can into the live session and then the other thing
I would do is bring another tools to help me do that and that's what you see a lot on my
teacher training videos websites that are introduced and show teachers these other tools they
can use to make the sessions more engaging than that things like Padlet and things like
Mentimeter and things like quizzes and Kahoot and Socrative don't use loads of these tools I
have about 7 or 8 I guess that over the years I kind of really got familiar with Google Forms
Google Docs etc but whenever I start training with teachers I'm normally saying to them look
make the most of the technology that's available if it's zoom or if it's Googlemeet whatever
you using learn to use as well as you can and learn shift between one kind of wave using it
in another so play a video then do a PowerPoint set up a discussion and use the chat room
then jump to the platform that you're using and add as much variety as you can and then
another way to a variety of settings to learn these other technologies like Padlet like
Google Forms like Google Docs like Quizizz.com like Mentimeter they can really help to make
your live sessions as interesting as possible now whenever I do the training there's almost 2
types of teachers are the come out at the kind of spectrum that is one group of teachers tend
to know masses of technologies but they don't necessarily know them that well don't think
about how they really integrate into a lesson and they throw loads of technologies at the
students but then if you think about how much learnings taking place then you really
sometimes have to what they doing the other extreme is where teachers really worry because
it's a warm I've got to learn all these technologies and I want to make the point that really
first of all I learnt to use in zoom really well and I also learnt about a couple of
platforms because I was working sometimes with universities and therefore I had to learn
moodle but sometimes I was working in private in private industry and so I learn to use
Edmodo but that's really where I started I had a really strong understanding of those two
basic tools and that to me quite a long while to learn it was only two technologies I'm not
trying to say that teaching online is easy because it's not and yes you could have put an
effort into it but you don't have to learn loads of technologies and then after that I began
to learn you more I learnt things like Padlet and Google Forms and Google Docs and
Quizizz.com and Kahoot and Socrative and I guess in the end I ended up using about or I still
use about 7 or 8 key technologies apart from the platform and the actual live technology that
I use really what I'm saying to you at the Beginning learn to use a platform it could be
Google classroom it could be a Edmodo it could be Moodle it could be BlackBoard to whatever
platform your institution is using as the basis for organise students learning learn that
technology the other thing is learning technology for the live session so whether that's
Google needs or Microsoft teams or Zoo try to learn to use effectively that tool that's a
great starting point and then start to look at some of the other tools and that's when it's a
great time to go to my website I do have videos for example on using things like zoom mood
always well but I've got lots of videos that can show you how to add additional technologies
to your lesson and that would be my advice and how to deliver your teaching on learning
online