Hi this is Russell Stannard from teacher training videos.com gonna make a video here or I show you
various ideas that you could use for teaching English using zoom I'm gonna try and make it
a bit of fun and just open your mind up to a few possibilities that you could use Google Earth or
Google Maps I'm also going to show you that if your book has the interactive whiteboard
software or even if it has a PDF version then you could use that in interaction as well and
I'm also going to point out that it is possible to have multiple students writing on the screen
with zoom and if you change that setting then you can have students or writing on the screen at the
same time I've been talking to a few friends of mine of teachers and saying actually that
works quite well so just gonna throw out one video with four or five different ideas that
are really hope useful generally for younger learners but there's a couple of ideas here
particularly with Google Earth and with Google Maps that you could definitely do with adults
and in fact that's how I know about them because someone has used them with me so
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I was trying to think of types of activities that might get the students involved I was
thinking about the idea of perhaps using Google Earth now again I'm suggesting something that
yes I have done but really in very small classes if we come to Google Earth and we'll just click
here on the search and what I'm gonna write in here is in fact I've already done it this let's
just click on Big Bend London and that is gonna bring me specifically to that place now what we
could do is do an activity for example where the students might do a little bit of research on a
particular place and then they could take it in turns to present that place now they could
be working in twos or threes as well so obviously two or three students can have their microphones
on and speaking at the same place so they could then be talking a little bit about the particular
monument that they've chosen and maybe describe some of the things around so I could say right
okay so Big Bend is situated by the River Thames and it's next to the houses of parliament and
it's famous because of the bell that's inside and if you look around you'll see there's lots
of famous places very nearby for example this is Parliament Square etc so you could then get
your students to do simple presentations that they could prepare in advance you could give
them five or ten minutes in the lesson you could put them into breakout rooms I've got a video on
how to put the students into breakout rooms in preparation for this and then bring them back to
the main lesson you do need a fairly good internet connection to do this there could be easier ways
of doing this I'm going to show you another technology but the way that this technology
works is really nice you just simply click here choose a place okay we was looking at Versailles
and it will just fly you off to that particular place and then you have got a few navigation
options once you've done that as well you click on these buttons here to come in closer okay and
you've then also got either a 2d view or a 3d view and a 3d view is lovely because it normally moves
you round again see someone presenting this they would need the preparation time and obviously it
would depend on their level how how detailed that presentation could be but I just think this could
be a lot of fun students just would need to open up Google Earth now the one thing that you will
need to do if you're going to do that is to teach students how to screen share because what would
probably be the activities that you would model this and show students a place to talk about it
and then you would say right everyone you know you might put them into their breakout rooms or
they may have prepared this for homework would then pass the control to one of the students
who would then do the screen share and share Google Earth and go off to visit place now
actually in all honesty Google Earth has a load of other tools that could be really interesting
okay I'm on zoo you can see me a huge great screen here I'm gonna roll over that here I'm
gonna screen share I want you to see that I've got my interactive whiteboard software here now if I
click on that interactive whiteboard software to share it and also click on share computer
sound and then click on share that opens that interactive whiteboard software onto the screen
and if I now for example clicked on any of the tools or let's first of all go to a particular
unit so let's say I went to a unit of the book and opened it up onto the screen in theory I could now
click on the pen for example and start to draw around the trousers and the boots etc now what
I could also do though is past control now by coming up to here I can actually pass control
I need to go back onto the mouse pass control to another student so that he or she can do exactly
the same and I'm going to show you this live I'm actually gonna do this now I'm gonna show
you how I can pass control and another student can just start writing on the screen as soon as
you pass control they will have control over everything so they'll be able to move through
the pages and they will be able to draw on the screen if they want to clear the screen has to
click on that button and they yeah now whatever interactive whiteboard software you've got this
should happen because all you're doing is passing control of your mouse to the student and then they
control the software so are actually in a lesson now and you can see what I'm gonna do I'm gonna
click on screen capture notice I choose the sound that's really important to make sure
that they can hear the sound for an interactive whiteboard click on interactive whiteboard now
I'm screen sharing now I'm going to do is I'm going to pass control to one of the students so
that they can operate the screen so I click on a student's name and now that student can now
operate the interactive whiteboard as if they were me and they can come over and they're just
gonna click on some of the tools and just test it and that student is now click in and it's
going to start writing on the screen so you can see how easy it is for a student simply to write
on the screen and they've got any controls now they can go to a different pace they can place
pounds they can drag and drop things they can what they're gonna do now is actually
just create clean the screen so you can see how simple is to pass control to one of the
students now that one important thing is at the end tell the student to click back on the
mouse that's really important because you need to click back on the mouse so that I can and they're
just going to do that now click on the mouse and now I take control back and I come to the
screen here and I click on it and click on abort control and I take control back as the teacher
if I come over to settings here if we look at this window here notice you've got enabled the
remote control of all applicants now I believe that if you've got that set that will actually
allow all of the students to be able to access the remote control automatically it would allow
everyone to be able to a note on the screen so with that in mind if you were then to come back
and click on screen share and screen your share your whiteboard and say open your whiteboard onto
the screen and what I've done here is I've drawn four squares and then I've numbered them probably
best to put the number into the same place and click back in with that number over she better
do that move it there okay then in theory you could ask one student to write in this window
and then another student to write in let me just click on lunch so so someone could write
here someone could write here someone could write here and someone could be right in here
because you can actually therefore have all four students working at the same time and then once
you've done that you can always come down to here and open up another page I think that's going to
just give you a second page so now you've got a first page and the second page so is actually
possible and you'd have to experiment a little bit with this and I haven't done many classes
with young learners working with this tool so this is really something I'm just suggesting
and that other teachers have told me but it is possible to have various people actually
all working on the screen at the same time so just keep that in mind that may be something
you might want to look at now I'm going to show you a further idea that I think might
be quite interesting in terms of bringing in other technologies that could make perhaps the
lesson intra interest in might perhaps make use of the audio and I'm going to suggest something
now something else that could be interesting again you could turn this into a speak in a
activity is if we were to try to get the students to perhaps talk about places nearby where they
live now this is not going to happen in every country but a lot of the roads have been mapped
by Google Maps I'm just going to give an example and click on screen share and I'm gonna go this
time not to Google Earth but to Google Maps and if I just click up I think I've got it already
on the screen I was just playing around it I'm just going to share that screen it's just gonna
come out of that a minute so let me just click on that to come out what I'm going to do is I'm
going to click on Brighton pavillion okay so I'm going to click here hopefully it's gonna
bring me over to the Brighton pavillion and then I'm going to just drop my man onto the
street and now I've got the Brighton pavillion in front of me and now I could kind of do a little
bit of a presentation about when this was built and what's inside and why I like it and when I
went here for the first time etc so this sort of thing could be a real possibility it could
be just a local beach it could be somewhere in their town that they like visiting it could be
and again what I'm suggesting is this might be the type of activity where you might demo first
of all and shower place and you have got a few controls here as well see sort of coming closer
to the picture as well and you don't forget you can even kind of move around the street as well
so you can kind of do that and then move around different angles that is a possibility when you
want to come out you just click on here when you visit say for example something like this you may
even find that then you could go to get another view of it let's see if I can perhaps drop myself
here on the road let's just see looks like I can may possibly can so again I may get another view
of brighton pavillion depending on on where it drops me I think that's going to work if I just
come round here again I can see the pavillion but I'm not sure how far I can go here I'm probably at
the maximum but that could be again a nice way of getting the students to choose local in fact
is coming in a local monument or a local or so I was just somewhere they visited or a place that
they've gone to or place that they would like to go to could even be talking about where they were
born or something like that and then again you do in a model example and then possibly getting the
students to do the same all of these activities would work well in breakout rooms as well so if
you were to move the students into breakout rooms then it would be possible to get the students then
to be working in small groups of three or four and showing a particular place to their group
and talking about it again an activity like this would always need a bit of preparation okay I
really hope that video was useful I did obviously show you a few things where you need quite a fast
internet connection like working with Google Earth Google Maps should be easier to work with
and then what I tried to do is just show you some of the things around the interactive whiteboard
if you've got the interactive whiteboard software or if you've got PDFs of the book then that could
be a really powerful way of working and I also pointed out to you that you can actually use you
can have multiple students drawing on the screen or interacting with the screen that is possible
you might have problems with control doing that it's definitely worth experimenting with and don't
forget these ideas as well you know you could have opened up a PowerPoint slide onto the screen you
could have opened up a picture onto the screen you could have opened up to some kind of works
sheet onto the screen and got the students to interact with that that would all work as
well with this idea of a noting on the screen and just to say a big thank you to universal English
and my friend over there Keith Pine who's doing some great work using zoom and using that model
together when I did this video I really wanted to chat to some teachers and find out what they're
really doing and Keith does classes where he's working with zoom and working with that model and
so some of the ideas come from him thank you very much Keith and I really hope that video
was useful to everyone and I'll be putting out some more videos soon as well thank you