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In the flipped teaching model, students “front load” their language abilities by learning vocabulary and phrases independently before each class. Teachers can then build on what their students have already learned, practicing and applying that knowledge in class through com

same shared space.

I would recommend that you sign up with your institutional email to further be able to apply for a free Education Plan (which includes up to 100 users). Students can apply for the Education Plan as well, which allows them to collaborate with up to 10 users for 2 years.

unlimited number of editable boards

Frame. It helps you organize your workspace into sections and allows you to save all the frames as a part of a pdf document.

Comments and Cards (which are basically advanced comments allowing you to add tags, assign people, set deadlines and insert links inside the field of the card) might be essential to communicate feedback and arrange student interaction in an asynchronous mode of work.

In synchronous mode, Miro is a powerful tool for presentation of new material. Y

Miro will help you organize pair and group work

easily and effectively

Virtual dice will help you make the board game experience as close to the physical classroom as possible.

Miro can be used for individual work as well. T

Miro is a great interactive platform which not only makes digital collaboration easy but also provides a number of instruments for individual creative work.

Multisensory experience triggers simultaneous associations.

Pictures, sounds, and words together with a contextual experience of a place can create memorable learning experiences more efficiently than plain images or written words alone that are not associated with anything real

Seeing a new word written under a picture and hearing how it is pronounced, helps us understand and remember what we are looking at.

Virtual tours expand our fields of perception from physical to digital.

We can remember and learn on a virtual field trip the same way as we learn on a physical field trip.

Interactive videos, audio posters, narrated screenshots, and virtual tours can be effective tools for online education that help educators and learners work together using not only text-based communication, but also voice, video, and images.

A great way for giving assignments or sharing projects is adding voice instructions to various areas of a photo, poster or a screenshot.

Equipment: The good news is, you only need your phone or laptop, so there is no need to invest in additional hardware unless you want to

Setup: A video lesson can be very similar to your lesson in the classroom.

Recording: Find a place with natural light where you feel comfortable, and start recording. The audience is your students so picture them in front of you, and address them as you would in the class. You may even mention some of them by name to keep their attention!

Duration: Our recommendation is you look at the lesson as a whole and divide it into parts, max 10-15 minutes and ideally 6 minutes each.

Examples and best practices for creating remote learning materials for students

1. Explain visuals with text labels

2. Explain abstract concepts with detailed descriptions

3. Explain assignments using your voice

4. Art history: Introduce a masterpiece

5. Literature: Interpret a masterpiece

6. Read to your students

7. Learn vocabulary in new places

8. Narrate your own virtual lesson

9. Create a virtual field trip with assignment

10. Ask students to narrate a virtual audio tour

Supporting student-centered learning with interactive visual media

Project-based learning, inquiry-based learning, and problem-based learning are constructivist approaches to education that develop the learners skills for research, problem-solving and collaboration. The process is based on authentic questions and problems identified by students, and finding information and explanation models to research and solve them.

An important aspect of student-centered learning is documenting the various phases and aspects of the learning process.

The following examples will show how students can use mixed media for completing various kinds of creative assignments and sharing them with their teacher and fellow students.

In the following, we summarize 10 easy project ideas for remote learning that encourage students to 1) make handwritten, visual and pictorial notes, collages and artwork, and 2) enhance and explain their work using digital audio/text notes, photos and video. Each of the examples provide a mix of learning opportunities combining traditional student work in the classroom with digital storytelling at home. The projects can be shared to a learning management system or collaboration platform such as Canvas, Schoology, Google Education or Microsoft Teams.

1. Make an interactive greeting card

2. Create an interactive book report

3. Make a vocabulary poster in a foreign language

4. Introduce yourself

5. Create an interactive herbarium

6. Make your own comic strips

7. Create an interactive timeline

8. Explain details of a painting

9. Create an interactive map

10. Build a diorama

Hotspots, what are they and how do they work? The purpose of the clickable hotspots is to give the viewer further information and resources on the topic they are learning about. Teachers and students can add various types of content in the hotspots, such as text, additional closeup images, video, sound, links and embedded web content such as maps or forms. These resources can serve any of the following functions: Building perspective by linking to related materials Improving comprehension of the topic by highlighting key concepts and vocabulary Zooming into details in a scene Creating a feedback loop by including a call to action

Examples and best practices for creating remote learning materials for students

Examples and best practices for creating remote learning materials for students

Examples and best practices for creating remote learning materials for students

Best practices for developing students' creativity and digital storytelling skills at home

School teachers

School teachers

Personalization.

Autonomy. 

tudents must assume greater responsibility and organization for their learning journey than in the face-to-face classroom.

. Automation. 

ongoing guidance and supervision from instructors, with regards to logistical and pedagogical issues.

increase student collaboration,

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teacher-centered

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ourse content and logistics

Online grammar and vocabulary activities. Students work on their own with input, explanations, and activities from an online textbook.  

istening activities. We created interactive “video lessons” using Adobe Captivate: 5 minutes interviews, accompanied by comprehension questions, vocabulary, grammar exercises, and short writing assignments. For these activities, we interviewed various professionals around Davis

Speaking asynchronous activities. In Canvas, students record a video message related to a specific communicative task. For example, they compare Davis to a city in the Hispanic world. Also, they have to comment on at least one video from a classmate

ynchronous speaking activities. They consist of a video chat with the instructor and 2-3 students, working on communicative activities related to the lesson. It is student-centered day and learners tend to receive more feedback than in the traditional face-to-face classroom

riting activities.

Student preparation: Students need more preparation for the online learning experience. The creation of a mandatory workshop

mphasizing the pedagogical particularities of online learning, could help with student attrition, which is usually higher in online courses than in traditional courses.

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Transition from a focus on activities to a focus on projects: dynamic assessment, portfolios, self-evaluations, tandems, etc.

they’ll get in-context definitions, visual learning aids and pronunciations for any word

need images, graphs, videos and charts to learn

using handheld “clickers.”

Mini Whiteboards:

good old whiteboards!

One comment I often get from students is that they wish they had more frequent, but lower stakes oral assessments. A platform like Extempore begins to make this possible