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Record an audio welcome message and put it on your blog (or wiki or web page.) Elementary students can practice their oral reading skills. You could even post them on your blog for parents and grandparents to hear. Each day have one student record “what we did in school today” and post it on your blog. Students in a foreign language class could record words or phrases and then email them to their teacher. Left your students with a substitute? Record a message to encourage your students to be on their best behavior!

Furthermore, it has been shown that students prefer to contact their peer students rather than their tutor when they are struggling with coursework, facing difficulties in assessing facilities and understanding lectures

Researchers also noted that people who interact more in an online course tend to achieve higher marks on exams, as opposed to lurking which is not as successful [12]

Students who are required to collaboratively work online need to dedicate time to get to know each other and therefore are able to accomplish effective communication in an online environment [29]

Communicate the public nature of Twitter to parents. Consider an opt-out alternative for students or parents who are uncomfortable with participating in the classroom chat.

assist students in moving back and forth between their own words and technical or course-specific terms. And help highlight particular content with the use of sentence starters.

Do you feel the chat’s objective was reached? What was the most useful part of the chat? How might we improve the chat?

In a 2016 Pew Research Center report on the state of American jobs, only 36% of Americans reported that knowing a foreign language was an extremely or very important trait for workers to be successful in today’s economy, ranking it last out of eight skills for workers’ success

“Students should practice picking up key words and extrapolating main ideas using the context of what they hear.” @ChristeyHughes responded, “En français, we often refer to ‘la tolérance de l’ambiguité’ to be able to work through, perhaps not getting each word.”

“…Make sure that you select an appropriate length for novices–small doses of ‘anything.’”

“Multiple choice requires no production of any kind. Really, it’s only good for finding out what they don’t know.” @LauraJaneBarber said, “I like to do listening as input for a writing or speaking task. Can show true comprehension better than multiple choice.”

All it takes is a QR reading app on a smartphone to quickly and instantly hear the student’s voice.

3) Different Context, Different Identity

they use their comfort and skills with social media to connect students with the content area on a deeper level.

help students keep tabs on their upcoming assignments and assessments

I use Twitter as a way to provide practice during the days leading to macro-assessments, by providing sample test items, as well as study tips.

Research indicates that instructor presence in an online course directly impacts students’ learning outcomes. Hosting synchronous online office hours is one way you can build presence in your course because it gives your students a chance to ask questions and get clarification on course material. Luckily, holding office hours is easy in an online course. You just need to be logged in to your learning management system (LMS) and available to students during specified hours.

VoiceThreads might best be described as interactive media albums

The technology is particularly accessible because viewers can comment using just about any technology -- including a good old landline. "We've tried to make it fairly universal in access," says Ben Papell. "If you don't have a microphone

when he discovered he could engage his kids online in a collaborative, multimedia slide show called a VoiceThread, he decided to see if he could use it to, as he puts it, "steal some of their online minutes."

Zoom performs incredibly well in low bandwidth environments.

A great selection of annotation tools, so you can share your screen, and then write and draw on the screen like a real whiteboard.

Easy process to record classes.

f we make activities genuine, our students will be much more inclined to participate, acquiring new knowledge in the process.

We’ve been hearing that a lot. Increasingly, teachers in our audience are reporting that a handful of their students—shy kids, hyperactive kids, highly creative kids—are suddenly doing better with remote learning than they were doing in the physical classroom. “It’s been awesome to see some of my kids finally find their niche in education,” said Holli Ross, a first-year high school teacher in northern California, echoing the sentiments of dozens of teachers we’ve heard from. That’s not to say it’s the norm. Many students are struggling to adapt to remote learning: Digital access and connectivity remain a pervasive equity issue; stay-at-home orders have magnified existing problems in familial dynamics; and, universally, teachers and students grapple with how to replicate the engagement and discourse from an in-person classroom.

een shown to be no guarantee of "change agency" (Donnison, 2007: 10). Pre-service teachers may profess adherence to learner-centred forms of teaching and yet "simultaneously (…) maintain conflicting cultural models of traditional and conservative models of schooling"

1. Class Intros/Icebreakers

1. Class Intros/Icebreakers

. End of year memories